Google Eclair floats away !

So it turns out that the Google HQ was seiged by some crazy rain storms this past Friday 13th and, well... our Giant 10ft Long Google Eclair went afloat!


As most of you already know, our studio has created all of the Google Lawn Sculptures and so, we always find it cool to see all the activity of the sculptures there on the lawn.    "The Google Sculpture Lawn" in front of  Building 44  (as it is officially known) has turned into a tourist attraction stop because of the sculptures.  On any given day one will see several bus's filled with people, stop, get out and take photos in front of the Themendous* sculpts, get back in the bus and leave!  -WHAT?!?  WAIT !!! Where's everyone going???-   Many famous celebrities and role model personalities visiting Google have also posed in front of our Google Sculpts such as Lady Gaga, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Willam Defoe, Busta Rhymes,  retired General Colin Powell, and of course; the Android team, including Andy Rubin himself, just to name a few! 


Back to the "Floatation Device":  
For anyone wondering, the sculpture is made of EPS (Expandable Poly Styrene), or simply: styrofoam. So yes, it's no surprise to see it floating around  :P    Since this sculpture was designed to simply sit flat on the lawn, there was no need to include any mounting braces.  You'll note that the other sculptures are not floating.  Because of their particular design and weight, they have mounting brackets included for mounting.


The real funny thing is that I was supposed to have been at the Google campus that day for an event and it got postponed until a later date.  Good thing I guess, as the rain would have messed things up BIG TIME!


(Thanks to Benjamin Staffin for posting the original Youtube vid)
*  I didn't mis-spell Tremendous.  "THEMEndous" is the name of our shop.  The word is a mash up of Tremendous + Theming) 

You all know that's the Woz himself right there right?

The Android team

General Colin Powell

Busta Rhymes and thats me right there center bottom

OOOO  here come the people!  Does anyone know if the next stop is Hoboken?

10ft tall Lady Gaga

We haven't posted in a while (again), and have been very busy (as usual :) but I thought I would take a moment to post one of our latest and greatest projects: a 10 foot tall Lady Gaga. Our "little monster" will soon be ready for hard coat and paint, which is when she will really come to life!

Until then: keep your "PAWS UP" !!!

Hershey's pot of gold Commercial

Wow! Just found this on YouTube! (gotta love Youtube) A project Blast form the past! We designed and made the flowers in this commercial about 13 yrs ago. Fake flowers needed to have a root system that dropped dirt as it was pulled from the pot. It was a cool challenge and if memory serves me correctly they got a steal at about $300!

Since then we have made several projects for TVm theater and cinema, so if you need anything along those lines, don't be shy, give us a call!

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011 PREVIEW

One of our latest projects: Our Victoria's Secret PINK dog mirror balls make their appearance in this youtube video at 4:19 in.

We made a total of 8 dogs at 3ft long each. We then scored the internet for pink glass tile suppliers and cleaned up everything out there. Yes folks, there are NO MORE pink glass tiles available.

This was a great and challenging project to say the least, as there were the usual delays that happen when you take on not only a custom project, but a prestigious one as well. Everything had to be spot on to Victoria's Secret Pink Brand. The usual multitude of emails, texts and conference calls between our shop, the local production studio and the VS France office took place. Once we were off and running with our sculptures, we needed to find the pink glass mirror tiles and as mentioned above, there were not many out there and all needed to be special ordered and cut to our specifications.

Those tiles then needed to be overnighted, or we would not be able to cover our sculptures in time.

(can anyone say $3,000 in overnight shipping fees?.... those boxes were HEAVY)

The sculptures took 3 days to complete. It took another 6 very long days to completely cover each dog in mirror tile and as we neared the end of the very last dog, there were four of us who each took on one leg of the dog in order to finish up this past Sunday night (Nov 6) at 10:00pm in order to delivery them for instal the next day Monday Nov 7th. - The VSFashion show taped on the 9th, and the rest is Fashion History!

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