TWiT Brick House
The TWiT Brickhouse (aka "Brick TWiTHouse" or "TWiT Studios") is the current home of the TWiT Network. It succeeded the previous TWiT Cottage, and is located just about two blocks away from said cottage. The first show to be broadcast from the Brickhouse was TWiT #311 on July 24, 2011. A few weeks later, King Leo hosted the official grand opening party for the Brickhouse, which Brian Brushwood attended despite a very busy college show schedule.
TWiT is not the only occupant of the Brickhouse; it is shared with Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps. The latter has a green screen cove that it makes available to TWiT as needed, and Brian has been a participant in some green screen shoots when visiting the Brickhouse.
Much like with the Cottage, Brian would drop by the Brickhouse and appear on the Sunday TWiT show when he is in the San Francisco area to shoot episodes of Scam School. With the upcoming launch of Game On, he will be flying in much more often at TWiT's expense to participate from the Brickhouse. Clearly this is part of Leo's grand plot to convince Brian to move to the Petaluma area.
Features
- 9400 square feet (ground level) / 6000 square feet (basement)
- Five sets:
- Leo's Office (The Tech Guy, Weekly Daily Giz Wiz, Security Now and most episodes of Windows Weekly)
- Newsroom (Tech News Today and Breaking News)
- Roundtable (SEVERAL shows, including TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, FourCast and NSFW)
- Living Room (The Social Hour, Frame Rate, Triangulation, iPad Today, TWiT Photo)
- Radio Corner (Ham Nation)
- The Control Desk (which houses the Tricaster and can rotate to face the active set)
- The Brick Wall of Honor in the entrance lobby (JammerB and several Diamond Club members bought bricks with catch phrases and other quotables from NSFW during the fundraiser campaign)
Fun Facts
- Justin Robert Young technically made the first broadcast from the Brickhouse during a guest appearance on Tech News Today a couple weeks prior to the move. (JammerB let him in.)
- NSFW is the only show to have used almost all of the sets (except Leo's office) in a single episode (#96)
- Leo purchased a number of Gopher balls in various sizes and beanbags for staff and visitors alike to sit on.