Last year's CelebrationsI
After celebrating Sameer Sir's b'day last year in every fashion we could think of then, there was actually nothing left for us to do this year. How on earth can you beat, wishing in person at 12pm, creating an "big" hand-made gift, organizing a party, all on the same day.
There has to be some way! During our research we all remembered one thing, which was also well written by sir in this blog itself, "What I liked the most was the gift..it was not the routine 'Archies' item bought with everyone contributing money.". From this one thing was sure, it has to be a copyrighted gift. We really repented the size last year, this time it will be more compact.
We often think what would Sir do with it, or what would he have done?
As a click we got our idea from, MAD@pogotv (go to ART>> MAKES.)
And the show began . . .
All the way we kept thinking how more could it be different, last time it was just from e-studio and this time it was from 44 people, who contributed to this affair. Thus it took a lot of money and material planning.The special fun this time was beating the time. All of us had ample work to not be able to get up from our chairs, but we did manage.
Lets start the work:
The pogo website said we needed tissue bits for preparing the dough. Many helped us, while they were waiting for things to get rendered, downloaded or even between the lunch. Thankful Oye! Its Friday, what better place than Friday meeting to turn three toilet paper rolls into bits.
But on implementation level, there was hardly the need of half a roll. So if there's anybody who would like to use bits of "toilet" paper whenever and wherever, feel free to contact us. There's plenty !!The next ingredient, bottles, thanks to Sandeep Uncle. Those who dont know who he is, look for shining thing in the picture
I dont know what we could have done without our Art Director Bhairav. For every imagination we had, he had a beautiful reality.
Never before had the movie Happy Feet been so fantastic. Each scene of reference brought the 'awe' emotion into us.
First we had decided shelter could be made from a tea-set thermocol.
But when our penguins were finally ready, they were 'Complan' penguins, much taller, much stronger and I am sure much smarter too, coz we were making them with the imagination, as to how Sir and family would be as penguin. So, another board.
When the shelter was finally ready, all of us were amazed. It simply looked more beautiful than the penguins. All of the credit goes to our superb Art Director Bhairav, who does it all. From the above picture I am sure you can recognize him anywhere from his back side, all possible shots available.Idea was to have a wooden exterior, ply or even actual wood. No one could have brought in the Wooden textured sheets from IIT shops than Sandeep, who dedicately went to each store each time he was asked to bring in something. Thus creating a record time of 1+hr to bring a torch, which could be found anywhere. But the best is what we have!
How could there not be any last minute adjustments and additions?
Though everything turned out to be more perfect than we ever hoped for, there will always remain a dot of dissatisfaction of not getting the light arrangement right. But with the time limit we had, we got to much much better situation.
While last year we had a whole weeks time to prepare the gift, this year it was a 2.5 days job. On Sunday, we had a great 12 hour shift, where we worked, laughed, fought. Of course had to get refreshed n relaxed.
PS: Sushant is the one who ate the most. We were busy eating the remains when he clicked the photo.Rapping the gift was a major issue due to size and shapes.
"And all that is worth for what we see."
We had to add a special touch for Sir among all of it. Thats our Sir in the left with his very own customised spectacles.For any further order on the same set, you can always contact us!
