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Contemplative jam at L.A. Decom 2012
Thank you LA Decom friends!
We had an awesome time meeting you all and hearing you play!
We’ll have some photos and video up shortly. Meantime, come find us on Facebook!
Photos from Caine’s Arcade Day of Play
Fun at Caine’s Arcade – The Cardboard Challenge Day of Play
XyloVan was thrilled and tickled to be invited to join hundreds of kids (and grownups indulging their inner children) at the Caine’s Arcade Cardboard Challenge DAY OF PLAY.
Kids in Boyle Heights (and at Cardboard Challenge events all over the world) built wild, amazing toys, games and masks out of cardboard, tape and a little paint. And they reminded a lot of grownups about something we often forget: Making things is a joy and an adventure.
We’ll have more photos up shortly – stay tuned. And if you’re not already familiar with the kid whose imagination sparked a worldwide movement of child empowerment – well, check out their Facebook page, watch the video below and consider donating to the Caine’s Arcade Scholarship Fund:
Caine’s Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.
Burning Man 2012 – Whoa, what was THAT all about?
We left the playa 8 days ago.
We’re still trying to figure out this exhilarating, \ exhausting, just-got-mugged-in-a-brothel feeling.
Our 9th burn – the 6th for our two kids – started out wild. Then it grew wacky, turned mostly wonderful – and then veered toward the horribly woeful and deeply weird.
In the end, 2012 was a kick in the skull, a warm meal in the tummy, a pyrotechnic blast of hot air, a goosing of the chakras and raw noise and (of course) the
It’s just that it all happened at once. And things got, shall we say, a little madcap.
Your keywords for joining XyloVan on this crash-dive burn are dust bowl, flying saucers, Gate badassery, Swing City, Burn Wall Street, Center Camp, playa throat, nude acrobatics, darkwads, polo-shirted virgins and Goddammit, is AAA really charging fucking $1,595 to simply tow us and XyloVan from Exodus to Reno? …
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Burning Man 2012: Burn Wall Street – and torch that Egyptian god while you’re at it
At some point – say, \next year – we’ll probably quit aiming a camera at the same damn spectacle that everyone else is videoing and actually absorb a burn face-to-face with open soul, unfiltered by a 2-inch screen.
Until then, we’re happy to share these videos of Burn Wall Street and the Anubis burn:
Word from a friend in the Rangers was that the Anubis pyro show originally belonged to Burn Wall Street – but that the Burning Man Organization (BMORG or, simply, the Borg) reaappropriated it because of unspecified unreadiness on the part of the BWS crew.
It was a fine show:
Mutant Vehicle of the Year Award for Burning Man 2012
XyloVan loves meeting fellow mutant vehicles.
On Tuesday night, we stumbled across “Fusion,” a fantastic V8-powered desert roadster hand-wrought entirely of stainless-steel tubing, laboratory reactor vessels, LED arrays and raw badassery.
We can’t find much on the web about it – no build log, a few photos on Facebook, but it appears to be tied to Soul in the Machine. Any tips on its provenance and creators would be greatly welcomed.
In any case, for beauty, style and sheer kick-you-in-the-‘nads audacity, XyloVan gives Fusion our completely obscure but fully deserved Mutant Vehicle of the Year Award for 2012. Here’s a little video walkaround:
Contemplative Laura
Laura – a multiinstrumentalist who dropped by to discuss XyloVan mallet technology found a mood:
Thursday night jam
Mikaal, Hunter and a friend get into a groove in Swing City: