After a life time of creating and studying the effects of public monuments on society I'm of the opinion that not all good public art is publicly funded. There is life outside Bmorg/NEA funding for the arts and a world full of more diverse and effective art it is too! There are other ways than beggi...

Spot on, Andy. No attack this time on the playa, but we live in a time when punks are given attention by the media and this has already gone off the playa. Laughing Squid publishes links to all of his babble from the SF Chronicle to the New York Times...Guilty, all of them, and they will be responsi...

Hi Stickygreen, thanks for asking. You can check out my last post b4 this'n, that's as much as I should say for now. I'd welcome any information from anyone regarding, if you think it could help. I can share some details with you over a phone chat sometime if you'd like. Jus send me an email and I c...

Ever had your art and livelihood taken out by a nut? I'm just an artist; not a punk with a gripe made famous by a sick media...and cheered on by misguided supporters. Art or Arson? I say it's arson, plain and simple...

Well, being on the other end of the torch I don't think he's very cute, although I am starting to share his gripe with Borg (The new Man...) I can't go along with his method...lmk when you have your art, equipment and passion smeared by the man. I wonder if you will still think he is cute. Have you ...

Paul Addis has been freed just before the '09 festival. This is the chump who burned The Man early in '07; suspected of having a hand in the attack that same year on Timeless' installation "Liberty Empowering the World...Again". Addis claims to be leader of a playa domestic terror group: Black Rock ...

Thanks, Jim. Since I won't know placement locale till I'm on the playa, the ol' sentry duty will have to be driven by the sentries, as far as locating us goes. That's part of the problem my installation now faces since Borg says they did not receive my paper work (even though a string of follow-up e...

Imagine a play without Liberty…a playa where any politically incorrect statement is smeared, snuffed, ignored. That’s the playa Paul Addis and his sick bunch of followers would see reign… This year’s festival will host my third installation and my third attempt to ignite a conversation, neve...

Announcing a Burning Man ’09 ("EVOLUTION") art installation


“Liberty (R)evolutionâ€

That will be for history to tell...

Me and my merry crew of playa misfits are planning a great installation called The Tea Party, where visitors will gather around the tall, shaded base of a 30', contemporized wooden statue of Liberty, sip tea and discuss what ever one may wish to discuss under a banner that says "The Tea Party", in t...

Yes, and that value is and should be part of our creative landscape. There should also be art that survives the playa, as is the mission of BRAC...to promote the values (there's that word again) of our community into the default world, right at a pivotal point...the arts. Last summer we burned a 10'...

Prominent art market analyst Nicholas Forrest sums up recent trends: “In fact, the recent stock market meltdown and poor performance of other investment markets has resulted in an increase in the desirability of art as an investment because art is a tangible asset and has proven to offer a relativ...

I have a scultpure studio, specializing in wood sculpture, here in Carson City. I have stumps, trees, logs etc. and I know where there is more... I also have lots of grounds around the studio if you need a place to stage your sculpture.
We can talk.

Thanks, Littleflower, your insights are well placed. It is up to the artist to make desirable art and lasting art! No body wants to invest in something that is going to fall apart. I do believe that "quality" art lasts, because of how it is constructed and because it compels people to take care of i...

Got time for solutions? Newbie to eplya here…I hope I’m doing this right. People said I need to post my ideas here and I need your input… I had this idea about helping artists survive the current crunch... It stuck with me like a butterfly that wouldn’t leave…an idea that art could be used...

Sweet! Amazing dedication...thank god for digital cameras! :lol: