{"id":1694,"date":"2016-05-15T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2016-05-13T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T02:32:47","slug":"burning-man-2015-in-pictures-iv-we-finally-arrive-unpack-and-setup-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/05\/15\/burning-man-2015-in-pictures-iv-we-finally-arrive-unpack-and-setup-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man 2015 in Pictures IV: We Finally Arrive, Unpack, and Setup Camp!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which our intrepid heroes visit the box office, unpack a fire mirror maze, and set up camp.<\/p>\n

After a long journey, we had finally made it! (To the box office…):<\/p>\n

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Finally, we have reached our destination! The Box Office?!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our intrepid heroine ventures forth to stand in the (mercifully short) line:<\/p>\n

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Our intrepid heroine ventures forth!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the box office, we found that the playa dust had formed itself into a message of some type. While we recognized it as being partially palindromic, we were not able to decode it in its entirety:<\/p>\n

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A cryptic message, spontaneously formed from playa dust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tickets in hand, we continued our (now dusty way):<\/p>\n

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We continue on our (now dusty) way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And we were there! You can see the green glowing man in the dusty[1] distance:<\/p>\n

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Burning Man! With the green glowing Man in the distance!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Day turned into night, we unpacked some, and ventured out the Charnival grounds to help unload the truck, bravely driven for days from Toronto by an amazing group of volunteers.<\/p>\n

Normally, your first day on playa is for acclimation, but we had a lot of building to do, and the truck needed to be unloaded (including our fragile tube![3]). This would turn out to be fortuitous, as we lost an entire day to high wind and sandstorms (but more on that later).<\/p>\n

Here, you can see the lighting of the Charnival grounds in the distance (it looks like I took this picture from my bike). Lighting is incredibly important, especially on open playa, with art cars and bicycles zipping[2] about. The Charnival grounds peeps did an incredible job:<\/p>\n

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The Charnival grounds, from a distance. Note the man in glowing green.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We met up with the S3FA<\/a> people, and much truck unloading ensued. You can see the result here, with our tacitly triumphant trusty heroine:<\/p>\n

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Tacitly, our triumphant trusty heroine tells her tale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To give you an idea of why we needed a truck, here are the not yet assembled pieces of Mirror Blaze. Those are 4×4 8′ cedar (half the mass) posts with hinges (for easier[4] assembly), and 4’x8′ acrylic mirrors in a pile. It’s interesting how I automatically orient my view of this picture with respect to the fence and the Man, how I can feel where the rest of the festival is around me:<\/p>\n

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Mirror Blaze components ready for assembly!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some more components for Mirror Blaze, and some of its friends:<\/p>\n

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Mirror Blaze components and friends: (l-r fencing, my first welding ever, some 4×8 ply, some accumulators, parts for the Mirror Blaze lifeguard stand, a shipping container, Quartz Tube, fence posts)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time, off to finish setting up camp and unpacking!<\/p>\n

[1]You may think I’m overemphasizing the presence of the dust, but I’m really not.<\/p>\n

[2]Art cars at 5mi\/hr, and bicycles only somewhat faster in the (usually) hard-packed dust.<\/p>\n

[3]A 7′ long 1′ wide quartz tube, used for keeping the flame effect away from the acrylic mirrors.<\/p>\n

[4]Note that I didn’t say easy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which our intrepid heroes visit the box office, unpack a fire mirror maze, and set up camp. After a long journey, we had finally made it! (To the box office…): Our intrepid heroine ventures forth to stand in the (mercifully short) line: At the box office, we found that the playa dust had formed … Continue reading Burning Man 2015 in Pictures IV: We Finally Arrive, Unpack, and Setup Camp!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,27,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}