Pinhole Camera Project at Burning Man

Yet more photography of interest at this event .......

These folks at http://www.pinholecamp.org/ have produced some interesting work, that is deserving of a look. Check out their gallery at: http://www.pinholecamp.org/gallery.html where they display work form the 1999, 2000, 2001 &2002 events.

and, they have produced some plans of the device. Here is their constuction description in .pdf form at: http://www.pinholecamp.org/camera/camera.pdf

Burning Man 2002 - Webcast from Black Rock City
The Burning Man 2002 Webcast is (supposed to be) available at the following URL:
http://dogme.burningman.com/webcast/

'Direct Link' to stream, using QuickTime.
rtsp://steam.burningman.com/live.sdp

QuickTime Player is required. Have yet to have it connect (keep getting server not found errors or, the latest RealPlayer wants to try to play it.)

Wot Free Festivals? A further rant, from Tash
Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc. A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like....

Bring what you expect to find?
If no you, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?

In sum, this means self-reliance. It means gigs are ALWAYS better, when people attending don't just attend , but are a main part of the act. It is obvious to all those there, when this magic happens.
This is actually where I came in. 1972 Windsor, Stonehenge etc..... These were my motives then and remain so now.
Of course the authorities have difficulty with a system that means they are not in sole charge, hence all the law and violence since the Beanfield etc......
Over time, I have been involved I raising awareness about the law changes and their implications to us all.

· Public Order Act 1986
· Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
· Noise Act
· Barry Legg MP: Places of Entertainments (Increased Penalty) Act
· Security Services Act

And now all the Acts that have been going through parliament - with the words:
"conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose" being a new definition of serious crime!!!
With the new definition of serious crime, that enable the use of some 'heavier' police departments to be applied against us. And will be the end of all the RTS and similar gigs.
Shame eh?
Now, in 'rave mode', I have spent time with the Velvet Revolution and All Systems gigs, I had written 'Sound Advice' and the 'Right to Party' - to try and raise these matters in peoples minds.
Well, we have lost each of the matters I'm on about here. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in!

What I am absolutely positive about though, is that people involved in the scene,

DID NOT DO ENOUGH ABOUT ANY OF IT AS IT HAPPENED AND NOW IS STILL GOING ON.

People have to realise that self-interest and their own immediate happiness ( hedonism?), is not enough to make a festival, party rave, traveller site, gathering.
Important, but not enough.
Some folks on reading this will have been too young, to have had any objection to these changes as they have happened over recent years. But many others of you will have been there, and should have been 'able'.

The way parties are now organised, between those trying to conform with some pretty onerous conditions, (ie half to 2/3 of a ticket price to 'self-police' and pay for your own public order management and drug search.!) and those involved with the 'free' end of things but at continued 'personal' rather than 'sheared' risks.

This division is of course orchestrated by the other side.

This old hippy / raver? Is now of the opinion that folk have now got the party they deserve.
Discuss........

Burning Man Calendar of Events
To remind, the dates are: August 26 - September 2, 2002

This pages, gives an idea of what they're up to on a daily basis:
http://www.burningman.com/calendar/playa/day.php

Time Lapse of the Burning Man Events

A Timewave Panorama of Burning Man 2002 Showing the Rise and Fall of Black Rock City

Folding-Time http://www.folding-time.com/ making preparation for a time-lapse series of photography of the event.

Installation and Technology: Technology Link Burning Man Time Navigators have installed a highly sophisticated yet ruggedized computer controlled, time-lapse photography system to capture the rolling waves of growth and destruction that are the essence of Black Rock City. Four different views capture a significant portion of citizen activity of every hour of every day for up to four weeks.

Folding-Time Video: Once recorded and edited, we will see within one hour the civilization organism emerge, grow and teem with inhabitants, and then disappear without a trace. We will see the sun and the darkness, buildings and events, storms and dust, night lights, fires and The Burn.

Folding-Time will provide spectacular and moving footage for future media use as well as an interactive artistic component that would allow Black Rock citizens the opportunity to interact and participate in Folding-Time.

With the chap doing the panoramas, I think I'm inspired! http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/#80690505

Brad Templeton's Panoramic Photography:

And....... yet more from the Burning Man Festival. While searching around to see how the Americans do it, I came across this mans work.

http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/burn.html

I think that these paroramas of the event are particularly wonderful. All shot from towers, erected for the purpose and using a Canon EOS D30 digital camera.

