We got a call from two guys we meet at Pfingst open air
festival all the way back in May in Germany, to see if we could do some art at
this festival in the UK.
Zoo Project is this big night in Ibiza, it’s held in an
abounded Zoo near San Antonio. Think
they get 1500/2000 people every Saturday!
Anyway they have been putting festivals on for the past three years in
England. It’s like a Ibiza closing party
but in Hertfordshire.
The concept is good and the theme is obviously animals!
We were asked down to help with the set up and décor. In conversation with Nikki, a member of the
Zoo team and the driving force of the creative side of the Zoo Project Festival,
she wanted animal figures at the main entrance and we came up with these.
Monkey-Dancer and Owl-Suit
But before this we got asked to help out with one of the
stages designs, the “Asylum” was to have a giant monkey face with the DJ
playing out of the mouth. We got a projector
and drew round the face we wanted and left the cutting out to the
professionals. In the morning we painted
the face on and hey presto you got a giant monkey face as a DJ booth
We helped with other aspects of the décor, we stenciled the
Owl and Monkey heads on a piece of wood and I expertly jig-sawed them into
individual pieces and hung them about the woods.
We love the run up to the opening of the festivals the buzz
and atmosphere always gets us going, we were lucky enough to work with some
amazing craftsmen and look forward to working with them again in the future, we
definitely felt inspired by what we saw.
Everyone finished just in time for the first DJ! Work hard
Party Hard. We meet some amazing people,
the three guys parked next to had driven all the way from Berlin to do the
visuals, Che, Xavier and Toni was a pleasure to meet you ad hopefully we will
party together at Fusion Festival next year. We ended up doing an
accidental/unplanned collaboration with our neighbors when their visuals were
placed in the eyes of the monkey face we’d painted earlier. We couldn’t have
asked for nicer neighbors. And not
forgetting Amelia and Eve two lovely lasses from Leeds who worked their socks
off to get all the VIP and décor ready around the site. The whole team at Zoo
Project made us feel right at home, it was amazing to meet up with old friends
and a privilege to meet new ones.
The Zoo Project did an amazing job of transforming a little
bit of forest into a big beautiful party.
Let’s see if the van can make it over to Ibiza for the opening party of
Zoo Project in 2015!!
