Whether you haven’t quite decompressed from the Burn, or perhaps you missed this year’s trek to the desert, there’s one last opportunity to experience a little taste of the playa for 2007. On Saturday October 20th, XEssential presents, “Best of the Burn”- featuring some of the best music and art from Burning Man 2007. Bringing […]
Posted on 13th October 2007, 11:20 pm under
Art
We’ve had a few TV mentions of late :-) Most notably, there’s a piece on Current.TV and this piece on the local news :-) http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=drive_to_discover&id=5584601 Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Richard Hart and his camera man came […]
Posted on 23rd August 2007, 12:13 pm under
Art,
Notable
As a founding member of Low Key Peep Flambe Camp, it is my solemn responsibility to bring in the peeps (someone else handles bringing in the funk). While procuring our comestibles, I came across a most curious product. It is what appears to be a mammoth 2 lb box of Pop Rocks! How could I […]
Posted on 30th July 2007, 06:07 pm under
Art
Though I’m not camping with Illumination Village at Burning Man this year, I am good friends with many people in the camp. Reading this internal announcement, I thought “Wow, that’s pretty cool.”
Posted on 21st July 2007, 01:21 pm under
Art
We just finished running the Serpent at the Fire Arts Festival. It was a blast! Karen’s pix A terrific (47mb) video by Olivier Bonin of the Serpent at the Crucible’s 2007 Fire Arts Festival The thing to watch!! SF Chronicle coverage here and here (article title: “Hot-and-heavy sculpture gets artists warmed up Enormous […]
Posted on 16th July 2007, 10:05 pm under
Art,
Notable
The letter below from Chicken John is being circulated widely. Wide-eyed libertarian tendencies aside, I express skepticism that this situation can be resolved rationally given the part I highlighted below. That’s not to say Jim can’t pull something out of his sleeve. Heck, he’s been doing it for 5 years and rationality doesn’t have to […]
Posted on 15th May 2007, 03:06 pm under
General
I posted this to the FLG Lipstick list today :-) First some good news: SWARM, an offshoot project of FLG is a funded project for Burning Man 2007. The project is coming along very nicely. http://orbswarm.com http://blog.orbswarm.com —————- Terrific news: The Serpent Mother will be going to the Fire Arts Festival in Oakland in July! […]
Posted on 25th April 2007, 01:45 pm under
Art,
Notable
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 […]
Posted on 15th April 2007, 03:13 pm under
Art,
General
Leonardo is the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. It is put out by MIT Press. It isn’t the largest publication, but it is fairly prestigious. The Serpent Mother is going to be on the cover of Volume 40, Number 4, due out in August, 2007. Download large version of […]
Posted on 15th April 2007, 12:36 pm under
Art,
General
Michael Prados, Jonathan Foote and I met with LadyBee and Crimson Rose of Burning Man today. Look what we signed :-) SWARM is a funded art project and I am named as the artist because I’m the money guy.
Posted on 23rd March 2007, 04:08 pm under
General