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New Apple Park drone footage reveals improved landscaping, security checkpoint
It's hard to tell from a single cropped frame grab, but if you watch the video and pause at several moments, you get a better idea of the size of the field.
A volleyball court is 29.5 ft wide and 59 feet long. Just from this photo, it looks like the width of the field is about the length of two pickup trucks, which would be about 30 feet.
I doubt it's a tennis court. The lines are wrong, plus a tennis game can accommodate at the most four players. You'd really need multiple courts to start to service the potential demand from a building of 10,000 employees. At least with volleyball, you could have 6 or more players per side, plus rotate players from the sidelines. -
Steve Jobs opera set to premier this week after two years of preparation
jd_in_sb said:2 years of preparation for a limited six-show run?
Six performances for an opera in a season is also pretty normal. Opera is very expensive to produce and if you can't fill the seats, you won't stay in business very long. Only a handful of opera houses in the world can support longer runs. Of course, it is easier to attract audiences with the most popular, crowd-pleasing operas like the two I mentioned. Most opera companies produce several operas in a season, some being very popular and accessible, others being a more obscure.
For example, for the Metropolitan Opera's 2017-18 season, they have 15 performances of Puccini's La Bohème, 6 of Richard Strauss's Elektra and 8 of Thomas Ades's The Exterminating Angel, just three of the many operas that they will perform in the season; one can see the variability in number of performances per opera. The Met is one of the top opera companies in the world, with an large sophisticated audience to support that volume of performances. -
New Apple Park drone footage shows more landscaping, lights on in Steve Jobs Theater
The auditorium is underground. See this photo posted by drone videographer Duncan Sinfield.
There is no natural lighting in the auditorium. The circular building visible in the drone footage is the ground level lobby/foyer, sort of like the NYC 5th Avenue "Cube" lobby, but with no light going below.
It is unlikely that the auditorium foyer will have carpet. That would be very un-Steve-like. -
Latest Apple Park drone footage shows majority of construction complete
llowejr said:macxpress said:Someone needs to clean off the solar panels...they're all dirty. Any volunteers?
Still can't wait until this is completely finished and the landscaping is all grown in. This is going to look stunning! -
Latest Apple Park drone footage shows majority of construction complete
randominternetperson said:I wonder what's so "historic" about that barn.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/12/29/apple-to-keep-century-old-historic-barn-on-campus-2-grounds
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/12/29/apple-campus-2-historic-barn/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/12/26/apple-to-save-historic-barn-on-site-of-new-cupertino-campus
Basically, it's a barn that has been on the property for a century. Steve wanted to keep it to pay tribute to the area's rich agricultural history.