INSPIRATION REPORT: JULY VOLUME 1: DIGITAL DINING, TACO BELL HOTELS AND A FLASHBACK TO THE 90’S
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SLEEP NO MORE
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Emursive presents punchdrunk's Sleep No More - an awardwinning theatrical experience that tells Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy through a film noir lens.
ROSÉ MANSION
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This summer they’re making all of your rosé dreams come true. Wander the rooms in the mansion while sipping rosé from around the world.
SAY SOMETHING BUNNY
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Alison S. M. Kobayashi's remarkable one woman performance. An immersive performance based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.
NEW YORK CITY IMMERSIVE ESSENTIALS
OSCAR AT THE CROWN
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Sequins, reality television, and the complete works of Oscar Wilde. An immersive Nightclub Musical.
THEN SHE FELL
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An immersive theater experience by Third Rail Projects combining a hospital ward, the writings of Lewis Carroll, and only 15 audience members per show.
THE COLOR FACTORY
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Color Factory is a collaborative interactive exhibit that celebrates the discovery, serendipity and generosity of color. Color Factory will connect you to the colorful moments around New York and in
NEW YORK CITY IMMERSIVE ESSENTIALS
TOKYO, JAPAN
ROBOT RESTAURANT
BY NAMIE OSAWA
ROBOT RESTAURANT The Robot Restaurant in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward is a electrified performance venue which has become one of the most popular destinations for international visitors to Tokyo. Name Osawa, its president, decided to create the space based on the assumption that it would appeal to Japanese businessmen’s childhood fascination with robots, but it has quickly become much more. With light-filled 90 minute performances featuring dinosaurs, cutting-edge technology and robot go-go dancers, the restaurant has become a one-ofkind, thrilling travel experience which enamors visitors from every edge of the globe nightly.
TOKYO, JP • 8,000 YEN ($72)
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LOS ANGELES, CA
DANDELIONS
BY THE ART DEPARTMENT
COMPLETED RUN 2019
DANDELIONS Dandelions was an two-day immersive installation created by the anonymous art collective known as The Art Department. Taking place in a decommissioned building at the Laguna Bell Substation, visitors were asked to enter a secret “wish-making factory.” Inside, guests explained their wishes in broad terms in order to not disqualify the secrecy of their wish, and filled out a wish exams on a 90’s style computer which processed the likelihood of it coming true. After being handed a snipped dandelion, guests took the final step of blowing its seeds into a sorting machine with thousands of other wishes journeying to come true.
LOS ANGELES, CA • FREE
LAS VEGAS, NV
BACK TO THE 90’S
BY GIANT SPOON & ADOBE
POP-UP EXPERIENCE
BACK TO THE 90’S Adobe and Giant Spoon partnered to create a 90’s experience called Back to the 90s for the 2019 Adobe Summit. Guests stepped back in time in an immersive experience becoming interns in the ultimate 90s office space. Tasked with posting the first-ever Pizza Hut banner ad, they used an unreliable floppy disk and a rolodex of landline phone numbers to call for assistance. After posting the ad, they headed to a Blockbuster-themed video store for a VHS and ordered pizza using a desktop computer. The experience highlighted the ease at with which move through the digital world today and the countless ways Adobe adds to that ease.
LAS VEGAS, NV • ADOBE GUESTS
NEW ORLEANS, LA
THE MUSIC BOX VILLAGE
BY NEW ORLEANS AIRLIFT
THE MUSIC BOX VILLAGE The Music Box Village was developed by the nonprofit The New Orleans Lift. Their permanent location in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, holds over 25 artist-made, interactive musical houses. Described as “a place where play, imagination, experimentation, collaboration, community and hard work come together,” each house represents the diversity of New Orleans’ vibrant artist community and creates space for its equally vibrant visitors. From 5 year olds to artists like Solange Knowles, visitors travel from around the world to witness music and magic coming together to create community.
