My footage, which comprises the Dark Ride Project, catalogs the last remaining classic spook rides around the world, using three special low-light cameras to deliver image content from every direction.
Since 2015, the Dark Ride Project has captured 360-degree video footage from six amusement parks, stretching from Australia to Alabama, with the aim of capturing eight more by summer 2017.
Viewers enter the structure and watch the movie — a nausea-inducing simulated theme park ride — projected on the ceiling.
The team comprises high school and college students, many from FIRST robotics teams, with a shared interest in "things you can ride". Projects and teams like this are made possible by generous support from sponsors interested in furthering engineering education.
Today, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Exhibits with live animals, canoe rides, craft projects and entertainment.
For example, there are writer/composer teams all over the country toiling away at what they hope will be the next great Broadway musical, and crowdfunding could help them tap into hundreds of unaccredited investors who believe in their talent and are hoping to ride the project all the way to Broadway.
Since then, as with most startups, Stofsky says, "it's been a crazy roller coaster ride," with projects including filming a documentary inside a Haitian prison to push the government to address the issue of prisoners held indefinitely without trial, and using social media and mobile technology to change how evidence is gathered in human rights reporting.
The whole project rides on the hope that the wolverines will hit it off and produce pups for next spring.
"There is so much riding on this project," said Ian Gillespie, chief executive of Westbank Projects, one of the developers.
But HarperCollins's gamble on Barker's "Abarat" series is nothing compared with what Walt Disney has riding on the project.
