Lemonade Stand by Mr. Feelgood, spotlight skullshines, qwerty uiop, Ian Kizu-Blair, o x x x o, Maggie yes, nick chaset, Orion
July 20th, 2006 6:26 PM / Location: 37.758518,-122.4276The main concept we had in mind was to, using snap shots from multiple adina drinkers (all from the same perspective) create a single sip composed of many people. This sip was also to shift from shortest to tallest and back.
Though I'm not as pleased as i could be with the piece, if you watch the below videos, you'll see that, though choppy, the juice bottle itself moves somewhat smoothly. The longer one only flips throuhg a few shots, but somehow with the contrast between shirts, facial hairs and skin colors it seems to hit that hypnotic sweetspot. The music in these videos was composed by Tapesonten.
This is partly because people are
1) hard to direct (everybody wants to try something unique)
2) really not that interested in doing much for a free bottle of juice
3) often hesitant to be filmed whatsoever
The piece itself kind of turned into something else. Something else which i found kind of interesting and funny as well. Much of the funny elements came about when we decided to take the camera off its tripod and carouse dolores park with free juice to hand out. That video is still on its way, and well worth your return.
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this is my boss Kevin forking around on the lift with our soon to be pallate of Adina juice. He's the kind of boss who would rather help shoulder an hour of overtime than send you off to do two alone.
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this is the warehouse i do contract work in from time to time.
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This is Alberto, who is often my cocaiptain in juice and soda delivery. We've just dropped off all the juice at sf0 headquarters. He asked me what sf0 was, i said it was a web site, ha jokingly asked if it was a porn site, i jokingly pretended that yes it was and he was our soon to be star. I whipped out my camera and snapped a few shots, hence the laughter.
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Come and get it
Free Sofa
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mid-lug to dolores park
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this pole was to judge heights by, and ended up being pointless as i ended up using celophane wrapped around my computer monitor and markers which worked much better.
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seeing as all this thirst quenching heat fighting free juice would hurt his business, we gave miguel, the popscicle guy, a full case
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Upsidown thirst!
bswithabeat.mov
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for a weird effect stare at the bottle as it moves up and down
flippingout.mov
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for a pretty strange effect focus on the bottle as is moves up and down ...
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That lemonade (Lime Mojito?) ruled.
And it was great to meet y'all.
I'm just glad that freejuice.org got the publicity it deserves.
Hey look, rubin voted! =]
just giving you shit, dude.
Hey, I used to work for those wacky organic Juice fools, glad to see they're still doing crazy things with free juice.
How did you guys connect up with them?
but they own a warehouse now. they bought out the distributor so i deliver sodas as well and drive the forklift hey that
crazy, that makes three of us.
Who else is an Adinian?
Yeah, I quit working just as they bought out John, do you know Roland Smart? Good guy, just ran into him yesterday in fact.
i really love everything you've done but this one...i randomly stumbled upon you guys doing this task and it felt a lot more like some sort of "free corporate giveaway to later gain loyal customers" than a lemonade stand. everyone there was in a good mood, and you were making people happy/confused, which is undoubtedly a good thing, but i really wish there hadn't been a brand (however hippy) attached to this task. it was sort of overwhelming to see the brand repeated in warhol-esque fashion in those stacks of juice, without any acknowledgment of the prevalence of this brand-image in your task.
i liked Orion's idea that you should have been peeling off the brand labels as you gave them to people. think of what we could have done later with all those labels!
i don't like being critical, and i wasn't even at the task for very long, but i felt like i needed to say this.
Damn you bastards for doing this without me.. looks like it was lots o' fun! ah, well.
Ian- Now where will i ever find an HC person to do this task with?!
yeah i do agree with some of the criticism as far as our frat slash corporate presentation.
people did mistake the thing for a commercial shoot and as a result were leery of being captured on film. furthermore many people acted as though we were doing them a favor by letting them take juice without being photographhed, wh
but seriously
your solution wouldnt have worked.
nobody wants a bottle of unlabeled, piss colored beverage from a bunch of guys whose presentation was
frat like at best
I think the solution would have worked, though, beacause we would have ripped the lables off of the bottle AS we were giving them to people. Not for the mass distribution at the end, of course...payoff wouldn't have been worth it...but I think it could have worked with the folks you were filming.
the larger portion of this proof has yet to be uploaded
please come back soon