Today was my first// and likely last  full day on the Playa this year and I made the most of it ..   I woke up early-ish and worked with Steven to fix up a couple of bikes.. I thien went off in search of max and becky

 

I found them at the fear beast.. a work led by Tigre.. and amazing artist / maker from Santa Fe. They were friends with many of our friends from Meow Wolf so it I was great seeing them.. I ran into Taz, Cathy, and a few other folks.  It was so great being able to work with and hang out with max and becky. Thsi was a really nice project they were drafted in to help late in production. max dfi a bunch of fab and welding for them.. while Becky worked her project management and artistic magic

 

I  worked with max and becky on and off through the day doing odd jobs, mostly clean up around their build.  I also helepd max wiht the dmx mapping a bit. A couple of time i headed out for a few hours to look at art and find firends..

I visited Illumination Village (Ill-Vill) to see if any of my freinds were there.. it’s my favorite flame makers group… I didn’t know anyone there.. but had fun seeign the art and talkign to soem other fire folks

I visited my good freinds at thunder gumbo and saw my good freinds Jac and Bruce.. and got to climb on my old freind BOOGA the 6 wheel beast thats part of their art car.. I

(here’s what Max and I once did with booga )

 

 

I enet and visited Duane and Micky at el pulpo  to see their brand new El Pulpo Magnifico !. Diuane has been so helpful to us in building our flame effects.. THey are so great !

Early afternoon the truck showed up with Gizzo and Rebar and others started showing up.. our camp was beginning  to come together

 

Our friend Kane did a masterful job of organizing all of us around putting up camp

We took a few moments to watch the amazing sunset…

We kept building past dark..   and watched our neighbors come to life.. Flatmo’s  El pulpo magnifico..  Is just down the road from us .. and it is truly magnifico !

AND THEN ….  !

at 10pm … we were wonderfully surprised to see Duane and Fluffy driving in..    just  5.  days  late   

FLUFFY MADE IT !!!!   We were so happy.

We immediately started to unload her and get gear ready for putting her together tomorrow.

 

Once all the stuff was ready to go, a bunch of us went out on bokes to check out the playa.. it was crowded now.. just like burning man is supposed to be !

I got to bed around 3.. super excited to begin gettign Fluffy ready to roll tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me