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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange theme is Time, for 'Tony Foster: Exploring Time' at #Conwall #Museum. This is "Day and Night" by Edward Robert Hughes (1851 -1914).

two ladies heads, one blonde styled as day, against a blue sky, the other a brunette as night.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is religion for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at The Barber Institute. This is John Byam Shaw's 'The Victory of #Christ' (1899).

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This week's theme from #OnlineArtExchange from @artukdotorg.bsky.social is the Female Form to mark 'Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting' exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery. Here's Tamara de Lempicka's La Belle Rafaëla (1927).

naked woman reclining on a bed with a dark background and a red sheet

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange theme, with @artukdotorg.bsky.social , is "orange". This is Byam Shaw's , "Now is the Pilgrim Year Fair Autumn's Charge".

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We’re here in Liverpool for #ICOMUK25 Day 1 features a fantastic conference programme focused on regenerative practices for #museums. @icomuk.bsky.social

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange theme, with @artukdotorg.bsky.social , is "orange". This is Egon #Schiele's "Woman kneeling in an Orange dress" (1910).

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Cat doesn't want to play, so pretending to be asleep.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We look inside the Wizarding World of #HarryPotter at #EpicUniverse. #jkrowling tinyurl.com/ys73yv8h

newspaper clipping showing character from harry potter films

visitors on a themed street at harry potter land at Universal studios

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We're here in #Orlando to explore Universal’s newest hotel, Terra Luna Resort, and visit something truly #Epic this weekend... #BritishAirwaysHolidays @universalorl.bsky.social

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at @ScarbsMuseums. This is Mucha's "Clair de Lune" (1902) (There's a new #Mucha #Museum in Prague. We spoke to the artist's great-grandson Marcus. tinyurl.com/3cxf37ym)

Lady holding a cloak with a moonlit halo art noveau style by alphonse Mucha

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social Here's "Hilltop Farm, Winter", (1949) by Maxfield Parrish.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social. Another genius with moonlit landscapes was Maxfield Parrish. This is, "Moonlight - Deep Snow" (1944).

conifer trees in deep snow lit by moonlight with a blue sky, blue background and a house in the background

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange is "#Valentine's and Palentine's". This is "The Pale Complexion of True Love" (1898) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, bought last year by @museeorsay.bsky.social

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is "#Valentine's and Palentine's". Here's a study for the Butterfly Couple by JC Leyendecker (1923).

Young couple in twenties dress kiss holding hands with a butterflies wings behind them

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum’ Mary Ireland's Our Lady in Blue & Gold (1950) . She created "fabric mosaics": fragments of antique textiles, with hands/face painted onto silk.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum’ This is John Byam Shaw's Queen of Hearts (1896).

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum’ The Shadow (1935) by Mary Ireland. She created "fabric mosaics": fragments of antique textiles, with hands/face painted onto silk.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's the beautiful, and very delicate, Chamber of Secrets #snake door at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London. #jkrowling's work has been hugely influential in the #themepark business. Here's a look at the world's major #HarryPotter attractions. bit.ly/3ORjRAy

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Fantastic #ISE2025 keynote from @briansolis.bsky.social. On why #AI is good for business. "This is quite literally a control, alt, delete moment. That means you have to imagine how you reboot yourself."

a man, Brian solis, in a grey suit speaks on sage holding his left arm out.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The National Botanic #GardenofWales is spectacular. Looking forward to revisiting in the summer.

Massive upended tree root against a blue sky

Huge tree in winter silhouetted against a blue sky

River showing reflection of tree and bridge

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This was in a shelter a hundred yards from #DylanThomas' boat house in #Laugharne. We think he'd have liked it. #poetry #wales

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange is "interiors & homes" for Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury at The Pallant Gallery. This is Charles Robinson Sykes' "Woman stepping into a bath", undated. (He is best known for designing the iconic Spirit of Ecstasy mascot on #RollsRoyce cars)

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Isaac Newton was such a great man that even his #BluePlaque has its own blue plaque. #science #maths

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange is 20th Century Women Artists for Sheila Fell at #TullieCarlisle This is, "Dangerous Ground", a watercolour by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. It's about a cat.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange is 20th Century Women Artists for Sheila Fell at #TullieCarlisle Here's 'Madonna & Child with Roses & Thorns" by Mary Ireland, 1955. (Appliqué fabric mosaic panel on painted silk)

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange is 20th Century Women Artists for Sheila Fell at #TullieCarlisle Here's 'Lighting the Way" by Dorothy Webster Hawksley.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today's #onlineartexchange is 20th Century Women Artists for Sheila Fell at #TullieCarlisle. So this is Averil Burleigh's wonderful "The Mask of Ohi Baba" (1925)

Lady dancing holding a mask with an orange flowing cape and a blue dress, 1920s style

