See some picts of the Ice-Flo floating across the Playa…

More picts from six Flo-Go camp photogs can be seen at the Burnlog Gallery Hop.

The talented and lovely Choklit and Jacquie began work yesterday on the furrlicious Burleskimos costumes yesterday.

See the Ice-Pics gallery…

Look out people, we’ve got some sexy boys and girls to show off at the fundraiser.

2 BTWs:

1) Stay tuned to upcoming pictures documenting the incredible Burleskimo goodie trays as works-in-progress. FYI: The trays are being custom designed by local luminary underground artists such as Will Smith (see more work at Killing Time Studios) and Eric Bostrom (his diversionmary site).

More artists to come. These trays are going to be amazing and boo-tee-fool! I hope to get photos of each as they are built and illustrated.

2) Flyering is working folks! Strangers we meet are talking about the fundraiser before we even assail them with yet more flyers (which we do anyway)!

Last night at the fundraiser meeting, two teeny kittens were found in the land speeder! One did not even have hurr cyoot widdoh eyezz open yet.

=^-.-^=

See them in the Ice-Pics.

Other flø-tastic highlights include:

• Skye’s unveiling of a foamcore scale model of the van and trailer, ready for structural mockups of the icebergy bits.
• Plenty of great ideas flø-ing for the fundraiser such as the strategic use of free Otter Pops to get people Otter Dancing (while others must pony up a buck for the privilege),
• The all important lighting needs.People with blue and other rope lighting please stand up. We need your goods!
• How to make a club look icy-cave-like: plastic painters floor cover rolls and white sheets are to be used and also in need from donating folks.
• Bollywood dancers are go!
• Most importantly, the Ice-Flø flyers are here and ready to be passed out. Please contact Fudo for helping us hand them out in the local areas. Thanks!

Click on the thumbnail to see the FINALIZED fundraising flyer.

Thanks for all the input!

(Thanks, Jiri.)

My fabulous Flø-Goers! Thanks to all for a kick-ass productive meeting on Saturday night. For those who couldn’t join the fun, here are a few highlights. Most talk was of the Fundraiser on June 16th.

*Promotions: Fudo designed a ridiculously cool flyer for the event, and we’ll be printing up 1000 of these puppies, so prepare to start wallpapering the area with them. All performers need to be confirmed by Friday May 11th so we can finalize the flyer. We’d also like to make sure we get the event into the Bohemian, and construct and paint some sandwich-board signs for both ends of town.

*Raffle: We nixed the silent auction idea in favor of an easier-to-manage raffle with 3 or 4 large ticket items. Items may include: case of wine, Baby Seal Club playing your private party, possible donation from Sebastopol Brewing Co. of dinner for two or a keg… Any ideas, let us know. We are also seeking a Raffle Wrangler - someone to coordinate the donation of these items, ticket sales, and then announce the winners at the event.

*Girls and Boys: We decided to have Cigarette Girls and Boys roaming the floor with boxes of treats for sale - including but not limited to: cupcakes and chocolates by Mani, small pieces of art, Otterpops, raffle tickets, blinkies… And we’re calling these hotties… (drumroll please)… Burlesquimos!! (thanks Bryce for the gem of a name!) We’ve got a full roster of Burlesquimo volunteers. Choklit will make their costumes and Skye will build their goody boxes.

*Cabaret Stage: Brooke joined us for the first time (welcome Brooke!) and agreed to manage an outdoor Cabaret Stage in the patio with smaller acoustic and circus-y performances - stilters, bellydance… Lisa from the Brewery is checking into possibility of fire dancing in the patio.

*Decor: Joe will co-chair lighting and decor committee with Lance and Jan. Lots of great ideas coming out already, including turning the whole performance space into an ice-cave with fog machines, fans and translucent plastic dropcloths, creating ice-berg-like structures to light and place around the venue, having projection of icy video footage, hosting a photo booth where partygoers can pose on a wacky ice-floe backdrop, making some sort of sno-globe people can put their head into and take pictures, decorating with strategically placed stuffed penguins, renting inflatable decor from Inflata-Bill, and beyond. Anyone who has blue or white lightrope, bring it on.

*Performers: Confirmed so far are BSC, Chango B. and Malarkey on the turntables, Soul Funkstress Rose Harting, Amrita BollyWood Dancers, and Tribal Fire Collective (if Brewing Co. confirms fire is ok). We are still on the hunt for one more high-energy local band to round out the live talent roster.

Clearly, this is shaping up to be a phenomenal evening. Email us at info@babysealclub.com if there’s something special you’d like to help with or if you have any ideas. Next meeting will focus on Art Car Design.

And don’t forget to sign up here for access to the all-powerful BaseCamp!!!

I only have ice for you,
Choklit

So far:

Baby Seal Club
Rose Harting (& Accomplices) http://www.myspace.com/roseharting
Chango B.
DJ Malarkey
Zack Darling (to be confirmed)

More to come. Got talented friends with bands? Circus acts? Performance artists? Book ‘em now before schedules fill up! Noisy acts inside, smaller accoustic/spoken word acts outside on patio.

The Ice-Flø site is afloat. We’ve worked our flippers to little nubs in getting this thing going.

Now it’s ready for people to participate.

That’s right… not just read, but publish and participate.

How, you might ask…?

There are many ways:

1. Acquire a login to add to this Flog (Flo + Blog = Flog). It’s as easy as blogging! We need help keeping track of all of the fun stuff.
2. Publish your purty Ice-Flø pictures here. We’ll be hosting tons of parties and events. Why not snap some purty shots along the way? When you do, please contact me and I’ll post them.
3. Want to help but can’t see a way? Ask your friendly neighborhood baby seal for a free and easy consultation (a shellfish or two however is always a nice contribution ;-).

Stay tuned for all the witty flips you can stand from Señor Mahnkae…