INFINITY Ideas

March 13, 2012

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Centerpieces were illuminated lamps with text from the play.

Photo: Kyle Flubacker

Surrounded by camellia trees, the promenade area was redone as a garden space, reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's classic La Belle et la Bête. The room highlighted Chanel's fine jewelry collection alongside flowers that shone with diamonds.

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AFR set up a central lounge space for attendees using its new grass furniture, which is just launching in Los Angeles. Turf-covered seating groups sat atop a turf floor, and colorful pillows made the look pop.

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On the first of two nights of parties, black and white decor included pops of color, plus checkered accents.

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Long, communal tables and lounge-like configurations provided more relaxed seating on the upper level. For centerpieces, the designer incorporated square-shaped canopies, illuminated by candles that hung from the leaves in glass cylinders. Gift bags from sponsor Cartier were placed on guest's seats prior to the start of the event.

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At Coca-Cola's "Celebrate the Spirit" event, which took place in Chicago in 2009, producers hung the Olympic rings from the tent's ceiling as a nod to the theme.

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Lumina the Laser Violinist puts a futuristic spin on a classic instrument. The musicians, booked solo or as a duo or trio, play with a laser bow while standing among pulsing light beams. Based in the U.K., Lumina travels worldwide; fees range from $5,000 to $12,000 not including travel costs.

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At this year's Prudential Real Estate's conference in Orlando, Dallas-based Corporate Magic paired live dancers with digitized butterfly wings projected inside floating orbs to create a single, fluid movement of person and pixels onstage. In-house animators achieved the effect by using green-screen technology. Prices start at $10,000.

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Los Angeles-based Le Ombre performs a mélange of dance and acrobatics against a backdrop of images and shadows, and can perform sets that incorporate branding, graphics and messaging. Full-length shows run from 60 to 90 minutes. The group travels internationally, and prices range from $25,000 to $65,000 for U.S. shows.

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The laser harp from Lightwave International has light beams instead of strings for its performers to pluck. When the performer’s finger interrupts the beam, it sends a signal to its audio technology to play the corresponding note. A performance costs between $7,000 and $12,000.

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Companies including Google and Disney have booked iLuminate. Dancers wear bodysuits outfitted with wirelessly controlled lights that coordinate with the dancers’ movements, resulting in sci-fi visuals. Based in New York and Los Angeles, iLuminate performances start at $6,000.

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Kansas City, Missouri-based Quixotic Fusion offers an eclectic swirl of acrobatic feats, pulsing rhythms, and colorful digital images and light projections. The group can perform from five-minute openers up to 75-minute features. Prices start at $15,000 for shows in the U.S.

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Skitch

Skitch is an app from Evernote. The system allows users to add text, shapes, stamps, and drawings to images such as screenshots, photos, floor plans, and PDF files. The app is intended to be used in conjunction with an Evernote account, allowing the images to be saved and shared through the platform. The images can also be shared through Twitter, Facebook, email, or public URL.

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iAnnotate

Intended for use with iPads, iAnnotate provides a variety of tools to add notes to images, PDF files, Word documents, and PowerPoint slide shows. Annotation can be added as text or voice notes, and there are tools for highlighting, underlining, and strike-through. Files can be shared through Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud-based services.

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Cycloramic

Cycloramic is an app that makes an iPhone spin 360 degrees to take panoramic photos and video. The app operates hands-free with an iPhone5 or in guided mode on other iOS devices. An update in June added an editing studio that allows users to add text and filters to photos. Images can be saved in the app’s library and shared via email or on social networks.

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SpeakingPhoto

SpeakingPhoto allows users to add as many as 30 seconds of voice notes to a photo. Multiple photos can be compiled into a storyboard and then saved to the camera roll or shared via email, Facebook, or YouTube. An update later this month will allow users to combine eight images; the current version allows five. SpeakingPhoto is an app for iPhone and iPad, but the update will allow Android users to receive and play the photos.