NEW ORLEANS, LA • $37 - $70
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NEW YORK, NY
BLUE BUNNY HQ
BY BLUE BUNNY ICE CREAM
POP-UP EXPERIENCE
BLUE BUNNY HQ In an effort to give adults more time for having fun and eating ice-cream, Blue Bunny Ice Cream launched the Blue Bunny HQ pop-up e x p e r i e n c e i n N e w Yo r k C i t y ’s S o H o neighborhood. The week-long pop-up gave adults the opportunity to turn monotonous activities into fun interactive experiences. Guests could take a dip in giant foam sink full of dirty dishes, turn their laundry into an competition with a game called the “Laundry Launcher 3000” and hit a move on a giant grocery-store conveyor belt. Throughout the experience, guests were also treated to complimentary Blue Bunny Load’d Sundaes.
NEW YORK CITY • FREE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
LMNL
BY ONEDOME
LMNL The immersive entertainment company, Onedome, has created a mind-blowing interactive experience in their 20,000 sqft community space in San Francisco. LMNL comprises of 14 interactive rooms each encouraging collaboration in new ways. Each room, or installation, responds to you, the viewer, and adjusts specially to how you move through the space. The rooms range from simple and stunning to technologically triumphant. The experience pushes guests to “travel beyond the limits of the imagination in a unique immersive experience designed to inspire, amaze and transform”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA• $25-50
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LONDON & STOCKHOLM
MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY
BY BJÖRN ULVAEUS
ENTRIES CLOSED 2019
MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY In Mamma Mia! The Party experience, Björn Ulvaeus, one of original members of ABBA, has transformed a restaurant complex in Stockholm into a Greek taverna with lively entertainment loosely based on the hit-musical and film, Mamma Mia!. After a wildly successful sold-out three year run in Stockholm, Ulvaeus and the team are opening a second location at the O2 Arena in London. The ticket-only restaurant hosts a nightly party that includes a three course mediterranean meal with speciality cocktails within a immersive experience taking songs from Mamma Mia! woven together with a new book .
LONDON & STOCKHOLM • £150-£220
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DINNER WITH A VIEW
BY DINNER WITH A VIEW
DINNER WITH A VIEW Dinner With A View began in Canada as an opportunity to give diners an extraordinary dining experience within a unique natural terrain in collaboration with celebrity chefs. The domes have toured across Canada and United States and take inspiration from the environment in which they are placed. Each dome places its guests in a terrarium of sorts taking in the elements of the outside landscape i.e. tundra, tropical, grasslands, arid and boreal forest and bringing them indoors, creating a photo-worthy and one-of-a-kind dining experience. The next Dinner With A View experience will be in Vancouver in Fall 2019.
CANADA/US • $149/DOME & $99/DINNER
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PALM SPRINGS, CA
THE BELL: A TACO BELL HOTEL
BY TACO BELL
OPENING SOON
THE BELL: A TACO BELL HOTEL The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort, a pop-up hotel by popular Mexican restaurant chain Taco Bell, sold out within two minutes of being launched. Taco Bell is taking over the V Palm Springs hotel in August for a exclusive and elaborate opportunity for Taco Bell’s biggest fans to live mas. Guests will be treated to around the clock room service of Taco Bell menu items as well as speciality items created for the hotel. They’ll also have the opportunity to float on sauce packet floats in the pool area, indulge in custom drinks at the Baja Bar and split their time between a speciality salon, divein pool movies, and a Taco Bell gift shop.
PALM SPRINGS, CA • STARTING AT $169
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ASIAN IN AMERICA
BY JENNY DORSEY
ASIAN IN AMERICA Asian in America is a interactive virtual reality dining installation created by New York Chef, Jenny Dorsey. Showcasing her culinary narrative through her experience an AsianAmerican woman, Dorsey has tied poetry, virtual reality and plated dishes together as a journey through her history. In small groups, diners are served six titled dishes. Between each course, they are given a lens into Dorsey’s process through a virtual realty experience in which guests watch as the meal is recreated along with Dorsey’s own spoken-word poetry. “Asian in America” will next be seen at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Los Angeles.
UNITED STATES • $100
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