{"id":2954,"date":"2017-01-18T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2017-01-18T04:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T04:08:47","slug":"burning-man-2015-in-pictures-lxi-the-essence-of-moop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2017\/01\/18\/burning-man-2015-in-pictures-lxi-the-essence-of-moop\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man 2015 in Pictures LXI: The Essence of MOOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we last saw our intrepid adventurers, they had just found an incarnation of balance and harmony, then had that jarringly ripped away from them by an encounter with a MOOP sculpture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This seems neither balanced nor harmonious. But what does it mean?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, a word about moop or MOOP. ‘MOOP’ is the abbreviation for ‘Matter Out Of Place’, the anti-thesis of ‘leave no trace’. It’s been an abbreviation for long enough that it’s become a word ‘moop’. Apparently, this had been a growing issue at Burning Man, finally coming to a head for 2006, when they decided to publicly measure the amount of moop left over after the event and start to name and shame:<\/p>\n

\"Moop<\/a>
Moop Map 2006. Note the suffusion of yellow[1].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Already you can see the difference one year later, in 2007, after just measuring and enforcement:<\/p>\n

\"Moop<\/a>
Moop Map 2007 “Green Wins!”: Note how one year of measuring and enforcement has made a noticeable difference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2009 is better yet again:<\/p>\n

\"Moop<\/a>
Moop Map 2009: Yellow and red patches are even smaller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As is 2013, our first year at the Burn, this was the ‘norm’ we first saw, and wanted to help improve upon:<\/p>\n

\"Moop<\/a>
Moop Map 2013: This was our first year, and the ‘norm’ that we wanted to improve on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2014:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2384\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The placement map for 2015 (I have no idea what the spoon was for):<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a>
Map 2015: Who was where?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you look closely, you can see The Hive, at 8:00 and Esplanade!:<\/p>\n

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If you look closely, you can see The Hive, at 8:00 and Esplanade!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the results from the 2015 after-event cleanup! You can see the continually disturbing red and yellow rings around Esplanade which only a very few groups were able to sweep to green status:<\/p>\n

\"Moop<\/a>
Moop Map 2015: Note the red and yellow ring around Esplanade. \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time, our plucky adventurers meet the golden rhino, and make the tiniest of fist-bumps. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

[1]https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul I’ve always enjoyed this particular phrase, but it feels problematic for a number of reasons in the context of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we last saw our intrepid adventurers, they had just found an incarnation of balance and harmony, then had that jarringly ripped away from them by an encounter with a MOOP sculpture: So, a word about moop or MOOP. ‘MOOP’ is the abbreviation for ‘Matter Out Of Place’, the anti-thesis of ‘leave no trace’. It’s … Continue reading Burning Man 2015 in Pictures LXI: The Essence of MOOP<\/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":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"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=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}