The Skin Burn 2013

Yesterday was the Skin Burn party held on the playa for all the Burners to get one last hoorah of the man for the year. Just about everyone showed up in only skin after passing through a gate where there was help with removing scripts and excessive prims.

We danced in the fire one last time for 2013.

I never saw these mechanical aliens in the man during the regular running of Burn2.

The Temple Burns Today

Not much time to comment.

The Man Burned Saturday and the Temple Today

These are shots of watching the testing Friday  of some of the pyrotechnics.

These are from the 1st Burn 4 AM SLT. 

These are from the start of  The Temple Burn at 4AM SLT on 10/27 as the messages from the Censor were being read.
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)'( The Man Stood This Week )'(

It was a very busy week on the Playa. There were many changes and new things each day.

 Pygar Bu and his team have done an amazing job on The Man this year. It's such an intricate build and there are plenty of pathways to wander through.

Here's the state of my art build at the beginning of the week. I worked on setting more of the theme out, and giving the space a sense of enclosure and intimacy.  I really wish I was listed as one of the art builds on the burn2 blog page. There's tons of stuff to manage, and the volunteers are doing an amazing job of organizing and running things, I understand errors can be made. I'll send some emails later about the oversight...

Props that depict radical self-reliance were added to my build this week. Solar energy, recycled and filtered shower water, huge jugs of water, and a campfire with never ending coffee were some of the newly built features. RickerR wrote an original poem about John Frum which is in the book on the crate.

Another build I especially like is the live music stage. I can't wait to hear some of my favorite acoustic musicians.  

I also got last weekend my smaller plot. The one I bought with the original sales months ago. The idea is a cornfield where this seemingly prehistoric monolithe circle appears. Archeologists are sent in, and one can search for meaning and a prize. It's more likely you will find the latter.

I hope I did not reveal too much before the official  Press Day of October 17, just enough hopefully to keep up the excitement, :)))

My Build for Burn2, 2013; "Where Are You From? What Gifts Do You Bring?"

Two more weeks and the virtual Playa opens for Second Life's Regional Burn, dubbed Burn2.

Look! who I have handing out gifts! Flat Rodvic Linden. Thank-you Strawberry for the cut-out of our leader:)))

Yes, those are my legs dangling into the space ship.

I'm in a Gifting Mood Today

The theme this year for Burning Man and SL's Burn2 event is "Cargo Cult". It takes some thinking to wrap your head around the theme, but it is awesome!

The Man rides a crate of gems, not valued for their representation of money and wealth, but for the light they refract and reflect.

Small enough to wear as a necklace and it does not protrude to far. If anyone knows of a script to work as a wearable hinge (door), please let me know, and I will modify it.

Available as a freebie in the Market Place.