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We had a Rock Band party at our place as we celebrated the first day of summer. Appropriately, the theme was tropical, featuring a sand covered balcony for the barbeque, a pina colada machine, and lots of Jello shots.
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Continuing the theme of catching up with what's been happening on YouTube, here's a snapshot from a video of my visit to Danson Park in my black and white houndstooth stretch skirt. If you'd like to watch the video you can view it here: youtu.be/cBxoZPh9z0Y.
This theme park has it roots in Chessington Zoo, which opened in 1931; it was started by Reginald Goddard, who had bought the estate to showcase his private collection of animals. In 1946 when Mr Goddard died, the Pearson Publishing Company took over the zoo and managed it until 1978, when the Tussaud Group took control of the park (Tussauds was a subsidiary of the Pearson Group). In 1984, due to the zoo's declining attendance, Tussauds´s Director of Development, Ray Barratt commissioned John Wardley to come up with plans to revitalise the park, and the decision was made to open an amusement park to complement the zoo, and so Chessington World of Adventures was born. The park opened with a new monorail, a powered coaster, log flume and a dark ride (all supplied by the German ride manufacturer Heinrich Mack GmbH & Co). The new rides were to operate on a pay-one-price admission basis, and replace the existing pay-as-you-go fairground rides. The monorail, named the Safari Skyway, opened early in 1986 to give the visitors a foretaste of the new attraction. "Chessington World of Adventures" opened as a theme park in 1987. The attractions were all heavily themed with emphasis on atmosphere and effects, meaning Chessington was one of the first true theme parks in Britain.
On 22 May 2007, The Tussauds Group was taken over by Merlin Entertainments Ltd, which owns other brands, including the Sealife Centre, and The Dungeons. This meant that Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Madame Tussauds were also taken over as well. As a result of this purchase Merlin became the second largest entertainments operator in the world, ahead of Parques Reunidos and second only to Disney.
The park has a large selection of attractions. It also has over 1,000 animals, many of which can be seen from the Safari Skyway, an elevated monorail around the Zoo. Chessington has been in the same ownership as nearby Thorpe Park since 1998, and since 2007, Legoland Windsor.[1] Since Chessington World of Adventures and Thorpe Park are located within 20 miles of each other, its owner Merlin has made efforts to market the two parks to different age groups: Chessington World of Adventures is meant to appeal to children while Thorpe Park strives to thrill older thrillseekers.
The Park
On the wharf in Santa Cruz, California, is the Woodies Café, which I-5 Design and Manufacture designed to have a fun, welcoming atmosphere that the whole family could enjoy. In keeping with the ‘Woodies’ classic car theme, we produced an internally illuminated background panel depicting a ‘woody’ on a beach setting, to be centered between the two entry columns, which were wrapped with a thick nautical rope and had authentic surfboards mounted to the face of the pilings. To see more examples of restaurant design visit our project portfolio.
Found some photo's from last year that I have not uploaded. Don't you love the way the lion turned out?!
As stated by the famous modern artist Kurt Schwitters in 1926, art is nothing more than rhythm. This group exhibition, curated by AV Festival 10, presents six contemporary artist rooms, including three new commissions, on the theme of energy and sound. Sculptural objects are brought to life by electrical, mechanical and human energy, uniting technology with the forces of nature. Featuring Rhodri Davies, Alec Finlay, Felix Hess, Pe Lang, Liliane Lijn and Charlemagne Palestine.
Charlemagne Palestine’s debut UK installation beardemonium tintinnabulum features his signature motif of soft toy bears that absorb human energy and transmit it into the gallery like sponges or magnets. Commissioned by AV Festival 10.
Room Harp by Rhodri Davies is a series of new harp sculptures played by mechanical fans, turning the harps into musical wind machines. Commissioned by AV Festival 10.
sky-wheels is a new work by Alec Finlay, a field of sixteen model wind turbines featuring poems by the artist on their colourful kinetic blades. Commissioned by AV Festival 10.
It’s in the Air by artist and physicist Felix Hess is an installation of 500 floor-based small paper vanes that respond to subtle air flow in the room.
