Feel free to enjoy the inaugural Red Suit Diary, created earlier this summer, when Tom+Gary’s Dynamic Dance Party Delivery Service was but a fanciful notion…
Follow T&G’s DDP
While Waiting On The Edge Of Your Seats For The Second Decentralized Dance Party Video,
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The Second Ever Decentralized Dance Party Is A Go!
And in less than 48 hours we will colonize the structure above with a brazen contingent of Party People.
You are cordially encouraged to attend.. join our facebook group for an invite/directions…
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The Second Ever Decentralized Dance Party Has Been Postponed
Because rain is forecast and Gary’s leg is still bum, the result of an injury sustained two weeks ago up in Lynn Canyon…
But things are looking good for next weekend.. the forecast is warm+dry and a boomboxed wheelchair is ready to roll!
We’ve got a great location picked out and we’re doubling the number of boomboxes to 32.. time to Party Hearty!
In the meantime, here’s part one of the Red Suit Diaries:
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First Ever Decentralized Dance Party Video Now Online!
Our expectation was to storm Vancouver’s 3rd beach with a team of boombox-armed infantrymen and women, blaring synchronized 90’s Dance + Booty Bass and overwhelming what we predicted would be a 100-strong beach party in full swing.
We arrived to discover about 10 people and no hint of a Party.. but once we pumped up the jams and started cutting loose, a modest crowd began to form, growing steadily as the night progressed, with all manner of passersby compelled to join us and get down.
A pretty good test run and a pretty good time!
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Biographical Information / Mission Statement
For the past five years, Tom Kuzma + Gary Lachance have been staging Unsolicited Dance Parties across Canada and around the world…
Sick of the bar/club scene and sick of the music that other people played at Parties, they broke off, vowing to never again allow themselves or their friends to suffer Bad Music, Bar Rules, Cover Charges, Dumb Bouncers or Inflated Alcohol Prices.
By combining the versatility of the modern Mp3 player with the resilience+volume of the vintage boombox, they created the Ultimate Party Machine: a portable Party-To-Go hybrid that could blare their Own Music as Loud and Late as they pleased.
And, unfettered by any undue costs, rules or curfews, together they would launch countless impromptu Dance Party Takeovers in locations as diverse as pizza parlours, playgrounds, trees and elevators; on buses and subway cars, in hallways and city streets; on beaches, under bridges and roving on bikes; on snow, on water and in the rain.
Aside from the occasional police boombox confiscation, nothing could stop the Party!
Death metal showdowns, Motown beach cruises, all-night 90’s dance marathons; it truly was the stuff of legend!
But now,
By way of a thrilling new technological innovation, they plan to Increase the volume, scale and intensity a hundredfold.
Spread the love as far and wide as possible.
And spark a Party Revolution!
This Movement has a name: The Decentralized Dance Party (DDP)
This Movement has an objective: To Return The Party To The People!
Just what is a Decentralized Dance Party?
It’s portable (entirely battery powered)
It has a single music broadcasting source, coupled to a powerful, portable FM transmitter
And an unlimited number of synchronized boombox recipients who receive the music signal from the transmitter
Extremely versatile in design, it is totally portable, totally interactive and requires No Time to set up or tear down.
It can go anywhere, at any time, and at minimal cost.
Loud and proud; the most fun you’ll ever have.
Why Party indoors?
Or near a power socket?
Pay another cover charge?
Buy another $10 shot?
Or suffer another curfew?
This is the power of the Revolution!
Together, we will Crush the Despotic Party Paradigms Of Yore and launch a new era of Free And Democratic Open-Source Partying!
Partying that anyone can create, participate in or build upon!
Anytime, anywhere, everywhere!
You’re out there.
And you need to Party.
And The Party needs you!
(soon to be illustrated w more photographs)
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An Epic Teaser
For the First Ever Decentralized Dance Party video.. which will be released forthwith!
Conceived and birthed by Mark Boucher!
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Hipster Bee
For the past couple of weeks, for the first time, people have been informing us that we’re ‘hipsters’.
Which is funny for us, cause we were under the impression that hipster meant tight pants + flannel + neck scarves + art shows + indie music.
We are way out of the loop here in Vancouver and have been since we arrived.
Perennial Outsiders, who have no idea what is going on or what the latest trend may be…
But if to be hipster now means to dress like a Flamboyant Child, Laugh At Yourself and have the Most Fun Possible then we stand guilty as charged.
If they’ve finally caught on to what we’ve been wearing and doing for the past 10 years and how much fun it is then Power To Them!
The more people full-time-rocking Neon, Spandex, Hypercolor, Belly Shirts, 1-Pieces, Fannypacks and Halloween Costumes the better in Nofuncouver!
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Zombie Walk Toe Nasty Bat Hang
Some photos from the tail-end of the 2009 Zombie Walk.
It was great times, featuring an impromptu Zombie Dance Party and the startling debut of both the Toe Nasty and the Bat Hang!
All photos c/o Sarah Hamilton
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This Sensational New Blog Header
Was created by Sarah Hamilton, our dear friend and Resident Photo Wizardress
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New Acquisition
A friend spotted this vintage JVC gem in an alleyway this evening.
Very heavy (40lbs) and very cool, with tons of inputs/outputs and tonnes of potential!
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