We left Burning Man on Saturday around noon, and ahead of us on the exit road was a tall, slender brunette, driving a smallish red pickup truck with Washington plates. The entire back of her pickup was overflowing with trash, not tied down at all. Light stuff, like plastic bags, cardboard, tons of r...

We brought out a new Shelter Systems 14' dome last year, and it worked great. No wind problems, but we were not on the edge of a road or anything, and pretty sheltered. However, there were several tents/shade structures blown over in our camp during the Great Windstorm of 2006, and our dome didn't h...

Wondering if I could get some advice/opinions here. My boyfriend and I are going to have a commitment ceremony on the playa this year, and are trying to puzzle out where we'd like to do it. Considerations: 1) Not at the temple. 2) Within walking distance (i.e. not deep playa/trash fence) from probab...

You can find our tribe where we're letting people know what's going on (and a gathering place of sorts, for people working on it, at: http://tribes.tribe.net/sugarcubed As far as the construction method- it's a new construction method using a patent-pending new construction "locking mechanism" to ma...

Thanks for the positivity! Anyone else actually want to get involved?

Howdy! We're building a big-but-not-huge project on the playa this year, and we could use some help, both before the event (July/early August weekends, San Francisco Bay Area [Berkeley]), and on-playa. Here's what we're up to: The SugarCube is a cubed-shaped structure that is twenty feet cubed (20x2...

Howdy! We're building a big-but-not-huge project on the playa this year, and we could use some help, both before the event (July/early August weekends, San Francisco Bay Area [Berkeley]), and on-playa. (Either/or is OK, BOTH would be ideal though!) Here's what we're up to: The SugarCube is a cubed-s...