{"id":11173,"date":"2006-08-03T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/08\/adobe-flashes-san-jose.html"},"modified":"2006-08-03T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T17:28:49","slug":"adobe_flashes_san_jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/adobe_flashes_san_jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe flashes San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dang&#8230; who said Adobe HQ &amp; San Jose could be cool?  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/24544.html?cprose=daily\">this press release<\/a>, the company is due to unveil a huge LED sculpture early next week.  Evidently multimedia artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earstudio.com\/projects\/projects.html\">Ben Rubin<\/a> (creator of grooviness like <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earstudio.com\/projects\/listeningpost.html\">Listening Post<\/a><\/i>) has been commissioned to light up the SJ skyline: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Located within the top floors of Adobe&#8217;s Almaden Tower headquarters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjosesemaphore.org\">Semaphore<\/a> consists of four ten-foot wide illuminated disks composed of 24,000 Luxeon\u00ae LEDs donated by Philips Lumileds in San Jose&#8230; The giant illuminated disks rotate to a new position every eight seconds and pulse out a message using a visual coding system that is intended to be deciphered. An online audio broadcast will provide a soundtrack of spoken and sung letters, numbers and musical tones that may help decode the message.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  The Adobe building is quite nice, but it&#8217;s a bit on the cold side (former Macromedians said it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_07\/b3971092.htm\">looks like a bank<\/a>&#8220;).  And as for San Jose&#8230; <i>Feh<\/i>.  But now, it&#8217;s like my teammate\/neighbor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanoneilhughes.com\/gallery.htm\">Hughes<\/a> said: &#8220;SJ Grand Prix?!&#8230;art festival?!&#8230;what&#8217;s going on around here!?  I signed up for strip malls, traffic and urban sprawl&#8230;no one said anything about culture!&#8221;<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait to see the work, and I&#8217;ll pass along photos when they&#8217;re available.  I just wonder whether we could get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/contemporary\/holzer.html\">Jenny Holzer<\/a> to be a guest artist.  Now <i>that<\/i> would be edgy&#8230;<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordadvocate.com\/gbase\/Arts\/content.html?oid=oid:58446\">Protect me<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/Magazine\/reviews\/robinson\/Images\/robinson6-14-1.jpg\"> from what I want<\/i><\/a>,<br \/>\nJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang&#8230; who said Adobe HQ &amp; San Jose could be cool? According to this press release, the company is due to unveil a huge LED sculpture early next week. Evidently multimedia artist Ben Rubin (creator of grooviness like Listening Post) has been commissioned to light up the SJ skyline: &#8220;Located within the top floors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}