Today, some of the biggest and best fire installations the Burn has to offer!

In our last installment, our heroes took some time to reflect.

Today, we follow their adventures as they experience some of the best that playa has to offer in the way of fire art.

First, they met up with The Grasshopper and El Pulpo Mechanico. The Grasshopper they had not met before, but he seemed a friendly sort. El Pulpo was one of the mythical creatures of the Burn, visible from almost anywhere on playa, with a continual pied-piper-esque chase group of bicycles. Mythical for many reasons, not the least was the fact that there were so few seats that it was almost impossible to ever catch a ride.

This was one of our most magical moments. It’s difficult to express the fundamental beauty of flame effects set oh-so-perfectly to music, or just the feeling of the friendly competition. All I can do is show you some of the pictures.

Here we see a short video of the two of them having a musical chat:

They’re firey friends[1]!:

Here is S, amongst myriad onlookers, trying to get the perfect shot:

A few animated .gifs expressing the joy of the occasion:

And one capturing the fiery friendship between these two lovable characters:

Our heroes were then drawn by the fiery clarion call of the Serpent Mother:

The audience was transfixed:

Looking more closely, you can see the care put into the installation, all the moving parts and accumulators, and the labeling of each part:

Elated, our heroes took the bridge back to the installation, and then home for a well-deserved rest:

Next time: A new day dawns!

Hat tip: http://www.elearnhub.org/how-to-make-an-animated-gif-in-gimp/ for how to make the animated .gifs.

[1]Or firey fiends. It’s difficult to tell, sometimes.