Starting the day off right @ 4:00 and Kyoto!
Camp BloodyMaryLand is renting an RV rather than driving one cross-country this year. We may want to use these tips over at Instructables to make it super-sweet!
Pimp your RV by Commander Gaijin
Here is a direct link to the 2010 Burning Man event schedule.
Our very own BloodyMaryLand Liquid Breakfast is scheduled for Wednesday morning from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm.
You may also want to check out the theme camps and art installations to see what is generally going to be on the playa this year. I especially like the Mant Farm and the Nowhere to Nowhere Monorail.
Also note that Kinetic Cab Company is one of the 2010 Honorarium Art Installations. BloodyMaryLand will be participating in their event, The Great Black Rock City Kinetic Sculpture Race and Treasure Hunt.
It was pricey and took a while to find, but I finally have the 1973 booklet that details how to make a working mist shower (dubbed a “fog gun” by Buckminister Fuller). The book has lots of testing details on various nozzles and configurations so with any luck I’ll actually be able to build one this year.
From: Vislay, Donald J.
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:27 AM
Subject: Our Little Artwork is Going On a Trip
Hello, Fellow Ping-Pongers and Flossers!I have taken the liberty of embellishing Our Little Artwork for a trip to Burning Man this weekend. My crazy-a** coworker Zenon (already sporting purple hair in preparation for the week in Nevada) will be hand-carrying the attached piece and offering it up on the playa when they torch the big guy. I didn’t want to mess up the Ping Pong so I’ve only sent this to the four of us who have worked on the piece so far. I’ve included your names and states to give you credit for your contributions to this way-cool artistic exercise, and I hope you approve.A little bit of each of us is going to Burning Man!Don
The creators of this year’s temple need your help. The 2008 Temple, Basura Sagrada: (http://www.basurasagrada.org), is seeking materials and financial support to make the project happen. Those of you who went in ‘06 only, or who have never been, missed out on the grandiose designs of years past. There is a 3-D rendering of the 2008 temple below that makes me think this year’s temple is going to be amazing. Please consider donating some personally inscribed cardboard cutouts from the provided templates, requested pieces of large junk (practical only if on the west coast), or moulah to the project. How big will it be? The creators say “If all goes as we hope, the entire temple space should be somewhere around 70 feet high and 120 feet wide.”
P.S. Yeah, I know I posted something about this already. It’s such an easy way to help out other burners, I thought it was worth reiterating.
What it is:
Okay, back to the American Dream Machine. Here’s an idea. Take the hair dryer and dress it up to look real cool and sci-fi like. Tell people they can put their heads in it and by adjusting the knobs on it they can psychically hear the American Dreams of people at burning man.
How it works:
Buy a pair of large style headphones, rip the speakers out and instal them into it. Attach a mixer to the front and disguise it to look frankenstein-like. Buy 3-4 cheap old ipods. Record random snippets of American Dream sounds onto the ipods. To half the number of pods needed record the snippets in mono and have different tracks for the left and right channel. All of us can contribute whatever we think would be cool and I can mix it all up. Then have all the ipods playing into the device (4 pods = 8 tracks of random sounds and snippets). People can play with the mixer to run thru the various sounds. Very unlikely they’d heard the same thing twice. The biggest challenge might be to make the mixer not look like a mixer and be a truly fun device to toy with.
If you want to be really interactive invite people at the burn to record THEIR american dreams in one of our RVS and we add it to the mix.Obvious challenges include keeping the ipods charged.
A visual component to this would be cool but much more expensive and challenging.
If we did do 8-tracks it would also be cool if they had “attributes”. A few that come to mind are:
Others?
The 2008 Temple has been dubbed the Basura Sagrada, and they are looking for your trash to add to it. They are accepting things both small and large, and are also asking for donations. Read on.
From the JRS (Jack Rabbit Speaks) newsletter:
The 2008 Temple will be built by Shrine and Tucker, who did the Tasseograph Tea Temple “in 2007, and it’s called BASURA SAGRADA (”sacred trash”), a reference to Antonio Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Tucker writes:
“We are extremely humbled by this opportunity and hope to create a temple worthy of the name. The responsibilities that come with a project like this are incredible, but we are happily moving forward. Burning Man has been generous in their support of this project, and yet we know that it will take much more to realize the vision. If this is truly to be a temple for the community, then we need your help to make it happen. More than that, we want you to be involved!
Hmm. “The American dream” eh? I wonder if we could take that wayward hairdryer Ryan picked up and convert it into some sort of machine to “display” the American dream of whoever put their head in it. As to how it would work. No thoughts yet…
Eric and I have been talking about our desire for motorized transport on the playa. Arguments against this idea can be made, for one our Evolve Revolve was a major PIA POS and consumed much time on and off the playa. We both feel that a simpler quieter vehicle could be very beneficial to the camp. Certainly ice runs and the Sunset serenade would be difficult with bikes alone. I’ve been shopping for a golf cart lately and feel that we can get one at a reasonable cost(~$400) that we may even be able to partially recoup after the burn.
Eric has come up with a most ingenious and creative art concept that fully embraces the American Dream theme. He would like to see a recreation of a Model T piled with Okies and all of their worldly belongings. I think that would rock. I’ve even considered a covered wagon with fake horses(covered bikes) ahead of it.
While searching for images of the real deal, I came across pics of the Hancock MD “Barge Bash”, I will NOT miss it this year. Check out the Beverly Hillbillies barge!!!
I thought I could combine our evaporation pond and my fascination with the New York subway. It may also fit into the theme since it’s a fairly iconic structure. The railing provides a nice structure to hang the evaporator screen from and the handrails act as reservoirs and plumbing. The globe and the sign will be lit for night time visibility. Being fairly two dimensional, it will be easier to pack on the roof of the rv. Depending on what liquids end up in it, it may even recreate the smells of the subway.
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