New job: top of the rock
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:02 pmLast week i was asked to do a late-night service call at another site the new co. installed: the multimedia/museum area at the entrance to the elevators to the observation deck at Rockefeller Plaza. The last batch of tourists goes up around 11 PM, at which point we can disable a few things to swap out a media server.
The unit in question has been loaded with an updated file to show a radar weather image of the area, as well as a PIP view of a feed from a security camera outside the building. I install the unit, terminate and plug in a video line from the camera to the server's input, and while another guy fusses around with the internal settings, I take some quick pics.
Just beyond the area pictured above is a small theater, where the visitors can watch a little documentary on 3 big screens while waiting for the elevator. there's even audio and video in the elevators, which go express to the 70th floor... interesting ride.
Another neat thing here is the "beam walk": there's a glass section of the floor, with four projectors below showing a little loop of the view one might've seen while the building was being constructed, as one walks along a steel beam. The effect is actually pretty cool; this pic doesn't do it justice.
those things near the bottom of the pic are the toes of my Reeboks...
The rack for the beam walk: note the nifty little LCD array for previewing the different elements of the beam walk video.
This is part of the original concept model for Rock Plaza, made in the late 20s, and on display here temporarily. They had to remove a window and crane it in...
A very cool old RCA microphone:
Some mementos of Eastern Airlines, which had its HQ at 10 Rockefeller Plaza back when Eddie Rickenbacker was running that company.
I did go to the observation deck the day before, but did not have my camera (didn't know I was going up there). But don't worry, I can go up there anytime (our company HQ in NYC is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza; my ID gets me in all sorts of places), and I'll be sure to get some pics. The view is amazing, and it's a lovely old building.
The unit in question has been loaded with an updated file to show a radar weather image of the area, as well as a PIP view of a feed from a security camera outside the building. I install the unit, terminate and plug in a video line from the camera to the server's input, and while another guy fusses around with the internal settings, I take some quick pics.
Just beyond the area pictured above is a small theater, where the visitors can watch a little documentary on 3 big screens while waiting for the elevator. there's even audio and video in the elevators, which go express to the 70th floor... interesting ride.
Another neat thing here is the "beam walk": there's a glass section of the floor, with four projectors below showing a little loop of the view one might've seen while the building was being constructed, as one walks along a steel beam. The effect is actually pretty cool; this pic doesn't do it justice.
those things near the bottom of the pic are the toes of my Reeboks...
The rack for the beam walk: note the nifty little LCD array for previewing the different elements of the beam walk video.
This is part of the original concept model for Rock Plaza, made in the late 20s, and on display here temporarily. They had to remove a window and crane it in...
A very cool old RCA microphone:
Some mementos of Eastern Airlines, which had its HQ at 10 Rockefeller Plaza back when Eddie Rickenbacker was running that company.
I did go to the observation deck the day before, but did not have my camera (didn't know I was going up there). But don't worry, I can go up there anytime (our company HQ in NYC is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza; my ID gets me in all sorts of places), and I'll be sure to get some pics. The view is amazing, and it's a lovely old building.
