{"id":3128,"date":"2017-04-04T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2017-04-03T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:47:12","slug":"burning-man-2015-in-pictures-lxx-decompression-in-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2017\/04\/04\/burning-man-2015-in-pictures-lxx-decompression-in-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man 2015 in Pictures LXX: Decompression in Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always an experience coming home from an immersive event. Good movies can do it, especially when you’ve experienced catharsis, I’ve also experienced it a good meditation or epiphany.<\/p>\n

But when the event is weeks long, with a totally different culture and social mores, the decompression experience can approach culture shock in its intensity.<\/p>\n

When I first came home from Burning Man in 2013, I was biking down the Danforth, looking at all of the establishments along the road. Because I was still decompressing, I saw them as emplacements whose main goal was to persuade passers-by to give them resources.<\/p>\n

we had decided to spend a day or two in Reno on the way back from the Burn in 2015, a trip which I will document later. Today it’s more about the decompression experiences.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We arrive at the hotel in Reno! Also visible: Mike, possible Marc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Our pristine hotel room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Is<\/a>
Is it a strange alien beast, or bungee cords?Is it a strange alien beast, or bungee cords?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This is what playa dust looks like in Real Life(tm).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"#metasymbols\"<\/a>
#metasymbols<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"These<\/a>
These were the best bike locks. You just had to spell a word, such as ‘HIRP’, and it would unlock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"POLT.<\/a>
POLT. Also, we left these locks (and our bike baskets) behind for the next renter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"In<\/a>
In the Reno airport, we saw an installation that seemed somewhat familiar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aha!\"<\/a>
Aha!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Your<\/a>
Your trusty correspondent, outfitted in full Space Cactus regalia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, that’s all she wrote.<\/p>\n

There are still many more photos to process (we had so many people helping us plan and build!), but this is the chronological end of the project (modulo a couple of moves of the installation parts when they arrived home). It feels good to feel like I’ve finished something, even if it was in much more depth than I had ever expected.<\/p>\n

Here’s to next time. Thanks for reading. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always an experience coming home from an immersive event. Good movies can do it, especially when you’ve experienced catharsis, I’ve also experienced it a good meditation or epiphany. But when the event is weeks long, with a totally different culture and social mores, the decompression experience can approach culture shock in its intensity. When … Continue reading Burning Man 2015 in Pictures LXX: Decompression in Reno<\/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":[15,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128"}],"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=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}