BUFORD, GA

Biscardi Creative Media Announces Plans to Move.

Considering Town Square / City Center Locations.   Current Facility for Sale / Lease

A new chapter is about to begin for Biscardi Creative Media.  The current facility is up for sale or long term lease as we look to move the company in preparation for the launch of Contemporary Living Network.    When we built this current facility, I never imagined we’d be a part of launching a new digital television network.   Well here we are and here we change again!  The current space is gorgeous and will serve the next owner well, if you’re interested in leasing or purchasing the space, there’s a PDF down below with the details.

Where will we be?  Well we’re still working on that.  We know it will be in a city center / town square so we can be among the shops, restaurants, venues and town green / parks.  There’s been a real renaissance in Georgia to bring back the town center / town square creating beautiful living spaces combining residential, retail, dining and event space.   As CLN is a both positive lifestyle network and educational opportunity, we can think of no better place for the home of both that network and Biscardi Creative Media.

We’ll be able to highlight the local community as backdrops or even sets for some of our upcoming shows.   There’s also going to be a cooking studio / living room space big enough to hold small studio audiences.   We’ll still have all the editorial, color, sound and media library capacity we have now, but with additional office and studio space.   Some classroom space is even planned to make it even easier for BCM to continue to share knowledge with local students and hold industry centric seminars and classes.

One thing I can assure you, there will be no interruptions to any productions at any time during this transition period.   I can also assure you Molly the Wonder Dog will be a big part of the new location as well.

If you have any questions or concerns, definitely feel free to call myself or Kelly to discuss.

Life is an interesting journey and we just never seem to know where the river is going bend next. I’m glad I have my lovely wife along for the ride.  Thanks so much for your continued support of Biscardi Creative Media.

Walter Biscardi, Jr., Founder & Creative Genius

DETAILS ON THE SALE / LEASE OF THE BUILDING.

The facility is shown by appointment only.  Please Contact The Simpson Company to schedule an appointment.  Lee Hemmer 770-530-3646  lee@simpsoncompany.com

The post Biscardi Creative Announces Plans to Move! appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

The old Rialto suite torn down and ready to move.

Wally World, my edit suite for almost 7 years, time to say good bye and thank you for all the memories…

John and I loading up the truck with as much as possible.  We were able to do the entire move with just two trips in the big truck and probably 10 in the smaller vehicles.

The big warehouse at the new offices really made for a sweet and pretty easy load in.  Something we definitely did not have at the old space.

Wally World is now my office.  This was how I found it after we started moving in and had to laugh.  Had no idea I had that many toys.

Beaker 3PO apparently has something to say to Bumbles.

Hmmm, wonder what they’re doing…..  All will be revealed in due time.

The incredible Bob Zelin fresh from his drive up from Orlando gets started in The Core.  Bob designed the entire engineering plan for both our original facility and this new space.

Day one, hour one, notice how big his smile is!  Let’s see how he looks on day three…..

A few of Bob’s cables.

Making a card change in one of the new Macs.

Updating one of the new Macs.  The chair makes a nice monitor stand.

VTR 1 goes to input 6 which is connected to audio matrix 8 and that goes to Edit 1 via the AJA 10AVA which also feeds into the conference room and that goes into the flux capacitor and as long as the rack hits 80 miles per hour we should get good picture into the theater.

Edit 4 starting to come together.

Day two, still smiling!  Still going 100 miles per hour….

Voice Over room starting to take shape.  Bass trap is in there and it’s ready for some acoustic treatment.

Adrienne testing out Edit 3.  So far, Bob’s wiring is working!

Edit 5 shaping up.  The new Dell UltraSharp monitors are just spectacular.

Day three with a happy client and an even happier engineer.  He’s done!

Really nice looking rack assembly designed by Bob.  Notice we have a lot of blank space to allow for easy expansion.  We will probably add some more storage and maybe another computer or two this year.  Already have the space for them.

So we’re getting really REALLY close.  Still shaking down the equipment, getting things in place and then we’ll be ready to open our doors.  Want to come see the place?  Well sign up for the big Open House Event!  Click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page to register.  Gonna be a fun night!!

Click here to sign up for the Open House.

The post Scenes from a move and a little Bob Zelin appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

Now with the Anthro consoles we did figure out a neat little trick….

Three of the Anthro Fit consoles partially assembled and ready to move into the edit suites.

