Monday, November 30, 2020

Fortress Party 2014 Retrospective, Part 4: German Park and Hungry Hungry Hip Hop




There is a farm outside of Ann Arbor that hosts an enormous outdoor picnic called German Park three days a year. 




We aimed to recreate a German bier garden in that style, complete with oompah music, pretzels, beer, and German-style board games.



By this point, the conspiracy theory room in the basement had opened up, so a lot of guests were wearing their aluminum foil hats.



I think Greg may have been the first bartender. The outfit did not get any less sweaty as it was passed to the other tapsters throughout the night.





Hungry Hungry Hip Hop was all about old school rap. 



The best original content was the giant foam boom box that Skippy built. You can't tell from the picture, but it was about 4 feet across the bottom, which means it was too big to put on your shoulder.



There was also a giant Flava-Flav gold necklace with a clock on it. 
 

Old school rap cassettes were turned into bling necklaces.  In this case, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
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The light up dance floor was back, and popular as ever with the kids.




Lauren and I had custom Fortress Party shirts made, but they weren't very good. 



There was plenty of rap karaoke. Most of it was old school.



But occasionally there were newer works, such as Lauren and Brian's rendition of the Hard Taco song, "A Man and His Jeweler."

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