Fangoria 07 is over

Well here we are, Fangoria ’07 is all over, a lovely time was had by all and nobody died. The show all went off perfectly (as far as you know) and there were many fine and obscure costumes.

In between taking people on a flying saucer joyride and blowing shit up, we managed to snap a few pics of the party:

A special mention must be made of Stu’s Kuato costume which marked the first audio-animatronic costume Fangoria has seen.

We’ve also added a whole heap of previously secret production photos to the set that was already up on Flickr

…and after many requests (ok, one request) we’ve put the TV station off air graphics online for all to view as well.

Thanks to all for coming, especially those that travelled so far. See you all next year, hopefully for something different.

If anybody else has any photos of the night please share. Like Stuart has here and oh look! he’s even blogged about it, how wizard!

Fangoria 2007 – They’re Coming

We gave in to our inner geek, and themed this show on sci-fi. Managed to transport large groups of people from a small kitchen, into a large alien space craft. Then mess with them for a bit. Electric shocks were involved.

 

Here’s the invite:

 

Photos of the show:


 

A bit of behind the scenes magic:

 

 

Production photos:

 

 

View photos of the Party.

 

And the Boober real…

Cassette Electrik Album Launch Tonight – WITH LASERS

Yes, you read it right, Cassette Electrik are indeed launching their first album tonight with a shiny glittering party, which is not too dis-similar to a gig, but with more bells and whistles and DJs and stuff. Talking of bells and whistle, we’ll be providing shiny pretty visuals and stuff. Yes people, there will be lasers, multiple lasers.

Hit thier MySpace site to buy your tickets and get an exclusive 4 track remix CD.

It all kicks off at about 7ish at the newly re-opened Marquee club on Upper St Martins Lane. We’ll be downstairs, playing with extension leads. See you there.

Big Blue Shitter


Now we can’t all design rockets or robot cats, somebody has to put some thought into the humble shit seat. This one (found in the Big Blue Hotel, Blackpool) has enjoyed some real TLC during the design phase. Points to note:

  • Low seat for good ‘exiting’.
  • Wide seat for comfort.
  • heavyily tapered seat, also for good ‘exiting’ as it, well how can i put it? Allows for a good ‘parting’.


In other news we also took maybe more photos than we should have during our weekend in Blackpool to celebrate Auntie Chells 70th. If you’ve got a few days to spare why not have a browse?

Children of Men

So we finally got round to watching Children of Men last night as we taped it off the telly on our sky box thingy months ago, and oh my is it good. OK so the plot is a bit predictable, and some of the dialogue and acting could be better but the direction is sweet. A great attention to detail in the art direction (check out the 2012 Olympics jumper worn towards the end of the film by Clive and the Guantanamo Bay pastiche in the ‘fugee center) along with massive long hand held single shot action sequences make for a genuinely believable vision of the future. There are no sweeping CG aerial camera angles of cityscapes, people don’t all listen to ambient trance, America has blown up, nothing flys that shouldn’t fly, there’s no overly elaborate computer systems – ok, maybe a few odd looking computer screens, but nobody has to wear special gloves to operate anything… except that one guy on the games console, ok it’s not perfect but I liked it alright? sheesh, you people. It’s even got a dog track in it, and no, the dogs are not robots.