Administrative Assistant, San Francisco

We are a unique creative agency with a diversified clientele in search of a motivated full time administrative assistant.  This is a high-exposure position requiring a professional presence and an infectious personality. We are looking for a self-starter with the ability to handle a multitude of key operational duties and work cross-functionally with other departments as well as autonomously.

Responsibilities will include (but not limited to)

• Answer, screen and transfer inbound calls on a multi line system in a professional manner
• Greet clients, visitors and guest in a friendly, professional manner
• Maintain upkeep of common areas and conference rooms
• Coordinate catering and or supplies for client and staff meetings
• Meeting coordination including conference room setup, special events, and demo room
• Maintain upkeep of common areas and conference rooms
• Coordinate travel arrangements, including flights, accommodations, and rental cars.
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors
• Assist the accounting department, human resources and production with administrative requests. 
• Assist with social media and website.
• Willingness to occasionally work additional hours when needed        

Skills/ Qualifications

• 1 + years of administrative experience
• Bachelors degree preferred
• Punctual
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal
• Ability to complete multiple tasks with accuracy
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Adobe creative suite is a PLUS

This is a full time position. M-F 9:00 – 6:00

Please send your resume and cover letter as an attachment. In your cover letter please include three qualities you possess and why you feel they would be beneficial this position.

Yesterday the editors of Event Marketer magazine announced the winners of the 2013 Ex Awards, the world’s largest recognition program for event marketing professionals and experiential marketing excellence, judged entirely by brand-side marketers. Obscura won a Sliver Ex Award for the Nike Hyper Elite Platinum Uniform Launch press event, which those in attendance called “basketball performance art”, featuring an augmented reality basketball court with a 3D game where live players interacted with eight fantasy worlds.

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Founded by a revolutionary partnership between Intel and VICE, The Creators Project celebrates and supports visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression.

Today, The Creators Project is premiering Obscura’s video “Architecture as a Technicolor Canvas” showcasing the making of Emergence, a dynamic visual journey that transforms the façade of Pier 15, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, into a luminous portal revealing unseen dimensions of complex micro and macro phenomena.

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For the Exploratorium’s Grand Opening at Pier 15 in San Francisco, Obscura Digital will rouse the public’s imagination with ‘Emergence’, a live show using architectural projections and creative technologies   to transform the façade of the historic building into a luminous portal, revealing complex micro and macro phenomena. Obscura will unveil the first-of-its-kind real-life visualizations involving fluid dynamics, microorganisms, particle interactions, living systems, crystallization, and plant growth accompanied by original sound compositions to evoke a sense of wonder and awe about the nature of order in our universe.  To accompany ‘Emergence’, Obscura will present an interactive thermal imaging wall (in cooperation with Flir) on the side of the Exploratorium’s main entrance, where visitors can see their heat signature projected in real-time, at large scale, with brilliant color. Program starts approx 8:30pm both nights; free to the public.

Obscura Behind the Scenes:  http://vimeo.com/63614114

http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/opening/emergence

Press kit

For Spotify’s SXSW 2013 event, Obscura created real-time audio-reactive visuals to amplify the live performances of Kendrick Lamar, Youngblood Hawke and Cazzette. With 136 ft of projections and high-resolution imagery, Obscura pushed this SXSW event into a new type of dynamic concert immersion.

GOLD: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation for the Westfield San Francisco Centre
GOLD (Apex) + SILVER (Content): Business, Industry & Government for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Digital Signage Expo (DSE) presented Obscura Digital with three awards at this year’s Apex and Content award for digital signage deployments and digital signage content. The annual DSE Apex Awards honor innovation in the development and deployment of technology in the global digital out-of-home industry. The annual DSE Content Awards recognize originality in content applications tailored specifically for the many and varied global DOOH audiences. Obscura’s “Digital Arts Panorama Wall” is a permanent installation in the lobby of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission building. Obscura’s “Under the Dome” experience is an ongoing seasonal show at the Westfield San Francisco Centre.

http://www.obscuradigital.com/work/detail/sf-public-utilities-commission/

http://www.obscuradigital.com/work/detail/westfield-corazon/

MTT 2013 Grammy® Award Winner

Best Orchestral Performance for John Adams “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”

Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony capped their Centennial Season Opening Gala program with a Grammy winning orchestral and multimedia performance of Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Obscura collaborated with MTT to surprise guests with an encore that transformed the interior of the Davies Symphony Hall into a spectacular architectural projection experience. The audience was taken on a high-speed visual journey through San Francisco’s past, present, and future, with an abstract collage of the city’s rich cultural history portrayed through its landmark architecture. Obscura’s team created an immersive show using historical footage, newly captured shots, and 3D animation. These iconic visual elements were then strategically coordinated with the John Adams musical score, and performed live along with the San Francisco Symphony as conducted by MTT. This performance is featured on the San Francisco Symphony at 100 DVD.

Obscura received the Gold Prize for the “Creative Use of Production Technology” with their work on the architectural mapping of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi for the United Arab Emirates 40th Anniversary Celebration.

On Friday the 30th of November at the Eventia Awards ceremony, held at the Hilton Park Lane in London, over 700 top events industry professionals celebrated a night of awards honoring outstanding business-to-business and business-to-consumer events of all sizes and formats both overseas and in the UK.

This is the second gold Obscura has received for the Grand Mosque project. Last month, Obscura won the Gold Prize for the “Best Use of Exterior Media/AV” at the 2012 Event Design Awards held in New York.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012, 5:00pm and 7:00pm
Westfield San Francisco Centre, 865 Market Street, 4th Floor, Under the Dome

At 5pm, kick off the holiday season with the launch of this season’s “Illuminique Under the Dome” show, an enchanting, animated story set in a 19th Century toymaker’s workshop. Old meets new, as Obscura transforms the Centre’s elegant 1908 glass dome into a state-of-the-art surround theater that exhibits the latest in projection mapping technology.

At 7pm, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District (YBCBD) presents the next Arts In Dialogue session with a presentation by Obscura’s Barry Threw, Head of Software Development, as he gives a brief insight into the creative process of “Illuminique“. Don’t miss this talk by one of the leading cultural developers responsible for creating innovative and interactive works of art.

Illuminique
Arts in Dialogue

For this year’s Event Technology Awards, Obscura’s “Connections for Facebook” project won a silver prize for the Best Use Of A Single Technology. At the EventTech conference simultaneously happening in New York, Obscura’s Travis Threlkel gave a highly attended presentation about fully immersive technologies that enhance live event experiences.

Obscura’s experiential technology connects visitors to an exciting new era of NASA’s Human Space Exploration Program with an immersive 360-surround theater touring the country, showcasing a dynamic and entertaining journey for all ages. Obscura partnered with NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace to invite the public to virtually explore the new frontiers of deep space and the expansion of the space program through an immersive educational experience, set within a 50- foot geodesic dome. The multi-city tour premiered at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City in July, followed by a simultaneous showing at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, currently underway through November 4th.

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Fortune celebrates it’s 2012 “40 Under 40” event at Obscura Digital’s headquarters in San Francisco, honoring Fortune’s list of the most influential young stars in business. Guests will share an entertaining night filled with interactive and immersive experiences, including a motion-reactive table generating imagery projected onto an canvas of white hors d’oeuvres, a large-scale multi-touch wall featuring Fortune’s 2012 honorees, a Dymaxion map art installation with vibrant visualizations, and a geodesic dome with a 360 surround theater experience. To see who made it onto Fortune’s 2012 “40 Under 40” list, please see the link below.

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Obscura Digital won awards in three categories of the 2012 Event Design Awards, including “Best Use of Exterior Media/AV” for the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque; “Best Use of Interior Media/AV” for Westfield’s Illuminique; and “Best Use of Interactive Technology” for Connections for Facebook. The Event Design Awards are recognized as “the best among this industry’s change agents, and the award-winning projects reflect how the world’s top creative studios are reinventing experience design across all categories”.

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Obscura’s Electric Light Brigade featured in the “HOT 30” issue of 7x7 Magazine.

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Westfield San Francisco lights up with 3D animated historical review - Obscura featured in the “Into the Light” story, as published in Tactics Magazine, Issue III, 2012, by Mall Media Inc., all rights reserved.