Now here’s the trick.  We did NOT install the keyboard shelf yet.  We have 3′ wide doors in the edit suites.  With the keyboard shelf in place, the desk is too wide to maneuver into the edit suites.  We would have to build it in place in the suite, but we have a cleaning crew coming in this week and need to keep the rooms empty for that.  Soooooo, leave the keyboard shelf off, then roll it into the room later, and we can finalize the setup.

Decided to go completely flexible with the Media Library.  This is a dual track Rubbermaid adjustable shelf system that’s hanging on the walls.  We went with just 8″ deep shelves because we only put stuff on the shelves 1 level deep.  If the shelves are any deeper, then we’re wasting space.

We’ll start out with a full 18′ of shelving along the walls when we open, when these shelves eventually fill up, we’ll start a row of back to back bookshelves in the foreground.

We’ve neglected to put this on the blog the past few weeks.  This was actually the first official purchase for the new facility.  Gotta have a little fun!

The post BCM Construction: Final Details 2 appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

The post BCM Construction: Introducing Rebecca’s Atomic Lounge! appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

I’m sure they’ll look even better when the plastic comes off.    Now I need to find another one of those Coca Cola napkin dispensers that Kim O’Neill gave to us!

Oh and if you’d like a set of these booths for yourself or any other super cool retro products, check out Bars and Booths!

The post BCM Construction Update: Final Details begin appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

Here you can see the cables dropping down through the ceiling where the racks are going to be.

Here’s a closer shot, we put a total of 6 of these things in the ceiling, the two on the right have caps on them for future use.   So what are they?    Some of you have already figured out.  They are simple PVC plumbing fixtures.

$1.18 each from Home Depot, they’re called 45 degree Hub Street Elbows. We got the 2″ models.  Could have gone for a thicker opening, but I figured I’d rather keep the cable bundles smaller.   So my contractor Joe used a hole cutter to cut a 2″ hole in the ceiling tile, push it through the tile from above and the coupling keeps it from falling through.  Presto, nice neat cable sleeves for all of $1.18.  When we’re all done with the installation, we’ll go back and add a little ring of caulk to make it even cleaner.

The post Do It Yourself Cable Sleeves appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

45’s and LP’s from our personal collection.  Been years since we’ve listened to them so they’re becoming part of the 50’s / rock n’ roll diner motif.   We have a 16″ stripe along the wall to decorate so I used some paper on the floor to lay out the pattern first before we started putting them on the wall.

Joe puts up the center LP.  Only the best rock and roll album of all time.   The Boss, “Born to Run.”

Records in position on the stripe.  The building was pretty cold today, 20 degrees outside, so we needed to use some blue painter’s tape to hold the albums in place while they dry.

Main kitchen area really coming together nicely now.  Dishwasher and sink are in place, we’ve got everything pretty much painted, still need to do some second coats and clean up.  Soda fountain table is in the room now.

All the main cabling was brought down through the ceiling and into the machine room.  All cabling and power will be dropped from the ceiling so there will be zero cables on the floor when we’re said and done.  Joe came up with a nice pipe setup to make the drop clean.

Detail of the cable drop.   I like everything to look clean and neat.  Those pipes absolutely do the trick.  And since we have a drop ceiling, we can switch tiles around if we decide we want to drop them down to the left or right.

Getting close now!

The post BCM Construction Update: Day 180 appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

Vanna White (Rebecca) presents the kitchen / gameroom.  Cabinets are in place, ceiling is painted, lighting and fans are in, dishwasher is ready for installation and the fridge is in place.

Other side of the kitchen ready for some detailing.

As you can see by the sign, my office door has the first coats on it.

VO Booth door all painted up and ready for some tracks.

Contractor Joe McCabe laying out the kitchen counter.  Incorporating the nice 50’s diner black and white tile pattern.

Joe laying in the tile.

Counter and the backsplash drying and almost ready for the grout.

Last of the ceiling tile painted black for all the production rooms.  We painted over 366 of these 2 foot by 2 foot ceiling tiles.  MUCH cheaper to purchase them white and then paint them than to get the black ready tiles.  No clue why, but they are super expensive if you go with colored tiles.

All in all, we painted something like 8 doors, over 200 ceiling tiles and did the kitchen counters.   Definitely headed to the home stretch and excited about a small event coming up this week….

