Oooh, trained vocal musicians ready to play! Perfect! Here's my "project": In the spirit of the evolution theme, I am bringing a monolith, a la 2001, that I (we) will place in a camp (randomly? selected), preferably at sunrise, several times througghout the week, maybe once in front off the Temple, ...

I ended up watching the Crude Awakening performance from about 200 yards out, after roaming around in the interior crowd, and even trying a vantage point from the Sunrise Bar near the trash fence. After listening to all the buzz over previous days about the impending fireball, amplified by the expec...

Burning Man is a bigass version of the "loaves and fishes" story. Just think lime jello shots -- two Sacraments in one. (I'll burn for that.) Irreverence is best.

Nice nice very nice.

Kilngod

As my son and I were driving home last hear, early Sunday morning after a week of madness, our first burn, I could only think, shit, now I have to go back next year. No one warned me of that consequence. But alas, as much as we're feeling the pull, we cannot return this season because of other famil...

Of course, you'll need to convince them that they won't be thrown into the volcano at the end of the week.

Howzabout HUMAN fireball trebuchet? Triple points for landing beyond the trash fence. Mixed with skeet to satiate those pining for the Shooting Gallery.

Do not forget the gods of small things, like the god of the portapotty and the god of the trash fence. These kamis are everywhere, and desire recognition and small sacrifices, else they become pouty and mischievious. You do NOT want the god of the portapotty to become mischievious.

I am Kilngod.

Mr. Elf, you are adding the state of Arousal, which is another state entirely.

Excitement.

Don't Bogart that herring!

1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. 2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt. 3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the ...

At the Tokyo regional burn, the Vault of Heaven unexpectedly inverted because it's just too damn top heavy with all those people crowded on the ceiling. Event planners expect to resolve the problem prior to igniting The Man (central figure) on Saturday.

We have met The Future and he is us.

[Deranged figure stumbles up to the bar, dusting mystrious gray powdery substance off arms and shoulders.] Mr friends [gravelly voice], I'd like to treat you all to a friend of mine called Walk the Plank. Arrgghh. (No, it's NOT too early in the day.) First, may I have a LARGE mixing bowl and some ic...

Raidster -- I took my 15-yr. old son this year, and we had the time of our lives (first burn for both). Amazing. We both survived quite nicely, even though we're not exactly "intact" any more (in a good sense). The whole scene is altered conciousness. I'm no Puritan, but chemical enhancements at Bur...

F.T. Marinetti penned the Futurist Manifesto in 1909. Do Burners channel Futurists? Some of the bits at the bottom bear reconsideration: I risk great bodily harm by even writing them down, but I refuse to play the Censor or even the Apologist. Please dig Socrates and his Method. You've got to admit ...

I hope you are using precision "smart" herring. Bus Camp will remain neutral only as long as aerial bombardment is limited to the immediate vicinity of Kamp Apocalyptika. Collateral damage will not be tolerated.

The art car "Frisky Korean Legislators" demonstrated the need for strict rules limiting the number of riders on Playa vehicles. Rangers remove a disappointed participant from open vat of Three Dragon beer.

Z -- What's your "interactive project"? A friend of mine and I were talking about building a large piece on top of a firebox (shielding the playa surface, of course), then wrapping it in ceramic blankets and firing it (low fire temps, raku clay maybe). I've read some articles in Ceramics Technical o...

I tried making some small figures one day just sitting out at the Crappucino Bar. It's pretty sticky when it gets wet. Did you see the big horse that was coated in the stuff? I'm really more interested to see what the alkali properties will do in a glaze, like a salt firing. I haven't gotten much in...

I have a container with about 5 pounds of playa, brought back to incorporate into ceramics. I'd be glad to share, but I live in LA area.

You guys crack me up.

Let's create a website, ala MapQuest, that gives directions using herring lengths.

Herrings (herring?) have many uses. I am reminded of the time some Calech students empirically measured the distance from campus to City Hall in herring-lengths (actually laying a single fish end-over-end for the entire span). I don't know what shape the fish was in at the end of this process, and I...

Does playa dust have any use as a commodity other than to evoke extreme emotional response from burners?

Which way to Burning Maaaan?

(OK OK that was lowbrow.)

The bigger concern is the Pombo legislation to start selling federal (BLM) land to the mining industry and other congloms. You can bet that a lot of real estate in Nevada, California, Colorado and New Mexico would end up on the plate, or should I say in the feeding trough.

Try signing on to the discussion group at VWBusCamp.com and post your questions through e-mail. They are a pretty knowledgable group, and respond to questions quickly.

Good luck.

Atlas shrugged?

Theme = Gods and Demons?

I am ready.

Kilngod

This is beyond my ken but an interesting problem. I found that gooogling "sail making batten" yields some worthy solutions. What do you do with a drunken sailor, anyway.