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Support our project on Kickstarter today!

Obscura Digital is teaming up with the Oceanic Preservation (OPS), producers of the Academy Award winning documentary movie, The Cove, as they launch a bold new mission called The Heist, which will serve as the climax of their next documentary about the thousands of species that are blinking out before our eyes. It’s estimated that half the species on the planet could disappear by the end of this century. But not if we can help it. Please support our project on Kickstarter today.

“Corazon Under the Dome” at the San Francisco Westifled Center

“Westfield San Francisco Centre puts on a really big light show: San Francisco-
based Obscura, which has wrapped buildings with fluid blends of sound and
image, bathes the elegant three-story space in a seamless blend of era-spanning
imagery and music. Every half-hour this summer, Westfield San Francisco
Centre’s landmark dome comes alive with “Corazon Under the Dome,” a free
light spectacle saluting The City, created by Obscura Digital.

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Javits Convention Center, New York, October 24, 2012

Travis Threlkel, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Obscura Digital will be
delivering a presentation on digital projection mapping. “This is one of the coolest
new technologies to come along in years, and Travis is a true leader in this field,”

said Howard Givner, Executive Director of the Event Innovation Forum. “We’re
excited to have him show some examples of what it’s capable of, and to explain
to marketers what they need to know to implement this in their own events.”

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“See things in a new way”

ZILLION Business Review, an international magazine providing business
news and in-depth reports on trends, strategy and technological developments
in the global business community, featured Obscura and some of it’s recent
groundbreaking creative visual spaces and displays including the Sheikh Zayed
Mosque, Guggenheim Museum, and Facebook Connections.

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Obscura Digital is proud to be recognized as a Certified SF Green Business!

Obscura Digital is proud to be officially recognized as a Certified San Francisco Green Business! Obscura’s team of artists, technologists, and musicians have worked diligently to reduce the company’s electron consumption, re-engineer its solid waste stream to ensure effective recycling, eliminate all toxic cleaning products, and institute a strict environmental purchasing policy. Currently Obscura offers carbon offset packages for all of its live events and is working on similar programs for permanent installations. Obscura is dedicated to promoting a carbon neutral digital age. 

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Obscura mesmerizes thousands with mosque and fort Shows in Abu Dhabi.

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Obscura’s SF headquarters wins Architizer global competition.

The results are in for the annual World’s Coolest Office competition. Co-sponsored by Architizer, Inc., and Autodesk. Obscura’s San Francisco headquarters, designed by IwamotoScott Architecture, was selected as the 2011 winner.

Architizer’s feature:
http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/31597/and-the-winners-are/

Inc.com’s feature on us:
http://www.inc.com/articles/201110/coolest-offices-obscura-digital-by-iwamoto-scott.html

The finalists:
http://www.inc.com/ss/201110/worlds-coolest-office-winner-and-honorees

Fast Company likes our opportunities in the health care industry.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1785668/obscura-digital-brings-its-creative-magic-to-health-care

Physical social graph mapping project unveiled at F8.

Obscura Digital created a physical, social, augmented reality experience dubbed “Connections” at F8, Facebook’s developer’s conference. Attendees swipe in to the experience using their RFID enabled event badge. Multiple overhead projectors map visuals to the floor and an array of 3D cameras are used to reliably track any number of people within the space.

For more information visit the project page.

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The tallest and brightest projection display to date.

Obscura Digital achieves the tallest and brightest projection display to date, for the Coca-Cola Company’s 125th Anniversary event on May 6, 2011. Obscura Digital beamed a high-resolution cinematic show reaching 26 stories high on all 4 sides of the Coca-Cola Tower at their headquarters in Atlanta, GA. For more information visit the project page.

Media from the event.

An amazing night at the YouTube Symphony Orchestra event in Sydney, Australia.The Sydney Herald had some nice things to say. A growing list of articles and blogs are chiming in: Forbes, NPR, The Seattle Times.

Some photos from the event:

Check out this test footage and watch it live!

