Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Instant Nomadic Chill Tent, Eye Project and Laser Snakes

In a detour from the past few weeks' technical bravado, Wednesday, April 13 saw the first stage in the development of the Instant Nomadic Chill Tent. Armed with a bolt of white 4-way stretch fabric direct from LA's garment district, Fishbon Event Lab agents cut, sewed, stretched, poked, decorated and finally chilled in an instant lounge environment. There were technical snafus (how to join the pieces) and solutions (fingers and a pen knife, needles made out of aluminum, then copper wire). Then there was the problem of entertainment (you need to be entertained in a chill tent, of course). Rising to the challenge, Ronit arranged a saucy scene from positionable puppets and Steve invented a raucous courtship game with figure cutouts on the tent roof (it's spring after all). In the midst of the tent-building, Ethan photographed everyone's eyeball for his Eyeball Project video. This was an interesting experience that reminded the vision challenged of their first struggle with contact lenses. Finally, the Fire Snakes became Laser Snakes with the addition of tiny lasers and disco smoke. What's next?

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