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About NED
| With over 30 years of experience, NED has worked internationally with owners, architects, directors and producers to create one-of-a-kind, world-class entertainment facilities and lighting design on land and at sea. Just a few of its services include entertainment systems such as audio, video, projection, rigging, stage mechanics, special effects, control systems and broadcast systems.
NED draws on a depth of experience in a wide range of lighting and systems design from television spectaculars to the corporate theater/sales meetings. The company has been involved in theatre consulting for a wide range of entertainment facilities such as multimedia, fine arts performance, Las Vegas-type showrooms, cabarets, dance clubs and discos, as well as fountain lighting design, museum and architectural lighting for all types of public spaces. For further information and capabilities, please go to: http://www.n-e-d.com |
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This month we feature our work on the P&O Azura, the GM exhibit and the Cadillac off-site media event both for the New York Auto Show. We also cover the Hewlett Packard stockholders' meeting and more military installations. Due to the great response, we revisit the RSA Computer Security Conference.
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 P&O Azura
| On April 10, 2010, the 3,100 passenger ship the P&O Azura, had her naming ceremony in Southampton as retired prima ballerina Darcey Bussell CBE served as the ship's godmother.
Suspended above the Aqua Pool, the SeaScreen provided live video of the ceremony. NED provided the design and coordinated the installation of the 23' x 13' LED screen created to show films, live video or special events night or day.
NED was involved with the designs for all entertainment systems in over 20 venues and the shipwide broadcast system and background music system. Among the venues, is the 800 seat, 2-deck high Playhouse theater where NED specified and oversaw the installation of all the equipment. Included in the showroom are six side screens supplementing the main center projection screen. The side screens are intended to expand the video images around the side walls of the theater. The rigging and stage mechanics include a stage lift that lowers down to the deck below, 22 automated variable speed scenic battens, chain drives recessed into the stage floor and a performer flying rig.
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Cadillac Media Event, 2010 New York Auto Show
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Jim Tetlow was the lighting designer for the special Cadillac media event and party held at the Stefan Weiss Studio in Greenwich Village on the eve of the opening of the 2010 New York Auto Show. Unveiled was the Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon. Aquila Productions of NYC was the production company.
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GM Exhibit, 2010 New York Auto Show
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Once again, NED provided lighting design services for the GM exhibit at the 2010 New York International Auto Show. Lighting over 50 cars and using 450 instruments, lighting designer Kurt Doemelt and associate LD Carissa Walker worked a 24 hour day to finish the focus in time for the press preview.
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Hewlett Packard Stockholders' Meeting
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Having recently completed the lighting design for a 17 city international tour of executive presentations for Hewlett Packard, NED moved on to the the Hewlett Packard annual stockholders' meeting, which was held on March 17th in Mountain View, CA. Kurt Doemelt served as lighting designer for the event in the Museum of Computer History.
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Military Bases - A/V Design
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 Besides the twelve current ongoing military base projects, NED has recently been contracted to design four new Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Camp Pendleton and the Human Resources Center at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. Also, work is near completion on the construction of the Infantry Training Center at Camp Pendleton where NED designed four separate A/V systems including secure video teleconferencing. |
RSA Redux
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The RSA Computer Security Conference held in March at the Moscone Center was an amazing event with an estimated 15,000 in attendance for the week's meetings.
Produced by John Halloran Associates, NED was retained to provide lighting design and to coordinate the multimedia content distributed to the LED displays. These consisted of 85 Martin LC Panels installed in 3 planes at various heights along nearly 160 linear feet. Having the LED panels mounted behind a sharkstooth scrim provided layering and a surface to light that modified the appearance of the LED panels. The infrastructure to control the LED panels consisted of 2 Hippotizer HD video servers, 3 full size grand MAs
, and a Martin P3-100 video processer. An offline pre-visualization system provided by Pre-Lite of San Francisco allowed for programming of the entire week of images during the load in period which allowed rehearsals to start with everything ready to go.
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Thanks for reading. See you next time.
Sincerely,
Nautilus Entertainment Design |
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