Tag Archives: Smithsonian

It’s always brighter at the Sun

January 19, 2008 – 8:14 pm

I moved to Las Vegas in September to be a newspaper man. Or at least the “news” in newspaper man. I loved Washington and the Smithsonian, but I really wanted to work for a news organization. Out of the blue, I was invited to be part of a new, world-class team building a newspaper Web [...]

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PandaDate.com Launches

May 1, 2007 – 2:46 pm

On the Web: PandaDate.com Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML Because of renewed interest in panda breeding surrounding the artificial insemination of our female giant panda, the web team at the National Zoo asked me to take the “PandaDate.com” game I built in the Science Station kiosks and turn it into a real Web site. [...]

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Curiosity Station Kiosks

October 15, 2006 – 4:36 pm

Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, ColdFusion, SQL Server, XML, HTML, CSS Total Number of Kiosks: 9 Curiosity Stations are a chance for visitors to take the National Zoo home with them. The kiosks allow visitors to enter their name, email address and select Asia Trail topics of interest to explore in depth at home. Two [...]

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Decision Station Kiosks

October 15, 2006 – 2:04 pm

Skills: Project Management, Videography, Final Cut Pro, Multimedia Storytelling, ColdFusion, SQL Server Total Number of Kiosks: 5 The two banks of Decision Stations on the Asia Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian National Zoo are meant to illustrate a very import message: conservation is hard. At each set of kiosks, one representing Indian issues and one [...]

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Science Station Kiosks

October 15, 2006 – 2:01 pm

Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML, Final Cut Pro, Project Management, Multimedia Storytelling Total Number of Kiosks: 2 The Science Stations are two 32” touch screen kiosks adjacent to the indoor Giant Panda viewing at the National Zoo. The huge, vertically mounted screens invite visitors behind the scenes with three Giant Panda-based stories of Zoo [...]

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