When Bill Kennedy saw a Facebook post seeking someone to work on an inflatable art car, he replied that he had relevant Burning Man experience earning him the nickname “Inflatabill,” which became the name of his own business. By December 2020, Inflatabill’s event business had dropped off because of Covid and he was worried about paying the rent on his Santa Rosa, California, workshop. Knowing he needed the work, he drove down to San Rafael and walked into an old airplane hangar. There he saw the project that would occupy him for the next 20 months.
A project manager met Bill and showed him a strange, 23-foot vehicle: a modified Polaris General side-by-side ATV chassis with a trailer. It was the skeleton of an unfinished art car that was conceived to be an illuminated cuttlefish, the so-called “chameleon of the sea” because its body changes color. To bring the cuttlefish to life, the car would need inflatable fins that could move up and down in a wave motion along both sides of its body, and they would need to control the brightness and color mix of the lighting. The head of this cuttlefish would have two prominent eyes and eight or 10 arms.
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