Most of the works are shown in a plush-carpeted room painted black; with a large mirrored panel on the ceiling, the gimmicky effect is more disco than jewel box.
Later that night, DJ Marlboro was at the club Recreativo Caxiense in the poor Duque de Caxias neighborhood, where two sound systems (roving D.J.'s, M.C.'s and their equipment) Aguia Disco and Cash Box, took turns pumping up the crowd.
The organizers are expecting more than 2,500 people and have a contingency plan in case it starts raining and they have to move the Popup Innovation Parking Lot, Hack the Future Tent, the Day Star Zome & Silent Disco, the Soap Box Stages, and the Techno Petting Zoo of Robots indoors.
A fella spews in front of the Funky Box disco.
(Goodnight, soul, funk and disco; back in your box, James Brown and Kraftwerk).
At the break the DJ, Steve Dahl, took to the field to explode the box of disco records.
Once inside the club Crista — a disco-ball-bedecked black box whose floors were covered with drifts of Styrofoam balls and glitter — I happily danced by myself for half an hour, and then glommed onto a bumptious group of fellow boogiers.
Not only will you find super-cool bars like Tribeca (89-6 Cheongdam-dong, 3448 4555) and the nearby Ahn (118-19 Cheongdam-dong, 541 6381), there's also everything from upmarket cocktails, massive Alpine-style beer halls, boxing rings, "disco restaurants" and expensive, seedy hostess bars.
People would be on the street with boom boxes dancing to disco in the middle of the day.
Now and then, a train would rumble across the elevated tracks overhead, momentarily drowning out the sounds of salsa and disco emanating from the boom boxes below.
