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Live at the Announcement of the Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows Merge

TheBigPicture — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:20:59 +0000

Only hours ago it was announced that Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows Ski Resorts have merged. The Big Picture is thrilled to be responsible for the satellite uplink providing live coverage of this historic event! George and Abel are hard at work, maneuvering on chairlifts to get the best possible footage. With this announcement comes the exciting news that for a single lift ticket guests will now be able to enjoy over 6,000 skiable acres across eight mountain peaks with a top elevation of 9,000 feet! Not only will guests have access to greater skiable terrain, the merge also includes an improvement plan offering more amenities. Included in this plan is the promise of two new chairlifts, a new village restaurant and bar, a snow board demo and rental center, a day lodge and a family recreation center. We love summer but with this news we’re ready to trade in our flip flops for snow boots!

For more information about the merge click here.

George Lang risks life and limb for the perfect video

TheBigPicture — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:08:23 +0000

George Lang, our founder, President and resident DP is no stranger to adventure and perilous camera work. He has taken footage underwater with sharks, dangling from a helicopter, in the line of fire in Rwanda – you could definitely throw around some adjectives here such as fearless, audacious, daring and also just plain nuts.

But lo and behold, we send him out to the Ice Rink in Union Square, and he comes back like this!

Luckily we know that George can get the job done blindfolded and with his arms tied behind his back, so we aren’t too worried.

Take a look at the final piece that we did for Mammoth Mountain for the grand opening of the holiday Ice Rink at Union Square – featuring Woolly the Mammoth. See if you can spot George skating by.

Click here to view the embedded video.

DemandTec Retail Challenge

TheBigPicture — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:31:09 +0000

DemandTec is an analytical software tool that allows retailers to stay up to date on, and modify, their pricing structure using real time data. As part of their corporate citizenship program they have created the DemandTec Retail Challenge, which allows high school students the opportunity to compete against each other as analysts using the DemandTec software. Several qualifying students are flown to New York City each year and the winners of the challenge receive scolarship funds and an opportunity to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

We are proud sponsors of this program, and we’d like to share the video from last year’s challenge with you. Click the image below to be taken to the video hosted on DemandTec’s website:

Twin Cities Police Department on the cutting edge with tamper-proof digital storage

TheBigPicture — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:32:46 +0000

Crime scene investigations have become more and more of an exact science. The standards for proper evidence collection are raised higher on a daily basis, with challenges from both the courts and defense attorneys alike.

SanDisk has created the SDWorm card, a tamper-proof digital storage device that we created a video for to demonstrate how it protects law enforcement officers by guaranteeing the legitimacy of evidence.

The Twin Cities Police Authority of Larkspur, California worked with us on this to set up a crime scene and provide us with testimonials on how this product could be beneficial to them. They are great people and we really enjoyed working with them. But make no mistake, if you mess around they will have you in handcuffs!

Stay tuned for the final video, and click any of the pictures below to get to the flickr album with more great shots!