BM2K6 Art on Fire! #1 Art on Fire! #2 Art on Fire! #3 Playa-bound No Place Like Home Dust & Whiteouts The Man Kidsville Night Black Rock Rangers The Belgian Waffle Family Time Other Sights Leaving BRC
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Burning Man 2006: Sights
Café L'Hippocamus, a Francophile establishment, displayed the costumes and music and cuisine of the mother-country. It was great! Just like being back in Paris, but better.
The Playa Princess, borne by her man, a frequent visitor through Kidsville. The loudspeaker-bicycle combination seems to have worked out well for them.
I apologize for not remembering the name of the bar, but these bartenders were the highlight of one of my strolls. They were pleasant, enthusiastic, and served surprisingly refreshing beverages.
Thes folks, who stopped their mobile bar during a whiteout, quickly gathered quite a clientele who hunkered down and imbibed. Nobody seemed the worse for wear, nor was anyone in a rush to leave.
The Golden Calf is a predictably recurring theme at Burning Man. This huge one, built on a bus frame, was encountered motoring around the Center Camp ring road. It's a scary place to have a mix of big iron and lots of happy people, but all was good.
One of our bus-mates, at the Temple. That's heavy leather she's wearing in the mid-day sun. I don't know how. I'd pass out. I have a hard enough time with lightweight cotton long-sleeved shirts! Heavyweight leather?
The propane-burning Flaming Tuba is a favorite: I love the sounds of a good polka and the fire erupting and changing with every blast just makes a good thing even better.
I love the formal steampunk costumes, but I suspect these people - and many others - have set a greater priority on having plentiful showers during the week. It's not that I don't just love a good hot shower, but it hasn't broken my playa top ten list (yet).
LEAL Ranger @pparatus, taking care of the citizenry. "Making reasonable excuses for your behavior since 1996" goes the saying. It's true.
Kidsville takes the Center Camp Café stage! We're given some time to put on our own performance, which winds up being a quazi-opera thing. We had arts and crafts just behind the backdrop you're seeing, and in the aisleway at left. The audience was remarkably attentive.
I think the comment stands powerfully on its own:
I FEAR I WILL
BREAK MY NECK
ON THESE RIDICULIOUSLY
STEEP STAIRS. WHAT
BUILDERS - MAYANS?
Lila and Isaac enjoy the centering of an ice Buddha. Practical religion actualized; what's not to like?
This is a prime example of what Rangers do: somehow thin seriously confused recent arrival made their way through two levels of barriers to get their still-packed car onto the inner playa and all the way out to the Man. I escort them back to the Esplanade on foot, and we don't see them (in their car) again. Success.
Sometimes the kids are at each other, and other times they tenderly care for each other. Here's a moment between big brother Isaac and little sister Lila. (I just can't figure out how to optimize for the latter.)
Lila and Isaac playa a full-sized version of a kids game. The playa seems to bring that out in playa art designers. The kids love it and remember it and talk about it through the whole year.
A butterfly entertains the kids. Well, more accurately, they liked the idea of her being a big butterfly, and the little butterflies that made up the costume.
Day is done, almost. In the rays of a setting sun the kids spend a few minutes playing with these swings and looking through the stained glass. I'm not sure it's designed with kids in mind, but I'm always really happy when it's kid-accessable.
Our event is drawing to a close, and tomorrow we'll be leaving the playa.
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