A few months ago, I ran across an article in the January issue of Metro Magazine that was a revelation. I knew nothing about the old Lyric Theatre, right across the street from the Alabama theatre, and the pictures of Lisa Cole made me fall in love with it. I couldn't wait to get in there and see it, and photograph it myself...
At the time, I was totally involved with the production of an Architectural Mapping Projection for the Paint the Town Red Festival benefiting the Jefferson County Red Cross on April 16. 2011. The project took around 700 hours on the computer doing animation in Adobe After Effects. The final show was a disaster because of a projector S.N.A.F.U., and it took me a coupe of weeks to recover from the overwork and the disappointment.
Late in April, I was back in business, and sent a proposal to the Lyric Theatre, offering to Reproduce the old asbestos curtain on canvas, do a detailed HDR photographic record of the structure in its present stateof "esthetic decrepitude", create an Architectural Projection for the stage area of the Lyric to be used as a fund raiser, and help in any way I could to raise money and work on the actual restoration.
