Beyond Black Rock City: your photos and stories

consumer · Post by **consumer** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:45 pm

I think one of the reasons we all enjoy viewing other burner's brc photos is that they give us a glimpse of other people's lives. I think if more of us started sharing photos and stories of us doing 'burner things' (art, costumes, music, non-commercial exchange, rituals) outside of BRC (aka, 'Default World', 'The Matrix', 'Reality Camp'), it would only lead to more rapid spreading of that, uh... uh.. IBT (Inexplicable Burner Thing) we've come to love so much.

I'll be posting some photos of a small event I did just this friday once my girlfriend brings her camera over.

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:16 pm

O.k. I'll bite. Here's a photo of me at work at the impotency clinic.

sveltly,
mr smith

Lo5150 · Post by **Lo5150** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:24 pm

I am retarded when it comes to computers, so not sure how to upload the type of photos they want, or how to get my own webpage to post. I greeted last weekend and will be greeting again at the SF Metreons release of "Confessions of Burning Man". A real blast-got some great photos, and Pete, who makes the art "The Swimmers" was there. Anyway, help me out, and Post I will.

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:27 am

What I do in the default world....hmmmmmmm.....

http://www.imachinefilms.com
http://www.savitchfilms.com

"dnatsredu"
inconsequencally,
mr smith

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:48 am

I only have one photo that I like.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:19 am

PJ wrote:I only have one photo that I like.

i suppose that means i'll have to spend the rest of my life looking at that cow give you a rim job.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:26 pm

The following pics are of a piece I did a few years ago with a class I was in down here at Stanford. Part of an ongoing project, the class of appx. 15 sought to identify a particular region of the Basin and Range and look at it from a number of historical (and contemporary) aspects such as geology, geography, historical perspective, political, etc. We then went to the various areas for a week long field trip and did a series of individual and collective land art installations that tried to incorporate one or more topics into the piece.

The pics I've chosen were of a piece I did just north of the Black Rock itself. Elevated appx. 60 above the main Lahanton lakebed playa are two smaller features known as 'hanging' playas. In the olden days, these things would fill with water when the weather was more temporate and spill out to the main playa below. What I did was to try to recreate the sense of what it looked like when the Pleistocene waters were overflowing down to the main playa by choosing a dried gulley that'd been carved by water flow and line it with a 50' section of blue silk. The results are below. Unfortunately, the pics don't quite do the installation (temporary) justice but you might get an idea of what I was shooting for.

A) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river2.jpg

B) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river4.jpg

C) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river6.jpg

D) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river8.jpg

E) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river9.jpg

F) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... iver10.jpg

G) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... iver11.jpg

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:40 pm

Last Real Burner wrote:O.k. I'll bite. Here's a photo of me at work at the impotency clinic.

sveltly,
mr smith

Uh, what, no who, no.....

Would someone please explain what the hell that pic is about?

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:51 pm

Sexy No?

you should see me in a thong.

repeatedly,
mr smith

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:55 pm

Actually, I fucking LOVE that's she's empowered enough to put her 'fatness' out there rather than feeling like she has to stay indoors and away from the party because of shame/guilt/what the fuck ever.

Rightness Factor: 9.347

Spokes · Post by **Spokes** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:30 pm

Here is my ongoing public art project. I'm almost back on the schedule that I gave them even though I started three weeks late while getting ready for the burn.
http://chickashaarts.org/songosaurus.html

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:33 pm

Way cool.

clandyone · Post by **clandyone** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:36 pm

Badger wrote:The following pics are of a piece I did a few years ago with a class I was in down here at Stanford. Part of an ongoing project, the class of appx. 15 sought to identify a particular region of the Basin and Range and look at it from a number of historical (and contemporary) aspects such as geology, geography, historical perspective, political, etc. We then went to the various areas for a week long field trip and did a series of individual and collective land art installations that tried to incorporate one or more topics into the piece.

The pics I've chosen were of a piece I did just north of the Black Rock itself. Elevated appx. 60 above the main Lahanton lakebed playa are two smaller features known as 'hanging' playas. In the olden days, these things would fill with water when the weather was more temporate and spill out to the main playa below. What I did was to try to recreate the sense of what it looked like when the Pleistocene waters were overflowing down to the main playa by choosing a dried gulley that'd been carved by water flow and line it with a 50' section of blue silk. The results are below. Unfortunately, the pics don't quite do the installation (temporary) justice but you might get an idea of what I was shooting for.

A) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river2.jpg

B) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river4.jpg

C) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river6.jpg

D) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river8.jpg

E) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... river9.jpg

F) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... iver10.jpg

G) http://www.stanford.edu/~rruss/graphics ... iver11.jpg

Badger, this is very very cool. I just love it.

There is an artist who does similar installations.. I can't remember his name at the moment, but I saw a beautiful image of one of his pieces not long ago. It was a trail of perfectly overlapping, bright red maple leaves arranged on the bottom of a little stream. I realize this is not helpful.

Spokes · Post by **Spokes** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:40 pm

Badger-
If you get a chance, post or email me the link on that class that had the course description and all. I want to see if I can get some similar interest in doing that around here.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:46 pm

Badger's art installation made my brain resurrect the voice from grade-school 16mm documentary films. "In the time of the dinosaurs, Ty-D-Bowl had not yet been invented..."

