In my last Burning Man post I found the Thermokraken grant page online and was excited that the Kraken might be coming back to Burning Man this year. I emailed the Therm guys to ask what the outcome was. Unfortunately they told me the Kraken only received 40 votes from the Borg2 community, which means …
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Burning Man – Ready. Me – not so much.
The golden spike was driven in to the playa of Black Rock City on Wednesday. You can see some photos and a write-up from the DPW crew right here. From there they start to map out the streets and grid the city. Once completed, the big projects can be erected – the man, center camp, …
Fern Street Circus
(All photos for this entry are posted here) Last Saturday night Anna and I went to check out this year’s Fern Street Circus performance at Balboa Park. FSC is our very own Goldenhill circus recreation program. What does that mean? They provide free instruction for kids at the Rec Center in acrobatics, balancing, clowning, contortion, …
SLO, Paypal, and cow dung.
Anna and I are taking a long weekend and going to head up the coast in a convertible to SLO. The coast is fun by itself, but we will also be going to check out the Pasa Robles Wine Fest. We went in 2003 and enjoyed it a lot. PayPal is pushing further into the …
A shift in perspective.
I finally got around to exploring the site that had the moss graffiti information, storiesfromspace.co.uk. It is a really fascinating bit of work. The Ideas Factory contains some projects to have people reinterpret their surroundings. The Secret Worlds and Nature Reserve projects also force a shift in perspective. But they do it in a very …