The Black Rock French Quarter Needs You!!!

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The Black Rock French Quarter Needs You!!!

Post by Lucifer » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:36 am

Its about time my two favorite cities came together, so consider this the first public invite to participate in the Black Rock French Quarter - a collection of camps and experiences, in the spirit of the Big Easy. Each camp will be an intimate group of 20 or fewer people - some already exist and are seeking a few new members - others are being formed from scratch.

The concept revolves around a playa-sturdy, easily-built, and easily-transported two-story structure with balcony, that our engineers are working on as I write this. The plans for manufacturing these structures and customizing them to suit your own tastes will be published, such that new camps that wish to join the French Quarter in the future will be able to manufacture their own buildings that line up seamlessly with the other buildings in the village. Our goal is to bring together the visions of many different groups, to create a thriving center for art, performance, food, and culture, growing and evolving from year to year.

We currently have plans for live jazz, burlesque, a bakery, a coffee house that roasts the beans fresh in the wee hours, an oyster bar, and a gumbo cookery - everything is participatory - you help with the baking and the gumbo if you want to partake. If this sounds like something you or your campmates would like to help create, or if you have ideas or skills to contribute, send me a message now!

:-)

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Post by theCryptofishist » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:41 am

Okay, time for me to do the broken record thing.
Access to the second floor for wheelchairs?
(I don't actually expect it, not with the ephemeral nature of playa buildings, but I will mention it anyway.)
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Post by Bob » Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:05 am

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Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/

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Post by Elderberry » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:02 pm

That's one hell of an art car. So nice of you to offer to bring it for their camp.

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Post by Bob » Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:36 pm

That is not an art car.
Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/

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Post by theCryptofishist » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:29 pm

I pretty much know where that picture was taken.
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First Draft Sketches

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Post by Herring » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:08 am

What a serendipitous coincidence! I was already planning on frying some beignets for breakfast, I'll be sure to bring some over to y'all's camp to share! Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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Post by Ugly Dougly » Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:49 am

Looks ambitious, Luce! How do envision engineering the two-story structures? Have you thought of two camps on opposite sides of the road?
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French Quarter Buildings

Post by Lucifer » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:25 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:Looks ambitious, Luce! How do envision engineering the two-story structures?
I'm currently thinking steel frame with plywood sides and floors, but the engineering discussion has just begin - the goal is to have something as easy to transport, assemble, and disassemble as scaffolding, but more adapted to being a temporary enclosed structure.
Ugly Dougly wrote:Have you thought of two camps on opposite sides of the road?
For the first year it'll just be a village of 6 camps housed in 3 structures. As the village grows and more camps and structures are added, we may split to opposite sides of the road, or just have interior streets...but that level of expansion is MANY years away. Just getting these very first building designed and deployed will be an exciting challenge. :-)

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Post by Lassen Forge » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:03 pm

Hints -

Go to a carnival - yeah, the cheap ones set up in vacant lots and the odd county faire. Look at how the midway game booths are assembled. Use 4x4 dimensional for the legs, 2x6 for upper floor braces, 2x4 for the angle braces to keep everything square. Don't forget to mark what goes where. Held together with *heavy duty* door hinges and clevis pins in place of the hinge pins. Some of these have been around, hell, 70+ years now (I know of one built in 1910 that's still going!) and are still used a lot. In really crummy circumstances, set up and torn down weekly.

It can be done. I built and tested a 2 story structure using that formula (I think it was 8x16) and it held up OK in testing, but my ground crew flaked so it didn't get set up on playa (tho we did use it off-playa for a few gigs - helluva platform!)...

Or you can use scaffolding for the superstructure, sheeted with whatever. That would work, and be strong enough (and a hell of alot easier to build IMO!)...
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French Quarter Website

Post by Lucifer » Sun May 01, 2011 10:41 pm

Still a work in progress, but things are coming together...

http://www.blackrockfrenchquarter.org

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Post by westnileraven » Wed May 04, 2011 8:37 pm

The Big K was an intense rite of passage for me.

These beautiful Facades you will be bringing, can you transport the fencery and suggest the greenery? Can you hide a beautiful, paradisical, spanish style FQ courtyard in there somewhere? I'm so down, you have no idea.
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Post by Minxy » Wed May 04, 2011 9:03 pm

I am so excited about this idea. I LOVE the French Quarter and would love to see a playa version.

I'm excited to help out in the bakery for sure and possibly elsewhere as well. This is such a fabulous idea!!! Thank you!
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Large Buildings on the Playa

Post by SissTeD » Mon May 09, 2011 12:27 pm

We built a structure very similar to the one you describe last year using pallet shelving. You may have seen the U-Paint Gallery at 9:20 and D. We plan on returning this year with the building and storing it long term in a container at Brunos. Our vision is that some day (far in the future) that many of these buildings could be assembled to resemble a real city block. on the playa. I think that bourbon street is as good a block as any to replicate.


Here's a photo of what we did last year. 3 people assembled this building in less than 24 hours. Total weight was right around 7 tons for a 24x23 structure 3 stories high. It was VERY strong and very simple to assemble.

Let me know if you want to know more about it.
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Post by The Hustler » Mon May 09, 2011 1:01 pm

Herring wrote:What a serendipitous coincidence! I was already planning on frying some beignets for breakfast, I'll be sure to bring some over to y'all's camp to share! Laissez les bons temps rouler!
I'm waiting for a beignet trailer in Austin, that would be dope.
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Post by addison4 » Tue May 10, 2011 9:40 am

Ahura Lucifer,
I'll be dressed as Napoleon for 1776 on Monday. Perhaps I can lead some fine Americans to light your quarter up!
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Post by Lucifer » Tue May 10, 2011 10:32 am

addison4 wrote:Ahura Lucifer,
I'll be dressed as Napoleon for 1776 on Monday. Perhaps I can lead some fine Americans to light your quarter up!
Just don't show up as redcoats in the middle of a dust storm, or we'll be forced to drive you back to the Esplanade using long rifles and cannon fire...

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Post by ZeeKitten » Wed May 25, 2011 7:02 pm

I'm a burner from New Orleans, can I send you some Mardi Gras beads or some such to help bring some Crescent City to Black Rock City?? :D
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Post by addison4 » Thu May 26, 2011 2:13 pm

Just like WWII,
the French need our help....

yet again.
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Post by jerroc » Thu May 26, 2011 3:32 pm

I have been looking for a camp to join. Even considering starting one if I could not find something up my ally. I really like the idea of a French Quarter camp. can't wait to check you out.
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Post by theCryptofishist » Thu May 26, 2011 6:31 pm

addison4 wrote:Just like WWII,
the French need our help....

yet again.
Yeah, too bad they never, ever helped us. We have had to go it alone since the revolution.
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Post by Lucifer » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:45 am

Just 12 days left...


...to get your own tribal fleur-de-lis that glows in the dark...
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