Make it RED!

When Virgin America finally got the OK to start flying their new airline out of San Francisco airport they wanted to make a local statement. Something non traditional to let everyone know they where here. So when they contacted the mayors office of SF they where told in no uncertain words that if they wanted to do this they'd have to work with Hartmann Studios, and in turn Impact Lighting. So I got the call to make San Francisco Red.
OK what exactly did they mean? Well threw out some pretty wild ideas: Golden Gate Bridge, Trans America building, City Hall, Coit Tower. I thought "yeah right" everyone wants to talk big. Well it turned out they didn't just talk. So we settled on 5 civic structures. SF City Hall, The Opera House, the Veterans Building, the monument in Union Sq, Coit Tower, and The Ferry Building. Oh, and as a bonus they didn't want to disturb the daily activities around these buildings so could the lights go away each night?
Um Yeah, sure. ..?
So how does one light up 5 major civic structures for 5 nights in a row and not have any lights visible during the day? The answer: Trucks
The main focus was City Hall, and the Ferry building. We would prebuild a lighting rig on a flat bed truck and drive it into place each night. Rather than making this a case study of how I did this for each building I'll just show some cool pictures, and those of you that are lighting nerds, can post questions.

I used a variety of equipment Source 4 pars, Varilites, Mac 2k washes, and Xenotech 7k's.








The trucks where all prebuilt in the impact shop, and driven to the two locations each night. Can you imagine a parade of 8 trucks packed with movers heading down the freeway? I watched them cross the Bay Bridge and I couldn't help but laugh.

First up is Coit Tower which was not done with trucks, but with pars mounted on the roof of the lower museum. It was the only place that we didn't have to take the lights down each night.




Next is City Hall



I seem to have exceeded my photo limit.
I'll put some more pictures up at later.