NIMBY: Burning Man Art & Images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanicus/2825522563/in/set-72157607095402092/

Put your hands together…that’s how we bring change to our planet–whether it be to make events like Burning Man or the Obama administration!

More images here: Into the Dust BM 08 slideshow http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanicus/sets/72157607095402092/show/

and BURNING MAN 2008 GALLERY FROM PHOTOJOURNALIST NICK ADAMS

http://www.adamsvisuals.com

Click on “Burning Man 2008”

Think some of the large scale art projects you’ve seen here and linked to and other places on this blog– including the links at the end of this post–are cool and should be supported? While funding them is always a challenge you can easily imagine, have

you ever thought about WHERE you might build something like these projects? Not In My Backyard, right? Who would want a neighbor welding, banging, and clanging after work? Even if the end result is this imaginative and beautiful?

Lo and behold, there is a space in the Bay Area:  NIMBY, the largest DIY (that’s Do It Yourself, yo) industrial art space in the Bay Area, and they’ve been forced to
move to a new location, and have been turning to the community to help
with their daunting security deposit.  They’ve raised most of the
money already through some serious fundraising efforts, but they need
$8,500 before Monday so they can move in.

So why should you care, even if you live in Topeka, Toledo, Toronto or
Torino?  Because a metric buttload of Burning Man artists call NIMBY
their studio, where they create and store incredible large-scale art
installations for the playa.  It’s also used as an event space to
throw fundraisers for a great many projects.  Without NIMBY, a great
number of artists whose work YOU have enjoyed (and will continue to
enjoy) will be sca-rood.

Please read on, and help them out if you can.

NIMBY – the Bay Areas largest DIY/ Industrial Art Space was shut down
by a city inspection following a small fire. Community support has
poured in and a new location secured. NIMBY will move the week of
December 15th – but $8,500 is still needed for the deposit.

What is NIMBY?

For the past five years NIMBY has been a space where artists,
craftsmen and tinkerers can create the new, the impossible, and the
never seen before. Many of the pieces at Burning Man, Coachella, the
Maker Fair and The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival are created and
stored at NIMBY.

NIMBY not only offers space to create, but supports its artists with
resources, assistance in sourcing re-purposed material, as well as
logistical and technical guidance. Snook, the founder of NIMBY, is
known in the community as the guy to call when technical or logistical
issues seem insurmountable. This supportive culture shared by all
members of the NIMBY community is at the root of the amazing art that
emerges from its doors.

NIMBY has been the birthplace of Dance Dance Immolation, the Steam
Punk Tree House, Colossus, The Kinetic SteamWorks steam ship, Spike’s
Vampire Bar and so much more. NIMBY has hosted such epic events as
Lost Vegas, Eat Drink and Be Mary, Fight Night, Thunderdome, and the
NIMBY Circus. At the new NIMBY we are working to create a 30,000
square foot event/ gallery space with permanent installations of
Michael Christian’s IT, The Steam Punk Tree House, Colossus and the
Big Rig Jig.

The City of Oakland has rolled out the red carpet to help. Trucking,
architectural drawings, contractors, and materials are all lined-up to
move in and build-out the new space. We also have 5 years of heart,
gumption and making it work behind us – but we need your support of a
donation.

Be a part of keeping NIMBY alive – DONATE.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

PayPal: NIMBYLLC@yahoo.com
website: http://www.nimbyspace.org
Contact Rachael at rachael@nimbyspace.org for info on tax-deductible
or in-kind donations.

WHY DONATE?

NIMBY has served the community as Bay Areas largest DIY/ Industrial
Art Space. Most Bay Area artists who create large-scale work depend on
NIMBY for support.

Created at NIMBY:

Colossus – http://zacharycoffin.com/colossus/
Steam Punk Tree House – http://www.steamtreehouse.com/
Kinetic Steam Works – http://www.kineticsteamworks.org/
Dance Dance Immolation – http://www.interpretivearson.com/projects/ddi/
Cleavage in Space – http://tinyurl.com/6o2546

And the current home of:

Flaming Lotus Girls Serpent Mother – http://tinyurl.com/5uwd5q
Michael Christians IT – http://www.michaelchristian.com/

Check out more of our photos:
http://www.nimbyspace.org/?page_id=46

And artists:
http://www.nimbyspace.org/?page_id=32NIMBY

Make it a last minute holiday present for friend or loved one–along with a ticket to Burning Man to see these kinds of projects live!!