rainbow

treepour · Post by **treepour** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:03 pm

so i got there thursday and quickly over-exerted myself and ended up with a massive headache & feeling nauseated & trying to recover by lying down underneath our shade structure when the first dust storm hit and all of a sudden i was holding down our tent while trying to better secure some flapping tarps and thinking "this can't last forever, how much longer is this going to go on?" and thinking that same thought for the next two hours and then my resistance finally broke down and i realized i was actually having some weird sort of fun and i so i took off all my clothes and walked out to the man, the dust particles biting into my skin, and i felt just like i was walking into infinity or nothingness or the absolute and there was nothing between me and the absolute, i was naked and it was like being born . . .

then the next day i still wasn't fully acclimatized and was sitting miserable and sweating under the shade structure, nursing a beer and wondering how to find the energy to make my way to a porta-potty when we heard the announcement to take shelter immediately, a severe storm would hit us in ten minutes and we'd taken down the tarps we put the previous day so all of a sudden my campmates and i were desperately trying to secure them again and we barely managed to get them attached when the sky went dark, dark orange in about 2 seconds and we looked at each other, panicking, thinking "oh wow, this is serious, isn't it?" and we ducked inside and waited and waited, knowing that if it started raining hard we'd be toast . . .

and then after an hour or so of wondering what the hell i was doing here and wanting to just pack up and leave i saw some sky through the thick gray air and realized the wind was dying down and decided i'd try to make my porta-potty run . . .

and on the way the whiteout ended and just as i passed 10:00 that magnificent double rainbow formed over the open playa, framing the black-blue storm that had just past over us, and the sky looked so deep and huge and beautiful and some camp started blasting that "bittersweet symphony" song which i'm not particularly crazy about but it was so perfect at that moment, and that storm & following rainbow struck me as a potent metaphor for so much in my own life, a reminder that i'm capable of so much more than i ever give myself credit for, a reminder that i'm here and that it's good thing to be here, and the song was just blasting out into the infinite sky, carrying my emotions with it, and the tears came i and i just fell to my knees and wept in front of this most majestic and graceful and powerful gift of storm & rainbow . . .

and when the rainbow started to fade i got up and walked a little ways and a woman stopped me and asked me: "did you just see your reflection?" and pointed to what remained of the rainbow, and her words touched me almost as much as the rainbow itself, i was speechless, i just bowed to her and smiled the most deep and genuine smile i've smiled in forever . . .

and i knew i was home and there was no other place in the world i would have rather been.

thank you storm, rainbow, dust, woman who spoke to me, & all the people who made my burn such a powerful and healing experience. i just got back and miss you terribly. the memory of you & this burn is a jewel in my heart.

MyTentBlewAway · Post by **MyTentBlewAway** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:04 pm

Did it look like this?

<a href=http://www.wolfsmithmedia.com/images/bu ... RAINBOW</a>

[img]http://www.wolfsmithmedia.com/images/bu ... ainbow.jpg[/img]

Does anyone want to PM me on how to post an image or create a link? Thanks

treepour · Post by **treepour** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:16 pm

oh yeah, that's it! great image, thanks!

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:26 pm

I biked out to the temple in the dust storm thinking that the wedding I was there to perform would be called off. But bride and groom were there just as the dust cleared and a shaft of light came down through the temple and lighted their vows. Then, just as I pronounced them, the rainbows appeared with a very light sprinkle of cool raindrops, framing the temple from behind.

I don't think I have ever been as moved at Burning man as I was then. It still gives me goosebumps when I think about it.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:15 pm

It was beautiful. I didn't even know they were possible. So many things about my burn will be with me the rest of my life. The double rainbow was so great to share with my fellow fuckos. I am so glad I was able to watch it.

Smudge · Post by **Smudge** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:00 pm

do you know where you were?
Do you really know where you are?
do you know where you are going?

they are all the same

I can whine as well as anyone how the scene has changed, but the pure power of the playa, and the pure power of ?50?,000,000 human souls and 50,000,000 guardian angels working together on egoic tabla rassa is a force beyond what the Org can hope to plan, what a thousand pictures each worth a thousand words can explain, or what the same # of human hearts can hope to contain.

So bring it home.
Pay it forward.
Live your dream every day.

"talk is cheap"--

Lukky · Post by **Lukky** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:06 pm

It's pretty funny.

This time was my first at burning man and during the rain/dust storm I was hunker'd down inside of the booby bar. When it was over everyone ran outside screaming about the rainbows.

At the point a friend of mine turned to me and said "It's like the f*ckin' bat signal to these hippies."

Well, I thought it was funny.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:28 pm

Lukky wrote:It's pretty funny.

This time was my first at burning man and during the rain/dust storm I was hunker'd down inside of the booby bar. When it was over everyone ran outside screaming about the rainbows.

