blog.rosebrand.com: Our molding cloth was featured at this year's Burning Man in Black Rock City, NV. The Brusan Stone was used for the Tiki Island Art Project headed by Donald Cassel of the Tiki Island Playa Surfers. It only took three rolls of molding cloth to create a rock skirt around the perimeter of the Tiki Island. The crew started work on the float 4 days prior to the event. Although they didn't have prior experience with the material, everyone quickly became acclimated to how to handle and implement it.
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This molding cloth looks like a great material for multiple uses, especially in theatre. On the Rose Brand website, this product is listed at $385 for a 10 yard roll. Compared to using paint and jack sand for this effect, Rose Brand's product may be preferable. The use of the molding cloth on the Tiki Island in The Playa Desert shows that the product can last for an extensive period of time under undesirable weather conditions. It also shows that this product is extremely easy to learn how to use and install. If a production needed to create a decent amount of stone surface, and didn't have much time to create it, this product would be a great alternative to using jack sand and paint. In addition to the stone molding cloth, Rose Brand also sells this product in various other "materials," such as ice, gold, broken mirrors, forest, earth, and snow.
Note: clicking on the thumbnail from David’s post will provide a 960x540 pixel image, which is larger than the same image on the Rose Brand website. Overall, it is hard to tell from the provided images if the molding cloth is convincingly stone-esque. Part of what is tripping me up is that the cloth is definitely coming off as a skirt from the way it wraps around the base. The concept rendering on the Tiki Island Playa Surfers’ Kickstarter page is a bit different than the actual art car. While the boulder shapes and placement on the drawing seem more realistic, the TIPS would have sacrificed valuable dance floor space if they had stuck to their original design. As you can see in the video link below, dance space was at a premium. I would very much like to experiment with the natural finish version of this molding cloth. Many possibilities!
Tiki Island Playa Surfers’ Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playasurfers/tiki-island-playa-surfers-2013-burning-man-art-car
Tiki Island at Burning Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyal_XYiVM
After first seeing this, my first thought went to booth construction. With that in mind, I'm curious to see how convincing the fabric would be in a scenario that isn't theatre. It seems like once you get up close that you can definitely see the fabric's texture. However, it is awesome how Rosebrand created such a great product that can be easily manipulated and implemented and doesn't take long to figure out how to use. Definitely saving this link for future applications.
This molding cloth sounds like a really cool material. I know that Rose Brand is a big supplier for theatrical materials, but I had never heard of it before coming to school here. It's cool that their website includes articles like this that provide an example of how their materials can be (and have) been used. It sounds like there are lots of benefits to using this material, but it might be interesting to read an article written by someone other than Rose Brand on it.
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