This month’s catch up…
A solution for female queueing at festivals?
Females being subjected to longer
toilet queuing times is an age-old
problem at events and festivals, but
now, for the first time, women had
their own urinals at a race.
Lapee, was available for the
first time at the Copenhagen Half
Marathon in September. “50 years
ago, women were not allowed to
run a marathon,” Lapee’s CEO
Gina Périer tells Access. “Lapee is
the female version of the popular
gray kros urinal also called ‘rocket’
or ‘tulip’ which is distributed
world-wide. It is made in the same
manufacturing process, it is being
transported, maintained and
cleaned in the same way.”
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Lapee is stackable, to reduce
carbon emissions due to
transportation
“Lapee is founded on the vision
of giving women better peeing
conditions when toilets are
pressured. The choice is usually
between insanely long queues
for the toilets or the improvised
solution such as bush, which is
very degrading, unhygienic and
unsafe.”
Behind Lapee are Gina Périer
and Alexander Egebjerg. They
are both educated as architects,
graduating from the Royal Danish
Academy in Copenhagen from
spring 2017.
Amazon gets its
own festival
Amazon has announced details of Intersect, a new two-
day festival in the desert.
Intersect, put on by Amazon Web Services, takes 6-7
December, in Las Vegas and will feature performers
including Foo Fighters, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Brandi
Carlile, Leon Bridges, H.E.R. and many more.
Attendees will be able to explore 1 million square feet
of games and activities, including a video arcade, post-
apocalyptic dodgeball stadium, and mega-sized ball pit
with over 200,000 balls.
The Las Vegas Festival Grounds are intended to take
on a futuristic and immersive feel indoors and out, with
lasers, video screens, and lots of art and design.
Visual artists from around the world will create
works, including a six-story video tower called the
“Monolith”. Musgraves is providing creative direction
on “UPLIFT,” a light show presented by Intel featuring
500 drones, programmed and led by women in a
tribute to women’s contributions to advancements in
technology.
“Music has been an uncanny unifier of people over
the years,” Ariel Kelman, VP of worldwide marketing at
AWS, said in a statement.
“We’ve built a pretty amazing and unusual live
music experience at our annual AWS conference that
attendees have loved; and with Intersect, we’re excited
to extend this unique event into a two-day, public music
festival.”
Single-day and two-day general admission, VIP,
and VIP+ tickets are on sale now starting at $169 at
intersectfest.com.
Amazon has also been investing in its streaming
music arm, growing its user base 70 percent over the
past year, according to a recent Financial Times report.