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In celebration of Bonnaroo’s 10th year, The Art Institutes are sponsoring five design contests that will enable Bonnaroo fans to make a creative impact on 2011 Music & Arts Festival. Submit your ideas to the projects below for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the festival and the opportunity to work with the Bonnaroo design team!
Bonnaroo is looking for innovative ideas and architectural renderings for a new pedestrian entrance to Centeroo (currently the main festival arch). The cost to create this iconic piece should range from $5k - $20k.
Post by icantenough on Apr 28, 2011 14:26:55 GMT -5
has the size of the arch ever really been a problem? there are moments when that entire field outside the arch is full... doesn't really seem to be the arch's fault.
but back to my idea... someone draw it up and steal the idea from me. I couldn't care. they wouldnt even need to tear the old one down, they could just rework it so it lights up all crazy from each base up to the top... doesn't need to even be the SPL green->yellow->red (but that would be cool for audio nerds like myself)... make it all rainbow-y and PLUR. set the "prize" threshold pretty high so that it could only be triggered for special occasions. shit, the prize could just be a giant disco ball drops out and that would be enough for everyone.
Post by yfoogsittam on Apr 28, 2011 14:44:11 GMT -5
the size hasnt really been a "problem". Its designed to bottleneck the flow of people (as said above). that being said, less waiting is better and bigger is also better when its the main entrance to roo. the more impressive, the better. and also, i support glowy/light up/laser stuff.
deadine is tomorrow at 10pm though... so you have 30 hours. get on it!
Post by plasticpepper on Apr 28, 2011 14:51:07 GMT -5
Noooo, not the arch!
I have no problem with a redesign of the arch, but I wouldn't want to see it actually replaced with something different. Although given that they sort of used the arch in this year's logo, I'm assuming they're thinking makeover rather than replacement too.
If they did a cheer meter, the rule could me that if the crowd could ever fill up the entire thing, that's how they know to stop checking bags and just let everyone go through for a couple minutes! ;D
rynoia's video screen idea is really cool, too. Live video feeds interspersed with screens displaying text like "Currently in This Tent: The Decemberists!" would be awesome, especially if they lengthened the arch a little bit so it started to veer into "tunnel" territory and you might actually have a moment to watch the screens and check out what was going on.
Post by icantenough on Apr 28, 2011 15:18:51 GMT -5
need to keep in mind that the arch is outside. even if the tv idea wasn't way over budget, it would take a lot more money to weatherproof it for something that size. LED lights and translucent panels are all it would take to retro-fit the current arch and weatherproofing/wookproofing that would be inherent in the creation of it. LED lights are very cheap, use little power, give off almost no heat and are resilient to physical and weather type damage. hell, it might even be able to be solar powered.
does anyone know the size of the arch, like from one end to the other and how tall it is?! im trying to figure out how much it would cost to put 8 video screens on the front of that thing.
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Post by icantenough on Apr 28, 2011 15:34:54 GMT -5
i would guess that it is about 40 feet wide by 24 feet high. that is the outside border measurements, not the inside. it looks like the bases are 8-10 feet wide.
Post by icantenough on Apr 28, 2011 15:36:54 GMT -5
is anyone drawing up, or atleast typing up my SPL meter idea?
I don't care about getting credit, i just think it needs to be thrown in the hat of ideas. I typed and drew something up, but it only accepts JPEG and DOC... which i have not been able to convert or make.
and the weatherproofing thing wouldnt be as costly as you think. all it would take is placing a layer of plexiglass over it that didnt reflect light and you are set..
what im thinking is have the front of the arch with however many screens as stages. we could have 6 screens if you did The What Stage, Which Stage, This Tent, That Tent, The Other Tent, and Comedy Tent....
bottom right have The Other Tent... botom left have Comedy Tent middle right That Tent middle left This Tent top right Which Stage top left What Stage
so you still have the arch design that is filled with 6 screens. you could have a scrolling text that would go across saying who is playing currently and who is up next. no audio tho because then i would just stand there and watch it all day haha
i think this could be done for about $40-60 thousand..
Post by icantenough on Apr 28, 2011 15:46:51 GMT -5
im really not trying to shit on your idea, but a lot of my job deals with logistics...
how would this text be updated on the screen? now you have to have 6-8 different computers being manned by at least one person for that to work. the tv idea isn't bad, but it would most likely have to be one static feed. a cool idea would be to have the feed coming from a camera on a balloon that showed an aerial view of centeroo in real time.
As fun as it'd be, I dont think the video idea is realistic...but something interactive like the cheer meter sounds cool, or an led display or something with who's playing currently/up next is a great idea. Somethin you can hopefully be able to read without gettin up way too close.
you wouldnt have to have it manned at all times. you could have one GIANT screen and split that up into 6 different sections with a program. just have the set times go across the screen in a scroll.
we have 6 60 inch monitors at work in our control room. the screens are split into many many different screens from different sources, it be camera 1 camera 2 sat 1 sat 2 off air on air and so on.. i can custom change it to however i want from one giant screen to 100 different sources if i wanted to. it wouldnt be impossible it would just take a lot of time to get it right..
its simple to use a scroll at the bottom of the screen as well.
Post by plasticpepper on Apr 28, 2011 17:14:14 GMT -5
The library at my alma mater has temperature sensitive lights - I think they range between blue and red as the temperature ranges from cold to hot.
Something like that could be cool - just some sort of visually awesome light arrangement that also served as an indicator of something else. Temperature might not be so useful at Roo - "Oh, really arch, is it hot out, I HAD NO IDEA!" - but something like a giant field of LEDs that lit up one at a time to show how many people had gone into Centeroo could be awesome. If they're scanning RFID wristbands anyway they'll have a record of that, and then it could just be that one LED lights up for every 100 people that went through. Or something. Someone would have to work out the math and figure out how many total LEDs there could/should be and then from there determine how many people it would take to light up one LED. And I don't know whether it would reset each day or not. But if LEDS started lighting up in a somewhat scattered pattern but mostly filling in from the top of the arch and working down each side simultaneously...that'd be awesome! Hmmm.
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