{"id":1943,"date":"2016-06-12T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T11:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2016-06-12T03:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T03:56:41","slug":"burning-man-in-pictures-xvii-mirror-blaze-goes-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/06\/12\/burning-man-in-pictures-xvii-mirror-blaze-goes-legit\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man in Pictures XVII: Mirror Blaze Goes Legit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday<\/a>, we were wondering whether how Mirror Blaze was faring, whether we would be able to obtain the coveted FAST[1] approval.<\/p>\n

But first, another trip to the portapotties. The dusty, dusty portapotties:<\/p>\n

\"Dusty,<\/a>
Dusty, dusty portapotties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some might wonder why I talk so much about portapotties. It might be because when I was growing up, it seemed like bathrooms were never discussed in movies, that it was significantly transgressive for Mel Brooks to have a bathroom scene in ‘Spaceballs’.<\/p>\n

But it’s probably because when you’re trying to stay hydrated in the desert, and you’re drinking all the time, even though you’re losing a lot of moisture through breathing and just standing there, you’re also processing a lot of it through your kidneys.<\/p>\n

On the way back from the portapotties, we took a gander at the Charnival signs:<\/p>\n

\"S<\/a>
S peruses some of Charnivals’s offerings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here we saw that we were in good company (not shown: The Bearded Sparklepony!):<\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/a>
Mirror Blaze in good company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mirror Blaze was coming along, the ‘little big top’ was starting to look like it:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The ‘little big top’ entryway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the application of bunting was about halfway along (you can see the bunting-to-be-applied tied on the side of the lifeguard chair):<\/p>\n

\"Bunting<\/a>
Bunting cloth staging. (l-r chair,bunting,red,white,red,white)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then a kind person from FAST came by and told us that we APPROVED FOR FIRE! At first, we were excited.<\/p>\n

\"Fast<\/a>
Fast Approval. Are we excited?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it really hit us, and we were EXCITED! YEAH! LET’S MAKE SOME FIRE!<\/p>\n

\"Fast<\/a>
Fast Approval! Yeah, we’re excited!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, of course, we instead took a wander around Charnival, amazed at our good fortune[2], and took a gander at some of the other projects on the go, starting with ‘Flaming Clown Heads[3]’:<\/p>\n

\"Go<\/a>
Go fly some Flaming Clown Heads!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And FaIRE Hockey, here we can see Marc and Francisco discussing some of the finer points, along with the skeleton of the air baffles that they had setup:<\/p>\n

\"Marc<\/a>
Marc and Francisco discuss some of the finer points of FaIRE Hockey. Note the baffling wind baffling wind baffling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A closer view of Marc tuning the tables on FaIRE Hockey:<\/p>\n

\"Marc<\/a>
Marc tunes the tables on FaIRE Hockey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, to round out the day, what looks like a Mouse art car? Is that bicycle made of cheese? Do mice actually really like cheese that much? Maybe the bicycle is made of peanut butter?:<\/p>\n

\"Is<\/a>
Is it a cheese bicycle?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[1]Fire Arts Safety Team<\/a> (I think).<\/p>\n

[2]Apparently, fortune favours the bold and well-prepared.<\/p>\n

[3]’Flaming Clown Heads’, or ‘Let’s Go Fly Some Flaming Clown Heads’ to its friends, apparently started life as ‘Let’s Go Fly A Bicycle’, which apparently was nixed for being too dangerous even for Burning Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we were wondering whether how Mirror Blaze was faring, whether we would be able to obtain the coveted FAST[1] approval. But first, another trip to the portapotties. The dusty, dusty portapotties: Some might wonder why I talk so much about portapotties. It might be because when I was growing up, it seemed like bathrooms … Continue reading Burning Man in Pictures XVII: Mirror Blaze Goes Legit!<\/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":[27,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}