I've seen a lot of crazy things in the past work week.
Wednesday I took a tour of the FoF parade floats and got to see all the floats return back to their warehouse after their parade and get parked and recharged for the next show. I touched them and saw where their drivers sit and how they're monitored along their routes. They're huge. That night I stayed late at work to finish a prototype with a tight deadline and while the Makerbot was running I was able to run out and see the The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights on New York Street in Hollywood Studios with my mentor and the man who designed the entire show. It was a dazzling, blinding affar (over five million lights) that Disney once acquired when a family's zany enormous Christmas light display in Arkansas was shut down by the Supreme Court. The story is so good: "In 1986, Breezy asked her father if they could decorate their home in lights. Osborne complied, stringing 1000 lights around their home. "Each year after that, it got bigger and bigger," Osborne would later recall. Eventually Osborne purchased the two properties adjacent to his own and expanded the display into them.
Thursday I went to Gnireenigami's office for the first time behind Epcot to do some 3D scanning and saw their incredible workspace with a Peter Pan ship hanging from the ceiling and the kookiest, darlingest cubicles. I was invited to their Thanksgiving lunch which was an outdoor catered affair in hot Floridian November sun with tents turkey and ham and all the grand feast accoutrement and listened to a man talk about the process of making believable animatronics.
Friday I went to the Character Head Shop, where alll of the character heads are made for all the parks and I saw heads being sprayed in enormous spray booths, different molds, 3D-printed props, facial features being painted, fur being glued, huge rolls of foam, rows of character shoes, and so many things cast in resin, which I adore. Yesterday I went to the animatronics lab and saw all sorts of figures partially skinned, like Body Worlds with tubes and cables for vessels. The entire time I kept thinking about the countless people in the world who would love to be standing where I was at that very moment.
Wednesday I took a tour of the FoF parade floats and got to see all the floats return back to their warehouse after their parade and get parked and recharged for the next show. I touched them and saw where their drivers sit and how they're monitored along their routes. They're huge. That night I stayed late at work to finish a prototype with a tight deadline and while the Makerbot was running I was able to run out and see the The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights on New York Street in Hollywood Studios with my mentor and the man who designed the entire show. It was a dazzling, blinding affar (over five million lights) that Disney once acquired when a family's zany enormous Christmas light display in Arkansas was shut down by the Supreme Court. The story is so good: "In 1986, Breezy asked her father if they could decorate their home in lights. Osborne complied, stringing 1000 lights around their home. "Each year after that, it got bigger and bigger," Osborne would later recall. Eventually Osborne purchased the two properties adjacent to his own and expanded the display into them.
By 1993, the display had over three million lights. The lights were extremely popular in both in Arkansas and around the world, as news crews often visited to film the display. Since their house was located on one of the busiest streets in Little Rock, it eventually caused severe traffic issues, and lots of complaints.
The display grew bigger every year, and by 1993, was lit for 35 days during the Christmas season, from sunset to about midnight every day. Six neighbors filed a lawsuit, saying traffic congestion made trips to the corner store take two hours, and they feared emergency vehicles could not get down the street. Osborne responded by adding three million more lights." I love those crazy Osbornes and am very happy that their insane display lives on in Florida.Thursday I went to Gnireenigami's office for the first time behind Epcot to do some 3D scanning and saw their incredible workspace with a Peter Pan ship hanging from the ceiling and the kookiest, darlingest cubicles. I was invited to their Thanksgiving lunch which was an outdoor catered affair in hot Floridian November sun with tents turkey and ham and all the grand feast accoutrement and listened to a man talk about the process of making believable animatronics.
Friday I went to the Character Head Shop, where alll of the character heads are made for all the parks and I saw heads being sprayed in enormous spray booths, different molds, 3D-printed props, facial features being painted, fur being glued, huge rolls of foam, rows of character shoes, and so many things cast in resin, which I adore. Yesterday I went to the animatronics lab and saw all sorts of figures partially skinned, like Body Worlds with tubes and cables for vessels. The entire time I kept thinking about the countless people in the world who would love to be standing where I was at that very moment.
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