MOPAC MEDIA
1812 WALNUT AVENUE
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78702
(512) 478-1812

Mopac Media Map

MOPAC MEDIA is located in central-east Austin about twelve blocks on the other side of I-35 from the main UT campus. The top of this map is NORTH, the left side is WEST, the right side is EAST and the bottom of the map is SOUTH. You can click on the map to enlarge it. If that's not enough, there's an interactive map to our new location.

Map to Mopac Media provided by Map Quest
MOPAC MEDIA is the first house on the right when you turn onto WALNUT AVE. It's a yellow house with big cedar porch. Park in front and come on in! You can expect to find someone here Monday through Friday from 9 AM until 6 PM but there's almost always someone here after hours and on the weekend.
Detailed Directions
FROM I-35: Take MLK BLVD east (away from UT) Go through three traffic lights Third traffic light is CEDAR AVE Next street is WALNUT AVE Turn right onto WALNUT AVE Mopac Media is the first house on the right	FROM MOPAC: Take ENFIELD east (toward town) Stay on ENFIELD until you get to I-35 Turn left onto the I-35 feeder road north Turn right onto MLK BLVD Third traffic light is CEDAR AVE Next street is WALNUT AVE Turn right onto WALNUT AVE Mopac Media is the first house on the right
FROM AIRPORT BLVD: Take MLK BLVD west (toward town) Go across train tracks Take third left onto WALNUT AVE Mopac Media is the first house on the right	FROM METRO BUSLINES: Take the METRO bus route 18 northbound Mopac Media is a mere 25 paces from the stop at MLK BLVD and WALNUT AVE Here's the METRO SCHEDULE for route 18 Here's the ROUTE MAP (PDF) for route 18
Hours of Operation MONDAY - FRIDAY 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM SATURDAY Appt Only SUNDAY Appt Only Mopac Media Rental House
Mopac Media is housed inside a house	Mopac Media has really big numbers
Mopac Media has supersized their mailbox	Mopac Media is located a mere 25 paces from the Walnut-MLK stop on route 18

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We love to hear from people, so feel free to call, email or just drop by and chat. Ask any questions you want about the equipment and your shoot, we love to help and offer advice.

Mopac Media
1812 Walnut Ave
Austin, TX 78702-1538

(512) 478-1812 (office)
(512) 244-3668 (mobile)

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About Mopac Media
Kevin Triplett started Mopac Media to serve the needs of students and micro-independent productions. Many people who now have successful production companies started by renting equipment from Kevin. Helpful service and affordable gear are two reasons people continue to rent from Mopac Media. Mopac Media specializes in digital video cameras and field audio gear. In addition to our compact lighting kits, we're just a few blocks away from Olden Lighting, a film and theater lighting company, and they can supply all manner of lights, lighting controls and grip equipment. New post-production services at Mopac Media include: Master tape cloning (with timecode duplication) VHS dubs with timecode burned-in on screen Final Cut Pro HD/HDV edit suite Premiere Pro HDV edit suite Interview transcription DAT-to-CD transfer
About Kevin Triplett
	The Family von Shutterbug Kevin thought all families had hall closets filled with cameras, photos, slides and movie reels. His mother, Tommie Triplett, began as a self-taught photographer in the 30's with one of the first Kodak Brownies, creating beautiful compositions strictly from intuition. His father, Don Triplett, took photos whenever Tommie wasn't and Kevin's oldest brother, Richard, became a professional photographer. His other brother Timothy and sister Donna, herself an accomplished oils and watercolor artist, are both amateur photographers.
Filmmaker Turns Mad Scientist In his early teens, Kevin began creating and splicing skits with friends and a Super8 camera, even producing stop-motion animation with a toy monkey doll. Kevin's filmmaking career abruptly ended when K-Mart stopped selling film stock. There was nowhere else a small-town East Texas filmmaker could go for film, so Kevin turned to Radio Shack and over the years (literally) shocked his teachers and friends with various kinds of electronic devices, like music synthesizers made out of calculator parts and digital audio delay effect boxes.
Passion Becomes Profession
	After graduating with an Electrical Engineering degree from Texas A&M in 1984 and going to work for Honeywell Optoelectronics on projects he's not allowed to talk about, Kevin continued his interest in photography, shooting alternative garage bands in the late 80's for a startup entertainment newspaper in Huntsville, Alabama. He developed black and white photos in the laundry room and experimented with optical effects. In '94, he bought an S-VHS camcorder, began practicing with a Steadicam JR and edited video using linear editing equipment. In '97, when digital video became widely available, Kevin started Mopac Media, offering broadcast-quality equipment to the emerging DV filmmaker community of Central Texas.
Why the "Mopac Media" name? Were you ever on Mopac? My dad used to work for Missouri Pacific Lines, a railroad company, when I was a kid. Nothing glamorous like riding the rails, he was "Chief Yard Clerk" and was responsible for the railcars that came and went out of Palestine, Texas. At the time, Palestine was a major yard with lots of rail traffic and a big repair depot. I have fond memories of trains and when I began searching for a company name, among them was "Mopac" for various reasons: Mo for motion, Mopac is a recognizable name in Austin, it's a big freeway, Mopac Media as a company name is vague enough to be anything having to do with media and finally, but probably most important, the domain name "mopacmedia.com" was available. We've been in five different places but never on Mopac. By the way, Mopac was bought by Union Pacific so there's no such thing as Missouri Pacific Lines anymore.
Currently in post-production for BLAZE FOLEY: DUCT TAPE MESSIAH, a feature-length documentary, Kevin is kept super busy working on it and the company webserver, producing PSAs for te Summer Musical for Children, video programs for the Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities, the annual Barbara Jordan Media Awards Ceremony, designing a "first person perspective" computer game, and shooting photographs of all kinds of weird stuff. Although he's said it many times before, BLAZE FOLEY is scheduled for completion at the end of 2007 in time for submission to film festivals in 2008.