At the point a friend of mine turned to me and said "It's like the f*ckin' bat signal to these hippies."
Well, I thought it was funny.

Yes Lukky... Very Funny......

Post by **Eric** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:49 pm

Lukky wrote:At the point a friend of mine turned to me and said "It's like the f*ckin' bat signal to these hippies."

Actually, that's really funny.

Me like.

Ebenezer Squeezer · Post by **Ebenezer Squeezer** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:38 pm

Thanks, that's a lovely photo!

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:14 am

Best Rainbow Ever!
I had forgotten what the rain feels like on my naked skin.
It's cold!

Playa_Nexus · Post by **Playa_Nexus** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:08 pm

A man, his bike and a mad dash accross the Playa in order to flop down and capture a fleeting moment in time. Enjoy!

Paperpotamus · Post by **Paperpotamus** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:57 pm

The double rainbow was amazing!!! I think my heart skipped a beat and I got a tear in my eye it was so perfect.

somekind · Post by **somekind** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:28 am

Playa_Nexus wrote:A man, his bike and a mad dash accross the Playa in order to flop down and capture a fleeting moment in time. Enjoy! :D

Great shot!!

Here's another, taken at the deep end:

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:31 pm

WOW thee DOUBLE RAINBOW was amazing....your tales and the pic of the temple made me cry-I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH-

carnivillain · Post by **carnivillain** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:15 pm

Over the Red Nose District:

http://flickr.com/photos/carnivillain
http://theblight.net/news/

ALICEtheGOON · Post by **ALICEtheGOON** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:22 pm

that rainbow tripped me out .

coolest thing ever.

ALICE

EB · Post by EB » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:42 pm

carnivillain wrote:Over the Red Nose District:

Great shot!

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:12 pm

treepour wrote:a woman stopped me and asked me: "did you just see your reflection?" and pointed to what remained of the rainbow, and her words touched me almost as much as the rainbow itself, i was speechless, i just bowed to her and smiled the most deep and genuine smile i've smiled in forever . . .

That's beautiful treepour.

Lukky wrote:... a friend of mine turned to me and said "It's like the f*ckin' bat signal to these hippies."

That sounds like that asshole Jub Jub. God I love that guy.

SO, I have yet to see in photos what I saw with my eyes - a second set of lines below the lowest bow. It was ROYGBIVROYGBIV. Anybody else get that?

HERE! Just found a shot.

Look in the upper right corner. Never seen that before ...

bigbluedoggy · Post by **bigbluedoggy** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:19 pm

At its most vivid, I counted 4 full sets of color bands in the lower rainbow, and got my fellow campers to confirm they saw them too! I didn't use my camera for much this year except archiving our camp. I didn't want to be like a tourist shoving it in people's unwilling faces. And given the thousands of images already up on flickr, I figure any pics I took would have paled in comparison anyway!

Woof!

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:52 pm

BigCock wrote: SO, I have yet to see in photos what I saw with my eyes - a second set of lines below the lowest bow. It was ROYGBIVROYGBIV. Anybody else get that?

Kerri-Anne kept telling me she saw 3 sets of rainbows, but when I described what you are showing (which I saw) she said no, that she saw a fainter bow outside the farthest. Still, we could have been talking about the same thing.

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:50 pm

BigCock wrote:SO, I have yet to see in photos what I saw with my eyes - a second set of lines below the lowest bow. It was ROYGBIVROYGBIV. Anybody else get that?

I saw exactly what you are talking about. Not a distinct third rainbow by any means, but the bottom rainbow was double thickness! it was beautiful...i'm gonna look at my pictures to see if i captured the thick rainbow.

ALICEtheGOON · Post by **ALICEtheGOON** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:29 am

awesome pics

thx guys

can send to me family

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:34 am

space monk · Post by **space monk** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:38 am

why all the hippy hate at BRC?
what is a hippy anyway?

some guy said: "rainbows are like the fuckin bat-signal for hippies."

what?

even to the visagoths (if they were awake) those rainbows were pure magick. a divine sign. we're all in this together. light/dark/grey/green/purple/orange/red.....

P-funk · Post by **P-funk** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:06 pm

I saw the double-thick rainbow too.
It looked like this:

(pic from the Wikipedia article on rainbows)

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:02 pm

I saw the double rainbow on the bottom rainbow also!!!

Jordan 10-E · Post by **Jordan 10-E** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:12 pm

That Double Rainbow was about as perfect as any could ever be. What a blessing.

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:44 pm

indeed, i can see the second rainbow of the double-thick rainbow (very very faint) when i zoom on my hi-res photos. cool

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:07 am

lot of photos of the BM rainbow here:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=burning ... nbow&w=all

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