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Your pics are great Rand, you should have been a pro photographer! Burning Man looks amazing, I really want to experience it myself someday.
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Looks like a lot of fun :) My wife has gone a few times to the burning of the man
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What he said... I'm almost positive I've convinced myself to make the trip to the 2007 event. It definitely seems like something you want to checkout before taking the old dirt nap. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup |
grat shots Rand!
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Each year at BMan there is always one art installation that really stands out to me. My first year it was the Temple of Gravity. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/galen.15012.jpg In 2004, it was David Best's Temple. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/postg.19865.jpg In 2005, it was the Jacob's Ladder (rising 108 feet into the heavens. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/bucky.24678.jpg In 2006, it was without a doubt, the installation that took 90 people from Belgium to build. It was affectionately referred to as the "Belgian Waffle". It's actual name was "Uchronia". http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC08594_JPG.jpg http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC08605_JPG.jpg http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC06793_JPG.jpg I've been very curious myself to learn more about how this piece came to be. I found the following article about it's creators. I also heard on BMIR (Burning Man radio) that there was enough lumber used in the construction to span 100 miles. It was a privelage to experience this piece in person. - Best art installation: 'The Belgian Waffle' Ninety artists from Belgium shipped 100 miles of wooden beams to the playa, and nail-gunned them into a free-form cavern 15 stories high. It looked like a giant's haystack twisted into a computer model of a wave, with curved entrances on four sides. Reminiscent of Frank Gehry's undulating architectural style, its sides appeared to drip, defying gravity. Dwarfing all other sculptures, the "Waffle" was the biggest draw at night, as revelers packed into the cavern and danced to electronica bathed in neon-green light. "We didn't use a model, we just started at the bottom and kept adding as we went up," said Jan Kriekels, who said he funded the entire $250,000 project, including buying $250 tickets for the volunteers who spent three weeks building it. They used construction cranes to add the lumber to the top. The 2-inch-by-3-inch beams ranged in size from 8 to 10 feet long and came from the reject pile at a Canadian lumber mill. Although the artists might be offended by the sculpture's nickname, the installation's true name is "Uchronia" -- named after a Belgian art movement centered on a world without the concept of time, Kriekels said. "This piece is a symbol for a system that creates its own creators. We all did this together without being told how to do it -- we are factory workers, bookmakers, editors, designers, artists, salespeople -- and we can only do this if we refuse to be defined," he said. The artists plan to burn "Uchronia" tonight. Kriekels said his crew will plant enough trees in Belgium to offset his installation's greenhouse emissions. For those interested in knowing more about Uchronia and seeing some amazing images of the piece -- including it's destruction by fire -- go to http://www.uchronians.org/ |
great pics! takes me right back. :) I have to get my ass organized and get my pics and videos together.
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amazing works of art!
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Parcially as a dose of reality regarding the conditions at Burning Man, and also because I really like this pic, I wanted to post this photo of an intense dust storm that happened Wednesday lasting for nearly an hour. This photo doesn't even depict the worst of the storm as at it's full strength you could not see more than five feet in front of you. This storm produced 100% white-out condtions. All you can do is stop whatever you're doing and wait it out. http://randomania.net/BM06/DSC08528.JPG |
very cool!:thumbsup
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Now, I am all for art, and I love what people can do at burning man. But it really starts to mess with my head the amount of money that some people spend on some of these art installations there. $250,000 for that one piece above, that was just burned in the end. Gosh, why not just line up 1000 starving children right next to it with a sign in front of the piece that says "this cost $250k, imagine all the food you could be eating for that"
while I think all that shit looks way cool, $250k could really help people and places that are in dire straights in this world, and to see someone basically just throw $250k into a pile and light it on fire kind of makes me very sad...oh but wait, it was pretty! |
and let me just state, I LOVE art...and I know art can be expensive sometimes, and I have no issue with people spending lots of money to make the world pretty with art, but some of the things they do at burning man really can be a smack in the face to the rest of the world..."hey look, we are rich wierdos, look how much money we can blow!"
also, I am as much a wierdo as the next guy, and I love the concept of burning man and everything it stands for, and I will be making the journey out there in the next year or two...this was just something that has always bugged me to no end |
I think you are all beginning to see now that Burning Man is not just a bunch of hippies running around naked in the desert for a week. This is becoming one of the most important Art/Cultural events on the planet. These "great" works take years of planning and in some cases considerable sums of money are spent in their execution. 2hp |
There has always been a class that dismisses art as a frivolous pursuit. Thank goodness they are not the philanthropists upon whose generosity much art depends. It's ironic and funny that business people become patrons of the arts as soon as they can afford it. 2hp |
Jace - You do have a point. I've often thought the same thing. I really don't know how to answer that except to say that the world is full of things that need fixing and are illogical. I don't know that there is a good answer to your point. I do know that many of the people who attend BMan are quite generous with their time, money and resources for many causes. Many "burners" donated a lot of their time volunteering in New Orleans after Katrina and many are activists for a multitude of causes. I do believe that BM has achieved a status that does play a small but important role in cultural change. It would be difficult to explain it here, but the art of BM is an important aspect of the experience that draws all these wonderful creative souls together. It's these kinds of thinkers that do make a positive and meanigful change to humanity and the world. Some of the most amazing discussions I've ever had were with complete strangers in the middle of the desert. (And no, I wasn't on any drugs that made me think that). |
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coool, nice pics
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burning man rox. i've to go there in the future!
