What about time?

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:42 pm

Time the ONLY true constant in the whole universe. As inspired by Salvador Dali the clock explosions and desert theme seem to fit rather well with our burning man setting. Go figure.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:03 pm

Time keeps on slippin' into the future.

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:04 pm

exaclty my freind... burning man comes closer with each pass of the clock.

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:41 pm

Time is variable. Gravity and speed can cause it to pass more quickly in one place than another. Our perception of time varies depending on what we're doing. When we're doing something boring, time passes slowly but we retain little memory of it afterwards. Did time pass more slowly because it felt like that at the time, or more quickly because we didn't form many new memories? When we do something challenging and new, the opposite is true. Time passes quickly, but we gain knowlege and wisdom.

I prefer to measure time by memories. The more I can challenge myself and trigger changes in my brain, the longer I've lived.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:05 pm

the shadowwatch solar system...

how trite

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:39 pm

True, time is only based on location. time if measured in light, say for the stars perhaps. Light from stars is ancient and what we see now may currently not be there. A star may have just exploded now and we wont know it for eons. It is a shame how we cannot make time and its relation with light instaneous.

But what about time is attractive? Is it the fact that it is the one thing that we cannot control? or possibly is it the fact it ALWAYS eludes us and we are just specs passing through its infinite life?

There in lies the Burning Man theme, the theme that will question everyone because it is the ONE thing we all have in common. But how long would it take for everyone to figure out that the theme is something we all have in common? That in itself is a reason for it to be a theme consideration. I hope a MOD sees this post.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:47 pm

existential, rotating absorption...

shall we take the rope for a snake?

perspective disconnect creates impression of 'through' bias 'of'

'of', i am eternal, in whatever sense is relevant

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:59 pm

I hope a MOD sees this post.

Too bad our brave moderators do not have any say about the theme. That, belongs to Larry Harvey. Good luck changing his mind for anything.

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:48 pm

indeed it would be a challenge but who knows? We never expected to get off the ground but then we flew for 122 ft. what do you know.

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:51 pm

BitterDan wrote:Too bad our brave moderators do not have any say about the theme. That, belongs to Larry Harvey. Good luck changing his mind for anything.

Yes - BMORG maintains the servers hosting eplaya, but moderation and other day to day duties are handled by us lowly volunteers. We don't have any more influence in coming up with the theme than any other random burner.

I swear there used to be an "ideas" email address on the main Burning Man website, but I don't see it there. Maybe hunt through the afterburn reports or something.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:49 pm

Yeah, I'm not even in California!

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:50 pm

my head just exploded.

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:51 pm

0versoul wrote:who knows? what do you know.

asset or liability steeped in perceptions of value concieved
can be humored, demurred...
the mind's a seed

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:19 pm

"the mind's a seed" And as we progress along the tree of knowledge time waters the roots of our being, rasing us to a new elevation of thinking with every drink we take. I love the effects of cannabis.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:49 am

the handgun is indifferent to officer or psycho savant

how much more so a green, when it has it's own business to be about

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:32 am

im not even going to get started on the corruption of man...

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:32 am

Is this turning into one of "those" threads again?

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:59 am

It already has Dougly. It already has....

0versoul · Post by **0versoul** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:16 am

Then again what good is a forum if people cant communicate their ideas with other people. Even in the event it turns into some mindless babbling..

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:43 am

as if theres ever been a single coherent collective thought

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:27 pm

speed of light negates earth relative time a short a distance as the sun

where's the durability?

how is it not all in the head?

go head.

teachme

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:03 pm

0versoul wrote:Then again what good is a forum if people cant communicate their ideas with other people. Even in the event it turns into some mindless babbling..

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:54 pm

fuck dali. and I don't mean that in a good way.

I can name a dozen surrealists that were good artists.
Dorothea Tanning
Remedios Varo
Leonora Cunningham
Toyen
Max Ernst
Luis Bunuel
Jean Arp
Lee Miller
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamps
Merit Oppenheim

well, okay, only eleven. I'll stipulate that one or another of the poets is worth reading, but I hate poetry and don't read french or spanish so Artaud and Lorca are right out for me. I don't even know what language Tzara wrote in.

And yet it is that whore Dali, that cold-hearted smug bastard Magritte and that talented but not a patch on five of the six women I just named, but she was oh-so-feminine in her obsessions Kahlo who get all the attention.

Load of Crap!

RedheadBarbie · Post by **RedheadBarbie** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:17 pm

Man Ray? Ergh.

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:40 pm

I think it's important to make a distinction between art and the marketing of art. They're quite different things.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:28 pm

The whole problem with burning man is that every block is in a different time zone.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:09 pm

the solution's not dilution. or is it?