Normally I try to keep entries here in the realm of things at least peripherally related to home ownership and my trials and tribulations there in. This post has pretty much nothing at all to do with anything related to the house but is something that I am so proud of and just had to share.
When not dealing with phones, parking, auditorium rentals, and capital projects at the museum I dive into the phone booth and put on the cape and boots and head over to my other job as a partner in Fisher Theatrical Last summer we had an amazing opportunity to provide lighting design and engineering for the Chevy Icon billboard in Times Square. This was a huge project for us even though we were only one of many companies with teams of people bringing different elements together.
I had the good fortune to be involved in some of the programming elements of the job and spent a week on the 42nd floor of a hotel in Times Square last fall getting all of the bugs worked out of the control system so that our design team could do their work to light up the chevy icon billboard.
One of the many elements we had to coordinate for this project was establishing a wireless communication link to the billboard in order to control the lights. We used a great product from Wireless Solutions to make this happen. Today they released a case study of our project that features commentary from yours truly. There is also a link for the full text of the case study which includes all of my long ramblings and lots of techno mumbo jumbo. I'm fairly astonished that they included all of this in the full case study. I can be long winded and entirely too nerdy at the best of times. It seems I was in rare form for this one.
I'm thrilled with how the piece turned out and couldn't be more proud of everything we did to make this project happen. It is awesome to be able to point to something that we've done that people can recognize and understand. All too often our hard work goes into something behind the scenes that helps make a show but when we do our job correctly the effect is often so transparent that the audience may not even realize what it is that we've done or how much grueling effort went into that 5 minutes on stage.