nice pics man! |
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This is from 2004: http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...AB04gender.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...hs/AB04age.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...4SexOrient.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...B04edlevel.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...AB04income.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...4votehabit.jpg |
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There will always be that thought in the back of my mind when viewing it all though "wow, $250k? couldn't that basically feed thousands of hungry people and save tons of lives?" |
the whole point of art is to starve
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Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the great pictures.
Truly amazing. |
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But there are lots and lots of fire installations at BM. Mobile fire breathing art cars, interactive fire art, fire spinners, flame throwers, and stationary fire art pieces are all over the place. There was a LOT of fire at BM this year. |
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Sixties hippies would have loved it.
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WOW,thos things are so cool!
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For my first year, the amount of fire was great! I found myself wander from flame to flame many times. some of my favorites were Dance Dance Immolation and 2PiR (http://www.interpretivearson.com/) for personal reasons, the Serpent Mother, the fire pendulum, and I always love watching someone who knows how to spin fire gracefully. |
How to enjoy the Burning Man Experience from the Comfort of your Own Home:
Pay an escort of your affectional preference subset to not bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig, dance close naked, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the night. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When they leave, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things. Stack all your fans in one corner of the living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them. Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it. Lean back in a chair until that point where you're just about to fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment. Hold that position for 9 hours. Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away. Drain all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 3 days. Hide all the toilet paper. Set your house thermostat so it's 50 degrees for the first hour of sleep and 100 degrees the rest of the night. Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor. "Downsize" last year's camp by adding two geodesic domes, a new sound system, art car, and 20 newbies. Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/ emotion altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend. Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect, most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it. Shop at Wal-mart, Cost-Co, and Home Depot until your car is completely packed with stuff. Tell everyone that you're going to a "Leave-No-Trace" event. Empty your car into a dumpster. Read "Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delany. Read "The City Not Long After" by Pat Murphy. Cut off the bindings, throw all the pages up in the air, and shuffle them back together. Reread "The City After Dhalgren" by Samuel Murphy. Burn it. Read the ashes. Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or until you think you are going to scream. Scream. Realize you'll love the music for the rest of your life. Spend 5 months planning a "theme camp" like it's the invasion of Normandy. Spend Monday-Wednesday building the camp. Spend Thurs-Sunday nowhere near camp because you're sick of it or can't find it. Walk around your neighborhood and knock on doors until someone offers you cocktails and dinner. Bust your ass for a "community." See all the attention get focused on the drama queen crybaby. Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours. Tell your boss you aren't coming to work this week but he should "gift" you a paycheck anyway. When he refuses accuse him of not loving the "community". Search alleys until you find a couch so unbelievably tacky and nasty filthy that a state college frat house wouldn't want it. Take a nap on the couch and sleep like you are king of the world. Ask your most annoying neighbor to interrupt your fun several times a day with third hand gossip about every horrible thing that's happened in the last 24 hours. Have them wear khaki. Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more disturbing, but beautiful paintings. Climb inside it. Before eating any food, drop it in a sandbox and lick a battery. Mail $200 to the Reno casino of your choice. Spend thousands of dollars and several months of your life building a deeply personal art work. Hide it in a funhouse on the edge of the city. Hire people to come by and alternate saying "I love it" and "this sucks balls". Blow it up. Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire. Play a short loop of drum'n'bass until the embers are cold. Make a list of all the things you'll do different next year. Never look at it. Have a 3 a.m. soul baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a crocodile and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating. Lust after Bugs Bunny. |
Watching these pics while listening to Spanish Castles In Space from The Orb Live 93 disc. It goes great together!
Thank you for the pics :) |
very cool! We've got a festival called Shambahla in BC that's much smaller but basically the same concept, just with less artistic features and more drugs.
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Art Theme for 2007 Announced
The art theme for Burning Man isn't normally announced until January or later, but the theme for 2007 has already been announced.
Those of you thinking of goint next year should mark your calendars for AUG 27 - OCT 3. http://burningman.com/art_of_burning...bm07_theme.jpg |
Art Theme for 2007 Announced
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wow! awesome pics!
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some nice pictures
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Nice Pics Rand :thumbsup
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very cool pics, thx for sharing
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awesome pics :thumbsup
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Great pics Rand!
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Awesome looking pics
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