Recent projects and News,


WK 2010!!!, Fantastic Flowershower in Amsterdam.


On the 11th of Juli Blossum organized a fantastic flowershower
in Amsterdam. The flowershower of 95.000 gerberas was broad-
casted live on national TV just before the final of the world cup.
More than 12 milion people saw our performance live on TV!!!
We used a EC155 off shore helicopter to load and unload all the
orange flowers. More pictures on our flickr site: Blossum flickr site 


WK 2010!!!, Blossum in Madrid, part 1


Blossum did not only support the Dutch fans. In Madrid the Blossum
crew tried to create a flowershower from a hot-air baloon.
Unfortunally the wind was to strong for a ride in above the crowds.
More pictures on our flickr site: Blossum flickr site 

WK 2010!!!, Blossum in Madrid, part 2.


Because we could use the hot-air baloon, Blossum choose
a easier methode to create rains of flowers.
Here you see the one hand upper trouhging technic.
 

Blossum in Essen, Cultural Capital of Europe 

    

On friday the 2nd of juli 2010 Blossum did a wonderful
flowershower performance at the opening of the Flyinggrass Carpet.
 With a telecopecrane (50 meters high!), the soundcapes and songs
of Johan Kuipers, and 80.000 chrysanthemum blossum created
the perfect friday afthernoon. The flowershower was live on WDR between.
More information The Flying Grass Carpet  

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Mailing-list
We have a mailing-list to inform you and your friends about
where and when the flowers fall down from the sky.
Spoil youself and your loved ones, be informed and be on time,
 on the right spot to experience the poetry of falling flowers.

mail to: nieuws@blossum.com
 

Flowershowers from a helicopter in Rotterdam and Delft. 
 This spring Blossum flowershower airforce realised two beautiful flowershowers 
from a helicopter. On the 8 of may the flowers dropped at the poptahof 
in Delft, and on the 9 of june the flowers were spread on a new building-site
in Rotterdam. Both project celebrated the start of a new neabourhood
with new friends.

aug 2008 Flowershower at schouwburgplein in Rotterda
On the 15th of august 2008, Opening of the flying grass carpet with
a flower shower of colorful chrysanthemums from an helicopter.
soundtrack during the 10 minutes performance by Johan Kuipers
The picture shows the picking of the flowers for this project, in total
Blossum will picked and dropped about 90.000 chrysanthium.

August 2nd, Lovelandfestival, flower shower
At this beautiful festival in the City of Amsterdam, blossum
dropped 100.000 anemones at the beginning of the set of
Junky XL: instant happiness for thousand of people

August 2nd, Lovelandfestival, dahlia necklaces
Besides the flowershower blossum also got into making
dahlia necklaces at het lovelandfestial. With a little bit of
help everybody could be creative and show off.

May 2008: opening of Station Klarendal in Arnhem
With 10 throwers and 15 flowerrain-kits Blossum opened
Station Klarendal. A center for haute culture and fabric
design in Arnhem. A picture of the flowerrain was put on
the front-page of the local newspaper De Gelderlander.

November 2007: Blossum in Tokyo!
Wiliam Willems did a very successful Pecha Kucha presentation for a
audience of 2000 people at the Tokyo Design Week. Blossum was one of
the 30 presentations from around the globe that was chosen for the
Pecha Kucha celebration book. Before the presentation in Japan
similar Blossum presentations were shown at the Westergasfabriek in
Amsterdam and at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in
Rotterdam.www.pecha-kucha.org

October 2007: rose petals on dam square, Amsterdam
For the first time Blossum created a flower shower of only rose petals from
a Twinstar helicopter. Although most people expected that the petals
would be scattered all over centre of Amsterdam most of them just
landed on the dam square, just where we wanted them. It was a pure
poetry! This flower shower was part of an art project of Mexx. This
brand opened a new flag store.

September 2007: necklaces of dahlia's in Rotterdam
Blossum made an new installation in which the audience of the Witte
de With festival in Rotterdam were invited to make necklaces of
dahlia's, about 500 people participated in this project.

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