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Over

Over is an iPhone and iPad app that allows users to add artistic text and artwork to photos. The app offers more than 200 fonts. After adding text, users can save images to their camera roll or share via Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr.

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Snagit

Snagit is a screen-capturing system. With one click, users can capture images, Web pages, or articles, and then add effects such as text, arrows, or highlighting. There’s also a blur tool to hide parts of the image. All of the captured images are saved to a library and can be searched by date, Web site, or keyword. Images can be shared via email, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and more.

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Tapose

Tapose is an iPad app that lets users create journals, collaborate, and share documents. Users can take notes while incorporating pictures, images, audio, video, and free-form drawings. The app is made to look like a journal with two independent screens so users can have an image open on one while taking notes on the other. Collaboration can be done in real time, or users can share journals as PDF files through email, Evernote, and Dropbox. Tapose was recently purchased by Inadev, and the company is in the process of revamping the app to provide versions for business and consumer use.

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Vobok

Vobok allows users to record as many as 30 seconds of voice notes, which can be shared along with a photo through the app’s feed or on Twitter or Facebook. The app can also be used to send private voice messages via email.

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In partnership with the (Red) campaign, Belvedere staged an AIDS awareness takeover of New York's meatpacking district in November 2012, featuring a one-hour Chromeo concert. During the performance, the crowd waved oversize red glow sticks, which matched the glowing red look of the promotion.

Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for (BELVEDERE)RED Night Lights for World AIDS Day

Lit with LED lights in customizable colors, the Peacock Egg cocktail at Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Orlando is served in a hollow egg-shaped ice cube, containing lavender syrup, blue Curacao, Bombay Sapphire gin, and fresh lemonade.

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At the welcome reception for Univision's “Leading the Change” event, held at the SLS Las Vegas hotel in Las Vegas in November 2015, a ballerina flash mob wearing glow-in-the-dark makeup surprised guests.

Photo: Danielle de Bruno

Guests could pick up various glow-in-the-dark items such as necklaces, bracelets, and rings at the Outback Bowl’s Gridiron Gala, held in Tampa’s A La Carte Event Pavilion in January 2012.

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An acrobat dressed in a bright fluorescent costume performed in a hoop suspended from the ceiling at the Gridiron Gala.

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Magnolia Bluebird Design & Events created walls of cotton candy served on LED glow sticks for a Pop Art-theme sweet sixteen party, held at the Musikfest Café at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in January 2015. “It smelled like a Katy Perry concert when you walked in the door,” said Danielle Couick, principal of the Columbia, Maryland-based event planning company.

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For a trippy twist on team building, the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel and the JW Marriott Grand Rapids in Michigan offer glow-in-the-dark yoga. The one-hour class keeps groups focused thanks to the lack of visibility. By practicing in the dark, attendees are forced to tap into their senses while stretching. Groups start the session by drawing on themselves and each other with glow-in-the-dark body paint, then the class wraps with a dance party and glow-in-the-dark healthy cocktails. Snacks including fresh juices and fruits are provided.

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A Respawn Entertainment employee walked the show floor of the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, sporting a dramatic logo Mohawk that glowed in the dark. (A buddy walked behind with a black-light flashlight to activate the effect.)

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A trio of iLuminate dancers in bespoke LED suits performed during Alienware's laptop launch event at E3 in 2013.

Photo: Tiffany Rose Photography

Guests could grab packages of green glow-stick earrings as party favors at the National Pancreas Foundation's Young Professionals' "Punk Goes to Discotheque" benefit, which was held at the Oberon at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston in 2010.

Photo: Aviran Levy

At the "Night of the AdEaters" event, which took place at Terminal 5 in New York during Advertising Week in 2009, organizers provided glow-in-the-dark ice cubes to help guests keep track of their drinks.

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Performers twirled LED hula hoops at an App Annie event, held at Mezzanine in March during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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The pop-up took over 939 Studio, a raw event space in downtown Los Angeles. Subtle signage was visible from the street.