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Comment on Lucidity Festival 2012 – All about inner light by factoid

factoid — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:10:29 +0000

Gimme a minute – still washing the excess dreams out of my hair …

Comment on Lucidity Festival 2012 – All about inner light by DaveLaFontaine

DaveLaFontaine — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:19:57 +0000

We can haz video files w/audio of the beeyootiful music, pleez?

Comment on Beauty at Burning Man 2010 by DustyCoutureDotCom

DustyCoutureDotCom — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:15:35 +0000

Yeah Factoid, that’d be great, turn on the wife and encourage her to send some pics of her outfits too! Here’s a blogging tip: when I reply to someone’s comment, I email them the reply in addition to posting it on my blog, that way they know to check back and stay in the discussion

Comment on XyloVan on Burn night – a blessing of flame and ashes, or What’s It All For? by factoid

factoid — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:13:19 +0000

Yeah, the fireworks budget has grown rather Sino-Soviet in proportion – big stuff meant to please the crowd. I remember the first year I went in ’96, there was a brief if lively fire conclave, and then a guy in a fire retardant suit lit himself, ran up the hay-bale foundation, touched his glaming hands to a few key spots and capered out of site to meet the safety crew with the fire extinguishers while the man went up in a pure orange blaze. No fireworks, no monkey business.

Next time we burn, we hope you can drag you along in any case, the playa was positively seething with art and energy this year – bodes well for the community.

Comment on XyloVan on Burn night – a blessing of flame and ashes, or What’s It All For? by DaveLaFontaine

DaveLaFontaine — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:57:08 +0000

A true indicator of an authentic spiritual experience is its capacity to suppress the cynical adult voice in us, and allow the dormant child within to speak. As such, Mack’s call to “Light it, already!” in the first video certainly qualifies…

It’s been more than a decade since I went – I don’t remember there being that much fireworks before the burn. Wow. Did somebody get a bulk discount? Maybe it’s because so many cities, counties & etc. had to cut back on their 4th of July festivities these past few years that lots of cordite-smelling things that go “BANG!” were lying around…? At any rate, but build-up was certainly worth it.

Deeply regret that we could not be at this with you in our physical essences, but rest assured, we were there with you in our souls. And perhaps in some stray sweat & hair follicles stuck to the $#&!! heavy roof rack…

Comment on Beauty at Burning Man 2010 by factoid

factoid — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:26 +0000

Hey, awesome to hear from you, and thanks for the kind words. I checked out your blog earlier, and will definitely turn my wife onto it – she’s always trying to push the playa-fashion envelope. Chrs!

Comment on Beauty at Burning Man 2010 by DustyCoutureDotCom

DustyCoutureDotCom — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:56:56 +0000

LOVE this post and blog archiving your art project! I didn’t interact with you out there but I have very much enjoyed reading of your trials and ultimate success! I’m a blogging burner too who specializes in the fashion-centric aspects of our culture: DustyCouture.Com

Comment on Re-mounting the enormous honkin’ rack by DaveLaFontaine

DaveLaFontaine — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:21:56 +0000

As you guys drove away, I said a silent prayer that the God of ShadeTree Mechanics was in a benevolent mood that day, and that all the bolts & fasteners did their assigned jobs.

Every time we do something and it actually turns out not to cause a nuclear meltdown or Extinction-Level-Event, I am suspicious.

The view from up top is definitely tantalizing….

Comment on Sandblasting the enormous honkin’ rack by factoid

factoid — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:16:50 +0000

Breaking Bad indeed – paranoia, flop sweat and cursing, on my part. Of course now I wanna go back and sandblast all the xylophones too – should give ‘em a wicked sheen.

Comment on Sandblasting the enormous honkin’ rack by DaveLaFontaine

DaveLaFontaine — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:14:14 +0000

I am always surprised to be referred to as “burly,” but I guess that’s lingering memories of how scrawny I was for most of my (misspent) youth. Now I look at these photos and go “Whoa! Who’s the wandering offensive lineman?” Anyway – it was actually rather Zen … like Zen and the Art of Dangerous Tool-Use or some such. It was a surprise how much effort it took to blast that stubborn paint off the rack. The rust flaked right off, but that latex, man, that stuff is stubborn.

What I most treasured was the looks of horror in the family in the sedan that mistakenly drove down the alley, and found me looking like a Cowboy Alien. Or perhaps a menacing Meth Chef (have I been watching Breaking Bad too much lately?)

Those respirator masks are sure dorky, but I do prefer that to hocking up a lung for the rest of my life.