Thursday, July 5, 2007

Signs

Above: A rough idea of what the shadowbox could look like. Not sure if it should be painted black... as it'd be much more difficult to see during the day. But we could put glass, or something like that, behind the cutouts to defuse the light. Actually dyed cloth or thick paper might work the best-- as glass would be liable to break if the sign got blown over. Depending on how hot the lights would be.

This one may be a bit ambitious... but it'd be cool to elevate the numbers and make them as a sort of entrance way to our dome. Obviously the numbers would be a bit thicker to allow more light through.

This one may actually make the separate entrance idea more workable by attaching a top box to secure it. If we screw it onto larger boards and make holes in the board for rebar attachment into the ground it may actually achieve relative sturdiness. Also it would come apart into three boxes for travel and storage.

I don't know precisely how they do it, but the banners below would be cool... and easy to appliqué the 54 on everywhere. I think the more 54's we have around the better. That way when people ask what our theme camp IS we can look at them funny and say something ambiguous about 54.


It'd also be kinda cool to make a stencil and spray paint the dome with 54s. Maybe. Assuming we are going to roll with the 54 theme for more than one year, which I would assume is highly likely. It's ambiguous enough to go about anywhere.

Also, I read somewhere that you can use your run-off water from the shower and stuff to water a plant that you bring. I personally have no problem dumping it into the road (now somebody random is going to read this and freak out) because they spray it down with H20 anyway and we use biodegradable soap. However, the plant idea is a good one-- and probably something we will do whenever we get an awesome trailer.

3 comments:

harry said...

I really like the idea of a camp plant! Surely we can borrow one from a garden center or something - just a big silly potted plant to add some decor into one of the domes.

The lights I'd use will be either LED or cold cathodes - both generate very little heat due to how efficient they are. However, they're not terribly bright so opaque shit might be difficult. I was thinking some industrial-cellophane or something.

I may take john to the depot today. Get shower and ideas. They MUST have a 12' collapsible pole there.

harry said...

oh yeah we need a mailbox too. I'm not dancing for any stickers this year.

Jyesika said...

We got our glowsticks today. sweet.