Time to Celebrate the Birthday of Lord Ganesha
From now until the full moon Friday Sept. 4 is the annual 10 day celebration of Lord Ganesha’s birthday.
To participate, place Lord Ganesh on a pedestal, then sing, dance, and adore him.
The traditional celebration culminates in the submergence of handmade earthen Ganesh, sending him on his journey back home to Mt. Kailish in Tibet.
Yesterday three women made cobb or earthen figures of Lord Ganesh. I will post a photo of mine soon!
Burning Man 2009: Hydrate NOW & rest!
My previous post has 10 Very Important Tasks To Do before you leave for Burning Man, plus directions on how to get there, plus two bonus tips.
This post is short and to the point about 2 VERY VERY important practices you want to commence NOW: Read more…
Before You Leave for Burning Man: Top 10 To Dos, How To Get There & Where to Find What You Forgot
Silicon Village sent this Top 10 List of Very Important To Dos out to their camp and someone kindly forwarded it onto the Kidsville list. (Yes, Burning Man depends on the interweb for us all to be connected and communicate; there are no boundaries!) I’ve taken the Silicon Village list, and edited, adapted, revised, and commented on it, plus I added two bonus to dos.
Top 10 To Dos BEFORE You Leave for Burning Man Read more…
How to Fur Your Burning Man Bike, How To Turn Your Bike Into a PlayaFly & other ArtBikes & ArtRides to go on!
I just got a kick stand for my bike!! Now to put a tennis ball on the end so it doesn’t sink into the playa! If you have some old tennis balls, hey, be a sport, and bring them–they’d make a great spontaneous gift!
Now, what, where and when will we ride?
I hope we get out there to join the Pink Ride shown in the video above: meet Wednesday noon at BatCountry 9:30 & Esplanade. And we’re organizing a First Friday ArtRide where we will also celebrate Lord Ganesha’s birthday and give out the bandanas we’re making with Lord Ganesha on them! Meet us in Kidsville at DNA and 510–you’ll know you’ve found the ArtRiders by the tie-dyed “prayer flags” flying with Lord Ganesha on them as well as a 6′ and a 12′ tie-dye banners! And don’t forget–Critical Tits is Friday also; meet at the Man at 4pm.
What will we ride? How about a fur bike? Or turn your bike into a PlayaFly?
Toni the Tiger can’t make it this year so she’s loaning us her tiger fur bike and matching trailer; I think my pink bike is festive enough already with all the doodads attached to it, and we’re working on a shade kinda thing for it too.
So you want to fur your bike? This video by Halcyon who leads the Pink Ride, though kind of long at almost 10 minutes, will show you how if you’ve got some fur fabric and a glue gun. This might be the kind of decor for a bike that rides to BMan in a trailer so as not to leave parts of it behind… Lynne from the ArtBarn wound and wrapped colorful used fabric around her bike in much the same way for a fun effect.
Roaming the internet, I found this site, Morristown Bikes, which had a post about ArtBikes at Burning Man.
The blogger writes, “One of the easiest and most memorable art bikes in the past year was a group of people who created “Playaflies” http://playaflies.com/ When traveling across the dark desert, they would bounce and dance and look like multicolored fireflies! The effect was great when it was a large group of them together. Watch here: Playa flies There are free instructions for building playaflies for your own bike, and you can buy the lights for just $15: http://playaflies.com/
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I have been prowling all over the internet to find the best, most useful info about this year’s Black Rock Arts Festival aka Burning Man to share with you. my readers, and possibly my new neighbors in Black Rock City. There’s a lot of info out there, so once I find it, I try to distill it down to the most important points.
Now I admit: useful and important points to me and my burn! That’s right, I’m putting on this blog what I find that I want to remember and keep track of for ME!
And I figure if it’s useful to ME, a person who has been going to Burning Man since 1992, and who’s been out there 12 times now, that it might be helpful to YOU.
Because, secondarily, I am trying to help YOUR burn be better! Honestly, the better YOUR burn and YOURS, the better everybody’s burn will be! The more prepared and happy we are as individual, the better for all of us!
Now I am about to share with you something that so far may be the best piece of Burning Man information I’ve presented–This amazing map with the theme camps laid out which you can find here: http://jes5199.com/burningman2009/ You can click on points on the map and find out what camp is there, read a blurb about it and often there’s a link to learn more! Get to know your neighbors now!
Why Burning Man doesn’t do this for us now so we can prepare, I don’t know. But fortunately, we have Jess.
All hail Jess!
So now you can reference the map pictured above but in greater detail here as you’re trying to plan ahead and figure out where you’re going to camp or what you want to do when and where.
There are also 130 theme camps that DID NOT get placed in the “What Where When Guide” (printed) and that Jess will likely not have a chance to add. If you’re one of those camps, here’s what to do: Read more…
On Weds. August 5, 2009, Radiohead released the song “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).” I love Radiohead, so I immediately stopped what I was doing when I heard on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic that they’d just received a new song. It took my breath away.
The video above offers a slideshow of images, mostly from Harry Patch’s life, interspersed with his words which inspired the song and which Thom Yorke sings. The video below uses paintings to illustrate the song.
August 11, 2009 3:15am
a poem from the 3:15 experiment
I’ve been reading up about
Lord Ganesha especially since he
came for a visit last week.
No wonder he showed up
somewhere–everywhere
people were praying to him
to protect them on the
eve of the third lunar
eclipse of the lunar cycle.
An eclipse signals momentous change
and not always good change.
Three eclipses indicates massive
changes afoot –terrible ones.
Best to pray to Lord Ganesh–
one of the most powerful
deities around possibly the one
most prayed to on the planet.
Not only do Hindus pray to
Lord Ganesh but so do
Tibetan Buddhists and
other orders.
In two weeks it will be
time again Read more…
Honestly, it’s not the heat that’s going to get to you: it’s the wind. And the dust storms. If you’ve never been out there, you can’t even imagine the wind. The dust storms. The heat is nothing.
Because really, it’s not that hot. Seeing art like this Gee-Gnome, shown here at the Fire Arts Festival, is what’s REALLY hot. Fire will come out of Gnome’s head, not yours. Go here to learn more about The Gee-Gnome Project or to donate.
Yes, it is hot out there. But it’s really and truly not that hot for that long.
During the heat of the day, there’s lots to do in lots of shady places all over Black Rock City. Learn about the thousands of events you can chose from day and night here: https://artpredator.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/to-do-at-burning-man-get-a-diy-tattoo-yoga-pimp-your-bike-and-more/.
The heat is no excuse. Here are some wonderfully easy ways to handle it:
ONE: Hang out in camp–yours, your neighbors, your new friends, center camp. Make friends.
TWO: Make drinks. Nice cold icy refreshing drinks. Have another one. Make drinks for other people Piss clear.
THREE: Take a nap so you can take advantage of when it’s less hot/windy/dusty.
FOUR: Spray your bandana, your head, your friends with cooler water. These are bandanas we tie dyed over the weekend; next we’ll silk screen them with an image of Ganesh on a bicycle! See if you can bring a small easy craft to do in camp to gift.
FIVE: Take it easy and watch the freaks go by. Soon, the day will cool, and you will too.
PS It’s the last day of KCRW’s summer subscription drive–and my subscription drive also! So please pledge (I’ll take just about anything!) and please subscribe by clicking the subscribe button on the top right hard column! Thanks!! And tell a friend!
Simpsons Family Burning Man from Aung T on Vimeo.
Funny for non-Burners, hilarious to Burners.
Aung also did last year’s Hitler Plans Burning Man. Here it is again, just in case you missed it.
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