On Sunday, March 20th at 8pm Sydney, Australia time (2am PST, 5am EST, 9am GMT), Obscura will unveil one of its most creative innovations to date, when it will fuse live experiential technology with a masterpiece of modernist architecture. The iconic Sydney Opera House will become an augmentation of a live symphonic performance, amplifying the artistry of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra event with real-time audio-reactive graphic projections that will simultaneously canvas the interior and exterior of the iconic building with parallel projection shows. Learn more and tune in live at http://www.youtube.com/symphony.

A sneak-peak of the external projection from this evening’s test run.

Our interactive pool table tops the entertainment category.

Obscura win recognition for the CueLight Interactive Pool Table in this year’s Communication Arts Interactive Annual.

“A delightful and innovative addition to a classic game that’s guaranteed to draw eyes.”  —Adrian Belina (CommArts Judge)

YouTube Play at the Guggenheim wins One Show Silver.

The One Club, the world’s foremost non-profit organization devoted to elevating creative work in the industry awards the best in branded entertainment. The One Show Entertainment Awards recognized our YouTube Play event at the Guggenheim Museum with a Silver Pencil Award. Obscura wrapped both the interior and exterior surfaces of the iconic building with real-time 3D graphics and processed event video for the inaugural YouTube Play awards event. See photos/videos and learn more about the event here.

Introducing the interactive billboard

The “Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby” is an integrated marketing campaign which challenges locals to play LCD touch-screen games at 20 high-traffic Muni shelters scattered around San Francisco. This innovative campaign boasts the first-ever interactive digital transit shelters in the U.S. From the early stages of the conception process, the Obscura Digital Team played a leadership role in the consultation, design, and creation of the system’s specialized digital content management system and real-time user-metrics collection system. Obscura Digital also developed and implemented the innovative process integrity service which dials in remote access control for each screen and monitors and updates critical content. The Obscura / Clear Channel Program is projected to grow to over 100 displays by Q2 2011.

Our Europe office is now open

Our new office in Sweden is open for business. Our Swedish team will focus primarily on R&D and software development. You can find location and contact information here.

Obscura maps the Guggenheim.

At 8pm EST, YouTube will stream the event “Play” live from the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Obscura will wrap the inside and outside of the iconic space with mind-blowing 3D visuals, while YouTube shares the winning video submissions.

Tune in and learn more at http://www.youtube.com/play.

A little preview:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guggenheim_museum/sets/72157625086415733/with/5102552446/

Some press:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/news/3758
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/20/guggenheim-museums-youtube-play-shortlist-announced/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/arts/design/14video.html

Obscura featured on National Geographic TV show

Nat Geo Amazing, National Geographic’s new show about all things unbelievably cool, features Obscura Digital in the episode entitled “Jesus Lizard and Ghost Science”. The show aired last Friday, the 3rd of September, but will rerun a few times this week. Check it out!

The respected magazine awards our Kodak work with design distinction.

“I have to believe the beauty and simplicity of the installation itself said at least as much to consumers about Kodak’s brand as the content it displayed.”—Judge Brian Williams

Our work for Kodak, with partner Mirror Show Management, won Design Distinction in this year’s I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review - one of the most prestigious awards in the design world. The traveling trade-show experience features the “Pipeline of Innovation”, a 24 foot long multi-user, multitouch table, plus numerous touch kiosks and Microsoft Surface tables. Next stop Germany for Photokina in late September 2010.

http://annualdesignreview.id-mag.com/category-winners/interactive/?album=61&gallery=1531

Obscura hosts Google’s second annual West Coast Creative Sandbox.

Google invited the industries most creative people to come and experience all of Googles new technologies and to be immersed in our creative new warehouse.

Kodak’s Pipeline continues to delight the crowds

Another successful oversees install this month for the Obscura Digital team at the IPEX conference in London, England. Focusing on the theme of, “It’s Time for You AND Kodak,” the techs set-up a 24 ft multitouch table, Mitrix display, Microsoft Surface tables & information kiosks for an interactive experience. The technology helped the attendees grasp Kodak’s vision and goals for professional business use.

Learn more about our work for Kodak.

CEO Patrick Connolly featured in SF business magazine

A featured entrepreneur profile of CEO Patrick Connolly was published last week in the San Francisco Business Times. Check out the publication for the full article and to see what Pat says about says about the “Off the chain” craziness inside the office.

