Whoops, forgot about ya for a second there, blog.
From visiting 4 different countries (and counting!), to my first major install for Second Story (and my first travel install, AND my first Detroit winter - separate post to come), to buying a home and adopting a fur-kid, to finally settling in and growing to love/getting to know Atlanta all over again, it's been quite an eventful year and a half-ish! Travel posts are definitely to come (NYC, Costa Rica, France, India, Japan, and in a few weeks, Peru), but this one's Halloween-related.
Each year, our parent company, Sapient, has the parents of the office bring their kids to go Trick-or-Treating in the office. Typically Second Story sits the holiday celebrations out; we'll all make a cursory appearance at whatever holiday party, mingle a bit, eat some food, then disappear back to our corner to resume working. This year marked the first year that Second Story actually participated in any of the festivities.
It was a sort of last-minute thing... My co-workers and I had, on multiple occasions, expressed the desire to build a haunted house in our lab, as we have all sorts of curious tech lying around that can be easily re-skinned to be creepy-crawly-scary, but it just never happened. So, I contributed my weird love for organizing/planning things and did the needful to get the ball rolling. I submitted our name to the party planning committee to get us on the kids' route, curated the experiences we'd have in our haunted house, purchased decorations, and finally I recruited some awesome co-workers with more passion for all things scary than I to make this thing actually happen.
Between the seven of us, we set up five different experiences as well as some creepy, Halloween-themed decorations around our lab. The haunted house was such a big hit that not only did the kids love it, but the parents had a blast wandering through as well, and we ended up opening the haunted house up to the whole office to visit! Pictures to follow - those are more interesting than reading, anyway. :) Huge, huge shoutout to my co-workers. I may have laid the groundwork, but there's no way the haunted house would have turned out as amazing as it did without everyone's help!
From visiting 4 different countries (and counting!), to my first major install for Second Story (and my first travel install, AND my first Detroit winter - separate post to come), to buying a home and adopting a fur-kid, to finally settling in and growing to love/getting to know Atlanta all over again, it's been quite an eventful year and a half-ish! Travel posts are definitely to come (NYC, Costa Rica, France, India, Japan, and in a few weeks, Peru), but this one's Halloween-related.
Each year, our parent company, Sapient, has the parents of the office bring their kids to go Trick-or-Treating in the office. Typically Second Story sits the holiday celebrations out; we'll all make a cursory appearance at whatever holiday party, mingle a bit, eat some food, then disappear back to our corner to resume working. This year marked the first year that Second Story actually participated in any of the festivities.
It was a sort of last-minute thing... My co-workers and I had, on multiple occasions, expressed the desire to build a haunted house in our lab, as we have all sorts of curious tech lying around that can be easily re-skinned to be creepy-crawly-scary, but it just never happened. So, I contributed my weird love for organizing/planning things and did the needful to get the ball rolling. I submitted our name to the party planning committee to get us on the kids' route, curated the experiences we'd have in our haunted house, purchased decorations, and finally I recruited some awesome co-workers with more passion for all things scary than I to make this thing actually happen.
Between the seven of us, we set up five different experiences as well as some creepy, Halloween-themed decorations around our lab. The haunted house was such a big hit that not only did the kids love it, but the parents had a blast wandering through as well, and we ended up opening the haunted house up to the whole office to visit! Pictures to follow - those are more interesting than reading, anyway. :) Huge, huge shoutout to my co-workers. I may have laid the groundwork, but there's no way the haunted house would have turned out as amazing as it did without everyone's help!
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| We have an excess of mannequins. |
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| Blood, guts, and bugs, complete with dismembered arm. |
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| Zombies trapped in the multitaction table |
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| The sole casualty: the poor stay-puft marshmallow man |
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| My very talented co-worker drew us a bunch of Halloween art that we used as dividers/guides in the space. |
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| Too soon? |
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| Here we "re-skinned" Ismizer, an installation from the High Museum, by simply adding a Halloween-themed backdrop. |
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| This little guy was entranced by the re-skinned Circuit Touches experience. |
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| Fun with dry ice and projection |
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| Sapient ATL visits the haunted house |
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| A short video tour of the full haunted house. There's audio! |
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| Our makeshift projection setup |
