On the ground floor of the City Hall’s Visitor Centre a London Photomat is installed.

The 16m x 10m London Photomat is a birds-eye view of London created by joining hundreds of individual photographs taken with a 90 megapixel camera from a light aircraft flying at an altitude of 6000 feet above London.  Visitors to City Hall are invited to step onto the map and find familiar locations, or pick out some of London’s most famous landmarks.

I was responsible for on-site and remote maintenance of the PC tablets used for the exhibit.  The tablets are Windows XP based with state of the art ultra wideband radio tracking systems attached.  This tracking technology enabled the software to display content based on the exact location of the person standing on the London Photomat.

Resources

http://www.liquiddigital.tv/portfolio/gla.asp

http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/photomat.jsp

Scope of works: Software development and project management

During a contract with MEI Events, I worked on a project with English Heritage.

Dover Castle was wrapped in a series of dramatic projections that stunned English Heritage’s guests and the media alike. On one of the massive 35 metre walls of the Great Tower Digi-Da-Vinci was premierred.

Digi-Da-Vinci turns any structure into a giant blank canvas on which anyone, using a combination of digital paintbrushes and stamps, can quickly create the most fantastic technicolour images.

Illuminating Dover Castle

The Digi-Da-Vinci software is a painting package incorporating mathematic equations to produce stunning and simplistic visual effects.  The visual effects range from simple printing, “painting by numbers” graphic revealing, stamps, dripping paint, spray can and so on.  I part developed the Digi-Da-Vinci software package with MEI Events using Processing, in particular I developed the dripping paint and stamp tool algorithms.   A shot of the Digi-Da-Vinci software in action can be seen in the image above on the left, and in the Sky News video snippet below.

Dover Castle walls illuminated

On the event day, I was also involved in cabling and installing City Light projectors and associated cabling throughout Dover Castle.

The event featured on the following publications (click each one to visit their page):-

Sky News BBC Sea Change Dover The Metro

Scope of works: Project management

I occasionally work as a technical consultant and project manager with an outdoor events company called MEI Events. A recent project where I was one of the project managers involving Andy Murray and Pat Cash on the roof of the O2, London.

The roof of O2 has one of the best and most exclusive views of London. As part of the ATP’s campaign to publicise the 2009 ATP World Finals, MEI Events produced and managed a photo-shoot with Andy Murray on the roof of the O2, which we branded with the ATP logo in the centre of a huge target.

On the actual stunt day, I worked with the key people involved and organised the walkie talkies to ensure communication was possible between  everyone, which included the helicopter pilot, cameramen, Andy Murray, Pat Cash and the project organisers.

With the window of filming from the helicopter very limited, and in the knowledge we only had time for one take, this had to work first time or not at all!  The pressure was on!  As you can see from the YouTube clip below, the result was stunning!

ATP Finals at the O2 with Andy Murray