The Muscatine River Monster project, aka The Kraken, is in full swing!

Follow it’s progress/path of destruction: MuscatineRiverMonster.com
The Muscatine River Monster project, aka The Kraken, is in full swing!

Follow it’s progress/path of destruction: MuscatineRiverMonster.com
Release the Kraken!

Mockup of The Kraken
Hi, I want to tell you about the public art project that several DoNight members and myself are about to bring to Muscatine, Iowa. It’s called The Muscatine River Monster. It combines a giant scale inflatable sculpture and a story about our city.
The sculpture is of a giant River Monster – a Kraken – with 25 foot tentacles and an insatiable appetite for tall buildings:-)
The story, ‘Legend of the Kraken’, imagines a giant River Monster visiting Muscatine at key times in our city’s incredibly innovative history. Each time the monster visits, it means great things for Muscatine….and the Kraken is about to visit again!
Get the story by going here: www.MuscatineRiverMonster.com
(Warning: the story is the premise for an art exhibit. Not everyone will understand it. )
This project is about celebrating the creative culture of Muscatine. I believe this is a great place for artists and creative people to live and work. With The Kraken project, I want to help other people see that as well.
With this project, I want to tell our story, and help people expect interesting and exciting experiences in Muscatine. I think you’ll be pleased:-)
The Kraken is scheduled to appear very soon. Details will be released by email, FB, and twitter.
Watch for it!
Thanks!
Andrew K Anderson
Visit the website, like Muscatine River Monster on FB, and follow the adventure this summer! The Kraken tweets too: @MuscatineKraken
We have an intern!
Woo Hoo! We’re very excited to have Jacob Lane working with DoNight this summer.
Jacob’s first collaboration with DoNight was the giant Mark Twain puppet we built last year for the Muscatine Fourth of July parade. Jacob was one of the first to catch the vision and quickly became part of the core design/build team for that project.
Jacob Lane Jacob is a journalism major at the University of Iowa and will graduate in 2012. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, then back to Arizona where he lived until finishing high school.
Jacob hosts ‘The Happy Landfill’, a weekly radio program on KRUI (Iowa City college radio). He plays drums, listens to The Beatles, and often lets Jay-Z lyrics pass for tweets
( @JacobLane). Other favorite music includes Deadmau5, Daft Punk, and Justice.
As a DoNight intern this summer, Jacob will manage the social media profiles for the Muscatine River Monster project, help organize and run our activities for artists and creative people, and of course help build the amazing spectacles that DoNight is known for.
He will undoubtedly pick up other significant resume items along the way too – gamer style. (Though we sometimes doubt Jacob will actually need to submit a resume anywhere…people come looking for him.)
We’re excited for Jacob to bring his creative ideas, media skills, and impeccable musical tastes to DoNight this summer.
Please drop a comment below and welcome Jacob!