Panem et circenses - nice title

Schedule

• Let's have 2 people cover the camp at all times between noon and midnight
• Main goal is to keep the tower safe and lead interactive sessions
• So 3 shifts, 4 hours each:
  • 12pm-4pm (includes ice cream service, 1pm-3pm, intense)
  • 4pm-8pm (airbrushing for safety, probably low attendance)
  • 8pm-12am (includes GITD jello and fluorescent makeup, 9pm-11pm, attendance depends on placement)
• Big burns are Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun 8pm-midnight, so we will close early
• Totals:
  • Mon, Tue, Wed: 3 shifts
  • Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun: 2 shifts
  • 17 shifts altogether, so each camp mate gets 2 shifts on average

The show

• Ice cream (serving at lunch)
  • Use large bowl, mix a large batch (a pound?), distribute, repeat
  • Needs sound track, and space for a dozen people to watch, ideally protected from weather - carport type
  • Quantities of stuff
    • 100 people is a decent number to form a line
    • Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun - 7 days, so 700 servings
    • If you look at the ice cream label for Breyers at Sam's Club
      • http://www.samsclub.com/sams/breyers-ice-cream-natural-vanilla-1-gal-tub/157916.ip
      • they list it as 1 gallon size ($8), but 32 servings of 66g, which is basically just 2 oz...
      • air/CO2/N2 plays a big role in making it appear 2x the weight
    • Total is then 25 gallons, but only 100lb
    • Don't forget the toppings (ideas?)!
  • LN2
    • Recipes
      • http://www.ediblecommunities.com/santabarbara/summer-2009/making-ice-cream-with-liquid-nitrogencool.htm
    • Needs one large dewar (rental?), and one small one for actual work (buy?)
    • Where to buy LN2 near Reno?
    • Possible to make ice cream from dry ingredients (good recipe?)
  • Dry ice
    • Build giant cooler to store ice cream and dry ice (using polyiso foam and plywood)
    • Recipes need crushed dry ice to avoid burns, manual meat grinder is the tool of choice guaranteeing the size of the grind
    • Trivial recipe: http://chemistry.about.com/od/dryiceprojects/a/dryicecream.htm
    • Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnORu5p9neY
    • Richard Blais, also awesome "dragon breath" effect with popcorn and marshmellows: http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/richard-blais-violet-dry-ice-cream/
    • Easiest is to melt and refreeze store bought ice cream, need to run tests to pick the brand
    • Recipes call for 1 to 3 or 4 ratio of dry ice to ice cream, so about 100lb of dry ice should cover our needs for cooling and for ice cream itself
    • Where to buy dry ice in bulk in Reno? (ideally $1/lb)

Radical Fluorescence

• GITD (Glow in the Dark) Jello - serving after dark
  • Show? Shapes? - sounds like precooking the whole thing is the easiest
  • Recipe
    • http://chemistry.about.com/od/glowinthedarkprojects/a/glowingjello.htm
    • boil, mix, cool off
    • can be pre-cooked in baking trays, cut into small cubes on-site
    • whipped cream and sprinkles topping (anything else?)
  • Quantities
    • 2 oz of tonic per serving
    • 3oz package of jello, 2 cups of tonic water makes 1lb of jello
    • 100 people a day, 3 days, so 5 gallons of tonic, 40 3oz packages of jello
    • green or blue jello powder
• Airbrushing for safety
  • using our handy stencils, cover your gear or yourself in helpful texts and signs
  • fluorescent and skin-safe dyes available
  • cargo fonts galore, use velcro stickers to concatenate letters into sentences
  • many languages
    • "CONTAMINATED"
    • "CONDEMNED"
    • "PROPERTY OF"
    • "NOT SAFE FOR DRINKING"
    • "NOT POTABLE"
    • "FRAGILE", "HANDLE WITH CARE"
    • "FOLLOW ME"
    • "LEFT NO TRACE"
    • "KEEP OFF"
    • "NO TRESPASSING"
    • "ZONE"
    • "DANGER"
    • "DAYS WITHOUT ACCIDENT"
    • "EXIT"
    • "NOT AN EXIT"
    • "IF FOUND, RETURN HOME"
    • "ЗАРАЗА"
    • "НЕ ВЛЕЗАЙ, УБЬЕМ"
  • radiation signs, skulls and bones, lightnings of all sizes
  • unicorns, rainbows, stars, arrows, Burning Man
  • crank it up a bit into rated-R territory?
  • we have some airbrush equipment
  • ideally need 12v compressor (car tire inflator?)
  • stencils can be cut on our vinyl cutter (9" max width)
• Fluorescent makeup station
  • Need UV lights and mirrors
  • Simplest make-up stations?
  • where to get bulk quantities?
  • who can lead this (4 nights)?
  • http://www.paintandpowderstore.com/index.php wow :)
• Sunscreen giveaways
  • Standard pump doze is 1oz: 1 gallon should cover about 128 visitors, which could be enough?
  • $87/gallon, free shipping on $100 worth: http://www.leadmask.com/coretex-sun-x-spf-30-sunscreen-gallon-container-with-pump.html?___store=default&___store=default&gclid=COjftfee_7YCFU7hQgodpg4AFw
  • Is this any good: $35???/gallon, http://www.theindustrysource.com/spf-30-sunscreen-gallon.html, no pump?
• Mini UV LED keychain
  • http://www.blacklight.com/items/BLWKCM $4/piece, 20h runtime
• Mini keychain combo light: red laser, LED flashlight, LED UV light
  • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004P731WI/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  • 6 pcs for $13
  • got one, they do work, we can them give away to people with great makeup
• glow in the dark/fluorescent evap pond (bought tracer tabs yellow, red, and blue, they glow a lot, need to figure out lighting)
• uranium marble run with blu-ray lasers (got the marbles and the laser, glow is insane, need somebody to fit it to a suitable marble run toy with electric lift - could be awesome)
• UV lighting throughout, got some 12v UV LED strips, they work when set close, need to work out the electrical layout
• we can use mylar and aluminum foil for awesome laser and UV reflections (how do we make sure they don't become moop?)

Making noise

• Music: MIKE (or boombox 20w, max allowed 300w)
• Geiger counter clicking as a background sound (got Geiger counter, will record samples, also we can generate Geiger noise using android app, or run synth)