We're excited to announce the launch of www.realnetworks.com/helix a brand new site for RealNetworks flagship streaming media platform.

Very nice work from Andy Graydon this month in Michigan.  A look at pre or post architecture and the effect of technology upon it. Below are some descriptions of the show and the piece

We're pleased to announce the launch of ALG online, the authoritative all-in-one information resource covering energy-efficient lighting design, technologies, and applications.

On-site Screen? Well it's what we call the onsite portion of your website.

The on-site portion of a website? Yes. Imagine being able to update a digital sign at your location at the same time you're updating your website through a content management system (CMS). Your front window becomes another "page" of your website which you can update daily. 

We just completed work with The Edge Creative for MGX FY11. We were tasked with designing and producing 3 Dataton Watchout shows this year.  We covered about 3000 sqft of projection surface enveloping a room for 3500 audience members.

We created full panoramic videos, interactive speaker support and architectural backdrops for our 3 keynotes.

-Pete Bjordahl

Parallel just completed an engagement with UW helping transform the Professional and Continuing Education Department's website into Ektron, a .NET CMS. UI and design consulting led to the development of tight, css based templates that were then integrated into Ektron.  We're pleased to see the site actively growing and evolving within the CMS.

- Pete Bjordahl

Since I spent most of my childhood playing with LEGO, I had to mention my giddy excitement here that we've recently started working with LEGO on their new MMOG. Should be a fun experience as we get to watch all the plastic blocks move from the real world, into the digital world and then back again.

-Pete Bjordahl

Andy Graydon, a long time partner and collaborator, recently exhibited his latest work in Berlin - Untitled (plate tectonics). It is a fascinating study of the experience of space (specifically museum space) through sound. 

Below is a description of the work.

Parallel recently completed a projection design installation at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.

The work titled "Farmhouse" was commissioned to support the Intiman's production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois. A stunning but dark modernist courtyard was unified in a pale blue field of slowly moving dried corn stalks. Fine white lines cut the scene vertically recalling the stark simple posts of 19th century rural architecture as well as echoing the  slender columns surrounding the space.

-Pete Bjordahl

There is a little piece of paper tacked to my board here that came from a work by Fischli and Weiss. It is from a tongue-in-check work by the artists where they cribbed a piece of found motivational text and then had it enlarged and painted on the exterior of a building.

Tongue-in-cheek or not, the list is a good daily reminder for me.

Here is the list. Also check out the link below that for some photos of the actual work.

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