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Last night I went to the opening of the Ocean Beach Fire Pits. Rbca and Yasi’s fire pit was ready and burning. There was another one there as well. :-) This is a huge thing. Public, utilitarian, (mostly privately) funded art made by my friends :-)

Sorry I don’t have photos but here’s some extra info…

Ocean Beach Fire Pits - Burners without Borders

Last year, the National Park Service almost banned fires on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, due to consistent problems with trash and debris. Since then they have received thousands of letter and are considering designs for permanent fire pits to be installed April 14.

But just making the designs isn’t enough–we need your help! Namely, we need to raise money to pay for this art. Although the Park Service could only offer $3,000 for the project, we’ve already been able to raise $27,000 of the $42,000 needed.

What you can do: check out these designs, and then go to our donate page and make a contribution. You can contribute directly to BWB via PayPal

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This in from BMORG. Every one of these projects is worthy of appreciation.

We’ve just completed our biggest and most challenging grant cycle yet, with 240 proposals to review, up from 170 last year - a 35% increase.
The competition was intense, and our community has generated more intriguing projects than ever before.

We’ve awarded 30 grants for playa installations. We thank everyone for your interesting ideas, your creativity and your energy - and we look forward to another year of amazing art on the playa. Grant committee members are: Larry Harvey, LadyBee, Crimson Rose, Beth “Bettie June”
Scarborough, and Mark Van Proyen.

Please note that additional grants are being given for projects in the Pavilion and the ManGrove that surrounds the Man, and those will be announced in the near future.

The funded projects are:

Acavallo: Quill Hyde of Brooklyn, NY
http://www.acavallo.org
Note: Acavallo is a mobile venue for acoustic music and performance on the playa. If you want to perform, please contact Quill via his website.

Ant Mischief by Ben Shearn and Tim Kirwan of Colorado Springs, CO http://shearn.net/ant/ant.html

Apocalypse Stagecoach by the Ren Jinn Bao Puppet Theater of Thailand, Mexico, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Bay Area http://www.apocalypsestagecoach.com/

Big Rig Jig by Mike Ross of Brooklyn, NY http://www.bigrigjig.com

Black Rock Glacier by Ehron Asher of Centennial, Colorado http://www.serendipityarts.com

Burninator X by Bill Codding of San Francisco, CA http://www.4bc.org/burninator/burninator_x.html

Celtic Forest by Laura Kimpton, Bob Hofmann and Jeff Schomberg, Bay Area http://www.celticforest.net

Cone by Hans Sachs and Manuel Kretzer of Karlsruhe,Germany http://www.burning-man.eu
Note: These German architecture students are looking for a few American crew members. Please contact them via their website.

Cornucopic Contraptions by Charlie Smith and Jaime Ladet of Atlanta, GA http://www.howhowhow.com/contraptionsburn07.html

Crude Awakening by Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito, Black Rock FX, Mark Perez, Pyrokinetics, Nate Smith and MonkeyBoy, Bay Area http://www.headlesspoint.com/crude_awakening/

Cubatron Cone by Mark Lottor of Menlo Park, CA http://nw.com/nw/projects/cone/

Dragon Smelter by Dan Macciarini of San Francisco, CA The Dragon will again turn aluminum cans into art:
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/2006/06_art_funded.html#dragon

Green Glass Man by Rodman Miller and Gina Karaba of Seattle, WA http://theamazingmillers.com/greenglassman2007.html

Green Shoes by Dadoc of Oakland, CA
http://www.dr-seano.com/greenshoes

Guardian of Eden by Kate Raudenbush of New York, NY http://www.kateraudenbush.com/ click on New: Guardian of Eden

Fata Morgana by Orion Fredericks of Oakland, CA http://www.orionfredericks.net/newsFataMorgana.htm

Homouroboros by Peter Hudson of San Francisco, CA http://www.hudzo.com/homouroboros
(NOTE: link is direct to a PDF download. While he did receive a grant, Peter still seeks help to complete the project - check out the PDF or contact peter isat hudzo.com)

Kinetic Steam Works by KSW of Oakland, CA http://www.kineticsteamworks.org/KSWBMGRANT07/

