Instant Runoff Voting "Elect-a-Date" cable airtimes

If you live in Minneapolis and have cable (lucky you!) keep an eye out for a one minute version of "Elect-a-Date" starring the Big Time Attic Players.

10/31 -- FSNO -- "Pride Fighting Championships" (12:15 pm)
10/31 -- CNN -- "The Situation Room" (3:20 pm)
10/31 -- CNBC -- "Mad Money" (11:46 pm)
11/1 -- CNBC -- "Squawk Box" (5:46 am)
11/1 -- CNN -- "American Morning" (5:49 am)
11/1 -- ESPN -- "Sportscenter" (6:15 am)

Note -- these times are subject to change.

I don't think any of BTA's Minneapolis denizens have cable, so if you see one of these spots let us know how it looks!

BEHOLD!

I made this M.O.D.O.K. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) costume over the past few weeks for a friend who didn't know what to be for Halloween. It was pretty easy. It's just foam and fabric and dummy arms and legs. Attaching the arms and legs went a lot smoother than I thought it would, but is a little hard to explain without detailed photos.

I also made this Hercules costume

Saucy opening this Monday!

So most of you know that we were asked to concept, name, design etc. etc a burger restaurant. We've been working on this for a couple of months and it's opening this Monday! The owners have been great at follow-through on the concept and the finished product is looking almost exactly like we've envisioned it. It's a proud moment.

So this week people will be able to try:


The overhead sign.


The interior. It's still under construction and behind barriers so I wasn't able to get the whole storefront.



Tim and Max...food stylists. It's a little too DIY to take your own food shots, but we're under some crunches. We had some success and with a lighting upgrade we should be able to get what we need for the menu boards.

Digital Menu Boards

One of the challenges with Saucy was that we wanted to try digital point of purchase displays, partly to be hip, but it also makes a lot of sense as there is no corporate office sending them updated food photography and promotions. It's very expensive for single stores to get good looking posters and back-lit displays designed and printed. It's pretty likely they'll order an extra case of fries rather than a new promotional display.

With digital displays, we can update the board from 100 miles away with the latest food photos and ideas. They're regular ol' LCD computer monitors chopped-up and mounted to the back of the menu board with cables running to a regular ol' PC with multiple video cards. The application that runs the monitors and all of the videos were created with Flash. It works really well and they can still use the computer for general office stuff. It's certain that eventually all franchises will use this system...it gives the head office great control over the brand. If you have restaurant and found this post because you googled "digital menu boards," we can help you out. :)

Here's a work in progress. Vinyl will be added:



Everyone went nuts creating fun interstitials...here are a few:

More Gorilla pizza

Here is the Gorilla pizza box in action for the first time: