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I have taken to bringing a float with me for diving. It just makes dealing with boats in strange waters much easier.
We created a political art float with friends and neighbors for the 2017 Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade.
The Bamboodu Theater is a puppet show on wheels, starring Lady Liberty and Mr. Trump. Each time Trump says something wrong, Liberty hits him on his thick, bobbing head. A news ticker displays some of Mr. Trump’s latest fake news tweets.
Parade watchers will be invited to sing along the inspiring poem on liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses …”
We built this float in my front yard with a wonderful team at the Mill Valley Community Action Network (MVCAN), a local political group which I recently joined to resist the conservative takeover of our country. Through this interactive art experience, we hope to engage people of all ages to get engaged in political action.
In this final session, we rehearsed our Bamboodu Theater performance and practiced our sing-along. We then loaded the float in a van, to transport it to the parade on Monday, May 29, 2017.
I’m very grateful to all our friends and neighbors helped us bring this project to life: Danny Altman, Laura Boles, Phyllis Florin, David Glad, Peter Graumann, Edward Janne, Suz Lipman, Charlene Lundgren, Jean Marie Murphy and Mark Petrakis and Martha Roush, to name but a few.
Join your neighbors to keep democracy alive!
Learn more about the Bamboodu Float: bit.ly/mvcan-float-info
Learn more about my Bamboodu Theater: fabriceflorin.com/bamboodu-theater/
See more photos of the Bamboodu Float:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157683621675736
See more photos of the Bamboodu Theater:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157680393574291
Learn more about MVCAN at www.mvcan.org/
#bamboodu #makerart #mvcan #politicalart #radicalpuppets #resist
Lego Float in Garstang Childrens Festival Procession, held every year on Spring Bank Holiday Monday (Whit Monday). 101 Pictures #42 Holiday.
Behind the scenes photos of the Harajuku Lovers float appearing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade!
This float enshrines Michizane Sugawara. Deified as Tenjin (Deity of thunder), a renowned scholar statesman who lived about 1,100 years ago. A small Tenjin shrine dedicated to Michizane, the patron of scholastic achievements, exists in the neighborhood of Abura no Kouji Street, after which this float is named. This float has a vermillion torii gate in front, and an image of Tenjin made in 1630 is in its gold foil-coated shrine. The statue, originally handed down through the generations by the local Kazahaya family, was later kept in a small sanctuary in the neighbourhood. The float displays a real pine tree and pink ume (Japanese apricot) twigs decorated with beautiful, small bells. Its upper side hanging called a “Mizuhiki” was renewed in 2006 based on the design of a famous 15th century Mille-Fleurs and falcon tapestry in the collection of the Cluny Museum in Paris. The rare hanging is based on a painting by the late Ryuzaburo Umehara, a Western-school painter whereas the hangings on both sides are based on the works by the late Seison Maeda, a Japanese-school painter, both of whom are amongst the greatest painters of 20th century Japan.
I am creating an art float with friends and neighbors for this year’s Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade.
Our float for this parade features the Bamboodu Theater, a mobile puppet stage I created for civic events and art shows. Our first show stars Lady Liberty and Mr. Trump. As music plays, a Mr. Trump’s recent tweets and alternative facts appear on a news ticker. Each time Trump says something wrong, Liberty hits him on his thick, bobbing head.
As we march, we will invite parade watchers to sing along the inspiring poem by Emma Lazarus about the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor …”). Through this interactive art experience, we hope to engage people of all ages to change the world through civic action.
I am building this float with a wonderful team at the Mill Valley Community Action Network (MVCAN), a local political group which I recently joined to resist the conservative takeover of our country.
I’m very grateful to all our friends and neighbors who are helping bring it to life: Danny Altman, Laura Boles, Jean Bolte, Phyllis Florin, David Glad, Peter Graumann, Edward Janne, Suz Lipman, Jean Marie Murphy and Mark Petrakis, to name but a few.
