{"id":2229,"date":"2016-07-05T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2016-07-11T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T00:07:36","slug":"burning-man-in-pictures-xxxi-the-charnival-night-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/07\/05\/burning-man-in-pictures-xxxi-the-charnival-night-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man in Pictures XXXI: The Charnival, Night Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last post<\/a>, our intrepid heroes visited and surveyed the Charnival on their way back to camp for supper.<\/p>\n

On the way back, they had a few random encounters. The first was with a beautiful giant Manta Ray and its keeper. Apparently, the Manta Ray (by Peter Hazel)<\/a> was painstakingly assembled from individually formed pieces of glass over the course of many months:<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We meet another friend! Its keeper gives us an important token.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

S also received an important token as a quest item.<\/p>\n

Next, our heroes braved the ‘desert flower assortment’. We shall not share the expressions they were forced to express as they passed:<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
An interesting desert flower assortment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, they spotted someone or something on top of a geodesic dome:<\/p>\n

\"Who<\/a>
Who is that up on top of the geodesic dome?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another friend! He seemed to be enjoying himself up there, and was definitely not an Octopus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\""Hello!"<\/a>
“Hello!” [waves eight times]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After dinner, our heroes returned to the Charnival, to perform the (almost) daily ritual cleaning of the mirrors, made necessary by the daily application of wind and playa dust. Here you can see S, with her trusty headlamp, using a Mr. Mister:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The ritual cleaning of the mirrors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it was time to open again! We were helped by Jack (O’Lantern), Dug, and Joan. Mirror Blaze had been designed to be run by two people (one in the chair, controlling the fire, and one on player entry\/exit), but we had asked for three because we suspected the crowds would get huge (which they did), and so that our volunteers could do things like take a washroom break. Here you can see S talking to Dug and Joan (I think), as crowds stream in:<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>
Jack (O’Lantern) supervises the fire as S, Dug, and Joan (I think) look on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jack sets off the fire:<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>
Jack sets off the fire. S, Dug, and Joan glance its way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And conversation resumes:<\/p>\n

\"S<\/a>
S & Dug return to their conversation, Jack presiding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seth brought the coatrack, and modified the control system to hook it up to one of those ‘mind-controlling headbands’, and thus ‘Pyrokinesis<\/a>‘ was born!:<\/p>\n

\"Pyrokinesis.\"<\/a>
Pyrokinesis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lastly, we leave you with an example of what a contact fire spinner (Ben, I think) can do with 2piR<\/a> (Ardent Heavy Industries):<\/p>\n