2016-8 • San Francisco, CA
Turning a DJ booth into a monster mouth, or creating 50 unique 'bloody severed heads' to hang above a Halloween dancefloor.
Monster Mouth
RGB colorchanging LED strips, paper mache, lots of tape and paper. Concept was to turn the DJ booth into a gigantic ‘monster mouth’ with the DJ (in this case, Carl Cox) inside the mouth, with lots of bloody severed ‘hands’ (paper tape and fake blood) hanging above the crowd.
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Bloody Severed Heads
Building on our 'bloody hands' idea from the prior year, this time we used 50+ styrofoam heads, liquid latex, fake blood, red LED ‘throwies’ for inner lighting, and fishing line to make 'bloody heads' to hang over the dancefloor.
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Kodama Spirit Tree
A 3m tall glowing “spirit tree” out of wood, cloth, and custom-programmed LEDs inspired by Miyazaki’s film “Princess Mononoke,” and commissioned a friend to projection map Kodama spirits on the tree and in the DJ booth.
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