Digital Graffiti Festival Coming June 6, Will be Easy to Clean Up

Paul Lilly — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:16:12 -0500

Graffiti goes high-tech in Alys Beach, Florida, a beach town that will host the second annual "Digital Graffiti" festival on Saturday, June 6, 2009. Artists from around the world will project their original works onto white walls, which will mark the world's first outdoor projection festival.

"Alys Beach is welcoming painters with open arms and white walls," wrote USA Today in 2008. "But with projectors and laptops rather than spray cans."

Last year saw submissions come in from as far away as Isreal, Austria, India, France, and several other global destinations. Over $6,500 in prizes were awarded, with Robert Seidel of Jena, Germany winning the 2008 'Best of Show' prize and accompanying $2,500 purse. This year, the festival is being sponsored by the Cinemin Swivel pico projector co-developed by WowWee Technologies and Texas Instruments DLP Technology.

If you're going to be in the area, tickets to attend run $15 for adults and $5 for under 12 admissions if purchased online ($20 and $5 on day of event).

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Accolade Duet Projection Screen

Michael Brown — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:42:54 -0500

Your current video projector has a 4:3 aspect ratio, but you’re planning to move up to a high-def model with a 16:9 aspect ratio next year. In the meantime, you need to replace your projection screen, which your two-year-old recently mistook for an artist’s canvas. Quite the pickle, eh?

Epson has an easy solution for your dilemma: Its unique Accolade Duet projection screen can deliver either aspect ratio from the same package. Instead of unrolling up or down from a horizontal position, the Duet is vertically oriented and opens to the left and right. Open it (one-handed) to the first position and it becomes a 65-inch screen with a standard-definition 4:3 aspect ratio; open it to the second position and it’s an 80-inch screen with an HD aspect ratio of 16:9.

The screen fabric is a typical matte white and can be washed with a rag moistened with water. In our test environment, the Duet was slightly less reflective than our Draper Piper portable screen, but it exhibited excellent off-axis viewing, which is important if you’re entertaining a large audience that can’t all be seated directly in front of the screen.

The Duet’s screen clips onto its tripod stand, so you can carry both items as a single unit, but you won’t want to lug it far: It weighs 27 pounds (more than twice as much as the Piper). The tripod contributes to a rather large footprint: 33 inches deep by 37 inches wide. If you need to keep the screen closer to your wall, you can mount it there—Epson provides the necessary hardware in the box. You can still close the screen when it’s mounted, and you can take it off the wall and again pair it with the tripod to take your show on the road.

The fact that the Duet is $100 cheaper than the Piper makes up
for the fact that it’s not quite as bright; in fact, we think we’ve found our new favorite projection screen.

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Digital Graffiti Festival Coming June 6, Will be Easy to Clean Up

Accolade Duet Projection Screen