It was so great waking up with friends all around and the camp already working smoothly . Duaneswhirld is a really awesome camp.. great people and great organization..
Flatmo came buy to check in on us.. We showed their fire guy frank around our fire setup and got his approval which was so great to hear.
Despite all the fun distractions, For some of us.. Today was all about assembling Fluffy’s lights fire,. sound and overall making her playa worthy . We had to get everything on her in order to get her DMV day and night licenses and her Fire certification.. I wouldn’t be around to help after today so I chose to dedicate my day to working on fluffy..
it was intense work.. and kinda hard to concentrate with EDM music, naked hippies , old friends coming by.. but despite appearances I loved it.. I had so many people come by and tell me to relax.. .. but I didnt want to relax.. I love this.. making beautiful technical things..for peoples enjoyment.. it’s one of the things I most enjoy in the world !
Rebar did the assembly of the fire..a nd that came together really smoothly.. H’es so amazing. He took these pics of the samstone at the business end of our poofer
The lighting was really tough work.. the distraction, the dust, the heat all made it even harder than it was.. and it’s still too complicated.. It is a complicated dance of Steins wood rok to hang the clouds, Maries placement maps to find the connectors and my cabling and software to tie them together.. This is only the 2nd time we’ve assembled completely..and each time we do it I see ways to simplify. Diane is interested in helping us further simplify.. that will be for next year ..
we worked all day and night and by midnight we had the passenger side working pretty well..and the driver side about 1/3 done.
Max and Becky came by jsut as we were lighting things up !
Just as we got things going.. believe it or not.. it started to rain !.. Rain on the playa is never good.. the playa dust turns to cement. Tonight, we heard stories of gale force winds and torrential rain coming so we quickly found tarps to cover fluffy.. She’s not that waterproof..
Max and becky had to leave before I got the sound set up.. I said goodbye to them.. seeing them out here was really special for me.. It’s the main reason I actually decided to come. I’m glad we had at least a couple of hours spread across the two days to hang out.
The threatened rain never came.. so I kept working to make sure the software , lights and audio were working.. Believe it or not.. I only took two video.. and here they are.. I hope other folks get some vids
By this time it was about 2AM.. Drew handed me a grilled cheese.. (yum) .. I said good bye to everyone.. got in my rental van and headed back to reno..
SInce it was already ‘tomorrow’.. i’ll write about that for tuesday
nite all, nite sam
-me