2006 ILDA Award Videos Presented March 11 2007 in China
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1st Place, Innovative Application

“Live in the Box!”
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH, Germany
www.laserage.de
 

A complete lasershow in a 2 sq. meter box,
using 1000 toy Playmobil people for the band and crowd

Click here to download and view video:
10 MB WMV format, 2 min 14 sec

Click here to download and view Omicron's acceptance speech:
7 MB WMV format, 1 min 03 sec

Credits

Idea – Sonke Baumann
Artistic and technical director – Ralf Schlotter
Micro trussing and stage manager – Carlo Westphal
Nano instruments and cargo box design – Markus Oeffinger
Special electronics – Dieter Dinges and Markus Niestroj
Laser programming and video – Ralf Schlotter

Music

“Living in a Box” – Living in a Box

Entry Description

Since it is always a challenge for laser show companies to effectively present their artwork on a small and affordable trade show booth, we thought about how to manage this for an exhibition in 2005 in Berlin.
     How to pack a fantastic, amazing, emotional “want to have” show on a 12 square meters booth?
     Just show it all! And scale down the venue!
     After this idea was born, you can imagine, employees turned into children and the studio changed into a playroom for about three months.
     We decided to build the stage on a scale of approximately 1:20 so the event hall should have an area of 2 square meters fitting in a selfmade cargo box.
     Of course there was a lot of work, since we definitely didn’t want to present a basic lasershow.

• People started to solder trusses by hand out of small brass sticks
• Par 64 spotlights were created by the help of M5 nuts and high power LEDs
• Micro-sized Marshall towers, synthesizers, loudspeakers and mixing consoles came into being
• A 15” TFT-monitor turned into an LED videowall where three pairs of laser scanners were mounted beside and above
• There needed to be motors to pan the drummer’s trussing cube and to rotate the two small mirror balls we found in a gift shop
• Last but not least, a gigantic lasershow needs – say what – of course, a water curtain! A window box mounted under the floor, an aquarium pump, and a small pipe full of holes will help.

OK, we had the equipment together to create a very nice multimedia lasershow, but still something was missing! Who is joining the concert?
     Thanks to eBay, two weeks later we recruited an audience out of approximately 1000 Playmobil® figures.
     I promise you this was the best time we had in our working life!