Just back from the Icarus burn at friend Chris’s.. and it was my favorite ever.. !  My only job on this one was to bring my flamethrower.. which I happily did. I dropped it by mid afternoon..

then went home annd went ou with , gabe, max, jak, and diane to have d a little pre-burn sushi

 

We got to chris’s just after 8.. the guys were still rigging icarus up with fireworks..

 

Once again Chris had built a thing of of beauty. Icarus was about  15 feelt tall and standing on one strong leg. his wings were held together by cannon fuse and his body was full of fireworks.   The idea is that as the fuse burned , his feathers would fall just as in greek myth, the character Icarus’s feathers started to fall off when he flew near the son/ That icarus’s wings were fashioned for him by his father.. the great ‘artificer’ Deadilus.. a man I’ve always fet a great affinity for. He was a wizard and magician..

 

here are our hosts kim and chris..

 

 

along with their friends shane and amber .. who are flame dancers from Connecticut (and really nice people !)

 

Here are the four of us from burning man: chris, homer, dave and i

 

some last explosive rigging..

 

wouldn’t be complete without a samstone !

 

when it got sark. out came shane and amber. They did a wonderful set of fire poi staffs, fire hips and fire eating. it was fluid and beitiful !

 

Their routine ended with both of them blowing fire on Icarus to set him alight !!! it was incredible ..

 

Then up he went.. first a little, then alot !

 

a very appreciative crowd looked on..

Just when it looked like things were dying down. an magnesium engine block that Homer had put into the fire caught fire and bathed everything in a searing white ligt for nearly 20 minutes.. it was so crazy!

 

as things queted with teh fire, shancene and amber came out and did a few tricks.. then max stepped up and tried the staff.. He was outstanding !.. he looked like a pro !!!  i was really proud of him !

 

i took a few more shote of the flame thrower before we all called it a night..

 

Later on i had a great conversation wiht Shane about life, fire and everything else.. he taught me a good trick.. when someone says “I can’t do X”.. invite them to add the work ‘yet’ onto the end..

ie. I cant do fire poi”   translates to .. “I can’t do fire poi yet ?”  there’s always time to learn !

 

and he let me play with fire baton’s.. how cool is that ?!?!?

what a great evening..!

 

nowI”m too sleepy to keep typing.. so more from here tomorrow..

nite all, nite sam

-me