The post BCM Construction Day 166: Kitchen and painting appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

NOVEMBER 21

Long time Colorist and good friend Ron Anderson pitches in on the painting.   Putting in the black transition from the theme walls to the front 18% grey wall in Edit 6.  The transition really gives it the look of a movie screen in each room.

Rebecca touching up the leaves in Edit 3.

Two very happy building owners at the end of a very long weekend of painting!  We spent the entire Thanksgiving weekend in the building painting.

NOVEMBER 24

Flooring going into the front hallways.   We went with a pine colored flooring in the hallways and kitchen.  A darker color was used in the offices and edit suites.

Conference Room flooring.  This is the darker color.  You can see in the top of the photos the ceiling tiles that were run around the perimeter.  This is all they do to start with and then once the electrical and HVAC is completed, they come back and finish the rest of the tiles.

Kitchen flooring.  You can see the pine flooring better in this shot.

Other side of the kitchen looking down the front hallway.  The big wire coming up out of the wall is for the dishwasher.

Looking down the back hallway, all prepped and ready for the lighting and base boards.

My “executive shower” framed in and ready for tile.

The screening room ceiling grid.  You can see how it’s wavy like the wings of a bird.  This is done to help with sound deflection.  You don’t want a perfectly flat ceiling or you’ll get echo when trying to do a sound mix.  Much more on the sound room design coming up in an article.

DECEMBER 1

The view as you walk in the front door.  Lighting is in, base molding is in and check out the super cool lights at the top of the photo.  Hard to really get the effect because of the flash on the camera, but we got two of those halogen light fixtures from IKEA that literally tilt and gimbel in every direction.

Kitchen cabinets are rough installed and the base for the counter is in as well.  You can see a couple of the ceiling tiles painted the blue.  It’ll represent an evening sky when we’re all said and done.

Conference room swept up, base moulding is in.  The last thing to do in here is put the corkboard down both side walls.

A view down the hall.  The lights give a little bit of an industrial look to the place.  I didn’t want the usual track lighting or can lights that it seems everyone has.  The doors are all installed and you can see the base moulding going all the way down.

Edit 1 with the wall sconces and ceiling fan in place.  All the edit suites have the same sconces and black ceiling fans.  You can see the grid at the top is black and we’ll be painting all the ceiling tiles black as well.  Yes we could have purchased black tiles, but it’s cheaper to buy the white ones and paint them.

My office coming together, LOVE the ceiling fan!

The “executive shower” all tiled up and ready for the glass walls.

VO Booth with the solid core door.  It’s actually an exterior door so it has a complete threshold.  I just went with the small window so you can see if someone’s in there or if the light was left on.

Edit 4 is finally getting some details.  Rebecca and Heather have been doing an amazing job with all the suites.  Some of the construction guys keep asking if they are professional painters….

Cabinets at the ready in the Machine Room.  I wanted to put a table in there anyway so we have a space to set stuff down and these unfinished cabinets from Home Depot are so cheap, we just went with these and we’ll put a counter on the top.  Table and some underneath storage all in one shot!

Media Library with all the tracks and cans installed.  Lots of lighting for the materials we’ll move in when we open and as we grow.

Well that’s where we are at the moment.  We’re in the home stretch!

The post BCM Construction Update Days 143-160 appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.

Stack of doors ready for installation.  French doors, solid doors, double doors, we pretty much have one of everything….

Ceiling grid installed in the Media Library.  We’ll have a combination of black and white ceilings.  Black in the production rooms and white everywhere else.

Nice Sacramento Pine laminate going into the hallways.  I have installed a LOT of laminate flooring myself over the years and while it’s pretty darn easy, I’m so thankful we have someone else installing the 4800 square foot of flooring in here!

The offices have a darker flooring called Merbau.  Here’s a sample of it in “The Final Frontier” edit suite.

Kitchen cabinets ready to get painted.  We went with the same unfinished cabinets that are in our current offices and they’ll get the same white and teal treatment too.

The warehouse has turned into a workshop for the ceilings and flooring.  That huge stack in the center are the 2 x 2 ceiling tiles and the boxes / rolls to the right are the laminate flooring.  It’s nice to actually HAVE a warehouse where we can throw a bunch of stuff and not have it in the way.

Looking down from above on some of the offices.    Ceiling grids are in place and ready to go.

So from nothing to all of this in a matter of hours.  Joe has an amazing crew going on this building.  Definitely more tomorrow!!

The post BCM_Construction_Day 142: Floors and ceilings start! appeared first on WalterBiscardi.com.