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Post by purplefuzzystuff on Dec 21, 2011 23:36:11 GMT -5
I know we all have a million ideas that we think roo should adopt, wonderful things, absurd things, silly things and brilliant things. Here is our opportunity to compile them all into a list and pat each on the backs...Mayhaps some roo employee is slacking in their office while they should be coming up with brilliant new ideas and we will inspire them. I will allow them to take full credit if they can deliver any one of these things.
I'll start....feel free to pat me on the back as necessary
Every year they seem to have something new in that big open grassy area, be it the swings, the fire garden/Art of Such N Such, the beach, or the water slide, and each one either does well or fails and it inevitably goes away. Well, here are some fancy things I think the big wigs at roo should consider.
Paintball, not the painful, gun type paintballs but the big water balloon sized ones that you can toss. I might be game to get painted all kinds of pretty colors....we'll all be works of art....dirty, dirty works of art.
How about lazer tag? That might be kinda fun. I go for the music but I always have down time and some night time lazertag with music from the tents on either side might be pretty cool.
Not going for any of these? How about American Gladiator? Oh yeah, I went there. Just put some padding on us, give us one of those giant Q-tip looking things and let us have at it. I'd do it just to do it.
Old timey photos....who doesn't love olde timey photos? It can be roo themed, where we can dress as a multitude of musical artists...or a dinosaur, you know, whatever.
How about a bigger silent disco? Ive never been in there because there was always a line. Well, whenever I wanted to go in there was a line, I guess I always just chose the peak silent disco times. But a slightly bigger one couldn't hurt, could it?
How about putting the sonic forest over there, I know I sound like a broken record, but it was pretty fun. I would even be ok with bringing back the swings....perhaps adding to it, putting in a little jungle gym, some monkey bars. We're all really kids at heart when we are at roo.
How about a hedge maze...well I guess maybe a hay stack maze....hmmm a supervised maze. I can imagine all types of shenanigans going on in there.
Trapeze lessons.
Bumper cars.
petting zoo Scratch that, I know if there was a petting zoo at roo I would end up coming home with a llama. No one would be able to stop me.
Expand on the Academy, I always liked learning things...Teach me some pottery makin' Bonnaroo.
Make it an interactive art area, or art that we can create, I know we have the pods but I feel like those are getting smaller or they are diminishing in numbers. I wouldn't mind having one giant "beautify Bonnaroo" project. Perhaps we couldn't even learn to make something slightly useful that could later be donated.
I got it! Holi! The Festival of Colors in India, they have this colored powder that covers every one and it looks so beautiful! Typically the men are throwing it on the women but by the end of it everyone is drenched in color. Look how happy these guys are.
In fact, this is my favorite idea. Should Bonnaroo choose not to use this....I will be holding a festival of color at my own camp site....my group is gonna be sooooooo mad.
This is the first message board I've ever been on, the only reason I joined is because I love Bonnaroo and wanted to read and talk about it all year long.
How about lazer tag? That might be kinda fun. I go for the music but I always have down time and some night time lazertag with music from the tents on either side might be pretty cool.
maybe this is just because i work with public liability claims, but the risk of heat exhastion deaths should automatically rule this one out. i can see the headlines now "twelve die at bonnaroo due to a heavy strenous game of lazer tag in adverse wheather conditions." even if they do it in an air conditioned tent (not even remotely likely) you could never risk introducing a strenous physical activity when people are dying from dehydration.
i could see the rest of your ideas being tried out though, you definitely have quite a creative mind. who knows what bonnaroo will do next...
Post by icantenough on Dec 22, 2011 6:10:06 GMT -5
the greatest bonnaroo installation was when they had the VW garage. it included:
6 ping pong tables huge hammocks in the shade basketball goals and a 5 piece garage band open mic setup that anyone could play.
second best peripheral idea like that was the two iron buffalos they had in the aforementioned field, which were used as giant, industrial drum circles. you could get about 14 people on each one banging away and strangely enough it didnt just sound like 14 people banging on an iron structure.
In New York last summer, they built a huge "living sculpture" in Central Park, that they took down before winter. I think that they could bring in a bunch of bamboo and twine, and let the bonnaroovians make a giant sculpture that would be taken down at the end of the festival, or maybe burned??
In New York last summer, they built a huge "living sculpture" in Central Park, that they took down before winter. I think that they could bring in a bunch of bamboo and twine, and let the bonnaroovians make a giant sculpture that would be taken down at the end of the festival, or maybe burned??
I don't think anything of that possible size should be burned on The Farm. Especially in the more dry years. Everythin' would go up in flames.
In New York last summer, they built a huge "living sculpture" in Central Park, that they took down before winter. I think that they could bring in a bunch of bamboo and twine, and let the bonnaroovians make a giant sculpture that would be taken down at the end of the festival, or maybe burned??
I don't think anything of that possible size should be burned on The Farm. Especially in the more dry years. Everythin' would go up in flames.
I'm game for a post apocalyptic themed Bonnaroo. Instead of Splash-a-Roo, we get the Thunderdome.
Post by waitingfornextyear on Dec 23, 2011 15:01:14 GMT -5
I just had to say that this thread has truly made me laugh out loud. Thank you. And some good ideas, too! I wasn't at 'Roo when they had it, but I'm with icantenough about the VW garage. Although they'd likely have to remove the basketball goals now, with all of the dehydration issues, etc. But a place for an entire band to jam plugged in sounds awesome. I'd be interested to hear from those that saw it what kind of results it produced.
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I would like to see a large air conditioned area to go and sit and eat with big screen TVs and a small live band in the corner somewhere. They could even hike the price of food, and Id still pay to hang out in the AC at 2 in the afternoon and listen to some sounds and have a beer. They could make a huge tent like the size of the beer tent or bigger, and do some kind of line-style food. Cold sandwiches during the day and maybe something hot at night like meatloaf, lasagna, stuff like that at night.
Its not as fun as the rest of the ideas, but thats the one thing I caught myself wishing they had at roo. An air conditioned place to get food and sit down.
with 100,000 sets of hands, and tons of artists, we could totally build something better like this. And we could burn it during the which closer... Just sayin.
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Post by Lawn Gnome on Dec 23, 2011 23:52:46 GMT -5
I saw a band play in the pod over near Shakedown after DMB in 2009 2010 and it was a great close to the weekend. I'd like to see bands in the pods more throughout the weekend. I know it would detract from the bands that are contracted to play, but it was and would be a nice addition...
i dont know if this is considered brilliant but it is obvious and has been talked to death. Open the Which thursday so the tents aren't completely crowded
i dont know if this is considered brilliant but it is obvious and has been talked to death. Open the Which thursday so the tents aren't completely crowded
Seed the clouds about 100 miles west of the farm a week before roo so it rains a few days prior to the fest so its less dusty!!! I'm kidding of course even though China did it before the Olympics so it would not rain. That dust was horrible last year.
Too bad a light up floor would get ruined that would be pretty cool in a tent or the silent disco.
Zip lines from BFE to the arch!!!! Cut down on that 45 min walk.
The same porto cleaning company from last year! They did an amazing job with keeping the portos clean in the pods. No way they coulda done shit about the ones inside the fest tho.