2008 Woodie Awards
Former student creates light show
Stacy Conway
Issue date: 2/11/05 Section: Front Page
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Lights, camera, action. Chris Cost, son of Steven Cost, a graphic design professor, released "Dark Side of the Moon" Feb. 3.
The Don Harrington Discovery Center and Rock 108 radio hosted the music and light show.
Chris Cost was born in Amarillo and attended Amarillo College.
He majored in graphic design/multimedia.
Cost signed on as a Discovery Center employee in April 2003.
"I personally like the song and the scene of 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,'" he said.
"I modeled that one after myself and my daughter. I felt it appropriate to do the sequence as a reflection.
"She draws pictures and we look at the stars all the time together, so I just felt this was a much-needed background."
Cost used many different songs for the array of music.
"Enter Sandman posed the most problems for me, because I wanted to make this so cool," he said. "It took the longest."
After talking to the audience of reporters and the winners of Rock 108's tickets, Cost let the audience ask questions.
"Where did you learn all that?" asked Steven Cost. To which he replied, "You taught me, Dad."
Chris Cost used a variety of pictures for the Pink Floyd song. "I used family photos of members that are no longer with me anymore, as a tribute," he said.
"Pink Floyd tends to focus on the World War II era, so I took pictures from that era only."
From start to finish, the project took from December 2003 to the beginning of this year.
Ganesh Ganport, executive director of the Discovery Center, was looking for a new face to start the program.
He called AC and asked Steven Cost what was needed for a new program.
The Discovery Center narrowed a group of 30 people down to Chris Cost for the job.
"Since we have opened in late July of 2003, we have had more than 90,000 people come to watch our shows," Ganport said.
The light show can be seen for the next 10 weeks.
It costs $5.