I'd start by building a steam calliope. If that works, build a wagon around it. We saw a couple of barrel trains on the 3 o'clock keyhole but I do not know if they were ever out on the playa in operation. Anyone know anything about these or if they were approved because we had a similar idea for a ...

theCryptofishist wrote:

yes! yes! that's it exactly!

maybe not as rusty. lol.

I was talking to cap'n ron about another group who did something that was OK, but it was COMPLETELY different then their original submition. Consequently, a decent art car was denied. So, get a good idea and go with it. Besides that, there are four things you really need: 1. Money 2. Money 3. Time ...

Hi, I worked DMV this year and it was quite eye-opening. First of all, BEFORE you even start to worry about the mechanics of an art car, come up with a concept of what you want to do. Read all the info about mutant vehicles on the burning man website (I assume you have already done that - if NOT, y...

I thought I had a great idea for an "art car"... A truck with a flat bed trailer. The truck is covered to look like a toilet and on the flatbed sits a bank of JOTS for people to use. The vehicle could cruise the playa and all the big sound camps on Esplanade providing a place to use the pot while t...

First, what are your logistical resources? What size trailer do you have, and how big/new is your tow vehicle? Right now, I have nothing. I don't even know where to begin, which is why I'm here. I've seen on various tram trailer sites eight passenger trailers with an electric tow. I figured that wo...

Before you pick up a wrench, read or bleed: http://www.burningman.com/on_the_playa/playa_vehicles/index.html Thanks for posting this. It makes a lot of sense, which is why I wanted to make the vehicle small, and primarily for the purpose of getting people back to camp if they're lost, or too 'out o...

Wow, some really great responses. I guess I should just come out and say what my idea is. Okay, I was walking around the playa light at night with a really drunk friend. You know how you leave camp one night, and set out to adventure the playa, and your all excited, full of energy, and feel you coul...

JStep wrote:If you really, really want to do it, it will happen because you will figure it out.

You could do a kickstarter to help with the money aspect if your idea is something that people would want to help with.

Wow, what a helpful site! Thanks to everyone with the tips and encouragement.

I am so sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but does anyone have any advice or information on how one gets started working on a mutant vehicle for Burning Man? I have an idea that would not only be fun, but also very helpful to BRC citizens. Only, I'm not rich and I don't know the...

I think you're right on about this. I totally agree with you. I thought of one other aspect that could help in a situation like this, especially considering the nature of your performance included decreased visibility in a complex costume -- maybe it would help to have someone with you who can hang...

Dammit! This really pisses me off to hear this, especially as someone who also put in a lot of work into a costume to bring joy to others. People get intoxicated or a little overexcited, to say the least, at Burning Man, and wrongly come to think of it as a no boundaries paradise, of which your terr...

While I'm game for just about any artistic endeavor, I'm not too enthusiastic about Tchaikovsky after the dizzying experience of the movie Black Swan.

But, if it were Gustav Holst's Mars we're talking about, that's different.

Speaking on the lack of diversity at BM, for obvious reasons, we black folk are rather shy around crowds of white people dressed in strange costumes setting a wooden structure on fire. I kid, I kid... I'm a black woman (I guess) and I went to BM for the first time this year. I've known about the eve...