Completly wicked work!! Here, the chap goes into the technical details: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/about.html

GammaBlaBlog Cyberbuss
Cyberbuss camp will be located at or around 250 Degrees and Abyss.
We plan to set up radio Free Wrybread/Ccyberbuss at 88.3 and play lots of music and noise we plan to introduce the Barnacle - Black rock city's smallest, simplest and laziest art car.
also there will be plenty of Olympic style games and competitions.
For virtual trippers we plan to be in comunicato via satellite phone with gametone who will post a daily C y b e r sAM One Sentence Summary (and maybe a photo or two) at da gammablog.

http://wrybread.com/gammablablog/index.shtml

You are all welcome to join/camp with uss on da buss
KEEP dA FIRE BURNING,
CYBERBUSS.

The Cyberbuss promises to strive daily to uplink the Cyberbuss One-Sentence Burning Man Summary of the Day, to the GammaBlaBlog. They are camped by a lake tonight, and arrive tomorrow. But what's their plan? "No Plan!"

The Cyberbuss goes solar when out on the Playa. They're able to keeps the music, lights and radio broadcasting going, and still leave enough power in the batteries to start up and go home. All without running the engine to charge their bank of ten batteries, like all the RVs do.

Their camp is made from junkyard finds. That's how to do it right, in that harsh alkali lake bed. Anything new you bring to this festival will be old by the time the wind, dust and heat, or mud, rain and cold get to your gear. This way, you bring trash with a little life left to it, use it up completely, and then throw it back where it came from. A fairly benign form of consumerism, I think.

This years participants come from:England, Israel, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, Colorado, Harbin Hot Springs, San Francisco and Point Arena. I've invited them all to send in reports, but will feel lucky if a few KB's makes it to me now and then. The bandwidth and power needed to keep the uplink is precious, and could just as likely be monopolized by some impromptu concert, radio marathon or art event. And really, once you are there, the last thing in the world you want to deal with is the outside world. But you never know.

It was on that crazy Buss for the 2000 Burn. I am hoping that the state of electronic communications is at a point, that a number of people at Bman will be able to email and upload to their websites. But this is just a guess. News out in past years came mostly from commercial sources. I need to search out some sites that might be providing breaking news and photos from the desert. Not that I expect anything earthshaking. This is just for fun.

CYBERBUSS
Cyberbuss will be making its 6th trip to Burning Man this year. It is well rested after a year off last year.

Cyberbuss / Burning Man Shockwave slide show: http://www.cyberbuss.com/cyberwestern/takeaction0.htm

Cyberbuss / Burning Man 2000 Shockwave slide show: http://www.cyberbuss.com/bman00/bman2000.htm

Cyberbuss Photographic Documentary: http://www.cyberbuss.com/bus.htm

There is nothing like being here inside the Blue Burning Ham (CYBERBUSS sister buss), 26 miles from the closest town out in the vast Black Rock Desert with steaming, hot, bubbling geysers just a four minute freezing cold walk away. These geysers blow continuos hot steady streams of steamy water into the cold dry air. The water trickles down natural steps into muddy pools. Day and night us fREaKy, muddy buss people tip toe across frosty rocks and plunge our naked bodies into hot mud baths surrounded by eternal fields of cow dung.



We take cover back in the buss where fantastic meals are cooked to perfection, we shuffle around one table where you can hear the constant clatter of plastic cooking gear and embarrassing old, hard-to-tell stories that stream from us like the hot steamy water spraying from the colorful geysers.

In this clean, simple, pure Nevada environment we live largely. All the luxuries in Reno could not surpass our bussy comforts. The fluid, jazzy sounds of Chet Baker, Stan Getz and anonymous Bossa Nova tapes fill the cozy air.



At night we are greeted by a low rising spooky moon and whimpering, whiny howls of a far off coyote pack. The stars stare down on us in a strong, bright fashion exempt from city haze. Yes its wonderful to be on the buss.
c y b e r sAM

Cyberbuss Desert Panorama :
After leaving San Francisco the Cyberbuss crew camped at a lake overnight before heading over to Burning Man. Here they are in the morning.
http://wrybread.com/gametone/burningman/2000/lake.shtml

On the Cyberbuss :
http://wrybread.com/gametone/burningman/2000/ondabuss.shtml