Live Video Projection along with motion graphics and pre-edited content

Paul Clay – VJ / Live Video Projection Design for the Event
The design included 2 live video camera feeds, along with pre-recorded content.

Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, known for being the youngest great champagne in the industry and for their cutting edge approaches to reach their consumers, did not disappoint during their 35th Anniversary celebration, held at a private residence in NYC’s West Village. The venue held breathtaking views of the city and contained large projection screens showing different moments in Champagne Nicholas Feuillatte’s history, visual artists it has sponsored, imagery of its vineyards, facilities and processes, its wide product range, and motion graphics which included its 35th anniversary logo. The event, held Monday November 7th, 2011, was truly a fabulous soiree.

Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte 35 NYC Party, Live Video Projections – Paul Clay

Live Video Projection along with motion graphics and pre-edited content

Paul Clay – VJ / Live Video Projection Design. Included  live video camera feed, along with titles, and pre-recorded content.

Produced by Gemini & Scorpio, Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens. A marvellous and mysterious event…a Halloween celebration of the extravagant and the grotesque…a 12-hour spectacle of atmosphere, costumery and diverse entertainments…an explosion of live music, dancing, circus arts, fire and late-night revelry, snake-charmed into an absinthe-fueled early-morning speakeasy.

With: A demonic dance floor by Brooklyn Wonderland with DJ Stylus, DJ Dirtyfinger and Reaganomics, plus live percussion by Blood Drums…Hand-cranked phonograph music by WFMU’s DJ Michael Cumella…Exotic Balkan rhythms by Raya Brass Band…Victorian music box mix, toy piano mayhem and circus techno by Sxip Shirey…An explosive fire experience by Dan Glass…Remixed vintage beats and frightfully sexy dance grooves by DJ Shakey…A pineal-tingling sunrise blend of live flute over world electronica by SuKhush…Live vintage soul + funk remix breakfast set by Cloud.

Costume inspiration: Dark Victoriana, macabre carnival, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Georges Melies & Brothers Quay films, Edward Gorey, cabinet of curiosities.

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Lighting, Audio, and Live Video Projection Design

Paul Clay – Lighting, Audio, and Live Video Design for the Gala. The design included live video camera feed for IMAG with Lower thirds, Power Point, and Motion Graphics.

OVATION, Asian American Arts Alliance’s 29th Anniversary Gala took place October 18, 2011 at Tribeca Rooftop, with Cocktails, dinner, silent auction and performances. a4′s annual star-studded celebration benefited New York City’s vibrant and diverse Asian American artistic community.

Lead Honoree: Zarin Mehta – President and Executive Director of the New York Philharmonic. Legacy Award: Barbara Ho – Prior New York State Council on the Arts Program Associate, Special Arts Services Program. Honoree: Fay Ann Lee – Actor, Director, Writer. Wai Look Award: Deepa Purohit – Co-founder of Rising Circle Theater Collective. Featuring: Michelle Park – Emcee; Jennifer Koh – Violin; Zikrayat – Arabic Music & Dance; and Michael Mao Dance Dance.

a4 29th Anniversary Gala, Lighting, Audio, and Live Video Projection – Paul Clay

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Stage, Lighting, Audio, and Video Design

Paul Clay – Design of all elements for a benefit fashion show with Designer Zang Toi.

The event was part of the 38th Anniversary OCA National Convention, with the stated theme “Advocacy Through Compassion – A New York State of Mind.” This particular evening of the multi day Convention was entitled “Haute Couture New York with designer Zang Toi” and took place at New York Surrogate’s Courthouse. Co-Chairs of the OCA National Convention were David Fung, June Jee, and Vicki Shu. Plan C Agency from Los Angeles helped to organize the fashion show.

From the invite: “Join OCA and Zang Toi at the Surrogate Courthouse in downtown Manhattan, where his Fall 2011 Fashion Week show will be featured as we all enjoy a delectable food tasting from some of the popular restaurants in New York City.”

Haute Couture New York with designer Zang Toi, Stage, Lighting, Audio, and Video Design – Paul Clay

Design and execution of PowerPoint/Keynote presentation

Paul Clay – Design of PowerPoint/Keynote and motion graphics for the launch presentation.

The launch event was May 24th, at the Mondrian SoHo in New York City, and included a presentation given by Heidi Klum and Steve Mormoris, Senior Vice President of Coty Beauty. Paul Clay worked directly for Perception AV, and worked closely with Van Wyck & Van Wyck in New York, and Coty in France to deliver the design.

Heidi Klum Shine Fragrance Launch, PowerPoint/Keynote motion graphics Design – Paul Clay

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Live Video Projection along with motion graphics and pre-edited content

Paul Clay – VJ / Live Video Projection Design for the After Party
The design included 3 live video camera feeds, along with pre-recorded content.

The gala event was thrown May 23, 2011, to celebrate the recently-announced partnership between VW and MoMA a multi-year, multi-project initiative that will support exhibitions at MoMA and MoMA PS1, acquisitions of contemporary art for MoMA’s collection and its famous sculpture garden. Volkswagen was celebrating its new plug-in hybrid prototype the XL1, a two-seat super-eco-car. Volkswagen and MoMA displayed the new hybrid vehicle along with the classic bug. Paul Clay worked directly with Campbell Bromberg and 373 New York who oversaw the entire gala event.

Those in attendance included Madonna, Mary-Kate Olsen, Yoko Ono, James Franco, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Chloe Sevigny, Penn Badgely, Padma Lakshmi, Rose Byrne, Kim Cattrall, Lucy Liu, Marina Abramovic, Daphne Guinness, Terence Koh, Andrej Pejic, Leelee Sobieski, Cindy Sherman, Agnes Gund, Katharina Sieverding, Rachel Chandler, Michelle Harper, David Rockefeller, Jr., MoMA’s Director Glenn Lowry, Volkswagen’s Martin Winterkorn, and Director of MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Chief Curator at Large Klaus Biesenbach.

James Murphy, and Pat Mahoney, of the former LCD Soundsystem, DJ-ed the event.

MoMA VW Gala After Party, Live Video Projections – Paul Clay

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