Not so secret garden party part 3

Ok so this is my last post about this festival now!
The had a whole range of entertainment at the party including a paint throwing sub-party where people bought bags of powder paint and were able to throw them and cover people in gorgeous paints, this is very similar to the Indian festival of 'Holi". 


By far my favourite section was the adult toys section! This isn't as rude as it first sounds it was pure and innocent fun. They set up adult sized playgrounds which made you remember your childhood innocence and you couldn't help but get carried away and become as free and easy as a child. I loved this section of the festival as it was just amazing to watch everybody's transformation and seeing people have fun by improvising and using their imaginations. 
The quote in the image below summarises this for me. 

Image Nick Caro.   King Stag with tribal twist.

The theme really fitted in with my research and I was fascinated with the realisation on how we prepare our children for adult life as soon as we can and then as soon as we become adults with responsibilities we want to escape them all and become children again. We love nothing more than to dress up and swing around in playgrounds! We don't get to do this in the real world as society would think we were a bit strange so this weekend enables those wishes so we can become like children once again. 

 Everybody just let themselves go and didn't think about the stress of reality. I would totally recommend this festival to anyone who wants to just get away from it all for a weekend. You can be anyone you want to be and everyone is so open minded, anything goes its incredible! Just leave all of your sensible and rationale self at home as you wont need it for this weekend.

Not so secret garden party part 2

This festival was so amazing that I thought I would spread it out over a couple of posts to keep your attention! 

Everyone dressed up as their animal alter-ego inspired by "Where the Wild Things Are" and it was really interesting to walk around and observe everybody in their costumes as you could see peoples personalities by what they were dressed up as.

 Fancy dress is fascinating like that, for example when you go out and its fancy dress you can pretty much predict which one of your friends will be the most outrageous and which one will be the most boring! At the festival you had every type of costume and personality. There were alot of the alpha males dressed as stags (a couple even had a clash of antlers) and then the naughty deviant latex bunnies and then the shy mice contrasted with the minxy minnie mice! 

Danny North

http://i.imgur.com/zgkSt.jpg

This image sums up the weekend for me you can see all the animal alter egos. The king stags there and so is the minnie mouse minx!

I love the way this image is styled and would like to use it in my work for a shoot at the end of this project. I almost get the feel of a rabbit caught in headlights when I look at it with the outline and bright light. Maybe thats what it looks like to be a rabbit caught in headlights?!