11/30/2008 - Big news!
My work will be on TV this week, on Good Morning America, December 4th sometime between 8 and 8:15 AM! The city of Atlanta picked the company I work for to design and build a model of Atlanta, to be featured in one of three ground level windows in GMA's studio in Times Square, NYC. The display will act as a back drop for the popular morning talk show throughout the month of December, while also being viewed on Broadway by the millions of people who come to view holiday windows in New York City every year.

The project, which was directed by creative director Todd Gurley and incorporated the talents and hard work of dozens of people over a period of two or three months, including the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, shows prominent Atlanta cultural and historic locations, such as the Fox Theater, High Museum of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Olympic Park, and many others, all of which were photographed, and separated in Photoshop into multiple "layers" which allowed them to be printed to a rigid substrate to give a sense of dimensionality and depth. Thousands of fiber optics and LED lights were incorporated, as well as moving parts such as Atlanta's famous New Year Peach Drop and a sculptural replica of Atlanta's traditional "Pink Pig" ride. Our main theme for the display, "From Southern Grits to Holiday Glitz", is captured through the glamorization of each of the featured locations when decked out in full holiday decor, as well as through the use of traditional southern grits to create the hills of snow.

Please check out our hard work this Thursday morning, December 4th, on Good Morning America on ABC at 8 AM! The grand unveiling will be performed by Atlanta's Mayor Franklin, and will be simulcasted to a live audience of supporters in Atlanta, ready to show their love for the city!

Below are photos of me testing the fiber optic lighting for the marquee sign of the Fabulous Fox Theater, and Todd Gurley test fitting the model of the Georgia Capital building. Behind Todd, you can see the snowflakes which form the outer profile of a "snow globe", a secondary theme in the design, establishing Atlanta as the "anti-snowglobe", free from the cold and snow, and constantly warm and green. I will post the pictures of the final, completed display after it has been unveiled on Good Morning America on Thursday morning.

11/08/2008 - Site overhaul
I added a new category to the page today to allow for future blogging of thoughts and ideas. I've also been working on restructuring the Portfolio section to make it more organized and easy to navigate, and divided it into sub-categories, each of which can be accessed from the main Portfolio page. It isn't finished yet, but I will update the site as soon as that is finished, and I'll be adding a large amount of new work too.

I hope everyone had a good Halloween! I know I did. I dressed up as Fidel Castro this year. I had a cigar as a prop too, but it didn't last the night, unfortunately. Hopefully it was still obvious who I was supposed to be, otherwise I'd just look like a crazy person with a beard.