With continuous night shifts and working like crazy right up to showtime, here is what we accomplished when the stroke of midnight finally tolled on Jan 1st, 2011: This isn’t the best-quality video, but it shows at the start a bit of the craziness over at the Dajia site with the racetrack of bursts running […]
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Taipei Days Twelve and Thirteen
December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
The 28th was the first day up on 101 where the visibility was greater than 10 miles. Wow! It feels like you can see the whole country, and this is only the 66th floor! I’m on a 6-hour work break right now so I can rest up to return to 101 and work the night […]
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Taipei Days Ten and Eleven
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
Me on the 82nd floor of Taipei 101 – slightly better weather today! (12/26) We’re in the shit now, boy I tell ya! It’s unfortunate, but various delays and problems keep cropping up that force us to curse whatever fireworks god has a decided to take a dump on us for this show. Despite the […]
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Taipei Day Nine
December 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Grucci
Translators Kris and Orophin helping me spread the holiday cheer. It was another 6:45am morning today, the only difference was that here in Taiwan it was already Christmas Day!! So I was finally able to unpack my Santa hat from the suitcase and plop it on my head. Downstairs in the lobby on the way […]
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Taipei Day Five
December 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
Another silly translation Today was another halfer – that is to say half was spent at the 101 building and the other half at the Dajia site along the river. We cabbed it over to Taipei 101 in the morning after breakfast and split into two groups – half of us ran the rest of […]
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Taipei Day Four
December 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
Some drummers get ready to welcome some VIPs to Taipei 101 this morning – we didn’t stick around to see who they were though Today was the first day I spent completely over at Taipei 101, although it was the less-glamorous side of pyro work that had us climbing through the bowels of the building […]
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Taipei Day Three
December 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
My newest ID badge, this one from Big Show, to get me into Taipei 101 So today was another mish-mosh of activities. Breakfast was, as usual, at 6am although realistically most people don’t show up until closer to 7. At 7:30 we all piled into the big bus and headed down to the river site. […]
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Taipei Day Two
December 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Grucci
Today started off with breakfast at 6am (hee hee, hash brawns) and then we all piled onto a 40-person bus (which was a nice step up from a dinky 20-person bus) and headed back to the river site, where people began to disperse on various activities for the morning. I ended up at loose ends […]
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Taipei Day One
December 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci
Okay first of all I don’t know if I’m going to be blogging every day. I might, I might not. We’ll see. Regardless I will be re-capping everything since the last time I blogged. So since we are waiting for some product to arrive (customs is a bitch) today starting at 7:30am we all lent […]
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