About Us:

The Art Project is based out of Vancouver, BC and was created by two guys with a passion for art and the World Wide Web. The Art Project has created an environment with the artist in mind. It is a space where artists can set their own price, submit art pieces that they choose, and control many aspects of their own content without the hassle of building their own site. The Art Project is also a place where artists are not paying high art gallery fees which in turn allows buyers to get the best possible deal on amazing art, and the artist are compensated for their talent.

The Project:

The Art Project is a project that will let the artist display their work to the world. To aid the Art Project with marketing and promotions, we have teamed up with online marketing experts Fogg Industries to give artists the greatest internet exposure possible. This project was developed by artists for artists and is a place where an artist can be in full control of their art by choosing which art pieces to display, as well as how much they wish to charge per piece.

If you would like to sell art online at the The Art Project please see the submit section of our site. Or if you are looking to buy art online check us out too!

Why Choose The Art Project?

We have several unique programs:

1) Unique homepage gallery that features 3 artists per month.

2) Gallery Events

3) Partnership with Googles Picasa and Flickr.com for maximum online exposure

Also

- Over 30,000 website hits a month

- The artist decides the price that their art is listed for

- Great section for art collectors that want to sale their collections online

- Two unique and flexible payment plans Either cheap monthly rates or 20% commission* on sold art

- Partnerships with websites such as whole9, flickr.com, picasa.com, Artists in Canada, the Art Ads Network and Art in Canada guaranteeing maximum exposure

- Amazing organic Google search rankings, many of our artists and collections are on the first page of Google!

- Manually reviewed and updated ensuring that only high quality art is submitted onto the website.

- Buyer pays the shipping so the artist does not need to worry about extra shipping fees

- Easy submission and sign up

- Updated blogging

Thank you for using our site!

*The 20% commission only applies to online sales, art displayed in gallery events are subject to high commissions based on the gallery.

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cofounder of the art project

Efficiency in the Projector Market

Interview with Chuck Collins, VP of Commercial AV, DPI
Pro AV magazine

What makes a projector green?
Well, I think what makes a projector green is a variety of things, and foremost is probably consumption of power per lumen output. Second would be the materials that make up the projector’s internal components and chassis, as some materials are more recyclable than others. A third component would be long-term cost of ownership, as it relates to replacement parts and how efficiently the projector operates throughout its life cycle.

Do you see a lot of activity by other manufacturers in greening their large-venue projectors?
DP’s traditionally focused on large venue, and I would say in the old days that was about 8,000 lumens and up, and now it’s about 10- 15,000 and up, and we’ve always had a large variety of projectors in that market. Probably the most popular chassis in our product line is the 3-chip TITAN, and it was developed from day 1 with efficient materials and operation in mind. We’ve always believed in minimum wattage in and maximum lumens out. We still have some large-venue projectors that use Xenon lamps, and those are very very bright but short-lived lamps that are also very expensive, we have those in our product line at the upper end, but we switched over to metal halide a few years ago because they’re so much more efficient: they last longer and they’re a lot less expensive, and through some optics and some circuitry in our projectors, we can mimic the attributes of Xenon, but with the efficiency and affordability of metal halide. As far as other manufacturers, I think I can’t really speak for them, but we have noticed that our competition is starting to talk Green as well. DP was founded on creating efficient precision displays, long before efficiency was a priority. But the fact that every manufacturer is now discussing green initiatives is only a good thing for the industry at large.

What kind of things do you see them doing to green their projectors?
Some have followed our lead and switched lamp technologies, but few to none have supplied a comprehensive review of their overall recyclability and efficiency. We feel it’s important to be open and transparent in regards to the energy consumption and performance of our displays, as well as the construction materials we use. Of course, we’re very proud of how advanced our projectors are, so it’s an easier conversation for us than others. For example, early last year we published a comparative projector efficiency analysis based on the published specs of a few of the top projector manufacturers. We then followed this in Q2 of this year with a comprehensive recyclability overview for our products, where we found that the TITAN and LIGHTNING chassis, our large-venue chassis, are 95 percent recyclable. We’ve also just released a fully-automated cost of ownership calculator, available to the public, allowing anyone to figure the TRUE cost of ownership of any display as long as they have a bit of core information about the product. So not only the projector cost, not only the lamp cost, but the amount of power the projector is going to pull, consume, and cost. By setting our efficiency initiatives so high, we’re hopefully going to influence other less efficient manufacturers, leading by example.

Is there also anything being done on the manufacturing end, such as using recycled materials or monitoring carbon footprints or anything like that?
From our shipping containers to the tiny plastic connectors in our displays, we’re constantly analyzing how we can incorporate more recycled and recyclable products on every level of our manufacturing process.

