In the Shop this week we’re working on projects for Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center, Morton Arboretum and doing some lifecasting!

Many nerds like me have wanted their own Batcave. But due to educational obligations or living in their mom’s house, it didn’t seem very likely. Now we have the resources at our disposal! BWA HA HA!

Most of you are familiar with the movie versions of the batcave.

There’s a lot of rock work, either built into a mountain or beneath a large mansion. Then there’s a big car (that happens to look different every time you see it, but that’s another story). But in the comics, he collects things from his various encounters with the resourceful colorful psychopaths and criminal underworld of Gotham.

A giant dinosaur (prehistoric animal models)

A huge penny (bronze models and other basic constructed elements)

A big joker card (large freestanding image reproduction)

Cases displaying uniforms of deceased sidekicks and villians (humidity controlled archival casework)

And loads of realistic rock work (themed immersive environments)

This can actually happen now. Its a reality. And I work here.
All I need to do now is buy a house with a REALLY BIG BASEMENT.

This week in the shop we’re working on exhibits for the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in North Dakota!

This is one of many things I geek out on. Have you ever taken a photo near sunset or in your friends’ poorly lit house and find out later that it turned out blurry not because the lens was out of focus, but you jiggled the camera? Don’t you hate that?! This doesn’t happen to me because I have surgeon’s hands and don’t get invited to parties, but that’s another story. Using this MAGICAL PHOTOSHOP ALGORITHM THINGY you can let Photoshop figure out how the camera was moved and have it FIX THE IMAGE. (Video contains AWESOMENESS, minor language, and kind of trails off in the end)

Somehow I imagine the only people who will use this are the kind of people that Photoshop their pictures before posting them on Facebook or Internet Dating Sites, you bunch of liars.

This is real time, it hasn’t been sped up in any way, and it shows how delicate our national and state parks can be. Watch.

I’m not an outdoors person by any stretch of the imagination, I have thick dark gray curtains to keep all the light out of my apartment and my skin can be used to signal maritime vessels in foggy weather conditions; but after watching this, I think I should enjoy nature before it disappears. At least until the sun comes up.

This week in the shop we’re starting on exhibits for the Fulton Mansion State Historic Site in Texas.

A lot of viewers like you have wanted to know what its like fabricating museum exhibits and what kind of detail work is involved in matching our conceptual designs to the final product, so in this new segment, called In the Shop, we’ll show you on a semi-weekly basis what’s going on in the shop!

This is the third clip from the lecture Betty gave at Parkland College’s ACCESS Success entrepreneurial lecture series. If you missed the first two, you can see the first here and the second here. In this segment, she’s speaking about the importance of attitude and the power of choice.

Find out what Phil does as Senior Graphic Designer!

David Caldwell, from the Sandstone Visitor Center in West Virginia, visited our booth at NAI and talked about the exhibits we completed for the Center in 2003.