Theme Predictions for 2013

[stephen2u]

he ime hing would be cool, giving we all have he ime in he world.

[clocksnmirrors]

he ime hing would be cool, giving we all have he ime in he world.

has wha i hough oo

[Patamon]

The last remaining obvious theme to me would be one based on Animals, or the Animal Kingdom (or the Flora and Fauna post above).

I'm surprised it still hasn't happened.

Probably won't this year either.

- Patamon

[theCryptofishist]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...

Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

[Jackass]

Trials & Tribulations

[5280MeV]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...

Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

There is also domain, tribe, section, series, variety, form, cohort, branch, legion, morph - nothing beginning with 'A', though. Maybe 'authority' for the name of the scientist who found the species.

Authority
Branch
Class
Domain
Epifamily
Form
Genus
Hyperorder
Infratribe
J - Fuck J
Kingdom
Legion

"Taxonomic Hierarchy" would be a good theme, "Taxidermic Hierarchy" even better.

[ygmir]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...

Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

There is also domain, tribe, section, series, variety, form, cohort, branch, legion, morph - nothing beginning with 'A', though. Maybe 'authority' for the name of the scientist who found the species.

Authority
Branch
Class
Domain
Epifamily
Form
Genus
Hyperorder
Infratribe
J - Fuck J
Kingdom
Legion

"Taxonomic Hierarchy" would be a good theme, "Taxidermic Hierarchy" even better.

I think I came a little...........

[theCryptofishist]

Yeah, my seven are the ones they offer to bright high schoolers, I knew that there was more, but all I knew was stuff like "subclass" and "superfamily".

[BoyScoutGirl]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...

Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

There is also domain, tribe, section, series, variety, form, cohort, branch, legion, morph - nothing beginning with 'A', though. Maybe 'authority' for the name of the scientist who found the species.

Authority
Branch
Class
Domain
Epifamily
Form
Genus
Hyperorder
Infratribe
J - Fuck J
Kingdom
Legion

"Taxonomic Hierarchy" would be a good theme, "Taxidermic Hierarchy" even better.

I think I came a little...........

Ditto.

[International Incident]

I want to do something with the so called "God particle" - but like a "human particle". An theme focussed on what it means to be us, our origins, our base .... nah fuck it that doesn't make any sense.

BM 2013: more fucking wine

[elparu]

time travel would be reaaallly nice.

2013 BM: Bhava

[clocksnmirrors]

bm 2013: malady

anthrax
botulism
cancer
dropsy
ebola
fistula
gonorrhea
hives
indigestion
jock itch
kleinfelter's
leprosy

i'll meet you at 9:30 and gonorrhea... wait. what?

[Turtleburp]

the world has ended many times...



TATTOO

I am the criminal whose chest is tattooed with a poinard above which are graven the words "mort aux bourgeois". Let us each tattoo this on our hearts.
I am the soldier with a red mark on my nakedness-when in a frenzy of love the mark expands to spell Mad Queen. Let us each tattoo our Mad Queen on our heart.
I am the prophet from the land of the Sun whose back is tattooed in the design of a rising sun. Let us each tattoo a rising sun on our heart.

H.G.Crosby 1929

When I get there if no one else has done this except me I will pretend to be really annoyed!!

[Simon of the Playa]

who were you before you were you?

ever feel an affinity for a certain time period, but not sure why?

ever sing along to a song from many years ago, when there is no way for you to have heard it during your current lifetime?

ever feel the chill that runs down your spine when you see someone or someplace you recognize, even though you've "never" been there or met them?

i have.

there are ghosts that haunt us all, there are spirits everywhere, time is malleable, and can be twisted, bent and even folded onto itself.

the Damascus styration of years layered over each other reveals a pattern of steel upon steel, life upon life.

i travel through time every day, my memories provide the vehicle to do so.

Yizkor elohim.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guf


Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most prominent Jewish thinker of his day who was recognized, in the phrase “from Moses unto Moses there was none like Moses,” as the legitimate successor to the medieval Moses Maimonides (1135-1204). At the same time, Mendelssohn was one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the title “the Socrates of Berlin.” His book Phaedon, or the Immortality of the Soul(1767) became the most widely read book of its time.
In 1762, the 33-year old philosopher visited Hamburg. There he met a 24-year old blonde, blue-eyed girl named Fromet Gugenheim, the daughter of a merchant. According to the story handed down in the family, he was much taken with her; and she, of course, knew of his reputation— her father, who was eager for the match, had seen to that. However, when she laid eyes for the first time on his stunted, misshapen figure, she burst into tears. Afterward, Mendelssohn sat down with her alone. “Is it my hump?” he asked. She nodded. “Let me tell you a story, then,” Mendelssohn said. “When a child is born, proclamation is made in heaven of the name of the person that he or she is to marry. When I was born, my future wife was also named, but at the same time it was said that she herself would be humpbacked. ‘O God,’ I said, ‘a deformed girl will become embittered and unhappy. Dear Lord, let me have the hump, and make her fair and beautiful.’” Fromet was touched by the story, and in June 1762, they were married. They had six children and a happy home life with frequent visitors calling upon the renowned philosopher. Their daughters Dorothea and Henrietta led the Women's Lib movement of their day by establishing salons noted for their intellectual— and sometimes amatory— freedom. Their son Abraham was a successful banker and father of Felix Mendelssohn, the composer of the Midsummer Night's Dream, Scotch and Italian Symphonies, Fingal's Cave Overture and the Violin Concerto in E Minor— beautiful romantic music that delights us to this day.

