Thank you and Farewell.

....And the award goes too... (me.. insert cheesy acceptance/thank you speech here)

....But really, I do want to take a moment to thank everyone who has made this summer so amazing for me.  First and foremost Jacob, the awesome Curator of Exhibits, who has been my mentor for the last five years, and will continue to be so in the exhibits world.  Also to David our amazing director for letting Jacob take me on as an intern, and then to the entire staff of the History Museum of Mobile who helped make my internship educational, enriching, and most importantly... fun!  (You guys rock!) Thank you also to everyone has kept up with my blog, I hope you all get a chance to visit the exhibit, it really is amazing!!

Now time for the shameless plug:  If anyone needs an enthusiastic, hard-working, exhibits developer/designer- I am looking for a job to start at the earliest June 2013.  I also have friends in all areas/concentrations of museum work looking for jobs.  Just send a message or leave a comment on this blog and I can send you the information you require (per usual internet security concerns I am not posting my direct contact info here).  Thanks a million!  

Ok now back to Up, Up, & Away!  I am going to just leave you with a few final pictures from my work this last week.  The main project were the interactives I posted about in the last blog and lighting.  We also had a few smaller projects we finished up.  Most notably the final wall of the exhibit, which I have taken to call my baby.  Except for the actual words themselves (drafted by Scotty our Curator of History) The design plan and text panel design was all me (basically this whole post is going to be a shameless plug). 

Here is a picture of the final product.  Note: I designed the text panel to be a "mirror image" of Thor.  "Mirror image" in quotes because that phrase is also in the text panel. (The fact that it is a mirror image of Thor has nothing to do with my obsession, honestly)  I hope you guys like the wall!

I also spent my final day burning about 300 matches for a display case.  Now that I had a lot of fun with. 

 The mannequins that go with the drawing interactive.  You can move them to inspire your drawing of your very own superhero.  This is the one interactive we were unable to complete before I left.  But I did get to do some prep-work by drilling holes in the bases of the mannequins for mounting.

Superman comic book case.  That is actually four comic books, which when aligned make out the "S" from his uniform.  We had to do some brainstorming of how to safely mount these without major obstructions to the design.  The final solution came in clear plastic mounts the books sit on, and a bar at the top of each.  You can barely see the mounts! I think it turned out great.

The result of my match burning venture from earlier that day.  300+ matches scattered on the display case to give emphasis to the fact comic books were burned back in the day.  This case is in our censorship section.

Well that is all folks!  I have really enjoyed my summer and also getting to share my adventures at HMOM with you guys!  Stay tuned later in the semester.  I hope to update you all on my work from my final year of graduate school.  In the meantime have a safe, wonderful time the rest of your summer and year!

-Christina