This summer marked ten years of Matt and Ben making mobiles together! To celebrate, they took a break from their installations—involving physically demanding 16-hour days—to visit Disneyland with their families, where they logged physically demanding 16-hour days. But nobody in this group minds 16-hour days that involve churros, dole whips, sunshine, and Splash Mountain on repeat.
Lobby Sculpture Installation
Whew. The lobby sculpture for the Jersey City high-rise apartment is complete, and it was an intense installation. Let’s just say, there’s no quick, easy way to string up 5,000 individual shapes. (Believe us, we’ve brainstormed.)
Matt and Ben ended up staying an addition day to complete the installation, but they’re so happy with the end result. The piece definitely adds pops of color the client requested!
Medical City Ceiling Sculpture Video
The folks at Medical City Heart Hospital in Dallas made a fun time-lapse of our video last week. (You can tell Ben logged a lot of steps that day!)
We also loved this note they e-mailed us: “Thank you so much for all your work to complete our lobby installation in time for the opening event. The mobile is beautiful and has exceeded our expectations for the space. It sets the right tone to welcome our patients and visitors and was right on time and on budget.”
Lobby Sculpture Progress
Matt and Ben are in New Jersey this week installing this lobby sculpture in a brand-new high-end apartment building. It’s gonna be a full week. Normally installations take a day or two, and they’ve scheduled four full days to complete this one!
These pictures show some of the staging process. It’s not terribly exciting, but getting everything organized up front makes the process much more efficient. The last photo is a sneak peek into the final piece!
Medical City Ceiling Sculpture
Our first installation of four is complete! This was a ceiling sculpture for Medical City Dallas Hospital.
Here’s a before shot, as Matt and Ben got all the shapes organized and staged:
And here’s final piece:
Bon Voyage
Our next four weeks include: four installations in four different cities, a weekend camping trip (to celebrate Matt’s son’s 9th birthday!), and a joint family vacation for Matt’s and Ben’s families. We’re not sure it’s all humanly possible, but we’re about to find out! Stay tuned…
Lobby Sculpture Creation 101
Take this shape, multiply it by 5,000, powder coat each shape a really bright color, and then you’ll have our Jersey City lobby sculpture.
Shiny Stuff
Here’s a little sneak peek at the materials we’re using for the Dallas medical office ceiling sculpture.
Good E-mail
We really love these two types of e-mails:
We want to work with you.
We’re glad we worked with you.
This e-mail, from our clients at Yale, is the latter type, and it sure made our day.
“You have given us such a magical creation. I wanted you to know our gratitude and the wonder it is already inspiring. The group feels you hit a home run.”
Staircase Pre-Fab #3 Installation
Matt and Ben just returned from Connecticut to install this Pre-Fab #3 mobile in the staircase of a medical building at Yale University. All went smoothly, which is always nice to report.