Our Bamboodu Float is coming along beautifully, and I can’t wait to show it off at the parade on Monday, May 29, 2017.
Join your neighbors to keep democracy alive!
Learn more about the Bamboodu Float: bit.ly/mvcan-float-info
Learn more about my Bamboodu Theater: fabriceflorin.com/bamboodu-theater/
See more photos of the Bamboodu Float:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157683621675736
See more photos of the Bamboodu Theater:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157680393574291
Learn more about MVCAN at www.mvcan.org/
#resist #mvcan #politicalart #bamboodu
Its hard to describe how overwhelmingly huge and impressive these floats were. They were all elaborately designed and amazingly executed. All of them were far to big for the streets they were coming down so they were built like origami. They fold down small, move under the power lines and the signs hanging from the buildings and then stop and unfold all huge again. Then they fold small, move forward and unfold again. And they keep doing this all down the street. It was so cool! Each float told a different story. We were really wishing we knew what the stories were by the end of it! I imagine that they were the sorts of images that would be immediately recognizable to the Japanese people watching. Like if in an American parade, you saw an old woman dressed in tattered black rags holding an apple and a woman lying asleep next to her, you'd know that the story being represented was Sleeping Beauty. But if you'd never read the story, you'd be terribly confused. It was like that.
The Sansha Taisai (also called the "Three Floats Festival" or the "Hachinohe Summer Festival") is a beautful festival, the center of which is 26 huge floats that are paraded through the streets. They are accompanied by people in tiger and dragon costumes, samurai on horses and shrines from the three temples that sponsor the event.
Figures, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Trapani, Sicily, 20 May 2016
These are some of the 20 floats stored in the Chiesa del Anime Sante del Purgatorio. Every Good Friday they are used in a 24 hour long procession through the streets. It takes 16 men to carry each float. Different trade guilds have their own floats, as can be seen from the labels.
The procession has been taking place for over 400 years.
Large Nebuta lantern float with light. Nebuta House Warasse, Aomori, Aomori prefecture, Japan. 青森市 ねぶたの家 ワ・ラッセ
Bora Bora, Tahiti, ClubMed 2004.
The high salt content if the south pacific keeps your body buoyant so much so that your arms and legs float out to your side without effort.
Hurray! New Beer Float! In addition to the Trolley Ale, the Karl Strauss brewpub was offering their signature beer float with the Nolger's Porter - a coffee-flavored porter.
Hmm, porter, vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, and coffee? I'm IN!
Filled with vibrant floats, dancing dragons, prancing lions, stilt walkers, wushu masters, performers of different races in their traditional costumes and many, many more, the annual Chingay Parade is the largest street performance and float parade in Asia. It is a uniquely Singaporean Lunar New Year tradition, held during the first weekend of the Lunar New Year, celebrated by Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians alike.
The word Chingay is equivalent to the Mandarin zhuang yi (妆艺), which means "the art of costume and masquerade" in the Hokkien dialect.
#chingayparade #floats #dragons #wushu #performers
Soldiers from the Bowling Green-based 189th Multi-Role Bridge Company conduct training on the operation of the U.S. Army’s Tactical Float Ribbon Bridge System Oct. 28, 2010, at Fort A.P. Hill. The training wrapped up a two-week fielding process where approximately 20 Soldiers from the company learned how to deploy the Improved Ribbon Bridge which can be used to transport weapon systems, troops and supplies over water when permanent bridges are not available. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia Department of Military Affairs)
Grumman J2F-6 Duck. This was the first time I was able to capture an image of this plane with an unobstructed view. The other plane that are usually spotted in this hanger were out, which allowed for this unobstructed view of this beautiful float plane at the Planes of Fame Air Museum.
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FLOAT | LEAN - Autumn show in collaboration with Helen Gillilan - Paintings, prints, FONT works and constructed interventions in Studio 2.
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