CEO Patrick Connolly speaks at visionary conference

CEO Patrick Connolly spoke at the Institute for the Future at their Future of Persuasion Conference. He participated in a panel focusing on three key areas of our Future of Persuasion research - Health, Advertising, and Learning. His time in the spotlight explored the evolving relationship between consumer, brand and all the middlemen in between. The main questions were used to reveal what technology and agents will be most trustworthy and useful.

Rolls Royce uses our 65” mFrame multitouch display

At it again, Obscura showed off its own elegance at the concourse by highlighting the newest Rolls Royce Ghost models and Parmigiani watches on a 65” mFrame mutlitouch display. The private event was the second annual fundraiser for the nonprofit Hospice by the Bay.  The VIP reception allowed donors to have a firsthand glimpse at rare Parmigiani timepieces and successfully support the cause. 

Obscura Digital introduces mFrame, a revolutionary new multitouch product.

Obscura Digital, a market leader and award winning developer of multitouch solutions, introduces mFrame, a plug-and-play multitouch presentation platform that is powerful, flexible and easy to use. The mFrame can be used for a broad range of presentation and entertainment uses, and is ready to be installed in conference rooms, living rooms, retail stores and public venues. As seen on some of today’s most popular television shows, the mFrame is currently the world’s largest commercially available multitouch platform.

Available in sizes from 40” to 82”, the true multitouch platform (20+ touch points) supports HD resolution (1920 x 1080) and ships with a suite of professional presentation and creative applications. The mFrame is built on Windows 7, can run all standard Windows applications, and is well-suited for mulltitouch development.

Complete details and ordering information can be found here.

Nylon’s Young Hollywood Party uses mFrame

Surrounded by the glitz and glamor of the Roosevelt Hotel, Obscura assisted in capturing the images of the Nylon Magazine Young Hollywood edition. A pool side KIN phone sponsored photo-booth, attracted the beautiful people to have the portraits taken and see themselves in high-res on our mFrame multitouch display screen. Not to be out-shined by the “scene and be seen” the touchscreen was still the life of the party. 

Obscura Featured During TedxSoma Conference on Courage and Resilience

The TedxSoma event, held at the Academy of Sciences, provided a unique backdrop to showcase examples of Obscura Digital’s past projects, such as the award winning Hard Rock Café Memorabilia Wall. Members of the Obscura team were on hand to demonstrate a multitouch display screen at the post presentation reception for the conference and chat one-on-one with the motivating panel.

TEDxSF opening video featuring Obscura technology.

Grooving in the Desert

Obscura assisted in an event launch for Microsoft’s new phone, the KIN.  Featuring our 65” mFrame multitouch display, the KIN lounge provided concert goer’s at the Coachella Music Festival a break from the desert elements.  Besides the welcomed air conditioning, they provided an interactive space for the music lovers to strike a pose and have their image pop-up instantly onto the touch screen.

The Hard Rock Cafe RockWall wins prestigious recognition.

The Hard Rock Cafe RockWall just won the prestigious 2010 Communication Arts Interactive Annual award for entertainment. Details can be found at Communication Arts or in the forthcoming print magazine.

“The physical space has barely been tapped and the RockWall is a perfect example of what’s to come. Beautiful design, animation and a huge achievement.” —Mathew Ranauro (one of the judges)

HardRockCafe RockWall from Obscura Digital on Vimeo.

Photographer Alexx Henry uses Obscura tech to show off his work.

LA-based photographer Alexx Henry uses our 52” HD multitouch display to show off his photos and motion reels.

Vincent Lo, one of China’s most renown businessmen and dignitaries visit Obscura

The City of San Francisco was asked by ChinaSF, the business development agency responsible for relations between the Country of China and San Francisco to find a technologically advanced venue to host a summit.  They naturally turned to Obscura.  65 people, including the head of San Francisco’s economic development office, China’s Council General and businessman Vincent Lo were in attendance.  Our studio is a virtual playground of emerging technologies and the crowd was wowed.  The Luncheon focused on technology, as well as the benefits of doing business in and with China.

Mayor Newsom stopped by Obscura to meet with CEO Patrick Connolly.

They discussed the new payroll tax exemption, and discussed all the new technology Obscura is cooking up in the shop…