Last year’s Cabernet Day at Burning Man…I have more photos to post also!
Personally, I can’t imagine a #Cabernet Day better than last year’s at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert. I was joined at my Art Predator and Wine Predator camp in Kidsville by Jim Morris (aka Sonoma Wine Guy on Twitter) and Tony Fletcher (blogger, dj and author of several books on music and musicians including Keith Moon) plus author Mark Lorentzen aka Puma who always brings over $1000 worth of fine wine to Burning Man.
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0650 (Photo credit: DangerRanger)
on BMIR from 11:35pm Sat. 8/25/2012
posted on Facebook and
turned into a found poem:
if you want to have a lot of friends,
you need to have some extradonuts.Donuts.
Donuts.
The main thing
that brings us to Burning Man
there are all these walls
the way we find connections
things we can’t even put words to
that’s why we come to this ephemeral city
to make these connections.
So if you’re stuck at the gate
keep that in mind.
That is your introduction to your city.
Keep BMIR locked.
We try to impart grand ideas and infinite wisdom.
At the same time if you come over
here to the radio station
I might be convinced to give you a shot
of cheap liquor from an animal skull.
Donuts & photos & beer…!!!
OK can we play some music?
This is really boring
to people on the other side of the radio.
We love ourselves.Play some music!
And you can watch what’s going on on playa here:
http://www.ustream.tv/burningmanAnd the sound track is BMIR!
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- Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Burning Man 2012 (artpredator.wordpress.com)
- Heading Home? Burning Man 2012 (artpredator.wordpress.com)
- It’s A Buyer’s Market – For Burning Man Tickets (ronslog.typepad.com)
Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Burning Man 2012
This is another fabulous video from last year’s Burning Man Festival. While the video in the previous post took a popular song and illustrated it with people and places at Burning Man, this brilliant video riffs off a Dr Seuss bo
ok and has people at Burning Man recite the lines and act it out too.
I know there’s a lot of newbies going out to Burning Man this year. Many of them have been inspired by i
mages and videos like these. Since I was one of the early Burners (I first went in 1992), in 1996, I wrote an article for a local weekly paper and then in 1997 I wrote one for the local daily. These articles introduced many people to Burning Man. Now it seems like most people have heard of it and even know people who have attended.
But there is nothing like actually being there in the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man Festival.
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
More Burning Man posts to come– including sharing wine and Cabernet Day, photos from our wedding on the pier, kids at Burning Man, and some other fun stuff…
PS If you like this post, please share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc!
Heading Home? Burning Man 2012
This Burning Man video using the song “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros captures the joy, vitality and energy that is Burning Man. It encapsulates the art and the vibe, and more than anything, what it means and feels like to go “home.” For many Burners, or people who attend Burning Man, where they feel most at home at Burning Man–and with the friendly, accepting and accommodating people who live there.
I fi
rst discovered Burning Man in 1992, when I was in grad school at the University of Nevada Reno; then there were only 600 of us out in the Black Rock Desert. That year, by day many of us ventured to the Black Rock Hot Springs where we slathered on the mud and soaked in the sun. At sunset the night of the Burn on Sunday, the wind kicked up and we hid out in a huge canvas tent and ate dinner. My first dust storm caked my hair and skin with fine sand and thoroughly invigorated me. I removed a wreath of sage from my hair and burned it with the man.
I attended again in 1995 with about 6,000 other people. I started spoken word in the Cafe even though Larry Harvey said it wouldn’t work but he wouldn’t stop me, then continued every year from 1996-2002 as Burning Man steadily grew in size. In 2005, 07, 09 and 11, we brought our son –who is now almost 9! That’s him riding the bike at Peter Hudson’s zoetrope in 2007…
This year, the BLM permits restricts attendance to under 60,000.
As you’ve probably heard, Burning Man sold out during an ill-conceived and poorly-executed lottery. Lots of long-time Burners were burned and left out. And now, as the gates of Black Rock City prepare to open, there are plenty of tickets floating around, squelching the desires of the scalpers to make a killing.
Me? Am I going to Burning Man this year? You never know. I am praying for a miracle. Since I MUST work this week, I desire a winged passage, a flight to take me to Black Rock City on Friday and return me to Southern California on Monday or Tuesday before 2pm…
If you have a lead, please let me know! I would love to bring my doctoral field work out there–to do some experiments in social dreaming and in writing in altered states of consciousness.
Because yes, I am feeling homesick. I do want to go home.
There’s lots of info about Burning Man on this site including stories, photos and advice. And I’ll add a few more posts this week if I can find time, reflecting on my Burning Man experiences, past and present.
Speaking of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, I heard they just recorded a new album in nearby Ojai CA and they will celebrate with a concert at Libbey Bowl on Thursday, September 6, 2012. Presented by Ojai Valley Community Nursery School in association with Club Mercy, tickets are $40 and the gates open at 6:30; showtime 7pm. For Ticket Information & Questions, call 805-390-0937.
Poetry (Photo credit: Kimli)
We’re more than halfway through the 20th year of the 3:15 Experiment. But you can still join in! This year, I am also inviting people to record and track their dreams and other active imaginational experiences of writing in altered states. I’d also love to lead some social dreaming out at Burning Man this year and host a active imagination writing experiment. I was actually the first person to do spoken word in the cafe at Burning Man and I’ve also done magnetic poetry on my car and on a refrgierator door that I brought out there! We’ll see if it comes to pass that I get out there again this year…
But what is the 3:15 Experiment?
The 3:15 Experiment is an unusual and annual writing experiment where poets around the globe wake every August morning at 3:15am and write. By exploring hypnogogic and hypnopompic states (between sleeping and waking), the exercise challenges writers, provides insight into the collective sleeping/dreaming mind, and creates an epic conversation through an unusual ritual that is individual yet collaborative, disciplined yet open.
In 2001, Anne Waldman described The 3:15 Experiment as an act that Read more…
Big House Birdman & Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Beach
Great wine for outdoor adventures including BBQs and Burning Man! Remember the oysters! PS What’s your favorite fair food? Memory?
If it’s the first week of August, it’s time for the Ventura County Fair.
And that means Fair food and Fair entertainment including fireworks every night and music too! Last night we were on the Ferris Wheel when the fireworks went off; another highlight was a deep fried hot dog with a spiral of potato chips which my son and I were going to share but he polished off by himself!
This year, like most,
don’t tell anyone but
my family, friends and I ride our bikes down to the beach to enjoy the fair’s concert from the “cheap seats” –our bike seats or a bench on the beach!
That’s what I did on Saturday to see Joan Jett and that’s what a bunch of us did tonight for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
Out there by the 
beach the sound isn’t too loud–a bonus as we’re not blowing out our…
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Where did July go?
I am shocked that it is already August, the naked ladies and hydrangeas are in full bloom, and somehow I neglected Art Predator in July.
I know how it happened–just way too busy with teaching and writing projects, not to mention graduate school.
Somehow I missed reminding people to set their alarms at 3:15am to join the 3:15 Experiment!
And I never got around to posting about the two poetry readings I was in last week!
I have been posting over on my other blogs including Wine Predator. So if you’ve been missing me, nip over there and subscribe!
In the meantime, know that now that summer school is over, I have a few blog posts up my sleeve and I promise to attend to you a little more regularly.
So where did July go for you?
There is still room in next weekend’s Poetry Bootcamp in Ojai! Hope to see you! And if you can’t make it, but you know others who might be interested, please share this on twitter and facebook; feel free to reblog!
Is your writing on the flabby side? Do you need a good workout to get your poetry in shape or revitalize your writing practice?
Next Saturday, I will be teaching at the Ojai Writer’s Conference Poetry Bootcamp which runs Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1.This is the last weekend of a month long series of writing activities, workshops, and events.
