Screen shot from Alleghany Community Television’s streaming site, ACTV.me.
Signs for the new Veterans Memorial Park have been finished and shown at the County Commissioners meeting on April 20. Video of the meeting is online and available for streaming at ACTV.me.
The new pavilion in the Alleghany County Veterans Memorial Park.Sign design for Veterans Memorial Park by Imaging Specialists.
ISI worked with the county to match design elements of the new pavilion at the park. The background matches the Tri-State Components‘ Forest Green metal roofing. The posts will match the varnished pine the maintenance department men used in the trim of the beautiful new facility. The gray letters match the stone walls. The gold letters, eagle and trim in honor of the Veterans worked very well with the dark green- and added an element of good old Alleghany Green and Gold to the overall look.
Under the pavilion.
ISI couldn’t be more proud to help with this facility which will surely add to the local quality of life while commemorating those who worked so hard to perpetuate it!
We were fortunate, this Christmas season, to have one of our photographs selected by the Rural Center for their Holiday Card. The image is of G.C. Green’s farm at New Hope (Laurel Springs area) in Alleghany County. The emails went out statewide and bumped our web site traffic this week. Thank You to the folks in Raleigh for giving us some exposure and highlighting our area!
The Rural Center is an outstanding resource that serves 85 NC Counties, and we appreciate their efforts on our behalf!
The new station ID on Alleghany Community Television might look a little familiar to you if you’re a little older, and it might look familiar if you’re a little younger- but, probably, for different reasons. We generated a “retro style” test pattern from the old, RCA pattern, found here, but enhanced it to fit a more modern 16:9 ratio.
We created the new graphic using Adobe Illustrator and based it on a public domain version we found online. That version, as well as the original from RCA, features a familiar American icon, the native-American, Indian Chief. According to Wikipedia, “The original art work was completed for RCA by an artist named Brooks on August 23, 1938.” The test pattern helped technicians to “fine-tune” sets for many years.
But we modified the drawing (a little) for display on ACTV. Intending no disrespect to our native-American ancestors, we’ve removed the model’s head-dress and added an Alleghany High Trojan Helmet.
Alleghany’s Trojan cousin at ACTV.
ISI has been working with ACTV to build animated videos for the station and its sponsors, using supplied art or the customer’s specifications.
Take a look at the new Station ID and see more in our online, video portfolio here.
Out of 642 entries, 564 were declared eligible for judging and, of those, just 83 were declared winners. Eight of those (almost 10%) came home to Alleghany County!
From Imaging Specialists and Star Route Books, Four Brothers in Gray, the story of the Proffit family of Wilkes County, North Carolina, and their struggles in the Civil War.
Imaging Specialists won a Paul Green Multimedia Award for our Trip to the Museum series, which we prepared for Alleghany Community Television. We also won a Joe McLaurin Newsletter Award for the AHGS Newsletter we publish and a Willie Parker Peace History Book Award for our book, Four Brothers in Gray.
The Tale of Clyde from Stratford Oaks Tales, 2013 NCSH Award Winner.
Dr. Suzanne Mellow-Irwin won a Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award for her book, Stratford Oaks Tales, The Tale of Clyde and Zach Hamm won for his illustrations. Imaging Specialists publishes the Stratford Oaks series.
Hannah Tucker also won a Joe McLaurin Newsletter Award for The Southern Tribune, a newsletter she produces for General JEB Stuart SCV Camp #1598.
ISI also nominated others in surrounding counties. Writer, film director, and photographer Kelley St. Germain won for his Visions of Ashe: Mooshine documentary. It was developed for Skybest Television. The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, partnering with the NC Arts Council, published the Blue Ridge Music Trails Guidebook, which won a Paul Green Multimedia Award. The Madison County Arts Council DVD, Four Master Fiddlers, also won. This program has also been broadcast on ACTV.
We couldn’t be more proud to have been associated with these projects!
A section of the new, interactive Town Map at www.townofsparta.org, by Imaging Specialists.
If you’ve not already seen it, be sure to visit the Town of Sparta’s new interactive, online map, here. ISI originally developed the map for the Sparta Revitalization Committee last year, for use in You Are Here type displays around town. When the town requested a map for their site, we decided to make it interactive. We converted map elements to animated icons that “pop up” with a short description and links to respective sites.
The decision was made to add services and businesses that a visitor to the area might need, so we included links to emergency medical and fire services. We also included landmarks like the water tower for orientation and some other important locations like the pharmacies, the churches, the funeral home and Alleghany High School’s ball fields.
If you need dynamic, interactive elements for your site, contact Claire at Imaging Specialists, today.