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So what's new in the world of visitor attractions for '25? Here's our summary of the recent Festival of Innovation. tinyurl.com/2w5n9aj7 #disney #robots #IconoftheSeas

3 small robots walk along the street with two men.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The world's most bad tempered #fossil? Xiphanctinus #FossilFriday

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LIVE: @michaelaiello.bsky.social explains that they decided on a “musical roadmap through the emotional values of the music that then manifest the brand” for #CineSational at @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social #FestivalOfInnovation25 Join us here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

3 people on a zoom call discuss spectacular events at theme parks

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"We take learning from projects like #COSI & use those to help develop future projects. Not necessarily the sandbox with the roaring dinosaur though..." says Jacki Sorvillo, chief retail officer at #SSAGroup. Join us tinyurl.com/mtahettw

4 people on a zoom call discuss themed retail environements

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Our goal was to create a store that was an extension of the COSI experience ", says Jacki Sorvillo, chief retail officer at #SSAGroup. Join us tinyurl.com/mtahettw

4 people on a zoom call discuss themed environments

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Peter Pan’s Never Land Adventure at Tokyo DisneySea from Walt #Disney Imagineering 🎉 @tokyodisneypr.bsky.social 2nd place in the blooloop #InnovationAwards Immersive Attraction category. tinyurl.com/49bsdtf8 Thanks to our friends at #Area15 & #christiedigital

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LIVE: Sheena Khan and Phillip Dunn of @expocitydubai.bsky.social "More knowledge doesn't always equal more action... the idea is that if visitors contemplate their role in a brighter future, we've done our job"⚡️ Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

3 people on a zoom call talking about sustainability and Expo City Dubai

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LIVE: Kees Rijnen from @efteling.bsky.social talks about the process of creating the new Danse Macabre ride. It took 6 months to develop the concept & 90% of what you see now came from those 6 months. Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

3 men on a zoom call discuss theme park technology

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LIVE: Ernest Yale from #Triotech highlights that it's important to be innovative, but parks "want proven #technology. If it's completely new the guests don't have a reference point". Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

3 people on a zoom call talk about immersive attractions

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today's theme for the #OnlineArtExchange is "magic" for Flower Fairies™: The Magical World of Cicely Mary Barker at The Watts Gallery. This is Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom by #Landseer. Commissioned by Brunel in 1847 to decorate his dining room (!). #NVGMelbourne

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today's theme for the #OnlineArtExchange from @artukdotorg.bsky.social is "magic" for Flower Fairies™: The Magical World of Cicely Mary Barker at Watts Gallery - Artists' Village. www.wattsgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... This is Fernand Toussaint's Angel. Fairy-like?

an angel flies by a church or cathedral window in a painting by Belgian Fernand Toussaint

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LIVE: Nick Moran from @phantompeakuk.bsky.social says he is "seeing brands and IPs getting into the (storytelling) ...they're a great gateway into the space". Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Congratulations to @thorpepark.bsky.social – Hyperia #rollercoaster from Merlin Entertainments 🎉 1st place in the blooloop #InnovationAwards Thrills category. tinyurl.com/59aj3585 Thanks to our friends at 3Area15

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Congratulations to WDI Bipedal Robotic Character Design &Control from Walt #Disney Imagineering 🎉 1st place in the blooloop #InnovationAwards Experiential #Technology category. tinyurl.com/muepjvf8 Thanks to our friends at #Area15 & #TAIT

walt disney bipedal robots win prize for innovation

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LIVE: Jeffrey Godsick from #SonyPictures: "The hunger for competitive social interactions is growing tremendously. People are craving the need to experience different things" Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation 25 here: tinyurl.com/mtahettw

three men on zoom call at the Blooloop festival of Innovation

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Congratulations to The #Messi Experience from #MomentFactory ! 🥳 1st place in the blooloop #InnovationAwards Brand Realisation category. tinyurl.com/bdfskm23 Thanks to our friends at #Area15 & #Kingsmen Xperience Ltd.

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LIVE: Jenefer Brown #Lionsgate, "Not every successful #IP should be an attraction! The attraction needs to be able to stand on its own and not be carried by the IP, it adds to it". Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation 25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

Jenefer Brown from Lionsgate on a zoom call with Alice from Blooloop and Philipp from Netflix

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LIVE: Jon from #Holovis says that “We allow our tech to be a toolbox to help tell stories. We try not to be led by tech, it can lead to some good decisions but some bad ones too”. Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation 25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

Four people on a zoom call discussing technology in creating visitor experiences

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LIVE: Pearl from #Area15 explains that visitors aren't coming for the technology, "they’re coming for the #experience. The tech needs to be seamless”. Join us at the #FestivalOfInnovation 25 here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

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blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LIVE: Adele Keane from #imvizar says they're seeing "lots of requests for how an operator can make experiences #accessible for all audiences" at the #FestivalOfInnovation25 Join us here tinyurl.com/mtahettw

Adele keane speaks on a zoom call with 3 others.

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