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Rough Year
It was a tough year out on the playa but the art was like totes amazing. I really struggled this year to make it happen. Between the global pandemic, wearing a mask 24/7, and the heat, it was just a slog to make all these photos. I was pretty tired coming into the burn but I tried my best as usual. The photos are mostly in reverse chronological order. If you look at the filename it will tell you the date.
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Here are my Burning Man 2019 Photos! There are roughly a quadrillion photos on this page. Some images might be NSFW. Please be patient while this page loads. All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them you must attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co You cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
Rough Shape Raising two small children is taking a toll on me. My kids are now 2 and 4 years old and I’m pretty much exhausted all the time and I’ve gained quite a bit of weight. So I started the 2019 Burn mentally fried, physically exhausted, and totally out of shape. I also injured myself just before the burn. I reached back behind the passenger seat of my car to lift a very heavy camera bag (duh!) and destroyed my forearm. Something pulled or tore in my right forearm and it hasn’t been the same since. Fun! When I arrived on playa after driving over 2000 miles in an RV I was in pretty rough shape. So bear with me.
Wifi is Stupid I had the brilliant idea of running a Wifi network for my camp this year. In previous burns I had wasted lots of time seeking connectivity to send an ALL OK message back and forth to my family home. So I did what you do, I built a bigass wifi network. I then opened the network to everyone in the spirit of radical inclusion. No password or captive portal or anything. (Just throttled speed) The network performed well thanks to the work of the Burning Man IT team and my friend Sarge. That said, it was shocking to see how quickly people went from being thrilled to find out they have connectivity to complaining about it. The network would sometimes be down early in the morning when I wasn’t even in camp (batteries would run down at night) and folks would bug me about it upon my return. The last thing I wanted to do was deal with tech support when all I wanted was rest. At peak there we’re 131 devices connected to my network at any one time. The most essential use of the network (other than me talking to my family) was a person who used the network to call Switzerland. This person’s mother had recently gone into hospital and had been diagnosed with Cancer. Some people we’re people streaming Netflix despite me asking them not to abuse the network. They then wondered why they got blocked. You give an inch…
Tried My Best What follows is the best I could do given the state of my mind and body. I hope it’s enough. I worked for the entire burn so the Burning Man community could enjoy these images.
Wait HALP! I tend to make lots of mistakes here with captions and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me how about it. For example you could tell me the names of various unknown pieces or art. Or just how I’m doing it wrong. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.
More Useless Information: The images below are in reverse chronological order starting with the man burn and ending with the builds. This was first published October 18th, 2019. These images are also on Flickr and Photo.Duncan.co.
Reversed order of photos and fixed a few captions.
Click on any photo to see it at full resolution.
Thank you to the Burning Man Org and community.
Man Burn
Man Burn
Man Burn
Man Burn
This is what it looks like when you’re so exhausted you completely screw up. I guess next time I should be more prepared and take better care of myself. There is always next year I guess. :( In this image I managed to not only over expose the frame but it’s also out of focus. So frustrating but thought I’d share one of my many many failures this year.
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
The Man
The Man
The Man
Man Burn Night
Crimson Rose is a badass
Man Burn Night
Man Burn Night
Moon (only real Moons this year?)
Man Base dusk burn night.
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: tulemammothproject@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Lovely burner
Disco Jesus and a friend
Burner and RV with amazing artwork. Love the colors here. RV Art by = Sector 17 = sectr17@gmail.com
Lovely burner
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: emily.nicolosi@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The man is prepped for the man burn.
Up close with the man
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: emily.nicolosi@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
Paraluna
by: Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
Paraluna is a giant, spinning disc of LEDs. Classical music plays from speakers on the ground while complementary animated patterns are displayed on the disc above. The disc is held up by a boom lift, allowing the disc to be raised, lowered, and tilted, to dramatic effect.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/paraluna
Contact: paraluna_bman@ledlabs.co
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat Mutant Vehicle and Cone Down Black and White
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
DANGER! Men At Twerk
Teamwork makes the dream work.
<3
Two amazing pilots! Thank you for the views.
Always a pleasure to fly on this beauty.
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
Some nature at the foot of Old Razorback mountain
Up close with Old Razorback Mountain
Aerial view of the area around Black Rock City
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Nice layers of shade on this tent.
The ‘I was so exhausted I couldn’t get out of bed so I climbed on the roof of my RV “sunrise” shot’…
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. – Rumi
The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection
by: Anton Viditz-Ward & Deep Creek Experimental
from: Telluride, CO
year: 2019
Two large wheels hung on two axles driven independently by two drive shafts with hand-cranks. The wheels are cages that will contain firewood that is set on fire and spun by the hand-cranked drive shafts.
Contact: antonviditzward@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW1fUAG
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Green flame at The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Deep playa art at night. Name unknown.
Bathtub near the trash fence at night. Name unknown.
Pyramid Name Unknown
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: hello@theinnersun.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
One of my favorite experiences this burn was controlling these 500AMP spotlights wirelessly using a tablet. You drag your finger across the tablet screen and the spotlights move accordingly. Also these folks let me put on welders glasses so I could stick my face in front of the beam and see the arc light. It was scary as hell and my face got hot very fast but damn was it incredible! Thank you! (These we’re previously military spotlights that would have infrared beams so the battlefield would be illuminated to soldiers wearing infrared goggles… In that situation the beams were invisible to the enemy.)
