Jellyfish invasion

On Saturday there was a party in Milan called Via Padova è meglio di Milano. Via Padova is a road in Milan that used to be very beautiful. Via Padova has a lot to offer but in the last years the place became restless. It is not considered secure anymore and people from many different nationalities live in that area bringing very versatile cultures into the place. So a committee decided to start this campaign to make the area known in Milan again as a nice place and one of these plans was to have a whole-weekend-long-party, where different "artistical institutions" of Via Padova could make an contribution.

There was the possibility to listen to different concerts, see open air movies, art exhibitions etc. The lighting studio Fra works for is situated in that area and they also decided to make something for the party. Thea wanted to use as little money as possible and make something a bit spectacular to draw attention and the outcome was the Jellyfish Invasion :) :) They build Jellyfishes of umbrellas and tulle and placed some black lights (you know the uv-light they use in discos that makes your teeth and white t-shirt very bright?) under the creations to make them shine up in the dark. Then they used some dmx-controlled LEDs to make the jellyfishes blue, like they would be in a sea. And some classical music was played out loud. For a low-budjet quick installation, it was very very nice!!!!!!!! It also draw a lot of attention and many people stopped to watch it.