Next year's theme

[Fire_Moose]

is


Metropolis - The Life of Cities

[Nitevenus]

I saw that too, in the Reno Gazette Journal interview. Metropolis ....for some reason conjures up images of Batman. Listening to all monkey themed songs on BMIR.fm today. Goodness, from monkeys to bats..... ha ha

[Fire_Moose]

batman lives in Gotham. Superman is in metropolis....at least your in a DC vein

[chiefdanfox]

or maybe something more like the 1927 Fritz Lang movie. The world divided between the workers and the thinkers. (doers and the spectators? me being one of the ultimate spectators this year! Couch Spectato.)

[Virginburner15]

:D Sweet! I already have an idea...

[SageV]

At least its a theme we can work with, unlike "Hope and Fear" or "Beyond Belief." WTF were they smoking those years?

[K-mom]

swwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Been off of ePlaya and out of the Burning world since '06, but have been keeping an eye out for the 2010 theme announcement since I plan to make my return next year.

Now, the planning begins ........

[Orchid]

I love the theme - and I'm with Dan Fox - I immediately thought of Fritz Lang. I'm imagining a lot of art deco futuristic awesomness and robots. This will be a good one.

[Desert Dove]

or maybe something more like the 1927 Fritz Lang movie. The world divided between the workers and the thinkers. (doers and the spectators? me being one of the ultimate spectators this year! Couch Spectato.)

Oh, yeah..... that's the ticket! Fruitz Lang!

[Virginburner15]

Unfortunately it turns out I can not go next year, and I already had a good idea for a art piece... anyhow if any of y'all want to do it for me, that will make my life.

The Idea is to have a regular light post, with speakers in the base. By day the speakers will blast sounds that would be found in any city. Yet at night the light turns on, and will smoothly change colors, meanwhile techno/electronic/dance music will be playing. It represents how Burning Man is a city, yet has a unique experience that can be found nowhere else.

[smohq]

That is a beautiful idea, Virginburner15! I hope someone can take that concept and bring it to fruition. And if someone does, I hope to run across it next year.

[unjonharley]

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The MV Unjon Dear tractor could not get to the burn this year..

But a "Smallville" unfarmer and unjon dear tractor will be on the streets of Metropolis aka BRC.

[Joshatdot]

or maybe something more like the 1927 Fritz Lang movie. The world divided between the workers and the thinkers. (doers and the spectators? me being one of the ultimate spectators this year! Couch Spectato.)

Same here...but I also thought if the Anime of the same title.

anywho, this pic with a BM effigy photoshopped in it would be cool..I would try..but I need to decompress

[SageV]

Perhaps an art installation where people have to turn huge gears to actuate sound and light, like some artifact out of the gernsback continuum.

[shroom]

Next year will be my first burn. I thought of Batman & robots when I heard the theme. It will be interesting I'm sure.

[Oldguy]

Retro-futurism...I hope the rocket returns. Machinemenshe (sp) families. Smallville and superheros. Artdeco and rocketmen. Monorail ride, electric vehicles. Futurerama. Startrek,statrwars,new generation, conventionistas. Lectures on urban planning, new technology, infrastruture renewal, etc...Post-apocalyptical / roadwarrior villages. Issac Asimov and other sci-fi readings, movies, theater. Music. Many ideas are boiling in my head.

We have aluminum can recycling. Can paper and plastic bottle recycling be done next year? Trash containers would eliminate roadside mess at Exodus. I read in the Reno paper where that city is bearing the cost of garbage handling. Perhaps we can throw some bones toward a Washoe County waste removal company along with the porto-potty folks? We contract out leos, why not trashmen?

[brcprincess]

Cool theme.

[unjonharley]

A retro 20's facade on my shade structure..

[Simon of the Playa]

a melting pot. a mixture. an organism that houses other organisms. a golden age of community.


or the tower of babble....



great theme.

[Fire_Moose]

I heard DPW is gonna be building an entire city for next years theme!

[unjonharley]

I heard DPW is gonna be building an entire city for next years theme!

huh?

[ygmir]

will we see the de-sodomization of Gomorrah?

[Ugly Dougly]

Civilization? I have heard of it.

[Simon of the Playa]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cKpQ4wyqJQ[/youtube]

[oscillator]

All your City Lies in Dust, My Friend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMagNuhLkk[/youtube]

[Roberto Dobbisano]

actually, it's a typo....the theme is METROPLEX.

yes, this year all theme camps and villages will be located under one roof, in a giant METROPLEX where everyone will be near the food court, and all camps will be newly fitted with cup holders and surround sound for enhanced spectapatory pleasure.

a miniature esplanade and electric golf-art-carts will replace the old, dusty, expanse of playa with a carpeted, comfy, clean, easy to manage Black Rock Mall complete with taxis that go beep beep beep as you transport your luggage from the shuttle to your tent condos.

METROPLEX.....something for everyone, in a diluted, lowest common denominator kind of way.

METROPLEX.....think downtown INDOOR Reno, but with no meth-heads asking for money.

METROPLEX.....now in I-Max 3D.

[ygmir]

and, hopefully, finally, us Metrosexuals will have a home...............

[Ugly Dougly]

Prediction: Theme camps will become miniature cities, and the costume de rigeur will be either Robot Maria or Doktor Rotwang. (Stifles a yawn.)

"We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it. The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many - BABEL! BABEL! BABEL! - Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart.

[NyxyNox]

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the 2010 theme was Irving Norman's Dark Metropolis collection. I live in Sac-of-Tomatoes (That's Sacramento) and we are blessed with an original piece of his at the Crocker Art Museum.

It is like HR Gieger meets Bosch in the Jazz Age. His painting have inspired many art project ideas for next year. Enjoy...

[Sail Man]

and, hopefully, finally, us Metrosexuals will have a home...............

Hmmm, must buy new Man bag and finish the wax job