[VultureChow]

"Taxidermic Hierarchy" even better.

And somehow you've stumbled on my art idea for next year. Crochet taxidermy.

2013: Animalia

Aves/Arachnida

Crustacia/Carnivora/Crocodilia/Canidae
Echinoderm
Falconiformes
Insecta


And that's the extent of my high school biology.

[ygmir]

I want to do something with the so called "God particle" - but like a "human particle". An theme focussed on what it means to be us, our origins, our base .... nah fuck it that doesn't make any sense.

BM 2013: more fucking wine

you've got the makings there Mel...........

[Simon of the Playa]

Aeon
Beginning
Chronology
Duration
Eternity
Future
Generation
Hourglass
Instant
Juncture

[Patsh]

Aeon
Beginning
Chronology
Duration
Eternity
Future
Generation
Hourglass
Instant
Juncture

Karma
Life
...

[graidawg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guf


Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most prominent Jewish thinker of his day who was recognized, in the phrase “from Moses unto Moses there was none like Moses,” as the legitimate successor to the medieval Moses Maimonides (1135-1204). At the same time, Mendelssohn was one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the title “the Socrates of Berlin.” His book Phaedon, or the Immortality of the Soul(1767) became the most widely read book of its time.
In 1762, the 33-year old philosopher visited Hamburg. There he met a 24-year old blonde, blue-eyed girl named Fromet Gugenheim, the daughter of a merchant. According to the story handed down in the family, he was much taken with her; and she, of course, knew of his reputation— her father, who was eager for the match, had seen to that. However, when she laid eyes for the first time on his stunted, misshapen figure, she burst into tears. Afterward, Mendelssohn sat down with her alone. “Is it my hump?” he asked. She nodded. “Let me tell you a story, then,” Mendelssohn said. “When a child is born, proclamation is made in heaven of the name of the person that he or she is to marry. When I was born, my future wife was also named, but at the same time it was said that she herself would be humpbacked. ‘O God,’ I said, ‘a deformed girl will become embittered and unhappy. Dear Lord, let me have the hump, and make her fair and beautiful.’” Fromet was touched by the story, and in June 1762, they were married. They had six children and a happy home life with frequent visitors calling upon the renowned philosopher. Their daughters Dorothea and Henrietta led the Women's Lib movement of their day by establishing salons noted for their intellectual— and sometimes amatory— freedom. Their son Abraham was a successful banker and father of Felix Mendelssohn, the composer of the Midsummer Night's Dream, Scotch and Italian Symphonies, Fingal's Cave Overture and the Violin Concerto in E Minor— beautiful romantic music that delights us to this day.

JUST WONDERFUL. +points

[chris2010]

My Burning Man 2013 Theme Prediction is: "GALACTARON"

[Ugly Dougly]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...

Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

Wasn't that Evolution?

[theCryptofishist]

I suppose so...

[Ugly Dougly]

Time Travel seems to be a popular theme.

But if it isn't ambiguous and capable of being interpreted in at least two different ways, the Hat will veto it. You know that.

So I offer:
Burning Man 2013: Now and Then
OR
Burning Man 2013: Eternal Paradox
OR
Burning Man 1864: Safety Not Guaranteed
OR???

[theCryptofishist]

OR???

Fishy doesn't go...


Yeah, still a little drama-prone...

[marck]

The Universal Zoo.

or

Shark Week.

[Sail Man]

BM 2013: Mr Rogers goes to Black Rock City

[VultureChow]

Burning Man 2013: Predator and Prey
Burning Man 2013: Hunting Grounds
Burning Man 2013: Burning Man 2.0 v1.3

[MacGlenver]

I like the time travel idea, though Wikipedia shows the 1999 theme as "Wheel of Time". Too close? Guess if they had Fertility 2.0...

[theCryptofishist]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genera, Species...
Not that they could actually use that as street names. The planets was hard enough.

Wasn't that Evolution?

No, those are the taxons for classifying life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification

Yes, but if you wanted to do something with evolution, it's not a totally wrong fit. The taxons are a sort of "map" of the evolutionary process. Or maybe a "tree" is a better metaphor.