jonreitsma

Guest DP: Brennan Barsell

the project is done. there will be some little details to follow but nothing that prevents us from getting back to work.

Almost done - looking like an office again. We'll be back tomorrow to finish distributing furniture, monitors and packing boxes after the janitori...

We're *this* close! Seriously, there are just details tomorrow: they ran out of ceiling tile so they need to come back, the baseboard needs to be ...

Alex of Alex's Sign Company is hand painting the Freebase logo on our reception wall. He's the best!

http://www.signfrancisco.com/

I've been asked to document the truth about the men's restroom at Metaweb too so here you go...

answering viewers questions about what to wear to a major renovation project. This is the "HowTo and Style" channel after all...

answering viewers questions about what to wear to a major renovation project. This is the "HowTo and Style" channel after all...

carpeting about 3/4 done, painting started, ceiling grid certified, framing work certified, on-going electrical, new Cisco 6509 up and running, pat...

An end of day update - ceiling grid, electrical, carpeting, life and safety, etc. Looks like we're on schedule.

major renovation project: $250K, three twelve-packs of Coronas: $44.97, having the demolition crew sing happy birthday to me in Spanish and English...

our new carpeting is tile-based rather than rolls of broadloom and we (and I use the term in the pluralis majestasis sense) need to decide how to i...

I've been hearing all these rumors about the women's restroom at Metaweb being *way* nicer than the men's and I'm gonna find out.

These things really make more of a bang than you hear in the video. With wire supports going up every couple of feet for a floating ceiling in som...

another look at the client team area progress and the last renovation update video of Monday, August 18.

a walk through of progress on these team areas.

the section that was all data and community is much more spacious now and will not be as densely populated right after the renovations - even after...

update to this previously under-used space - I really like the way it is shaping up.

there were some minor changes to open up our front lunch room to allow it to better serve large meetings like out weekly engineering and quarterly ...

data cabling looks all neat and organized - and is - in ladder rack but when it disappears behind ceilings it is a different matter. Fortunately w...

there are always surprises lurking behind walls and more than one way to solve them.

almost all of the demolition phase is done now and the sheetrock guys have been squaring corners and applying mud. A quick walk-through and first ...

I've been hearing all these rumors about the women's restroom at Metaweb being *way* nicer than the men's and I'm gonna find out.

So we started the day in a room full of rubble beneath Thomas' overhead lamp. We pick it again there after a 12 hour demolition derby. Starting t...

progress on demolition in the south east corner of the suite.

major renovation project: $250K, three twelve-packs of Coronas: $44.97, having the demolition crew sing happy birthday to me in Spanish and English...

This shows how things are starting to open up - previously impossible sight lines.

The construction crew installing wall supports by shooting bolts into the ceiling with a device powered by gunpowder. Check out this scene from "T...

used to be some phone cubby holes along this corridor - not any more.

Now it's gone!

Taking out the glass looking into server room.

It's pretty much a war zone now - debris everywhere as they do demolition work.

removing debris via loading dock on Tehama.

I was a little tired and when I am slip into a little verbal dyslexia. Also, you're not allowed to use your cell phone hand-held and drive in CA -...

more sawsall action between what was JG's and Tim's offices.

This shows how they protect the areas where they are not working from dust - and my temporary (or is it?) office during the renovations.

more sawsall action near where our Client team and QA were. The sawsall guy was a little camera shy - or thought I was the insurance guy.

ufo in the server room

This is (was) our CTO, JG's, office getting cut down with a sawsall. The worker is a little annoyed he had to put down his saw a second and resort...

this one's even funnier. Colin (not our employee - one of our moving crew) joins the action.

One of our employees, Tristan, helped out a lot with getting us packed and moved before the demolition began. He was itching to break something a...

I work for Metaweb, the company who is building freebase.com. We've decided to stay on our SOMA office space but to do so wanted a more open floor...