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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Telescopes, planetariums & digital domes: Stargazing on the White House Lawn
We have received interesting news and images from friends in the
planetarium community. A “star party” took place at the White House the
evening of 7 Oct......View more
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Museums: Tills at Britain's Museums ringing as if it's Christmas
Interesting feature today about how the UK's museums and stately homes are seeing a huge increase in "cultural retail sales" as stay-at-home-holidaymakers splash out on cultural keepsakes and mementos. London's Natural History Museum has seen a 21% increase in gift shop sales and the National Trust's 220 shops have generated over £36 million... ...View more
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Themed Design: Building a Brachiosaur- Video
It’s not every day you spot the largest animal to walk the earth trying
to break into a building, least of all an august institution such as
the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. But watch the video, look again,
this is no 50 tonne felon …...View more
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Museums: Developing Uniquely 21st Century Museum Experiences
Just the other day, I saw the future. I was invited to view the
goings-on at Robert C. Fisler School at a site visit sponsored by
Apple Computer. Robert C. Fisler was the first K-8 in Southern CA to integrate the use of Apple laptops 24/7 for all 2-8th graders. What did I see?...View more
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Museum Design: Blistering Barnacles, it's Tintin and Magritte!
There are famously not any famous Belgians. However, today sees the
opening of a museum each for two of the Kingdom’s most celebrated sons:
the acclaimed artist - and painter of floating pipes - Magritte and that intrepid boy reporter and
comic strip character Tintin....View more
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Museum Design: Who is this Man?
A photograph caught my eye today. It shows a man on the roof of a men’s lavatory in a California State Park. Why is he there? Why is he in black and white? Is he spying on someone through the skylight? ...View more
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Museums: An Outpouring in Paper and Pencil - Visitors to Calif Academy Get to the Point on Climate Change
For the new California Academy of Sciences, my company, Cinnabar Inc.,
produced the exhibit “Altered State,” which focuses on climate change
and California....View more
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Special Venue Media: Musings on the Fulldome Market
"So, what's the fulldome market like these days?" That's a question we hear at Loch Ness Productions pretty often--and
it's a serious topic of conversation any time two or more fulldome
theater folk (or those who want to be in fulldome) get together. In the
past year I've had conversations with several media producers at
various meetings who expressed some interest in "getting into the
fulldome market."...View more
Monday, April 13, 2009
Museums: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm - What's it all about?
Talk business in any industry and there is sure to be a wide variety of
new-fangled phrases, euphemisms and cobbled together sound-bites
infecting the lexicon. Management speak is a global phenomenon and
board rooms the world over resonate with ideas being run up flag poles,
paradigm shifts, blue sky thinking and thrusting young managers running
with balls, hitting home runs, herding cats etc......View more
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Museums: Unique Underwater Museum for Egypt's Famed Ancient City
In the news this last week, The UNESCO backed giant underwater museum,
designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, a specialist in water
based construction, is to be located on the site of Cleopatra’s Palace
in Alexandria and is set to break ground/water in 2010 and be completed
in 3 years. ...View more
Friday, February 27, 2009
Bridging the History/Art Divide: The Multi-Disciplinary Museum of the Future
What do art works by Werner Heldt, White House footage of Reykjavik
summit meetings, and an original draft of President Reagan’s “Tear Down
This Wall” speech have in common? ...View more
Monday, December 01, 2008
Themed Entertainment: Riding Shuttle Launch Experience
One of the perks of having the IAAPA show in Orlando is getting to tour the local attractions and bring along family members. Boaz Rubin, husband of Blooloop editor Judith Rubin, wrote his impressions of Shuttle Launch Experience at Kennedy Space Center....View more
Thursday, October 16, 2008
"World-Class Planetarium Invests $39.50 on Overhead Projector"
The above is not a headline you often see and there is a compelling reason: Overhead projectors are simply no good for presenting educational star shows. It seems obvious enough that there’s a world – indeed, a universe - of difference between a planetarium system and an overhead projector, but a mix-up between the two contributed to a recent John McCain campaign gaffe that has been the subject of much commentary in the science community....View more
Friday, October 10, 2008
Fulldome Video Gains Followers at Jackson Hole Symposium
A report from Dan Neafus, a founder of the trade group IMERSA, which
seeks to promote the diverse applications of fulldome technology in
multiple markets....View more
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Producing for Fulldome: One Company’s Story
Content for fulldome is still largely rooted in the planetarium’s
traditional role of informing people about astronomy and space in an
imaginative and entertaining manner....View more
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
This Is - and Isn’t - Your Grandfather’s Science Museum
Update from Jonathan Katz, CEO of Cinnabar, and executive producer of
35,000 square feet of new exhibits for the Kimball Natural History
Museum at the new California Academy of Sciences....View more
Friday, August 29, 2008
Giant Tortoises and Museum 2.0: Cinnabar Installation Diary
We’re now completing installation of exhibits on the east side of the
Kimball Museum of Natural History at the new California Academy of
Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Those exhibits include
“Islands of Evolution,” some 10,000 square feet of displays
illustrating Academy research expeditions to Galápagos and Madagascar,
while explaining key concepts about evolution and biodiversity....View more
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Museums: More news from the installation front!
Here is the latest entry of Cinnabar’s installation diary, by Jonathan
Katz (Executive Director) and Jeannie Lomma (project manager)...View more
Monday, August 11, 2008
Cinnabar Installation Diary: The California Academy of Sciences
Here’s a report from Jonathan Katz in San Francisco, where his company, Cinnabar, is in the process of installing new exhibits at the California Academy of Sciences. This will be a weekly diary for the next several weeks (the new Academy opens Sept. 27). ...View more
Thursday, August 07, 2008
So where are the serpents? Newsletters and missing paintings.
Seems like everyone
nowadays has a newsletter. The cinema I take the kids to has one. So
does the local kennel. I understand the postman is working on one......View more
Friday, July 18, 2008
Museums: With the Beetles at London's Natural History Museum
Fascinating story in the press this week about a tiny beetle which caused quite a stir at London's Natural History Museum as the 5 year old son of one of the museum's entomologists makes a lunchtime discovery... ...View more
Friday, March 21, 2008
Planetariums and Science Centres. Two New Attractions Debut this Easter
This Easter weekend sees the opening of two brand new attractions, The Australian Museum's permanent dinosaur exhibit and here in the UK, Britains biggest Planetarium. ...View more
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Amusement parks : Welcome to Bemusement, the Blooloop Blog
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