Burning Man Part I

Ian drove down to Burning Man early with friends in our camp to help re-build the Seattle CORE(Circle of Regional Effigies) project on the playa - they built it here in Seattle and designed it to come apart, travel, and reassemble in Black Rock City(BRC - the name of the created city of 50,000+ people camping in the middle of the desert). Ian contributed to the structural building part of this project. He spent countless hours  and weekends helping put together this 20ft x 20ft x 20ft structure to represent Seattle at Burning Man. It was kind of a big deal and he was really proud of their work. 

He was excited to be there. They arrived at 2am.

 Ian ringing the "virgin bell."

 A "welcome home" roll in the dust of the Playa (beach in spanish - knickname for the dusty floor of the camp).

 Setting up Tendrillar Woods. For a view from the top of Tendrillar Woods, visit: http://michaelholden.com/view-tendrillar-woods-360-panorama.

 This was Ian's favorite Art Car. Yes, this is a moving vehicle. You could 'stoop' while being on the move. The backside of the porch was a kitchen handing out delectable treats.

 This is a view down the promenade towards the Temple at dawn.

 A view off into the playa.

Part of our great camp! Yeah Playapuss! Ian was gifted his outfit for this night. The dress didn't fit its original owner. The coat became comfortable at night when the temperatures dropped to the 40s.

The pendants around everyone's neck are their Happy Gems - a lit 'gem' that blinks in a specific color pattern until it is 'mated' with another Happy Gem through people hugging. When the Happy Gems get into contact, they unite their color patterns through WiFi communication and create a new shared pattern. There were 100 of them on the Playa and our camp had ~10 of them. We found some others while roaming around and it was great fun to hug and 'mate' our Happy Gems.