The COG

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:35 pm

Thank you, oh mighty Cog! For keeping Camp Envy so entertained!

I can't wait for 2012!!!!

Tickets, please?!

forty_eight · Post by **forty_eight** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:10 pm

what exactly was the cog?

i thought it was gamer kids trolling on ustream.

Post by **Savannah** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:18 pm

48_love wrote:what exactly was the cog?

i thought it was gamer kids trolling on ustream.

The COG and Burning Man by Michael Holden, on Flickr

forty_eight · Post by **forty_eight** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:35 pm

Ah! That piece was SO cool to watch people interact with ... props to the creators of the COG and to Camp Envy for giving us a peek!

Post by **trilobyte** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:09 pm

It wasn't called The COG…. I believe it was titled Exsuscitare Traiectus, by Orion Fredericks of Oakland, CA. There's a cool making-of video on Orion's site that shows the projects original concepts as well as some of the work that went into building it.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:32 pm

And the Waffle wasn't called the Waffle. Unless you weren't a Belgian.

Post by **Savannah** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:34 pm

If anyone sees a photo of a man standing on top of The Cog/Exsuscitare Traiectus, please let me know. I know someone who scaled it . . . before noticing the large "Please do not climb" sign on the back.

Post by **Eric** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:43 pm

trilobyte wrote:It wasn't called The COG…. I believe it was titled Exsuscitare Traiectus

I only heard it called "the Stargate". Go figure...

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:54 pm

Immense failure of epic proportions.

Post by **trilobyte** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:01 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:And the Waffle wasn't called the Waffle. Unless you weren't a Belgian.

Actually, even the Uchronians (the Belgian crew that built it) called Uchronia 'the Waffle.' Great bunch of people, I think by the time I'd met them (the day before the event opened in 2006) they'd been out in the sun a bit too long (weeks), and they laughingly insisted that they be referred to as 'belgiums' and their structure be known as 'the waffle.' A portion of that team was on the playa in 2011, they built a Uchronian looking mutant vehicle that got torched on either Monday or Tuesday, if I remember correctly.

forty_eight · Post by **forty_eight** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:56 am

It was pretty annnoying in the chat ... endless copy/paste of COG and cog cog cog cog, etc.

It was latched onto and humorous banter was had, but there were people trolling with it over and over disrupting the chat.

Yeah, pretty sure most of the endless cog stuff on the Camp Envy ustream was trolling.

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:27 pm

Yeah, and I'm still trolling. Imagine THAT.

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:35 pm

Those that lack imagination and are unable to contribute to an intelligent conversation were put off by Cog-talk.

forty_eight · Post by **forty_eight** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:56 pm

There was humorous banter which was a great appropriation of what I thought was trolling, but a lot the chat was derailed by it ... especially the copy/paste stuff. That was just my take, though.

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:32 am

The Cog was an icon for those of us in Camp Envy. Those of you that didn't get tickets in the lottery...you will understand someday. I bow down to the Cog!

lemur · Post by **lemur** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:36 am

just imagine how cool it woulda been if it actually WORKED.

*sigh*

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:47 am

We worked it!

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:49 am

What was it supposed to "do" anyway?

lemur · Post by **lemur** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:55 am

spinning jets of fire and (i think, maybe my memory sucks..) water/steam?

OatmealMama · Post by **OatmealMama** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:00 am

Personally, I think that fire/steam/mist/water would have ruined the whole thing.

Heck, if that thing shot water out of its nozzles, we would have seen stinky hippies taking showers in it. Hmm...well, maybe water would have been cool...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:36 pm

lemur wrote:spinning jets of fire and (i think, maybe my memory sucks..) water/steam?

Isn't that how everything on the playa is supposed to work?

forty_eight · Post by **forty_eight** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:16 pm

I found out the name of the game that was getting the kids all hyped about the COG. It's called Gears of War and the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) is a central aspect.

The kids crusing through UStream saw the COG and messaged their freinds. Pretty soon, the chat was full of:

cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog

The COG this and that.

COG!

Was that a Trojan Horse?

COG!

cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog
cog cog cog

A kid even came on there and told everyone that we were being trolled, lol.

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