bang!
Here’s a small photo essay I’ve put together for today. Amanda the field producer was cool enough to snap these pics as I assembled a crack team of photogs to assist me in throwing a computer off the roof of the station [for my weekly videocast].
We wanted to go for the highest point on the building, so that meant (carefully, with much warning) climbing the receiver dish tower and then hoisting the computer up via a rope. It was fun, in an old-timey kinda way.
After relocating some cars in the parking lot, making a bunch of last minute safety precautions, and getting all the various XDCAMS ready, it was time to sacrifice the old computer tower to the hardware gods.
And here’s a look at the computer, moments after hitting the pavement. The other photogs said that I should’ve filled it with baby powder or something - to give it a little more “presence” when it crashed. I think it would’ve been cool to fill it with blood.
Here’s the story that ran tonight: [Click on JL: Ready For Vista?] Sometime tomorrow I’m gonna put together a compilation of all the various camera angles and what not (provided we don’t have an ice storm).
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