INSPIRATION REPORT: OCTOBER VOLUME 8: LISA FRANK LUXURY, IMMERSIVE SEANCES & A REAL-LIFE HALLOWEENTOWN
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NEW YORK, NY
BLACKOUT BY JOSH RANDALL & KRISTJAN THOR
OPEN NOW
BLACKOUT Returning to New York City for its 10th Year, B l L A C K O U T i s a n i m m e r s i v e h o r ro r experience that is sure to send chills down your spine. Created by Josh Randall and Kristjan Thor, interactive horror show has been titled “the scariest haunted house you’ll ever enter” by Maxim Magazine. Guests (18 and older) can make their way one by one through an undisclosed location encountering several trapped characters and graphic encounters along the way. Since opening in NYC in 2009, BLACKOUT has terrified soldout audiences around the globe, including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans.
NEW YORK, NY • $65-$70 WEBSITE
NEW YORK, NY
MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE BY AMAZON STUDIOS & INVISIBLE NORTH
OCTOBER 10-13TH
MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE Celebrating the Amazon Prime premiere of their new series Modern Love (inspired by the New York Times’ column) Amazon Studios in partnership with Invisible North has launched new interactive pop-up museum called The Museum of of Modern Love (MoML) in New York City. Taking inspiration from the show and column, MoML gives guests the opportunity to experience the many types of love in an environment built for engagement. Lovers can take aura portraits, have their har primped, leave their mark on a giant collaborative family tree or speak a confession of true love in a “Creative Confessional.”
NEW YORK, NY • FREE WEBSITE
LOS ANGELES, CA
LISA FRANK FLAT BY BARSALA, HOTELS.COM & LISA FRANK
LISA FRANK FLAT Unicorns, rainbows and puppy dogs. Oh my! The 90’s are back and brighter than ever in a new Lisa Frank Flat popping up in Downtown Los Angeles by Hotels.com, Barsala and Lisa Frank, herself. The quintessential Lisa Frank style is splattered through every surface in the custom hotel room, from a pink canopied bed, dolphin themed bathroom and the perfect location to sticker away for to your hearts content, a custom Lisa Frank desk with hot pink chair and gel pens to match. As Hotels.com describes it, “It’s like your middle school notebook threw up in the room of your dreams.”
LOS ANGELES, CA • $199/NIGHT WEBSITE
OCTOBER 11-27TH
NEW YORK, NY
SUPER FUNLAND BY SERGE BECKER & THE MUSEUM OF SEX
NOW PREVIEWING
SUPER FUNLAND Funland has never been this fun. Serge Becker of The Museum of Sex is back with an outrageous new carnival experience. Super Funland, now in previews, is an expansion of the Museum’s previous Funland exhibit and providing more erotic experiential offerings than you ever knew you needed. In addition to a history gallery that takes you through the licentious origins of carnival industry, the new exhbition features a “Glory Stall” wack-a-mole themed game, a giant black-light themed anal slide, Boobie Bouncy House, a RuPaul fortune teller machine and nine more kinky and captivating one-of-a kind activations.
NEW YORK, NY • $16.50 WEBSITE
LEWES, UK
LEWES BONFIRE CELEBRATION
LEWES BONFIRE Considered the “Bonfire Capital of the World,” every November over 30,000 visitors gather in the small town of Lewes in East Sussex for the annual Lewes Bonfire. The event commemorates the failed assassination of King James I and has grown into a infamous celebration with costumes, processions, effigies and fire, lots and lots of fire. Lewes Bonfire is organized by seven bonfire societies with their own costumes, parades and traditions. The event spreads though the entire town from pubs to parades, cafes to churches. The fiery event has been known to lead to injuries and violence, so leave your hot-headedness at home.
LEWES, UK • CELEBRATION WEBSITE
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
NEW YORK, NY
THE COOPING THEORY 1969 BY POSEIDON THEATRE COMPANY
THE COOPING THEORY 1969 Who killed Edgar Allen Poe? Well, you may be able to find that out plus much more at Poseidon Theatre Company’s new immersive paranormal experience, The Cooping Theory 1969. Voted as one of the Top 10 “Best Immersive Theatre in NY” by Time Out NY, The Cooping Theory 1969 takes place beneath the Manhattan streets at RPM Underground and sets the stage in 1969 at a cocktail gathering of the Poe Society. As you drink cocktails and get to know the society, you begin to discover the real reason for the meeting, an immersive seance to discover the truth behind Poe’s mysterious death.
NEW YORK, NY • $75 WEBSITE
CLOSES NOVEMBER 2ND
LONDON, UK
TV DINNERS
BY GINGERLINE
TV DINNERS Gingerline is back with a new concoction sure to challenge even the most dedicated foodies. TV Dinners is a 2-hour gameshow format dining experience. After being placed in one of 5 teams, the culinary contestants will battle head-to-head in a four round foodbased competition. Guests will compete to win points and prizes in a nostalgic 90s throwback gameshow. TV Dinners is hosted by TV darlings, Mitch and Madge Glammer, features a menu produced by Flavourology and introduces the world to the new microwave with a maxi brain, the Snack-aMax 2000.
LONDON, UK • £50 WEBSITE
OPENS NOVEMBER 24TH
LOPBURI, THAILAND
LOPBURI MONKEY BANQUET
FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
LOPBURI MONKEY BANQUET Taking place in the ruins of the Khmer empire in Northern Thailand, the Lopburi Monkey Banquet is a feast for the eyes. Every November visitors and locals fill the streets and long tables with delicious foods as an offering to the monkeys that inhabit the area. These offerings are considered to be acts of good luck which extends to the respect the animals are given through the banquet and year. In addition to watching thousands of monkeys feast, the festival features live per froman c e s and dances (f eaturing monkeys), but make sure to hold onto your wallets because these monkeys are known to be pick-pockets.
LOPBURI, TH • OPEN TO PUBLIC WEBSITE
ST. HELENS, OR
SPIRIT OF HALLOWEENTOWN
BY COLUMBIA COUNTY
OCTOBER 5-31ST
SPIRIT OF HALLOWEENTOWN In honor of the iconic 1998 Disney film, Halloweentown, every October, St. Helens, Oregon (where scenes from the movie were filmed) transforms into a real-life version of the spooky setting in Spirit of Halloweentown. Sponsored by Columbia County, the month-long event features merchants turned into Halloweentown residents as well as haunted tours, magic shows, costume contests, hay rides and the iconic lighting of the Great Pumpkin in in the town square. In 2019, for the first time ever, guests will get to meet Halloweentown’s famous skeleton taxi-driver, Benny, in a professional photo shoot.
ST. HELENS, OR • $48 WEBSITE
SUMPAGO, GUATAMALA
SUMPANGO KITE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL
SUMPANGO KITE FESTIVAL On November 1st, also known as All Saints Day or the Day of the Dead, thousands of visitors from Guatemala and beyond travel to the municipality of Sumpango for the annual famous Sumpango Kite Festival. Detailed and vibrantly colored kites ranging in size from 2 to 60 feet are created in the months leading up to the event with important messages and religious and folkloric themes. The kites are flown in a cemetery in celebration of those who have departed. Food, music and performances fill the packed streets outside of the cemetery and it was estimated over 125,000 people attended last year.
SUMPANGO, GUATEMALA • FESTIVAL WEBSITE
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
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