Archive for December, 2009

Crossroads Directors JAM have completed an ident campaign for English cask beer Abbot Ale starring the inimitable actor Brian Blessed. The campaign Classic Tales from a Classic Ale range from :10 to :15 in length and are set in the famous Hawley Arms in Camden, with Blessed either perched bar-side or relaxing beside a fire, telling classic pub jokes with his trademark booming flare. more

Editing suite at Optic Nerve’s Brooklyn facility

As studio manager for Optic Nerve, Chris Besecker’s days used to be like a game of hide and seek, only not nearly as much fun. With five Mac G5 workstations running Final Cut and Adobe After Effects and no centralized storage at the Brooklyn facility, Besecker had to keep track of where each project’s files were and make sure those files were available to the editors on the individual workstations. Before Optic Nerve installed Small Tree’s cost-effective, Ethernet-based shared storage technology, there was a lot of looking around for certain files and then a lot of copying files from one hard drive to another. more

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Coemar Infinity Wash XL and Infinity ACL fixtures plus a massive dose of star power lit up New York City’s Madison Square Garden for the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th Anniversary Concert” which aired on HBO November 29. Among the luminaries taking the stage were The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, U2, Metallica, Jerry Lee Lewis, and James Taylor. more