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Album:2018:08-20 Burning Man
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My camp for many years, Tango'd Up In Blues, imploded the way that only Burning Man camps can,
after we found out that the current leader, Sam Wolanyk, had been embezzling about half of the
camp dues to the tune of over $20k when he decided to convert our family into a "business",
something that you're not supposed to do at Burning Man. Furthermore he kind of forgot to tell
us that we'd become volunteer employees for his business. His excuse? "You didn't ask"
Suffice it to say he isn't camping with our group anymore. So we started over and
created the magnificent Partner Dance Adventures! I took over as "head" lead (not the
camp lead, but the lead in charge of brain things) and completely redesigned the entire
camp from scratch. We worked hard and it went well.
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Driving the bus
on to playa
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The big empty,
waiting to be filled.
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Build begins
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..aided by bicycle blender
made smoothie delivery, courtesy Drew/Alex
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Shade is up,
sun is down
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I spearhead getting a trailer,
and then get a hair up my butt and decide we need to install wood floors in the kitchen area.
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I get a VIP pass!
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The steam yurt and cool yurt
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Dinner line
through the trailer kitchen
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Build finishing up
[Video, 8.1M]
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Pan of our main floor
under construction
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Putting up the last letters
during a storm
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Celebratory dance!
Build is basically done, though the shade is dropped currently because of wind
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My awesome build crew,
job done!
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Lighting our beautiful sign
for the first time. [Video, 17.6M]
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Camp Lead Laura,
on shoulders of Head Lead Dave and Camp Founder(ish) Ted
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With the sign lead,
Prettytron
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And our Robot Love Booth
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Our beautiful town
at night
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The Hendersons show up
to our opening block party
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Dancing with Haley and Alder
[Video, 19.9M]
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Charlie and Dave,
finally free to go out on the town
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Charlie swoops around
the esplanade [Video, 10.6M]
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Car-B-Q
The first time in all my years of foolish bravery that I turned back. It was not built well, and we were lucky nobody died on it. Pieces of car were flexing until they were going to break, without proper structure to hold them in place. I've been/almost been amusingly injured many times on bad structures on playa, but this was the first one to scare me.
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Eventually the city was smart enough
to shut it down. It was beautiful though.
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Charlie in a house.
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Amazing Polar Bear,
made from car pieces
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Like Penny Bear,
big metal bears always win our heart.
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Creepy massive Russian dolls
[Video, 10.3M]
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Russian dolls
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These cars are just gorgeous.
Period.
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Zoom goes Charlie!
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A massive fake camera with fire flash
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Takes pretty good photos!
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From bus roof,
looking at our town. Cozy nook on the left, dance floor past that, and dining room straight ahead (and empty)
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The town in the distance
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Inside Baba Yaga's hut,
which was dark but beautiful
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We hit the town
with the Hendersons
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HaleyMo!
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Always a fun time
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Outside a forest of lights.
I think Alder was sleeping in the bike trailer.
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We climbed a thing.
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[Video, 9.3M]
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There were two trains
that were supposed to have an amazing collision/burn [Video, 8.2M]
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After an hour of slowly moving
towards each other. Poof. [Video, 18.6M]
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Burning train
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Baba Yaga's hut,
with the mobile moon overhead.
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Fantastic warrior sculpture
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And a beautiful couple
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Drones in the sky,
launched at the same time and exhibiting AI flocking behavior. [Video, 42.1M]
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Going in for a landing.
Well orchestrated. [Video, 12.2M]
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Fire ceiling.
I'll never tire of you.
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Just about one of the best things,
this time as part of a dance camp [Video, 16.6M]
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So beautiful
[Video, 8.4M]
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Time for the man burn
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First the fireworks
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..and he burns..
[Video, 18.6M]
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The Man burns
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At the burn
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In the circle
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Happy ogre.
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YUM.
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I get another hair up my butt
and decide to build out the kitchen, adding a bunch of shelves and blocking in the fridges.
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Showing off the kitchen
[Video, 10.3M]
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Galaxia Temple burning
by Arthur Mamou-Mani and the Temple Crew, photo by @johncurley
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