Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Over the last six weeks, we have created a number of new photo sets in our Flickr account and posted each of the sets on our website.

If you have not done so yet, please click over and take a look at photos sets from our events at NC State, Social Media Week in Chicago, this summer’s The Great GoogaMooga Festival, and the Gawker Media Hush Silent Disco to name a few.

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Published: Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Though the concept of a silent dance party at which the music is transmitted to wireless headphones worn by partygoers – more affectionately known as a silent disco – is not new, it has certainly picked up steam and garnered more attention in the United States since first appearing in America at Bonnaroo in 2005. As the first American silent disco company, Silent Events has been bringing the silent disco revolution all across the country.

As with the silent disco scene in Western Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom, the idea of silent discos in American took off on the festival scene around the country, beginning with that first event at Bonnaroo. In the past year alone, music festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour, Bear Creek, Bamboozle, and The Great Googa Mooga employed the services of Silent Events to produce silent discos – and, in Bear Creek’s case, even a silent concert – for their crowds.

Silent discos and other Silent Events aren’t being restricted to music festivals and clubs, though. Locations for these events are largely restricted only by creativity. As reported recently in both print and video by The Wall Street Journal, the London Zoo has been throwing silent discos over the last three years as fundraisers and as a draw for more adult visitors. Silent Events was the first company in America to produce a silent disco at a zoo. The event, which was held at the Denver Zoo, was a great sucess! Unique locations are part of the fun! Silent Events recently produced a silent disco for Gawker Media inside the New York Public Library and has twice produced a Halloween silent disco for jetBlue in the T5 Terminal at JFK Airport in New York City.

Popular culture at-large has picked up on the silent disco concept as well. The 2011 British film “Tonight You’re Mine” includes features a scene with its primary characters wearing headphones from a silent disco.

And with the June release of Little Boots’ latest single “Headphones,” don’t be surprised to find that the silent disco may have found its new anthem for the foreseeable future.

UPDATE: Ypulse featured the silent disco concept and gave Silent Events a shout out in its “Things You Should Know” article posted on June 19, 2013.

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Published: Thursday, August 30, 2012

The folks over at MRI Lightpainting were at the Gawker Media Hush Silent Disco inside the New York Public Library on Thursday, August 9 to provide a photo booth for participants to have their picture taken. As you can see by the image below, this photo booth was a little different than what most people are used to.

As posted on the MRI website, “…the idea was to actually incorporate the DJ in the photo booth. Guests jumped in the booth, pretended like they were scratching records while we light painted them, and afterwards they could get a little DJ tutorial if they wanted….”

Photo credit/courtesy of: MRI Lightpainting / mrilightpainting.com

MRI posted a few of its photos along with a brief recap of the evening on its website and posted more than 100 of the night’s photos in its Flickr account.

Hop through the Silent Events News archives to view MRI Lightpainting’s photo booth images from the October 2011 Gakwer Silent Disco we produced.

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Published: Friday, August 10, 2012

Silent Events was on hand once again as Gawker Media held its annual Hush Silent Disco on Thursday, August 9. This year, however, the event was held in a very unique setting: inside the New York Public Library. Among the DJs spinning during the night were Dapwell of Das Racist, DJ Kalkutta, and Yeasayer.

Various media outlets and blogs were on hand to document the event.

•  Scott Beale of Laughing Squid — you may view all of Scott’s photos on flickr.com and a selection of his photos on laughingsquid.com.

•  Phyllis B. Dooney of Time Out New York — Phyllis’ event photos may be viewed on timeout.com.

•  Photo booth snapshots from the event are courtesy of The Bosco.

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Published: Friday, October 7, 2011

MRI Lightpainting brought its unique photo booth stylings to the Gawker Silent Disco in New York City on October 6.

MRI Lightpainting describes its photo booths as “a great way to add color and dimension to your party or event. Everyone gets to be creative, painting with light (or getting painted by the MRI experts) in front of the camera.”

One look at the images from the Gawker event and you can see just how creative one can get with their picture and just how popular the booth was at the silent disco.

“We shot for 3 hours and we did about 400 prints,” MRI posted on its website. “There was a long line. Drinks and pixie sticks got spilled all over everything. Our printers went all Maximum Overdrive and tried to murder us. Samantha Ronson blasted records through a network of headphones until her equipment exploded. It was chaos. It was exactly what a rave should be.”

It was a great time, indeed!

View post and photos on mrilightpainting.com

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