Science Centres

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 What are you main objectives for the IAAPA Expo?    We asked the 3000+ members of Blooloop's LinkedIn group, “Are you planning on attending the IAAPA Expo? If so, what are your main objectives?”...View more

Sunday, November 13, 2011 What's the Big Idea? Looking at the Legacy of the Millennium Commission    If you visit the Millennium Commission website you might be forgiven for thinking that every visitor attraction project they were involved in was an unqualified success. ...View more

Thursday, July 28, 2011 Reflecting on One Kind of Reality for Fulldome    This month I and my Loch Ness Productions colleague Mark C. Petersen had the opportunity to see the last shuttle launch of Atlantis from the Press Site at the Kennedy Space Center. We were accredited newsies, covering the event for Sky & Telescope online, and I also wrote a story for Yahoo News. Of course, being fulldome producers, we took advantage of that proximity to take immersive imagery, all in the spirit of capturing the moment for domed posterity. ...View more

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Themed Entertainment: TEA’s Mr. Mission Control – Buzz Price (1921 – 2010)    It’s been nearly a year (August 15, 2010) since Buzz Price passed away and since then I’ve had numerous opportunities to talk with friends and colleagues about dad. Everyone that knew dad had a favorite story. ...View more

Friday, June 11, 2010 Imiloa Fulldome Fest looking for a few good shows – June 15 cutoff    A note from Shawn Laatsch, the planetarium manager of the Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i: “Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii will be hosting a full dome film festival from October 5 - 10, 2010 immediately following the ASTC 2010 Conference in Honolulu. ...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

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

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?
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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

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 Amusement parks: It's a Small World Rumours and Bristol's New Aquarium    In the news today, the science based attraction in Bristol, "@Bristol" is adding an aquarium and the weekend saw Disney's Imagineering quash various rumours flying around the revamping of its iconic and much loved "It's a Small World" ride.
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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.
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