[11:18:13 AM] Sally says: good morning oh creative one it’s Sally from Shanghai
[11:21:52 AM] Darren says: hi there desert flower
[11:22:03 AM] Sally says: that is small flower to you
[11:22:03 AM] Sally says: \
[11:22:12 AM] Sally says: ‘sa li’ actually means small flower in Chinese
[11:22:15 AM] Sally says: that is my Chinese name
[11:22:29 AM] Sally says: hey, we are doing a futuristic prop, any gems from the DK creative vault
[11:23:17 AM] Darren says: sa li … how pretty
[11:23:29 AM] Sally says: I would rather be a big flower
[11:23:47 AM] Darren says: ummm futuristic in a star trek sense or Logan’s run or star wars. or space 1999 or Babylon 5?
[11:23:57 AM] Sally says: fifth element
[11:24:01 AM] Sally says: kookie space
[11:27:00 AM] Darren says: aaaarrrr the elements of fire, earth, water, wind and the human spirit. loooooove it. do you have any other details - physical layout/constraints, pax, what the event is about. with fifth element you can do his through styled show elements or you could do it as a zoned room approach with an accent on personal exploration. you can also tie this in well with the catering…
[11:29:56 AM] Sally says: fifth element the movie. Bruce Willis, milla jovovich. stand up cocktail in cyberport in HK.
[11:30:25 AM] Sally says: circular
[11:30:31 AM] Sally says: exposed beams,
[11:30:35 AM] Sally says: very futuristic
[11:30:44 AM] Sally says: need funny little ideas
[11:30:52 AM] Sally says: like clever food service idea
[11:30:54 AM] Sally says: bars etc
[11:30:57 AM] Sally says: chill out lounges
[11:32:09 AM] Darren says: go zoned then. kinda like a futuristic EXPO with the four outer ‘pods’ the elements and the spirit in the center position. each pod has it’s own distinctive bar area. the chill out lounge area ring around the spirit pod - like a Qantas lounge with the spirit as the hub.
[11:32:32 AM] Sally says: cool
[11:32:40 AM] Sally says: I want rollerblading waitstaff
[11:32:53 AM] Sally says: what were the five elements of the movies?
[11:34:05 AM] Darren says: for water -a huge clear sided tank with water running down from up high and inside are girls and guys dancing underwater hooked up to air hoses. The service itself is obviously marine but you could also include various cocktails made with a vodka or gin base and coloured/flavored with fruits. smoke machine and hazer for added effect and plenty of blue lighting
[11:35:16 AM] Darren says: for fire - an open bbq with chefs dramatically toss and turning foods - a chick dressed in red and black dominatrix leathers stands high above them on a podium cracking a whip and demanding they cook faster. cocktails are flaming sambuccas!
[11:37:34 AM] Sally says: you are a wack job Daz. i love it
[11:39:35 AM] Darren says: air - fairy air princess swings high above on a wide planked swing occasionally tossing flower petals down below. The catering area is dominated by huge trays set with gorgeous deserts - like little clouds. Two characters dressed all in white with wings on their heads making white fairy floss for guests. Directly behind the service area are a huge mass o fans - say about 20-30 all big industrial steel ones with little strips of white anchored off them - all blowing at different heights and different rotations. In front of the fans are little girls with fairy wings blowing bubbles and aromatherapy perfumes into the air gusts.
[11:49:04 AM] Darren says: earth - not sure on this one other than a huge display of breads, fruits, vegetables etc etc all ornately displayed. Behind the display and to the sides are a field of corn or wheat plants (the real deal standing at least 1-2m in height). the catering staff are dressed as farmers with overalls and straw hats (o the equivalent for China) and they are led by three really really big chickens. two of them are focused on running the kitchen staff but the third one, kinda scrawny and odd looking keeps laying eggs at inappropriate times. egg custard anyone?
[11:50:20 AM] Darren says: spirit - eight performers stark naked but painted totally as one colour of the rainbow each playing a full on game of twister!!!! To Culture Clubs hit track “Karma Chameleon”. actually you could paint them all in individual rainbow colours but each person has a continent painted on their chest as they come together in twister it forms the world globe//// there’s a message of world peace in there for ya. oh oh oh and have a couple walking around the room, the petite girl sits on the shoulders of a man-giant and she repeatedly pings a steel triangle and he mutters over and over again Sai Li until Anna loses her mind and creates an international incident. have an amusement area where guests get to throw bread rolls repeatedly at a series of shrieking art students dressed as Goths. cool hehehe. and of course wizzing around and around the sprit hub and the Sarry Angels dressed in leathers and studs on rollerblades. traveling in a pack of six they occasionally stop to take random digital photographs with guests which are then sent to the big screen with funny captions.
[11:54:12 AM] Darren says: Sally?
[11:55:23 AM] Darren says: Sally? Oh where art thou Sa li?
[11:55:49 AM] Sally says: gone cold on it.
[11:55:51 AM] Darren says: why?
[11:56:08 AM] Sally says: if you have to ask… pervert. Who does this for a living?










Brilliantly complex, masterfully evocative, and creatively detailed. What was Sally’s problem with it? Look at the alternatives, she could get a room with rollerskating waiters dressed like lizards, a painfully annoying guy with a grating high-pitched voice, or she could just get some local cabbies to drive through the place and totally trash it.
You win dude.
CABBIES DRIVING THROUGH THE PLACE TRASHING IT? Man - I love it! It’s kinda like the famous “Blue Brothers” shopping mall car chase but with a corporate message kinda attached to justify the spend.
Just remember ‘Creature’ - when you read the press reports (or police reports) out of Shanghai, imitation is one the highest forms of flattery. That and pink frosted cupcakes and Tim Tams.
By the way a big Happy birthday for tomorrow!
Hey thanks big guy, just another day in the life.
Blues Brothers, now there’s a movie they could have used as their base. Maybe they could set up inside a wire cage and have patrons throw glasses at them. Then again they could make sure the accompanying soundtrack contains both kinds of music, country AND western.
I’m with Sally. I think you’re both diseased degenerates.
Having said which, I’d have held out for a one-armed monkey juggling burning knives while standing in a kiddy’s wading pool filled with gasoline.
But, hey, I’m a traditionalist.