Burning Man 2011 Resource Guide — Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3 of the Burning Man 2011 Resource Guide. Start with part 1
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Burning Man 2011 Resource Guide — Part 1 of 3
Every year Burning Man puts out a guide for buying supplies and such. This year’s list is pretty darn huge so I’ve split it into 3 parts. Here you go! You can find the original listing here.
Be sure to check out the 2010 guide.
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FLG BBQ June 4th
The Flaming Lotus Girls BBQ Shindig
World-renowned fire art sculpture mavens the Flaming Lotus Girls are pleased to announce an afternoon & evening of art, music, and fun to unveil the design for their newest piece, Tympani Lambada! Come heat up the summer with the Flaming Lotus Girls, SATURDAY JUNE 4th, at The Box Shop, 951 Hudson Avenue, SF, 3:00 pm — 10:00 pm.
Check out where the Flaming Lotus Girls work, play and make hot metal magic come to life! See the latest plans for FLG’s grand new sculpture, Tympani Lambada, headed out to Burning Man 2011.
The women and men who brought you Serpent Mother, Mutopia, Soma, and many other breathtaking works warmly invite you to join them for a BBQ Shindig to help us complete our grandest sculpture yet. Every donation supports the creation of stunning fire art and helps this female-driven group continue their tradition of innovation and inclusiveness.
Enjoy tasty sizzling bites from Catherine and Rosa Anna, DJs Smoove (NewsBreakz) and others, and, of course, some fire art!
Best of all — the evening is open to one and all, with no cover charge! Yes, that’s right. It’s absolutely FREE, and we want YOU to come.
Hang with the artists, pick up some classic FLG schwag, treat yourself to some savory food and dance the night away to some of the Bay Area’s preeminent DJs. You’ll have a fabulous time with the pleasure of knowing you’re supporting unique and extraordinary art.
The Flaming Lotus Girls BBQ Shindig
Saturday, June 4, 2011
3:00 pm to 10:00 pm
The Box Shop, 951 Hudson Avenue in San Francisco
Free to attend (donations encouraged)
More information: www.flaminglotus.com
BBQ Magic by FLGs Catherine & Rosa Anna
Sonic backdrop by:
DJ Smoove (NewsBreakz), and others
Show your support for local artists! Your generosity will help us raise essential funds required to see this monumental work come to fruition.
With love and lipstick kisses,
Flaming Lotus Girls
Creating Reuben Margolin’s Nebula – Part 2
Here is video part 2 of 4 showing Reuben Margolin’s Nebula.
Wherein there is much talk of how to actually ship and put together 12 tons of kinetic art. Having built big art, I can say that this is a very real depiction of what goes on.
Reuben Margolin’s Nebula video – part 2
Go back and see part 1.
Photojournal: Still Not Sketchy
Here’s one more photo for the journal. This is from last night’s Electronic Controlled Flame Effects class. That’s my hand holding the cutest little double-poofer you ever did see. This was terrific proof to the students that a 1lb cylinder produces just as powerful a poof as a larger one, just not for as many times before freezing up and/or running out of gas.
It made a fireball that by gum nearly touched the 30 foot high ceiling! It would be more accurate to call it a fire “jet” owing to the 1/8″ nozzle on the pipes.
Flame effects at work
Please note that the man’s head obscured by the fireball was not, in fact blown off by the force of the blast.
Photojournal: Not Sketchy at All
Here’s some photos from recent travels. Click to enlarge! Better yet, mouseover each image briefly to preload, then click when you want to view.
Creative forklifting at NIMBY. Not sketchy at all.
Brunch in Alameda. Quite a nice spread!
Charlotte brings my touchstone, Joe's O's in her new measlecar
Look at the name of the school. Just look at it! Yes, this is a real school in Alameda.
Erika straps in to receive an automated randomized religion reassignment tattoo at the amazing ArtPadSF event at the Phoenix Hotel
Tada! Now she's a Jew!
Building a new poofer at Center Hardware!
Building the poofer in Electronic Controlled Flame Effects class!
An aerial performance at the NIMBY BBQ!
I've got a bad cold. Aunt Dorothy's caps will help make me better!
Happily, I got over the cold.
Swing higher and higher … right back to childhood
A couple weeks ago I went to Paolo Salvagione’s closing event of his “Competitive Swinging”. It was great fun*. A reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Sarah Adler was there and interviewed me :-)
Here are bits of the article archived locally
Sarah Adler took some nice photos of us on the swings. Thanks Sarah!
Former artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, conceptual artist and sculptor Paolo Salvagione was invited back in April to activate the gymnasium space. Calling it “Competitive Swinging,” he created a sculpture for the old military barrack by utilizing the existing ceiling hardware once used to hang climbing rope for military exercises. He combined that with the basketball court’s geometric grid to hang and linearly place 10 swings (five on each side).
Recalling the squeaky swing set of his childhood, Salvagione designed the swings to avoid any audible reference; rather, participants swing in silence, feeling the breeze off the Marin Headlands.
On the last day of its installation, folks gathered to swing as pendulums and relive the playfulness of their own childhood swing sets.
– Sarah Adler, sadler@sfchronicle.com
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David Calkins, 43
Profession: Robot builder
Neighborhood: Mill Valley
When was the last time you were on a swing?
A few weeks ago because Emma (his 2 1/2-year-old daughter with him at the gymnasium) loves to play on the swings.
What is your first swinging memory?
In the park by my grandma’s house growing up. There was a set of swings with big tall metal posts – you could get really high up.
How do you feel when you are swinging on a swing?
You get that almost flying sensation. But it’s hard if you don’t swing on a regular basis; you’re surprised by how many muscles you don’t normally use.
Other favorite piece of playground equipment?
My favorite is whatever Emma’s favorite is. Right now, she likes big slides. (Danger is her middle name.)
Lee Sonko, 41
Profession: Teacher and artist
Neighborhood: Mission
When was the last time you were on a swing?
Three or four years ago in the middle of the night. Before that it was 25 years.
What is your first swinging memory?
In my West Milford, N.J., elementary school playground. We had a giant swing set.
How do you feel when you are swinging on a swing?
A little dizzy. A lot free. A little in control. A little out of control. Ridiculously silly.
Other favorite piece of playground equipment?
There was this spinning table thing; sort of a merry-go-round. It was a 4-foot circular table that you spun around and it always felt really dangerous to be on that because you’d spin so fast and then fly off into the mulch.
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*except for the great/crashed OKCupid date, but I digress
And I have to say thank you to to Simone Davalos of Suicidebots et all for posting the event to Squidlist. It was just my kind of event :-). Paolo and Jennifer are terrific.
No Limits
There are no limits to what you can accomplish when you are supposed to be doing something else.
– Words to live by – stolen from Someecards.com when I should have been working on something else.
Things to do in the Bay Area
Here’s my current go-to list of finding fun activities in the Bay Area.
- Squidlist
- SF FunCheap
- ZVents
- BACDS — The Bay Area Country Dance Society Website
- The Starry Plough Pub and Nightclub
- Events | Books Inc. – The West’s Oldest Independent Bookseller
- Events | Viracocha SF
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- SOMArts – Calendar
- HappyCortex – Event Listings – Home
- Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
- SFGate Entertainment