Well I think today was a pretty exciting day for the New Media department. There were big developments in both projects that I spend most of my time on.
The next incarnation of the Dialog Table arrived today. I snapped a few pictures here of the table in place (it’s covered by blankets and in many pieces but its in there).
Today was also a big deal for the new signage system that I have been working with Andrew on. You can see an early mock up of the sign on this image. It is visible where the new white glass touches the older brick building.
The sign is made with 5 projectors powered by the a 5 computers and a software system we bought called Watchout. Today we finally got access to the computers and preview monitors. After a lot of head scratching and manual reading we (Nate , Larry and I) managed to get movies onto our system and get those same movies to play over the preview monitors. No mean feat. Tomorrow we actually get to see the projectors on the windows.
I can’t wait to see this thing in action. Maybe someday I can coerce eric into giving me a behind the scenes tour of how it works.
Does this make me the first non-walker person to comment on this blog? I do think so. Yay to wordpress and RSS. Btw… Wordpress 1.5 is out and it’s hott. With two ts.
Comment by justin h — 3/1/2005 @ 7:40 pm
Well your right you are the first non-WAC person to comment on our blog. Thanks.
Glad to hear someone else is excited about the table. I can’t wait to see it working either. Should be great it is running mostly new software since the last time you saw it.
There is some more info at DialogTable.com in case your wondering how it works exactly this image might help. Of course thats no substitute for seeing the real thing.
Comment by eric — 3/2/2005 @ 9:11 am
Can we see some pics of it with its clothes off? Close Ups? Money shots? I remember it mentioned once that this one will be a little different that the one at the Strangely Familiar exhibit. I’m excited about it.
Comment by jennifer j — 3/3/2005 @ 1:06 am
They spent all day setting it up yesterday but I was busy with the projections so i didn’t see it. Yeah the interface is totally different than the one in Strangely Familiar but the hand recognition software is basically the same. The physical table is very similar except it got painted in an auto body shop this time so it is shiny steely gray and now it has speakers sticking out of it. Hopefully they are loud enough.
Comment by eric — 3/3/2005 @ 9:07 am