8 Days of Coachella
April 29th, 2008I worked with The Do LaB at Coachella again this year, installing the now legendary “Lucent Misting Oasis”, which evolved into “Misting Oasis” for this year.
We spent 8 days down in Indio on the Empire Polo Fields toiling and playing under a beautiful sun, creating some of the most wicked-beautiful art and shade structures ever seen. Given an acre+, we erected some 35 or structures built with rattan, some metal (new to the design this year) and all the other magical bits that make the installations super dope.
We had amazing talent perform all weekend aside from Jesse of Brazilian Girls suppose fame…he sucked and in no way should have been representative of the space and magic that was flowing wildly there the rest of the time.
Aside from that, all was wonderful.
Today we’re all back in LA, finished unloading the truck and are catching up on Lightning In A Bottle work. Then later this week some of the crew will be back on the fields for Stagecoach. Then full tilt into LIB is over and done with in this, it’s 9th year (3rd year to the public).
I’ll be editing my pics as I can in the midst of all this and posting to my Tribe, Flickr and Myspace accounts, maybe elsewhere too.
Musical act highlights from Coachella for me were: Portishead (simply rocked), Aphex Twin, Yoav, and parts of Prince’s set; unfortunately I missed Roger Waters since in all the excitement no one had planned for the truck rental pick-up the following morning - so I volunteered to bounce out early with the only known ride (Jenka, who was getting back to all her great, hard work on promoting LIB). But, I hear it was legendary…will have to check in this year’s DVD. From our area: Jupiter, Sammy Bliss & Jesse Wright, and Chad Rock.
All-in-all, our area was the party for all of us I think, with a few cherries on top elsewhere through the wknd.