While I’m backing up files in anticipation of our road trip (36 hours until bye, bye Boston), I thought I’d share one of my finer moments at BAM: an April Fool’s joke on the “Flatbush Avenue Marquee” (as Sponsorship called it) or “Signy” (as I called it).
Signy and I had a complicated relationship since it required the use of an impossibly outdated program called V7000 and involved a fickle connection between my computer and the sign’s computer on Flatbush Avenue. I spent hours every week dealing with Signy drama since all of BAM’s programming needed to represented and ridiculous tech issues were the norm.
That said, it was definitely cool to control such a high impact content channel even if the visuals were absolutely horrendous. (They’re much better now.) And this little video was my way of fulfilling a departmental dream while putting Signy’s enormous pixels to their proper use.
Without further adieu, I’d like to present, “Mind-Blowing Appropriated Video Work on the Flatbush Avenue Marquee”:
Tags: April Fool's, BAM, Boston, Brooklyn, Computers, Design, Flatbush Avenue, Pong, Road Trip, Signy, Technology, Video, Video Games