Koilos by Michael Christian of Berkeley, CA http://xianspace.com/bm2007/

Mechabolic: Cyborg Speculations in Machine Metabolism by Jim Mason, Chicken John, Dann Davis and Michael Christian http://www.whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/index.html

Museum de Materiel Retrouve by Trieops Treyfid of Los Angeles, CA
http://treiops.com/bm2007

NeverWas Haul by Shannon O’Hare and Kathy Tucker of Orinda, CA http://www.xlounge.com/neverwas/neverwas_proposal.html

Samhein: Into Her Dreaming by Paul Bagley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma http://web.mac.com/paulbagley/iWeb/site/Welcome.html

Steampunk TreeHouse by Sean Orlando of Oakland, CA
http://www.infinityeight.net/TREEHOUSE07

Swarm by Michael Prados of San Francisco, CA http://www.orbswarm.com

Tall Grass by Glenn Easley of Vashon, Washington http://tall.grass.spire.googlepages.com/

Tasseograph: The Trash TeaHouse Temple by Shrine and TukTuk of Pasadena CA and Portland, Oregon http://pdxdiversion.org/tasseograph.html

Temple of Forgiveness by David Best & Tim Dawson, Petaluma and Stinson Beach, CA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thetemplecrew

U-ME by Rex Norman and Damian Janssen of Carson City and Sparks, Nevada http://www.MutantVehicle.com/u-me.htm

We got the news today from Ladybee at Burning Man HQ. Yowie zowie, now we’ve got to build the crazy things!!!

Check it out. We’re going to make these:

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I posted this recently to the FLG Lipstick List and FLG blog.

Girl we’re busy! Here’s a lot of the work we’ve sunk our teeth into. A lot of what’s below is still tentative but you still deserve to know about it!

A Spring Fundraiser - We’re working on having a party sometime soon.

Calendar: at the Fundraiser, you’ll finally get to see the FLG Calendar. Here’s a little taste… http://lee.org/temp/calendar-sample.jpg

Stanford Class - Some time in April we’ll be speaking to a group from a class at Stanford.. (http://stanford.edu/~rcarr/bayart)

Yuri’s Night - We might have some flaming art at Yuri’s Night (http://www.yurisnight.net/2007/) on April 13th (not confirmed yet)

Arts on Fire - We’ll likely have some more flaming art at Arts on Fire in Pacifica at the end of April

Coachella - More with the flaming art (do you sense a pattern?) at Coachella on April 27th (http://www.coachella.com/) also not totally confirmed but whew!

Maker Faire - We’ll probably have a booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo May 19-20 showing people how to make…. … … what’s the opposite of non-flaming art?

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Then of course there’s the Serpent Mother which should be making an amazing return to the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man 2007! We’ve got such plans for her and her egg!
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More with the unconfirmed dates is a trip to Amsterdam and Robodock at the end of September!!

And lastly, a proposal of ours has made it past the first cut for a grant from the Creative Work Fund (http://www.creativeworkfund.org/)

And the summer hasn’t even started yet.

I’m still working on this a project where I want to find and continue to know the location of 10 robots moving up to 10kph in a field about 100 yards square with 0.2-1.0 meter accuracy. RFID-Radar is -almost- a solution in a box except that it takes many seconds for it to do range-finding.

GPS isn’t accurate enough.

I’m now envisioning 2 sets of antennas using angle of arrival interferometry. I’ve been googling (and the library) my head off and not coming up with too much thus far. Do you know of an interferometry system that might detect 0.1 degree difference or so? I figure that with 2 sets, one on the X plane, one on the Y, we can get an accurate location. I’ll ping the RFID-Radar guy on this but I think he’s focused elsewhere.

I’ve posted this flyer around the interweb…
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You may have heard of us. We’re the Flaming Lotus Girls. We rocked the playa.
and we’re having a little shindig to celebrate!
(It’s also a bit of a fundraiser since we went just a teensy weensy bit
over-budget!)

Here’s a link to the FLG supperclub party flyer.
http://tinyurl.com/rnr4e

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supperclub, Flaming Lotus Girls and Get YER Freak on!
Present
“Return of the Serpent Mother”

Friday Oct 20th, 11pm-3am

at supperclub - 657 Harrison St @ 3rd

in an evening of celebration for the Serpent Mother There will be a photo exhibit of FLG work with silent auction, FLG gear and if you’re lucky, the infamous Flaming Lotus “Kissing Booth”
Part of the Serpent Mother will be there to accompany us throughout the night.

