Just a quick snip-it from preparations for the ISE in Amsterdam. This is Jimmy in front of a 3×3 backpro-cubes wall from eyevis who asked us to help them with something awsome to look at on the exhibition stand. Please come and visit us and eyevis if you´re in Amsterdam from 2.-4.February.
We were out and about again – in Spain!!! Tapas, Flamenco, nice vino… no hold on… we actually had to work for once – haha. The FITUR is one of the biggest international tourism exhibitions. Our dear friend and partner Peter Specht from Pictures That Move asked us to help him with one part of the exhibition stand for the city of Madrid. La sala simulación – check it out:
And the stuff that was inside was even cooler:
An interactive 270° projection that could be navigated with a radarTouch and showed different themes related to the city of Madrid. Here are some more impressions:
And although it was freezing cold during set-up… (blankets is one thing but bubble-wrap-moon-boots???? You can imagine!)
… the exhibition was an overall success. Thanks to everyone who was involved and helped, and thanks to all the nice and interesting visitors. Here are some impressions:
The wall of backpro cubes – pretty impressive and app. 4m high – in friendly co-operation with eyevis.
And here the “explanatory” wall… Like - what is it again – that you do exactly????
And finally the Holo Touch with the big wall of seamless plasmas. Just a few examples of what can be done…
And in case you were wondering how busy it was on our stand… here we go!
The Wall is up! Together with our esteemed friends from eyevis in Reutlingen, Germany we´re gonna blow some minds with this amazing wall of four LED cubes that will later on display one seamless Ventuz presentation with a 1920 x 4320 resolution. people are already stopping to look at it…
On our quest to take over the world we thought it´d be good if the world first knew who we are. We´re starting in Dortmund where the event community of Germany comes together to show eveyone – and each other – what they´ve got. Right now, we´re in the middle of set-up and everything still looks a little unorthodox – but expect the unexpected! We´re getting there. I´ll be back with more news.
So many things designed – so little space to display.
Since it is one of Jens´ hobbies to whip our designers through about twelve awesome design concepts before finally deciding to take one of his own – we thought, why not give these breathtakingly awesome design creations also a chance to appear somewhere in public.
On this note we created our own deviantart.com account to display the stuff that didn´t quite make it all the way into an actual project, but that we think is still creative or innovative or just pretty enough to be admired by the rest of this world.
Check it out: http://stereolize-design.deviantart.com/gallery/ and keep yourself updated because it´s for sure that there is more coming 
I now would like to tell you something about the dimensions of our current project. I have to admit that I haven’t yet had a project of this size. We’ve gone big, but not quite like this.
Here are some impressions of the construction site:
Here the 3 Halls again. 
Unfortunately it is impossible to get across the size and dimensions on photos.
Of course I am not allowed to show any pictures of the inside of the halls, but I can tell you this much: this will be the screen, and it is huge – really huge!!!! 
To show you how huge it is, I put some people in front of it :-) Just compare the sphere on this photo with the one on the picture above: 
Some more impressions of the construction site:
This much for now: Kaust – 6 days to go!
Saudi Arabia fort he first time. More precisely: Tuwal near Jeddah. This is my visa, which obviously is rather hard to come by for non-Muslims. Well, they wanted me here – although I really didn’t insist on coming – and therefore the visa was not a problem. 
Since you don’t get to come to Saudi every day and most people haven’t had the pleasure of visiting yet, here are some impressions.
I assume I don’t have to say anything about this picture. The insiders will know why I put it first: 
There is not much to say about the landscape. (I haven’t seen much apart from desert.) But to not make it look too bleak they planted funny palm-trees at the side of the roads as an encouragement. I took a few pictures of the nicest specimens. You can see it in the middle of the picture, although I’m afraid the top is cut off. 
Here is another one: not as pretty as the first one, I admit, but still not that bad! 
Now, here I tried to experiment a bit and let me creativity flow freely. I tried to not but the tree in the center of the photograph, but to level it off a bit to the left or the right. Here you have the left versions.
This is the right version. 
And this is a photo I am particularly proud of. I managed to get two trees on this picture, and I will not argue about the one on the right being partially cut off. 
Another artistic variation: a close-up (of the tree). 
A road! This might look exciting at a first glance, but ride it for an hour … 
And for the reason of diversification (to not make such a dreary impression) a picture without a tree. But with buses – that’s something, right? A little cut off behind that building. 
Since I don’t want to seem unfair I would like to say that this is our accommodation, and although we don’t benefit from it very much (since we work all day and night, which Maik demonstrates on the picture on the right) I would like to mention that there also are nice spots in this country.
Some might ask themselves why we are here. This is why - 
Looks like an airplane hangar, but it isn’t. This hall – well, three halls, actually – have been built only for the opening ceremony of the Kaust University.
KAUST is the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
All about Kaust under: http://www.kaust.edu.sa
We have been asked by our colleagues of the Three Monkeys to support them a bit with the many installations and presentations. Which we of course are happy to do, although it is in Saudi, where by the way there is no alcohol. 
This is our office from the outside. If the picture seems blurry, that is because every time I step out of the car the lens of my camera gets all fogged up and I have to wait several minutes in the heat before I can take a picture. (As, by the way, my glasses do every time I go outside. Luckily they don’t take that long to clear up again.) The number 203 is not a joke; it is the hall two hundred and three. 
And so that we don’t get too hot they put a few airconditioners in front of our house. I am not sure why there are so many. Maybe in case one breaks down? 
Kaust Opening: 10 Days to go from now. 
P.S.: If you are every asked whether you want to go to this area in Saudi Arabia for Work : SAY NO!!!
…and here is a little update on our column "by the way". Today “Ventuz CE Art”. Thanks to Ben ….
