The Capitol Hill Block party brings over 30,000 people to Capitol Hill to see bands and get wasted. Big fun, I know! Anyways, Pam Fujimoto and I wanted to take advantage of our ground level windows (which is right around the corner to the main entrance of Block Party) and interact with the public. We came up with Florence Fantastique the Fantastic. She give Capitol Hill Block Party themed fortunes. We gave out over a thousand fortunes. Most of the fortunes we gave out were just silly and made people laugh, like "You will see 236 fedoras today" or "Use a condom today. Even if you don't have sex" you know, stuff like that. But some of the fortunes we made come true. As people pushed the button to receive their fortune cards, a hidden camera caught photos of them. A street team would fallow them into Capitol Hill Block Party and make those happen. For example, if the card says "A girl wearing a Slayer shirt (whoe doesn't actually like Slayer) will ask you if you used to work at the Spaghetti Factory" and then we would have a girl in a Slayer shirt fallow that person around for a half hour and then approach them and ask them if they used to work at the Spaghetti Factory. They would flip out hard!
Backdrop design details
Street view
Fortunes
Me dropping fortunes down the fortune chute
More cards
The fortune chute where they people would receive their fortunes
Art details
Capitol Hill Block Party themes tarot cards
Magic spell books
Strret sign
People's reactions to their fortunes
Singer of Flaming Lips
This girl is flipping out hard
This girl is freaked out because her card said "You won't be getting laid tonight. Sorry:'(" She turned to her friend and screamed "I was just talking to you about this!!!"
Tis guy's fortune said "Your frind is wondering how big your weiner is right now!" he showed her and said "Are yu?" to which she replied "Well I am NOW!!!"
This guys fortune siad "Your friend will remind you that Seattle used to have a basketball team" which is crazy because he's wearing a Sonics jersey!!!
This guy also got a card that said "You won't be getting laid tonight. Sorry :'(". To which his boyfriend replied "Well this thing doesn't work!"
Some candid camera shots of fortunes coming true