La Salle Neige
M3- Green Gorilla Lounge
Majitope - Flaming Lotus Girls
Laird - LUSH/Get YER Freak on!
Goldilox - Brass Tax/LUSH

Ladies room
Hosted by Sister SF
Amber, Seraphim Delush
Forest Green, Samira
Audio Angel (live vox)

$10-20 donation http://www.flaminglotus.com

for dinner reservations, please call 415-348-0900 or visit http://www.supperclub.com
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images & video!
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22
http://lee.org/blog/2006/10/03/serpent-links/
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film
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Here are a few links to photos of the Serpent Mother. If I missed your link, please leave a comment.

http://flaminglotus.wordpress.com our blog

http://lee.org/pix/serpent-mother-2006/page1.html My own panorama images

http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/ FLG Jess Hobb’s Burning Man 2006 photos
http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/flg/ Jess’ FLG photos

http://homepage.mac.com/red0x/bm06/ photos by Ryan Du Bois

http://waves-of-change.org/Gallery/BM2006 photos by Angela Knowles

http://www.orangecone.com/archives/selfindulgence/ Burning Man 2006 Art Review by Mike Kuniavsky

http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film Videos by FLG Mad Nomad

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/230767953/ the fondest wish of one burner

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search Several Videos on YouTube

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22 500+ photos of the Serpent Mother on Flickr!

Individual Flickr photo pages
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mills42 by FLG Mills
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34483565@N00/236453052/ by ropersf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40512430@N00/236169205 by mack reed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53674854@N00/236548276/ our FLG Marlise!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/almostjaded/236615540/in/photostream/ by AlmostJaded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bm05/236891433 by spacehippymatt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limelike/236649205/ by limelike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mullingitover/234570583/ by mullingitover
http://www.flickr.com/photos/playapollo/ by redmonkredux
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakeme/ by sakeme
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49695992@N00/ by Michelle Palmer ‘In de Skies’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/237497988/in/set-432859/ by loupiote

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mills42/sets/72157594294145867/ ‘Mills’ Caroline Miller - Chicago installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594297908023/ by Lynn - Chicago installation

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==More Text than Images==
http://blog.wired.com/burningman2006/index.album?i=28 WIRED - if you look there are more photos of our snakey than the man burning

http://tinyurl.com/jyxdm 9,000+ Google links to the Serpent Mother

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/PKGP6KEOAM1.DTL&type=art The Serpent Mother was featured prominently in this article: GOING FOR THE BURN by Bill Picture, Sunday, August 20, 2006

http://bm.tribe.net/thread/c04a2214-c577-4f24-a21b-ce9c91375f6b - comments about the Serpent Mother

http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?s=c202fd8971e31e7daee4e7ecbd24aa29&postid=1664954 Copy of Mozes pre-art preview

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More
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60055.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60061.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60053.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594322514892/ from Lynn

http://burningcam.com/2006/photos/large-15.html  BurningCam shots (look at this one and the next couple)

http://www.figureonalandscape.com/mystikalmysfits/vidz/98-06/99carnaarmada/carnaarmada.html

The Serpent Mother is expected to use 3,000 gallons of propane on the playa.

500 gallons per night * 6 nights
We have:
1 250 gallon tank
2 80 gallon tanks
5 25 gallon tanks

(tanks only get filled to 90%)

I’ve been promising I’d show you photos of what I’ve been working on. Here’s a video that shows it off just a bit. This shows off only about 1/7th of the full length of what the sculpture will look like at Burning Man… but it gives you an idea.

Click on “Serpent Mother” in the middle of the screen
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film

(His other videos are pretty cool too)

I haven’t told my readers (ie: you) enough about what’s been going on. Here’s a little personal bit about the Serpent Mother project that you won’t fully understand because I haven’t given you context.

I wrote some stuff to a guy interested in our project and then another guy on our project paraphrased what I wrote with…

Tad wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, lee sonko wrote
> lots of good stuff about the brain part: PD and color sequencing software

“lots of good stuff” Hurray! That sounds like buy-in. :-)