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And now a bit of landscaped fauna meditation to help you through Wednesday:
Here’s another picture of some of the hand-planted things:
Inside: though the control room is dark today, the engineers are down to the last bit of their build. We should be in the new studio in the next few weeks:
Very exciting indeed.
I’ve been trying since mid-July to get this shot since I saw one like it on a cycling site.
First, the one I saw, was shot by a stationary photographer. Second, it is hard to frame this just right while pedaling myself and holding my phone. Third, The Yankee is moving really fast.
You know, every building just about has closed doors. No signage, no one going in or out, just locked door knobs. And that makes me curious. Today I saw inside one of those at the office:
It is just a small server room with some wiring and routers and whatnot. I looked inside and left quickly, before Hal 9000 could take over. That’s just not something you need mid-week. He starts running A/B testing on you and the locks and your whole weekend is “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Kenny.”
We’re starting to understand how the new building works. This is the first week of classes. Everyone is lost. You quickly learn the facial expressions. And then you have to figure out where they are going. Sometimes they know. Sometimes they don’t. It is a confusing building. Sometimes you don’t know where they are going, either. Sometimes you’re finding your own way. But there’s good cheer through it all. It is a fancy building.
The big nano patch. The oversized little connector set up:
This controls the volume to the control room monitors. Engineers
My first bike-in-the-building sighting:
And that is how you know classes have begun.
I’m sitting in the studio, see?
This is one of the devices that allows you to talk from the control room into the studio next door. The engineers are pulling together the last few days of their details on this beautiful new facility. Soon the studio will be open and we’ll be making television shows.
In the control room of the television station, where today I learned how to use the new Telemetrics system. This one station controls four robotic cameras — tilt, shift, pan, focus, set shots and variations. If you’ve ever used a joystick I can teach you a bit more than the basics in a hour or so:
I had lunch at Dat’s, which is an almost-Cajun joint. The food’s fine, but we’re a little too far away for it to be authentic, according to my own arbitrary rules. But, hey, I had lunch with Frank Sinatra:
And tonight I’m hanging out with Allie:
I was moving boxes from here to there — because this is one of the things I am doing right now. And at the individual box level I was taking things out of boxes because, well, they were in boxes and what’s the point of that? We’re moved in to the new building and all.
Anyway, I dug out this remote control, which goes to some stripe of projection setup:
And that’s just classy design.
