Vaughn M Hannon

Category: Work

  • A Big Adventure

    I recently finished up a little work trip helping a large company with a new large ship install a media based show in two of their restaurants. I joined the ship in Cape Canaveral, FL and left the ship in Tokyo. It then continued onto its new home in Singapore. In between we stopped in Curaçao, traversed the Panama Canal, stopped in LA (had lunch with the family), and then crossed the big ocean to Tokyo.

    While I can’t be totally specific about what I did you might spot a familiar face in this:

    I was gone for almost a month but the team was great and the show really came together. Maybe we’ll do it again sometime.

  • A little Hollywood magic

    The holidays have come and gone and with it your chance to visit Stars Hollow, CT via Burbank, CA. I’ve just wrapped a nightly show that has played every night (except for Christmas) since December 17th on the Warner Bros. back-lot as part of their Holidays Made Here event. Working with Planet C Studios we mapped a section of the studio’s facades to project holiday lighting and clips from Gilmore Girls as they celebrated their 25th (!!!) anniversary.

    A photo of a crowd amidst falling fake snow at the Holidays Made Here event on the Warner Bros. Studio lot.
    Guests watch the tree lighting, lights “magically” appear on the buildings, and snow falls in Burbank.

    Guests wandered through the recreation of the small Connecticut town visiting their favorite spots and maybe catching a glimpse of one of the original characters. Once the sun set three separate “shows” played to the coffee guzzling crowd. Each show played in sync with lighting, audio, and of course snow.

    Admittedly I had never watched Gilmore Girls in its original run or in its life after network television but I have learned that there is a passionate audience for the world of the show and Warner Bros. did a great job recreating that world and inviting the fans in to play. More proof that if you build a world your fans love they will come just to exist in that space for a short time.

    A photograph of nearly the whole facade with the projection alignment grid on it.
    What post about a mapping project would be complete without a picture of the alignment grid!?

    Perhaps I’ll see you in Stars Hollow next year.

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas Live 2025

    A photograph of me sitting in front of a computer monitor displaying the Disguise software interface and in the background, the Hollywood Bowl shell with the images we project upon it.
    A photo of my "working" badge for The Nightmare Before Christmas at the bowl
    A photograph of the Hollywood Bowl shell at night with a grid projected on it as I mapped the proscenium.
    A photograph of the Hollywood Bowl set in its default look for The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Well. Jack’s attempt to improve Christmas was foiled…again. Ah well, maybe next year. Another great set of shows and in my favorite venue!

    Thanks Black Ink Presents and specifically Alek Deva for having me along for the bumpy sleigh ride again.

    This was the 10th anniversary of doing this show at the Bowl and hoooo boy how did that happen? If you haven’t had a chance to see this show do make a point of it when it comes around next.