For the last four years Brent Heyning and his crew have worked with the team @thedolab to power an arts festival in California heralded as the most environmentally conscious music and arts event in America, Lightning in A Bottle. The GreenGurus team working with Toyshoppe Pros and our magi have honed practices for sustainable energy technologies, less waste and more DIY opportunities that bring value to tens of thousands of people attending our events or watching TV and film appearances.
We are taking this work to the next level in 2009 with the invocation of the Lightning Temple, a touring installation and theatrical experience that integrates the very best of our communities.
Since our 2008 festival we have been gathering a team of professionals from all disciplines to build an extraordinary stage and experience. We see this piece as the integration point for many circles and communities, a place where theatrical performers, musicians, movement artists, teachers and participants can come together to explore how energy is created and shared. The Lightning Temple is currently building in four locations and includes a team of nearly 100 volunteers collaborating on our wiki; you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates and events.
We have a great amount of work ahead of us in the next three months to build this structure and the unique audio tesla coils that create the sound experience within it. There is a great deal of technical alchemy happening behind the scenes at weekly meetings in Los Angeles with virtual bridges thru Skype and Second Life; thanks to our friends and volunteers @amoration who continue to make fabulous design and demo meals for our temple team.
We are four months away from Lightning in a Bottle. The excitement every time we start up the coils gets a bit more palpable and we've got great momentum moving forward. We are looking for a few more people interested in textiles, costuming and wardrobe, theatrical production and singing in the choir along with musical and theatrical groups interested in performing unique experiences with us. We plan to tour to science and art museums, festivals and large events throughout 2009 as we work with you, our participants, to explore what energy can be when we work together to create it.
Thanks for joining us on this journey.
Brent Heyning, Toyshoppe Technical Director, also moonlights as voice talent for animated shorts and features. Enjoy the Shelf Life and happy holidays from all of us here at Toyshoppe Productions! Hope you're out there getting lots of exercise like our team....more news to come soon about the Green Gurus and Toyshoppe's big 2009 shows.
In preparation we are sharing photos from the archives for the coming weeks here on the blog and around the web. Some of these photos are from films (see third at left, AI, and XMEN3 at the bottom courtesy of their respective studios). Others including the Fountain Fall installation and bridges are all Toyshoppe Productions, from the Japanese details to the heavy wood construction. Toyshoppe is currently new bridges and water art for Crustacean in Beverly Hills and preparing for a new stage show in 2008.
So one from the archives, you may not like the audio, but appreciate the LED light work that Brent facilitated for The Do Lab and Patrick Shearn for Burning Man 2006; the Flower and Flytrap, each over 50ft. tall!
Brent creates many unique lighting systems throughout Los Angeles including projection systems, LEDs and color-changing light, art and exhibition display, private homes and parties with water features and light. Contact him directly if you have questions about a project for Toyshoppe Pros.
This year the Toyshoppe Team has worked on projects in Santa Barbara, Chicago, Beverly Hills and coming soon to Black Rock City.....if you include Transformers, DejaVu, Die Hard4 and the other films out recently from Toyshoppe pro builders then you've seen our toys in most every city in America. We love building big dreams and wild visions with the best media professionals.
Now you can build toys with us anywhere!
Over the last few years Toyshoppe Pros have been called in to lift the Golden Gate Bridge, light the top of the Disneyland Christmas Tree and rebuild half of Las Vegas. Call us thru the toll free Ether and you can do your consulting with us right over the phone!
Ether allows you to opt in to handle consulting fees straight through your call so it's easy to get in touch with someone within 24 hours who can answer your tough tech questions.
Visit the OYA installation in Black Rock City from August 27-31st for a demonstration of free energy flow using water as the primary source of electric power.
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Special thanks to Ryan Wartena at MIT, Elizabeth Marley (Farmlab, Growing Architecture), Brent Heyning (Toyshoppe Productions), Evonne Heyning (Toyshoppe/AMO) along with Carmen, Blue, Tomas, Crimson, Larry and the Burning Man community for helping this project grow from seed to full power.
Congrats to Don for bringing together 4 cars to Crash for a Cause! The pink cars raised money for breast cancer treatment; thanks for thinking of us women with your big wrecks and crashes!
This year Brent Heyning is designing sound along with our work at the Pavilion in Black Rock City. The OYA elemental installation will be open August 27-31st under the man at Burning Man. Toyshoppe Pros Evonne Heyning along with Elizabeth Marley and Ryan Wartena from Growing Architecture are collaborating on a sculptural piece and aiding in the growth of art and expression in the Pavilion, a structure dedicated to green awareness and thriveable lives.
Toyshoppe Thursdays start this week! Brent is hosting a movie night at the Sugar Arts Community this Thursday night! Just south of Hollywood and west of downtown LA, east of Beverly Hills and Century City....RSVP if you want directions to our colorful ballroom. Feature movie: PeeWee!
Videoblogs live from Sudanese survivors living in refugee camps in Chad will be shown from our friends at Camp Darfur/Stop Genocide Now/iACT. You can watch them now online on YouTube and Google too.
Rocking the Block since Heavy Metal was In!
Brent Heyning on the road visiting northern California artists in the network working on amazing metal sculptures, jewelry, models and installations. ToyshoppeHQ is quietly buzzing around a new project to be unveiled this year at Burning Man, OYA. More details coming soon.
This front page article from the Chicago Tribune last Tuesday features the Toyshoppe Team: Troy Riggs (IT/Networks and Systems), Evonne Heyning (Creative Director), Brent Heyning (Principal Director and Production Designer) as they launch the new Phil's Supermarket on Food Island in Second Life. Read full text of article here.
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