Biscardi Creative Blog

Well the big moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived last week. It finally came time to say goodbye to our home of 7 years and start the process of setting up the new space. First we were astounded by how much equipment and “stuff” we had in just 1,000 square feet. Second, it’s just incredible how much time it takes to set all of this up. Thank goodness we had Bob Zelin heading up the engineering so we could work on everything else.

The old Rialto suite torn down and ready to move.

Wally World, my edit suite for almost 7 years, time to say good bye and thank you for all the memories…

John and I loading up the truck with as much as possible. We were able to do the entire move with just two trips in the big truck and probably 10 in the smaller vehicles.

The big warehouse at the new offices really made for a sweet and pretty easy load in. Something we definitely did not have at the old space.

Wally World is now my office. This was how I found it after we started moving in and had to laugh. Had no idea I had that many toys.

Beaker 3PO apparently has something to say to Bumbles.

Hmmm, wonder what they’re doing….. All will be revealed in due time.

The incredible Bob Zelin fresh from his drive up from Orlando gets started in The Core. Bob designed the entire engineering plan for both our original facility and this new space.

Day one, hour one, notice how big his smile is! Let’s see how he looks on day three…..

A few of Bob’s cables.

Making a card change in one of the new Macs.

Updating one of the new Macs. The chair makes a nice monitor stand.

VTR 1 goes to input 6 which is connected to audio matrix 8 and that goes to Edit 1 via the AJA 10AVA which also feeds into the conference room and that goes into the flux capacitor and as long as the rack hits 80 miles per hour we should get good picture into the theater.

Edit 4 starting to come together.

Day two, still smiling! Still going 100 miles per hour….

Voice Over room starting to take shape. Bass trap is in there and it’s ready for some acoustic treatment.

Adrienne testing out Edit 3. So far, Bob’s wiring is working!

Edit 5 shaping up. The new Dell UltraSharp monitors are just spectacular.

Day three with a happy client and an even happier engineer. He’s done!

Really nice looking rack assembly designed by Bob. Notice we have a lot of blank space to allow for easy expansion. We will probably add some more storage and maybe another computer or two this year. Already have the space for them.

So we’re getting really REALLY close. Still shaking down the equipment, getting things in place and then we’ll be ready to open our doors. Want to come see the place? Well sign up for the big Open House Event! Click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page to register. Gonna be a fun night!!

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With a big storm due any time now in the Atlanta area, we kept moving forward with final details all weekend. Four brand new Anthro Fit consoles arrived this past week along with new desks for both Walter and Randy so we got to work putting those together. The new Media Library also started to take shape.

Now with the Anthro consoles we did figure out a neat little trick….

Three of the Anthro Fit consoles partially assembled and ready to move into the edit suites.

Now here’s the trick. We did NOT install the keyboard shelf yet. We have 3′ wide doors in the edit suites. With the keyboard shelf in place, the desk is too wide to maneuver into the edit suites. We would have to build it in place in the suite, but we have a cleaning crew coming in this week and need to keep the rooms empty for that. Soooooo, leave the keyboard shelf off, then roll it into the room later, and we can finalize the setup.

Decided to go completely flexible with the Media Library. This is a dual track Rubbermaid adjustable shelf system that’s hanging on the walls. We went with just 8″ deep shelves because we only put stuff on the shelves 1 level deep. If the shelves are any deeper, then we’re wasting space.

We’ll start out with a full 18′ of shelving along the walls when we open, when these shelves eventually fill up, we’ll start a row of back to back bookshelves in the foreground.

We’ve neglected to put this on the blog the past few weeks. This was actually the first official purchase for the new facility. Gotta have a little fun!

The new gameroom has a name! It’s Rebecca’s Atomic Lounge, named after my incredible wife and partner. The sign really fits the retro feel of the room, now if I can just find the right analog pinball machine…..

We’re in the final stretch to move in day. Could be as early as next week, just awaiting final inspections. In the meantime, some final details start to fall into place in the kitchen. The booths were cool sitting out in the warehouse, but now you really start to see the full effect.

I’m sure they’ll look even better when the plastic comes off. Now I need to find another one of those Coca Cola napkin dispensers that Kim O’Neill gave to us!

Oh and if you’d like a set of these booths for yourself or any other super cool retro products, check out Bars and Booths!

We are officially 6 months into the construction of our new facility and are down to the final elements. Parking lot is striped. Floors and ceilings are fully in, now it’s time to finish and move in! Today Joe and I worked on some of the detail work in the game room and machine room.

45′s and LP’s from our personal collection. Been years since we’ve listened to them so they’re becoming part of the 50′s / rock n’ roll diner motif. We have a 16″ stripe along the wall to decorate so I used some paper on the floor to lay out the pattern first before we started putting them on the wall.

Joe puts up the center LP. Only the best rock and roll album of all time. The Boss, “Born to Run.”

Records in position on the stripe. The building was pretty cold today, 20 degrees outside, so we needed to use some blue painter’s tape to hold the albums in place while they dry.

Main kitchen area really coming together nicely now. Dishwasher and sink are in place, we’ve got everything pretty much painted, still need to do some second coats and clean up. Soda fountain table is in the room now.

All the main cabling was brought down through the ceiling and into the machine room. All cabling and power will be dropped from the ceiling so there will be zero cables on the floor when we’re said and done. Joe came up with a nice pipe setup to make the drop clean.

Detail of the cable drop. I like everything to look clean and neat. Those pipes absolutely do the trick. And since we have a drop ceiling, we can switch tiles around if we decide we want to drop them down to the left or right.

Getting close now!