Event marketing
X-life Copenhagen Big Air
dabitch — Sunday, December 4, 2005 - 02:07
X-life skate fest, illustration and poster.

The Big Air fest, skate competition and afterparty was arranged by Åsk Wäppling, Miklas Njor, Esben Pedersen. Sponsored by Nokia and Red Bull among others.
Soundscape Condor party Cannes 1999 - "Religion" (event)
dabitch — Sunday, December 4, 2005 - 00:48

Soundscape and Condor Cannes party 1999 - Religion is opium.
Religion, faith and Gods frequent Cannes during each festival, so why not make them feel at home? At the plage du Galion we set up heaven on the beach and invited all faithful to join us.
The guards were dressed as guardian angels with white afro's, silver dresses and pink sunglasses. The faithful served with Holy water that would chase the hangovers away as they left. The drink tickets were edible oblates. The walls showed visuals of heaven and hell.
Party-Sluts 1999, Åsk Wäppling art/videojockey, Jan Dirk Bouw art, David Bell copy, Hans Brouwer music.

The posters depicted our leaders - Hans of Soundscape and Rob of Condor - the large posters hung outside the party palais entrance to lead beleivers down the right path. 3D illustrations by Koony at Condor.

Once the party got started, the magical guests appeared courtesy Nepco. You don't have to have delusions to dance with pink elephants.
Even Shiva graced us with an appearance and danced the night away.

As the guests got dizzier on Holy Water, strange entities kept appearing on the dance floor. Two silk kimono clad characters waltzed around until smoked started coming out of their ears.
They moved to the beach, and their heads exploded mid dance. (one of the heads even landed in the lap of someone in the chill-out zone). Motto: don't let your guests get too relaxed. ;-)

Baby 2.5 children dinner party (event)
dabitch — Sunday, December 4, 2005 - 00:48

The 2.4 children party at Baby
Dad" got drunk on beer and genever, singing operettas for our entertainment. Yatzi and Monopoly were laid out, underwear hung in the ceiling to dry.
"Mom" knitted all evening and nagged us to eat our greens.
The walls showed home movies from 1960's Ghana, 1970's North Carolina, birth, baptisms and marriages, and every vacation destination in between.
Our comfort food with bangers and mash was served in TV-dinner tin plates.
We laughed, we were embarrased, we were grounded.

45 guilders for the pleasure of homecooked meals and monopoly.
Baby dinners were arranged once a month for Baby's members and
guests. The Party-Slut's arranged the 2.4 children dinner party, and the Horror Dinner party , serving culinary delights such as hitchhiker fries, brains in blood sauce, wine and eyeballs to zombie like creatives that played too much Resident Evil before dinner, somehow without spoiling their appetite.
The Party-Slut's are: Jan Dirk Bouw art (&installation art), David Bell copy, Åsk Wäppling art (graphics).
Massive Music and Condor party - Cannes 2000 - Politics
dabitch — Sunday, December 4, 2005 - 00:44

It's time for another Cannes party. This time, like the elections later in the year, the party's theme is politics, something every creative who made it to Cannes is intimatly familiar with. Decoration ranged from fake Sun-style headlines, thousands of ballons, actual dirty money to buy your drinks with, and a free cigar to everyone who arrived.
The party-slut's arranging the 2000 party are: Jan Dirk Bouw art, David Bell copy, Åsk Wäppling art, Hans Brouwer, music.

on the left side of the entrance to Place Galion, Massive Music's poster advertising their "listening party" abilities.

...and in the other corner of the ring - Condor "the party with a vision"

Our french announcer carried political braodcasts all over Cannes with his golden speakers blaring out marching music, drumming up the political fever we need tonight. To the left is Jan Dirk Bouw and the dress with balloons is yours truly.
we spent the day decorating the venue, checking the sound, brainstorming with the MC's and coordinating when and where the suprises and acts would appear, not to mention inflating thousands of balloons...


20 minutes until party time. Dave here will be one of the MC's of this evening political razmatazz, announcing acts, directing attention to the free booze and the fake cocaine piles. He might improvise nearly every night with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, but tonight at midnight he
will announce the greatest political leader in the U.S today in hyped up technotrance as a giant dick dances up on the stage and eventually sprays shaving cream all over the dance floor, which we must say is a highlight in his improv career. Both Boom Chicago MC's made the event outragously funny together with the Penis-dancer, which was Nepco performers.
Our Marilyn - this little lady (she's less than a meter tall)
performed as Marilyn singing "happy birthday Mr President" filling the stage with the more seductive side of politics, glittering in the spotlight just like Marilyn did. She needn't had been so nervous as her performance was big hit.
Later she walked her poodles around the party and shared champagne with the guests. I'm not sure who is in which poodle outfit - but the performers are all Nepco.

