Please do come by Kidsville and visit the Art Predator and family! I will gift you with a sticker or possibly a nifty bandana! We’d especially love to see you:
No Whining on Wine Wednesday–come by from 5:15-7:15 for a wine tasting featuring sustainably farmed Michel-Schlumberger, biodynamic Bonny Doon, the always twisted offerings from Twisted Oak and more! Bring wine to share, wine friendly appetizers, and a glass! More d
etails on wine and food for Burning Man here.
First Friday ArtRide & Afterparty–Friday meet 5pm at AP’s camp to ride to the Man or meet us out there at 5:30 for a quick tour of some of the hot artspots before returning to Kidsville for Helloween Trick or Treating with wine treats for the adults plus a Burning Moms meet-up! (can you say MILF?) More details here.
Soccer Saturday Brunch–830-1130am Bring your bacon, your sparkling wine, your bouncing balls for a rousing game of unsantioned soccer! More details here.
If you miss us, leave us a note! If you can’t make it at all, send us a letter and an SASE and we’ll send you a sticker:
Art Predator
Kidsville
515 DNA
C/O BRCPO
Burning Man
Gerlach, NV 89412
Better get it in the mail soon!
PS Thanks to our friends over at Def-Star Screen Printing (http://def-star. blogspot. com/) for doing the silkscreening!
Lame Excuse #1004: I Can’t Do Burning Man without an RV
Lame excuse why you can’t go to Burning Man #1004: I don’t have an RV and can’t afford to rent one/they’re all rented.
Personally? Honestly? I wish they’d ban all RVs/trailers/etc over say 18′. Seriously.
You will have a totally different, more primal and wild experience if you’re NOT in an RV, if you’re out there in the elements, going for a week without a shower.
Yes, an RV protects you, but it also shields you from the full impact, the full brunt of the event. Inside an RV, you can’t Read more…
Art Predator Presents: FFArtRide Celebrates Lord Ganesha’s Birthday at Burning Man & in Ventucky!
Since we’re going to be in Black Rock City for the Burning Man Festival for the next First Friday Sept. 4 (which is also the day of the climax for Lord Ganesha’s Birthday Celebration), we will be leading a First Friday ArtRide there while others will lead a ride in Ventucky! Join us SOMEWHERE for a Full Moon/Fool Moon Ride!
BLACK ROCK CITY ARTRIDE 5:15pm Meet at 515 & DNA. 5:30pm Meet at the Man. Ride with us to various art spaces. 6:30pm afterparty at 5:15 & DNA plus Burning Moms List Meet-up, Helloween and wine trick or treat tasting.
Wear full moon white or red to celebrate Lord Ganesha’s Birthday. The first 50 ArtRiders will get a tie-dyed bandana silkscreened with Lord Ganesha riding a bicycle; we will have stickers also. The ArtRide follows the Critical Tits Ride which meets at the Man at 4pm.
VENTUCKY ARTRIDE 5:30pm Meet at the Artists Union Gallery at California street and the sea. Ride leaves by 6pm to travel to various galleries including Bell Arts, SeaBreeze, V2, and Sylvia White for the 5×5 performances at 8pm.
Thanks to our friends at Def-Star.com for doing the silkscreening for us!
From the previous post, How to Recreate the Burning Man experience at home, you’d think, if you haven’t been to Burning Man, that it’s just like a big wild party with trash strewn everywhere.
Well, you’d be thinking wrong. Burning Man is a Leave No Trace event. Every individual is responsible for every scrap of MOOP–Matter Out of Place–that they create or come across. Everyone is also required to spend two hours of more on the open playa picking up MOOP.
Every village at Burning Man is required to develop and maintain a Leave No Trace Plan as Burning Man is a Leave No Trace Event. A key element in a windswept wild environment like the Black Rock Desert is to stay on top of MOOP–Matter Out Of Place–at all times, and to make sure everyone knows, follows, and is committed to leaving no trace.
Here are two posts about how to LEAVE NO TRACE:
8.5.09 Green Your Burn, Leave No Trace: Top 10 Tips for Burning Man 2009
8.5.09 Green Your Burn, Protect the Playa: Some History, Some Basic Principles
plus an example of how a large village like Kidsville organizes itself to avoid Read more…
A version of this made it into my inbox in 2003 when I stayed home because I was WAY too preggo to ride a bike and get around at Burning Man. This latest version showed up on facebook; it’s grown too!
How to enjoy the magic of Burning Man from your own home:
Pay an escort of your affectional preference subset to not bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig, dance close naked, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the night.
Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When they leave, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things.
Stack all your fans in one corner of the living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them. Dance for six hours. Sleep in your clothes.
Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.
Lean back in a chair until that point where you’re just about to fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment. Hold that position for 9 hours.
Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away. Drain all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 3 days. Hide all the toilet paper.
Set your house thermostat so it’s 50 degrees for the first hour of sleep and 100 degrees the rest of the night.
Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don’t go to a doctor. Read more…
For Wine Wednesday: Wine & Food, Burning Man style! No whining!
As a certifiable wine blogger (having attended the Wine Bloggers Conference in 2008 and 2009!) and as an experienced Burner (12x since 1992!), I take seriously my responsibility of advising you, my dear reader, about how to prepare, what to do, where to camp, and now, what to eat, and what to drink while at Burning Man deep in Nevada in the Black Rock desert. I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I want to bring to eat and drink out there, and what I should suggest to you.
While there is no shortage of cocktail parties on the playa, there’s been a serious dearth of good wine–and wine tasting too. With an emphasis at Burning Man on art, and artistic and sensual experiences, it’s time to bring the art of wine to Black Rock City!
I invite you to come to the Art Predator camp at 515 DNA in Kidsville at 5:15 for Wine Wednesday.
Bring a glass, bring a bottle or two of the good stuff, maybe some appetizers, and let’s share some wine and stories together!
You know I will have some wine worth sharing! My nickname isn’t Wine Predator for nothing!
Here’s the first tip: Read more…
Pleasure Sean’s Playa Play List
@Pavati tweeted me a link to PleasureSean’s Playa Party Guide 2009 which is full of awesome info re dj music sets along with when and where including Cheb i Sabbah above and Nickodemus below:
Brass Tax Boombox (10:00 & C)
Yes, yes YES! Breakbeat, electro, whateva from the big ass boombox. Will be going Monday night, if not earlier, so come on out while everyone else is still setting up.
El Circo and The Do Lab (10:00 & B)
The El Circo dome is legendary and they are joining up with LA’s The Do Lab – should be epic. Music and crowd is kind of on the neo-tribal/hippie side with lots of glitch, dubstep, & breaks. Inside of the Dome is often super crowded, so late late night is a good call if you want to head inside.
AP’s note: I imagine this is the dome they use at Lightening in the Bottle as well as some of the set-up. From an email they sent today: View and print set times here: Simpler Times Set Times
Thursday Kick Off Party! We’ve got 4000 gallons of water ready to spray all over y’all for our kick off party on Thursday, September 3rd. Get wet and beat the heat! Then dance and get sweaty! All under the dome and pallet structures, boomin to the sounds of party starters like Imagika, Beats Antique, El Papachango, and many more.
NEXUS (10:00 & E)
Glitch/breaks music with style. Between the Boombox, Simpler Times, & Nexus, you could pretty much rock your entire playa nights between just these three camps – and many people will.
Root Society (10:00 & Esplanade)
Massive setup on the corner with 2 domes. Read more…
Ahh, the days of Saturday soccer: the chaos in the early morning hazy light, the smell of sunscreen and mud and torn up wet grass, orange rind smiles and juice boxes…
Is YOUR FAMILY missing that soccer game because you’re on the playa or THEY SAY you are too old for YOUTH SOCCER?
You’re never too old! Don’t miss out! Bring that soccer uniform, those shin guards, those bouncing balls, and other soccer paraphanalia to Kidsville’s Soccer Saturday on DNA at Art Predator’s Camp for totally non-regulated and possibly inebriated (exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated) Saturday Soccer!
The first 50 participants (whether they are wearing soccer pants or no pants, regular soccer shirts, Kidsville shirts or no shirts) will receive one of these special Kidsville soccer stickers!
What do you need to do to participate? Show up Saturday morning between 830am and 1130am wearing YOUR SHIN GUARDS, your dust mask, and your goggles! (Not a drop-off party or babysitting service–an adult needs to be about your children). Bring your own cup and something to share for a potluck brunch. Cold bubbly, anyone?
See you Saturday! What better way to start off the day of the BIG BURN? Watch for additional details on this and other fun Art Predator events on the Kidsville kiosk and here at https://artpredator.wordpress.com.
PS Thanks to our friends over at Def-Star Screen Printing (http://def-star. blogspot. com/) for helping us make these!
How To Send Snail Mail Love to Black Rock City, home to Burning Man! Please write me!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! In the summer, he vacations on the Black Rock Desert playa and goes to Burning Man.
If you send him mail to this address, he will get it:
Santa Claus
Art Predator’s Camp
Kidsville
515 DNA
C/O BRCPO
Burning Man
Gerlach, NV 89412
Will he write back? Send a SASE and he will–he might even send you a goody from the playa complete with a BRC stamp cancellation! Now how special is that??
If you are an Art Predator Subscriber (it’s easy–just click on the button that says SUBSCRIBE in the upper right) AND you send me a SASE, I will send YOU something from the playa! So subscribe already!! Thanks Read more…
3:15am August 20, 2009
poetry from the 3:15 Experiment
Ever since Lord Ganesh
came to visit 2 weeks ago
I have had no night terrors.
Now that’s saying something– Read more…
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