In Pe Lang’s series of thermocromatic paintings, A line determining the limits of an area, an input of thermal energy to the canvas alters its molecular structure and slowly changes its colour.
Liliane Lijn’s work represents the world as energy. Her installations made from copper wire create fluid moving lines of light and her drawings of wind turbines from 1970 predict a future of renewable energy.
Biography
Charlemagne Palestine is an American composer, performer, and visual artist. A contemporary of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Phill Niblock, and Steve Reich, Palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s. A composer-performer originally trained to be a cantor he always performed his own works as soloist. His earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is perhaps best known for his intensely performed piano works. He also performs as a vocalist, singing long tones with gradually shifting vowels and overtones while moving through the performance space.
Rhodri Davies was born in 1971 in Aberystwyth, Wales and now lives in Gateshead. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water and fire harp installations. His regular groups include: a duo with John Butcher, The Sealed Knot, a trio with David Toop and Lee Patterson, Common Objects, Cranc, a trio with John Tilbury and Michael Duch, SLW and Apartment House. In 2008 he collaborated with the visual artist Gustav Metzger on Self-cancellation, a large-scale event in London and Glasgow. New pieces for harp have been composed for him by: Eliane Radigue, Christian Wolff, Ben Patterson, Alison Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Carole Finer, Mieko Shiomi, Radu Malfatti and Yasunao Tone.
Alec Finlay is a Scottish artist, poet and publisher, after working in Newcastle for ten years he is now based in Edinburgh. He has undertaken artist residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Narec, and commissions for Milton Keynes Gallery, Kielder Partnership and Bluecoat. His work has been exhibited at venues including: BALTIC, Gateshead; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Bickachsen 6, Bad Homburg; EAST, Norwich; Leeds City Art Gallery; and the Sydney Biennial.
Felix Hess is a Dutch physicist-turned-artist, known for his semi-autonomous sound devices and small audio machines. He has been active in this field for almost 20 years and has exhibited his work all over the world. His scientific research includes groundbreaking studies of aerodynamics and the movement of boomerangs (1975) and the communication of bullfrogs (1979). This lead to his installation work, making autonomous sound sculptures which are connected to nature. In 2003 he won the Witteveen + Bos Art + Technology Prize for his work. The jury described Hess as an artist who "reopens our senses and our distillate stand in wonder."
Pe Lang is a Swiss artist, who lives and works in Zurich and Berlin. He creates installations by assembling magnetic, electrical and mechanical devices into minimal kinetic sculptures and devices. His work has been exhibited and performed in several important museums, galleries and festivals, including Transmediale, Berlin; Elektra, Montreal; Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam; Växjö Kunsthalle, Sweden; Dissonanze, Rome; bitforms gallery, New York; ISEA 2008, Singapore; and Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam. Selected awards and residencies include the Swiss Art Award (2009 and 2010).
Liliane Lijn moved from New York City to London in 1966. She studied archaeology at the Sorbonne and art history at the École du Louvre, Paris (1958). She became an artist in residence in a plastics factory, experimenting with fire and acids and working with light, poetry, movement and liquids between 1961 and 1963, rapidly establishing herself as a leading kinetic artist through many international exhibitions. She is recognised as an early pioneer of art and science, and in 2005 was awarded an Arts Council International Fellowship to become the first artist in Residence at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Her work is in the collections of The British Museum, Musée de la Ville de Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Gallery, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, amongst others.
Credit
Curated and produced by AV Festival 10, in partnership with Hatton Gallery. Supported by Arts Council England.
iPad themed cupcakes.
Chocolate cupcakes topped with peppermint buttercream & chocolate frosting. Decorated with gumpaste toppers.
I-5 custom designed, manufactured and installed each venue of the Route 66 Casino Buffet to showcase each venues cuisine while still tying into the overall “desert oasis” theme. For the Sweet Sensations dessert buffet some of the design elements included, an internally illuminated cabinet sign which was positioned on a custom designed colorful swirl wall mural, specialty pendant lights, custom metal paneling and more to give this venue the look of a decadent chocolate shop. Click here to see more examples of casino design