You can attend one or both days–it’s $50 for either Saturday or Sunday or $99 for the whole weekend which is a great deal for 6 hours of workshops from 4 teachers!
Saturday, June 30:
1-3 pm: “Hello, Nature, What Do You Have to Tell Me Today?” with Gwendolyn Alley {Read Bio Here} – Take the lessons learned from Haiku (expressing emotion through observations of nature) and apply them to other forms of writing. Also learn to transform writing (prose) into poetry.
3-5 pm: “Speak Your Heart – Unravel…
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Venus Visits The Sun: What does it mean?
This has been quite the month for astronomical and astrological phenomena: a solar eclipse two weeks ago with the new moon, a lunar eclipse two weeks later on Monday with the full moon, and now Venus will cross in front of the sun for the second and last time in this century. 
What might it mean–these three examples of what was easily viewed then obscured or blocked? What is revealed in the shadow?
Astrologically, an eclipse is a time of transition, of change, when something is revealed that has been obscured, when we can see what is in shadow.
But what about Venus, the planet of love, crossing in front of the all important sun? Here’s one person’s ideas on astrology.com:
The power of women is that sleeping force that is now awakening. Remember all bodies, including males enter the world only through the feminine. The transit of Venus plus the Full Moon eclipse on June 4 herald the love of women but more importantly women’s love and compassion for others, starting with the child and radiating outward. And should women remember their ability to love, the world would change.
What do you think?
Watch Venus pass in front of the sun live: here’s a list of places with online streaming. We like the one on Mauna Loa:
A Pair of 2012 Eclipses: Solar & Lunar
How did you experience the May 2012 annular solar eclipse? Or the June 2012 partial lunar eclipse?
My family and I joined The Ojai Mythological Roundtable seventh session: The Labyrinth the evneing of the solar eclipse. Guest speaker Kayleen Asbo, a cultural historian and professor at Sonoma State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, shared the historical, mythological, and psychological aspects of this phenomenon tracking its influence from Greece to Medieval France, and sharing slides to illustrate her points.
We also walked the labryinth at the Ojai Foundation during the eclipse, and we watched it progress thanks to a simple device someone shared. Before we went back in to learn more about labyrinths, I took this shot with my iPhone. I used no special filters but was able to catch the shape of the eclipsed sun thanks to the leaves.
Eclipses always come in pairs. The second in this pair of 2012 eclipses starts around 2am on Monday June 4. 
On Saturday, June 3, we backpacked to spend the night on North Dome in Yosemite and to take advantage of the lunar light. We set up our tent under two gnarled firs on the edge of the dome, cooked our dinner, made hot cocoa, and watched the nearly full moon rise over Half Dome. The granite surrounding us sparkled in the night. I had quite a few dreams, too. In one of them, I dug into the carpet of my house and struck sweet crude oil.
It’s nice to be home and clean after nine days of camping (a fuller report to follow!) but every night of our trip we enjoyed clear skies. I wish we were there on North Dome tonight so we could watch the moon eclipse over Yosemite Valley!
It’s too foggy to see it here, but if your skies are clear and you’re awake and on the Pacific coast, you will notice a change in the moon’s color at 145am, and you will see the shadow begin to eat the moon at 3am and continuing until 5am. And If you’re up when the sun rises, check out the 6am moonset for some cool color!
According to Astrology.com, during this lunar eclipse, “The Sagittarius Moon opposes the Gemini Sun. You’ll get a big reminder that, as important as the cerebral focus of last month’s Solar Eclipse was, you’d better not forget to tend to your emotional state as well! Adding fuel to the flames, Mars will directly oppose this eclipse, possibly resulting in some rather heated discussions. Fortunately, if you can channel your energies toward accomplishing important tasks, most of those argumentative energies will dissipate. Also on the 4th, Mercury and Saturn will work together to ensure that practical matters go off without a hitch and that serious conversations produce useful results.”
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