Spokes · Post by **Spokes** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:58 pm

There is an artist who does similar installations.. I can't remember his name

Andy Goldsworthy

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:22 pm

Andy Goldsworthy was certainly one of the artists we discussed in the class. The documentary 'Rivers and Tides' is one of the most amazing films i've ever seen. One of the many great things about the class was that the folks refrained from doing anything like Goldsworthy's work and instead followed their own muse. It was quite nice. The idea is to have five classes total which will cover the five distinctly identified areas/regions of the Basin and Range provence. The first one was entitled 'From Mono Lake to Death Valley: Tracing the Ancient Waterway' the second was, I believe, 'Fire and Ice: Lake Lahanton to Carson Sink. The next one which will be held this coming spring will look at the B&R starting over at Lake Bonneville and the Great Salt Lake where we'll look at Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty' installation among other pieces.

The classes have been amazing. Probably half of the students and 2/3 of the faculty are Burners including Jim Mason (playa fire god) and Elizabeth Miller who is a tenured geophysicist at Stanford and did her doctoral dissertation on the geology of the playa. Below are a few more links to some of the stuff we've done over the years.

http://www.lindagass.com/LandArtPages/LandArt.html

http://vpue-webserver.stanford.edu/Lahontan/

The best link for the class is probably the Stanford Continuing Studies web site located at: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu

Spokes · Post by **Spokes** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:32 pm

Thanks!

I remember the classes from the posting on the old eplaya. I bugged the hell out of the local art film house curator and Rivers and Tides will be here in about 6 weeks.

A couple of other of my favorite land art people are http://www.chrisdrury.co.uk/

Although she is dead and did this stuff a long time ago, I just discovered her last week:
Ana Mendieta
Silueta Series in particular http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/braziel/mendieta.html
be sure and look at #18 if you visit the site

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:40 pm

Drury's stuff is incredible. Unfortunately she's still viewed from the perespective of being a craftsman rather than an artist. Her installations in museums (SFMOMA for instance) have only served to reinforce that perspective I think.

It's one of the problems you deal with when your work involves outdoor settings. One of the reasons I like Smithson's work is that it's damn near impossible to carve a trench into the floor of a museum with a D-9 bulldozer, roll in several hundred 8 ton boulders and shape it to your liking. Curators don't go for kinda expression much so the artist relegateds him/herself to keeping their work out doors which imparts a very unique perspective to the observer. It's also why I like the art so much at BM. Most of what's there just can't realistically be expected to translate into the isolated, sanitized environs of a museum or gallery. I think it's also for this very reason that the 'arty' fucks in NY and LA have tended to poo-poo the art aspect of the event.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:54 pm

Badger wrote:Actually, I fucking LOVE that's she's empowered enough to put her 'fatness' out there rather than feeling like she has to stay indoors and away from the party because of shame/guilt/what the fuck ever.

Rightness Factor: 9.347

Badger said it.

Yay, Badger!

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 6:36 pm

I wasn't trying to be negative I simply wanted to understand. I have no problem with weight as my family deals with it, my current girlfriend is dealing with it, I'm trying to handle it too.

She's got more courage than I would. I'm getting over my shyness but I'm nowhere near that level.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:34 pm

Actually, I fucking LOVE that's she's empowered enough to put her 'fatness' out there rather than feeling like she has to stay indoors and away from the party because of shame/guilt/what the fuck ever.

Rightness Factor: 9.347

Right ON! And she packs it in LYCRA!

I have to say - my first reaction to seeing that pic posted as mockable really pissed me off. But I didn't say anything- which pisses me off too.

I fucking love it too. I'm only able to get to that state at burning man but then I have these reactions to seeing my own pictures. It is hard for me to love my own empowered state at those times.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:42 pm

The only other time I can count on fat women slamming down and scaring the gym nazis is the Saturady before the Lesbian/Gay Parade here in San Francisco.

'Dykes From Hell' they call it. These are some big, unashamed, in-your-face SEXY women. When they start dancing you'd BEST get the hell out of their way because they ARE on a mission.

They still rock my world. They still reinforce lessons learned long ago that the only fat to be ashamed of is that which you allow to collect between your ears.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 1:35 am

I used to be an exotic dancer (that's stripper for all you non-pc folk) and I worked with this woman who was well over 300 lbs. I hated working with this woman 'cause she was sexy as hell and I NEVER made money on the nights that we worked together.

I will say 99% of it was her attitude...She THOUGHT she was sexy, so she was. That simple.

When I started having issues with my weight, I thought about her a lot, and realized that as long as I believe that I am sexy, I am.

Confidence goes a long way!

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:20 pm

OregonRed wrote:I used to be an exotic dancer (that's stripper for all you non-pc folk) and I worked with this woman who was well over 300 lbs. I hated working with this woman 'cause she was sexy as hell and I NEVER made money on the nights that we worked together.

I will say 99% of it was her attitude...She THOUGHT she was sexy, so she was. That simple.

When I started having issues with my weight, I thought about her a lot, and realized that as long as I believe that I am sexy, I am.

Confidence goes a long way!

Oregon you are as sexy as the the first BM I met you and you will always be!

I still love our time together it was the best! REmember Bianca's on our third night?

Pink is still a favorite color of mine, not to wear but lick
AIIZ

Beyond Black Rock City: your photos and stories

Beyond Black Rock City: your photos and stories

Who Me?...

would love to, but..

Well anyway...

Re: Who Me?...

that's my ass, mister!