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Ideas
General
* Avoid anything simply psychedelic for teh sake of psychedelic. Work in the MAD SCIENCE / INVENTION / INFINITY AND BEYOND hacker motive, and there's a good chance it will go on permanent display.
* Do feel free to use the Artifactory logo - we'll plaster those all over the wall in a heartbeat.
Statler and Waldorf
* Statler and Waldorf, the old grumpy men booing at the Muppet Show cast from their box high on the right of the stage.
* We need: a Theatre Box, in vaudville style, and statler and waldorf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf
* SKoT to build box, and mount on wall.
* Artists to make “vaudeville theatre box” wall, and the “cutout” figures of the old men.
* later: connect to Twitter to allow people to send live-reviews of whatever is going on stage at Artifactory, and video-project speech bubbles from the old men!
Scientific Glassware
* Potions! Mad science!
* Light shining thru complex glassware with condensers, beakers, radioactive glowing green bubbling fluids, twirly pipes.
* Good excuse for spray-paint “shines” and lightlights from the glassware, and strong colours for the potions
* Potential location: over the bar, with “Bar d'factory written on them?”
Example Images: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-8276256-chemical-laboratory-glassware-with-blue-solutions.php
Vintage Electronics: Vacuum Tubes
Example Image: http://diyaudioprojects.com/Solid/12AU7-IRF510-LM317-Headamp/
* Another excuse for techno-artisty with teh spray cans, with glass shine effects, lots of complicated bits inside, and backdrop could be a highlight-explosion ka-pow type thing. Yeah! VALVE it, baby!
* Potential location: over electronics area, with “Electronics” label on art.
* anything with electrocal zaps is good too - like 1930's mad scientist films with Tesla Coils, etc…
Giant Robot
* 1950's B-grade robots. We love 'em. That say “Mad Science” like nothing else.
* See GIANT ROBOT himself, hanging over the space!
* Also, Mad Scientist makes GIANT ANTS to attack city. Dr Doom type evil megalomaniac themes are good.