Where do you see the large-venue green projector market going in the future?
Everybody is going to work on a more efficient method, and it’s not just a patriotic thing or to increase market-share sales type of deal, but I think we’re developing lower-cost alternatives to illumination. LED light, while it’s not the most efficient lighting method right now, I think in the near future it could be. Right now an LED will last 60,000 hours, so from that point of view, you’ll never have to replace a lamp again, which is great for the environment: no more Xenon gasses, no more metal halide gasses, or any of that. But it’s not as bright as we need it to be. Once it’s as bright as we need it to be, it’s going to be a complete package as far as greenness: it doesn’t use as much power; it doesn’t produce as much heat, so the room that the projector’s in doesn’t need to be as air conditioned. There’s all kinds of plusses to the technology, but right now it’s just not bright enough. But I absolutely see that happening in the future. When, I couldn’t tell you. But believe me, everybody’s working on the efficiency of lamps and greater efficiency of lenses as well, so they pass more light so you need less lamp in the first place.

About Author

A digital imaging pioneer and projector industry leader, Digital Projection International (DPI) manufactures and distributes an extensive and expanding line of ultra high-performance 3-chip and single-chip DLP® projection systems. These projectors are the reference standard for demanding applications such as large-venue, live-event staging, Fortune 5000, homeland security, education, medical and scientific research, command and control, digital cinema, commercial entertainment, worship and elite home theater.

Multiple company accolades include two Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. DPI remains the first and only projector manufacturer to win the coveted award.

Illuminating LEDs for Projection

LEDs have long been considered a promising but technically challenging prospective light source for front projection displays. Indeed, LED illuminated rear screen televisions hit the consumer market a few years ago and their performance benefits were impressive: instant on, tens of thousands of hours of operational life, the production of a broader and more stable color space than traditional lamp technologies and efficient lumen-per-watt performance. The question has always been whether an LED illumination system could be bright enough to support front projection applications.

In a back corner of our exhibit at CEDIA, DP demonstrated our prototype LED illuminated single-chip projector. It is based on a bold LED concept known as Phlatlight™. More of a tightly spaced, tiny array of LEDs then a single really bright LED, the R, G and B Phlatlight™’s employed in our prototype are capable of producing thousands of raw lumens with just 360 watts of maximum illumination power. Even more interesting, the switching time of the LEDs is so fast they not only replace the traditional lamp system – they also remove the need for the motor driven color wheel, previously required by all single chip projectors. Removal of the color wheel also means removal of color wheel artifacts. For anyone sensitive to the color-wheel induced rainbow effect, eliminating that visual artifact is a huge, if not revolutionary, benefit.

Also, because the LEDs can be turned all the way off, implementations of these systems with dynamic black will be able to match CRT black levels on full-field black scenes.

Reproducible color gamut is another interesting benefit of LED illumination systems. Because the color point of the red, green and blue LEDs can be defined so precisely, they enable single-chip projectors to produce a color space and color saturation far beyond that of color-wheel based single-chip projectors (but still not on par with 3-chip systems).

With such a compelling set of benefits, one might be convinced that LED illumination is the optimum solution for every application. The barrier to that concept, and the primary reason LED illumination will have very clear limits for front and large screen rear projection applications, is total system lumen output. Our prototype produced 480 ANSI lumens on screen. While we can envision the light output increasing to 700 – 800 lumens by the time the first LED illuminated projectors are launched (late 2009), brightness gains beyond that threshold are likely to be limited and slow to emerge.

By comparison, DP offers single and dual color wheel-based single chip projectors producing 6000+ lumens today. Even our entry-level single-chip projectors produce 1500+ lumens. Of course, our three chip systems can deliver up to tens of thousands of lumens and color depth beyond any single chip solution – color wheel or LED based.

That is where we get back to the question of the future LED illuminated single-chip projector’s suitability for specific applications. When using a small to medium sized screen in a very dark to theatrically dark venue, such as a very small conference room or a small home theater, the LED illuminated displays of the future may be an extraordinary alternative. However, if the application requires a mid-size screen and the venue has any ambient light striking the screen, more lumens are required to produce imagery with high environmental dynamic range and suitable visual appeal.

Other than dedicated home theaters, the majority of single-chip projectors purchased today are employed in venues with some ambient light. As compelling as the benefits are, for that majority of front projection applications, LED will not provide a dynamic front projection solution any time soon.

Nonetheless, the ongoing evolution of LED illumination systems marks a huge improvement in single chip image quality and provides extraordinary benefits in long-term cost of ownership. As the technology progresses from working prototypes to finished products, DP’s future LED illuminated displays are certain to expand the single-chip projection marketplace. Simply stated, the technology dramatically improves the economics of employing projection systems in applications where superb color performance is required, but humble lumen output is sufficient.

Download hi-res versions of the photos above here: http://www.digitalprojection.com/news/zips/DP_LEDshots.zip

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About Author

A digital imaging pioneer and projector industry leader, Digital Projection International (DPI) manufactures and distributes an extensive and expanding line of ultra high-performance 3-chip and single-chip DLP® projection systems. These projectors are the reference standard for demanding applications such as large-venue, live-event staging, Fortune 5000, homeland security, education, medical and scientific research, command and control, digital cinema, commercial entertainment, worship and elite home theater.

Multiple company accolades include two Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. DPI remains the first and only projector manufacturer to win the coveted award.