{"id":2881,"date":"2018-06-25T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:49:27","slug":"smfa-eed-alumnus-chris-carrs-company-lucid-illusions-chosen-to-create-new-area-for-2018-parklife-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/06\/25\/smfa-eed-alumnus-chris-carrs-company-lucid-illusions-chosen-to-create-new-area-for-2018-parklife-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"SMFA EED alumnus Chris Carr&#8217;s company Lucid Illusions chosen to create new area for 2018 Parklife Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/Parklife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2883\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/Parklife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/Parklife.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/Parklife-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SMFA BA (Hons) Event and Experience Design (2010) alumnus Chris Carr&#8217;s design, fabrication and production company, Lucid Illusions, were chosen to create an amazing new area for the recent 2018 Parklife Festival called The Valley, which took place on 9-10 June at Heaton Park.\u00a0 They designed an enormous immersive stage set, influenced by brutalist architecture, dystopian film and Carnival, with integrated video and lighting. \u00a0See:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fqeGwRn3ubo&amp;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fqeGwRn3ubo&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based in Kent near Sittingbourne, Lucid Illusions are making some groundbreaking projects, with clients who include Adidas, Austrian Tourist Board, Oxford Street Christmas Lights and Max Factor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More here <a href=\"http:\/\/lucidcreates.co.uk\/about\/\">http:\/\/lucidcreates.co.uk\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SMFA BA (Hons) Event and Experience Design (2010) alumnus Chris Carr&#8217;s design, fabrication and production company, Lucid Illusions, were chosen to create an amazing new area for the recent 2018 Parklife Festival called The Valley, which took place on 9-10 June at Heaton Park.\u00a0 They designed an enormous immersive stage set, influenced by brutalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/06\/25\/smfa-eed-alumnus-chris-carrs-company-lucid-illusions-chosen-to-create-new-area-for-2018-parklife-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SMFA EED alumnus Chris Carr&#8217;s company Lucid Illusions chosen to create new area for 2018 Parklife Festival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,81427,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}