{"id":1166,"date":"2021-03-10T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:31:44","slug":"blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/2021\/03\/10\/blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blooming\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/281745714?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Role: Technical project management, CAD modeling, rigging<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Part of SXSW 2019&#8217;s official selection in their Art program, Alex Darby and I spent a better part of a year streamlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelisapark.com\/\">Lisa Park<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Blooming<\/em> from the complex system we installed at Mana Contemporary to one that could be installed in under 36 hours in a conference room at the Austin Hilton.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since we tested everything in New York a month before the festival, our hurdle was the artificial grass we ordered arrived in the form of used astroturf cut into mismatched strips.&nbsp; It looked like it&#8217;d lined a bar&#8217;s outdoor space for multiple events.&nbsp; The recent rains meant all the local sod farms were back ordered for a few weeks.&nbsp; But in the last hours I got through an international company that does the artificial grass for the Superbowl.&nbsp; I was able to order a fresh roll of the nicest artificial grass I&#8217;ve ever seen.&nbsp; They even &#8216;fluffed&#8217; the grass with a gas-powered lawn mower looking tool to set how the blades stood and which side would be shiny versus matte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Special thanks to Liz Whittington at SXSW for all the support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a title=\"MK_TechPM_formedia.005\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/100813305@N05\/51024009367\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51024009367_6d6c3d76e4_c.jpg\" alt=\"MK_TechPM_formedia.005\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a title=\"20190312_183156-1710\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/100813305@N05\/51023174628\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51023174628_cebfc2989f_c.jpg\" alt=\"20190312_183156-1710\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a title=\"20190308_195859-5574\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/100813305@N05\/51024002077\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/31337\/51024002077_ef46266ca0_c.jpg\" alt=\"20190308_195859-5574\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role: Technical project management, CAD modeling, rigging Part of SXSW 2019&#8217;s official selection in their Art program, Alex Darby and I spent a better part of a year streamlining Lisa Park&#8216;s Blooming from the complex system we installed at Mana Contemporary to one that could be installed in under 36 hours in a conference room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}