Project Flashlight
by: Neal Strickberger
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Project flashlight is the joy of light at grand scale.
Pure, incredibly bright white beam-like fingers of God in the dust, contrast with the night sky, scale across the open playa, interplay of beams, light in motion.
Military/NASA billion-candlepower searchlights, reanimated for art! Interactive with tablet controls.
URL: http://projectflashlight.org
Contact: info@projectflashlight.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY00UAG
One of my favorite experiences this burn was controlling these 500AMP spotlights wirelessly using a tablet. You drag your finger across the tablet screen and the spotlights move accordingly. Also these folks let me put on welders glasses so I could stick my face in front of the beam and see the arc light. It was scary as hell and my face got hot very fast but damn was it incredible! Thank you! (These we’re previously military spotlights that would have infrared beams so the battlefield would be illuminated to soldiers wearing infrared goggles… In that situation the beams were invisible to the enemy.)
Project Flashlight
by: Neal Strickberger
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Project flashlight is the joy of light at grand scale.
Pure, incredibly bright white beam-like fingers of God in the dust, contrast with the night sky, scale across the open playa, interplay of beams, light in motion.
Military/NASA billion-candlepower searchlights, reanimated for art! Interactive with tablet controls.
URL: http://projectflashlight.org
Contact: info@projectflashlight.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY00UAG
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
It was a real treat to see my brazillian friends. I hadn’t seen them since like 2016.
This bride was looking for a bottle opener. I always carry a multitool on me so I opened the bottle. Then we made htis image.
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
I had been following Steve’s work for ages online so it was nice to meet him IRL.
On the nose but can’t resist.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
My friend Scott making great images. You can see some of his spectacular work here: https://www.scottlondon.com
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing. (with a campmate who couldn’t make the group photo lazily photoshopped in)
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Such a nice guy
This fellow had lots of energy and he was very friendly.
Skydivers and The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Ran into Rick while taking a break in the shade of his vehicle.
ICHY Artist Name Unknown
Always great to see to see you on the playa my man!
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Merrilee Proffitt on the Electric Wrecker Mutant Vehicle, by Keith Johnson and Merrilee Proffitt
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Expansion Pavilion, The Folly, and Old Razorback Mountain
Duane and Micki in front of their El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle and Reared In Steel’s Fire Kethedral
El Pulpo Mecanico and Reared In Steel’s Fire Kethedral
Closeup of El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle
El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle
The Tower
by: ART BARF
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2019
The Tower is an interactive lifeguard stand and observation deck accessible by ladder. Visitors can climb up to the deck and observe the playa from a new vantage. Inside the hut, visitors find simple tools for spontaneous interaction. Made of untreated wood, the simple shape looks both silly and at home on the waterless beach. Named for card 16 in the tarot’s major arcana, where The Tower represents the chaos of sudden change.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9sTUAS
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: stonetwentyseven@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
I run my entire life sober so seeing something like this just totally blows my mind.
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
forget being the art. be the FART!
Portal
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
Danee is a fantastic photogapher and a good friend. You can see his work over at: https://www.daneehazama.com
Love Cow (Thanks to Anastasia for the caption update.)
Thank you for the ocarina performance. Always a pleasure.
Hammock Hangout Camp
Flintstones Mutant Vehicle
Free Photography Zone by John Brennan from Santa Clara, California
(Thanks to Reddit user Mookyhands for the caption update here.)
Nice digs at the airport.
Cleaning up MOOP is super important.
Mayan Warrior and Robot Heart
Robot Heart and Mayan Warrior
Nom Nom Nom (Camp name unknown)
Great to meet you.
Nice chatting with you!
Great to meet you!
Ibiza Camp Mutant Vehicle Engine, Robot Heart, And Mayan Warrior
Lovely burner
lovely burners
lovely burners
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
Waiting for sunrise.
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
The party continues. This was shot before dawn at Robot Heart and the Mayan Warrior
Name Unknown
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: howelljosephw@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Name Unknown
Niloticus
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Niloticus is a 40 foot long mosaic crocodile that invites visitors to climb on top of him. His eyes, teeth, and osteoderms will light up in the night.
Contact: peter@peterhazel.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW2iUAG
Name Unknown
I.L.Y (After the pyrotechnic display)
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: ilyproject2019@gmail.com
I.L.Y. (Pyrotechnic Display)
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: ilyproject2019@gmail.com
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: info@weldqueen.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: info@weldqueen.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance, the Folly, and Old Razorback in Black and White
Burner holding large American flag.
Temple Guardian
The Flybrary
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: spitfire4rg@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
The Flybrary
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: spitfire4rg@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
Daft Punk Bus Stop Poster at The Intersection X
by: Invisible Pink Unicorns
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
Nothing stays the same. We are changing all the time and the world around us is changing as well. In the place of last year intersection the new one appeared. It is the same, but absolutely different. Metamorphose took its toll.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/theintersectionart
Contact: kirill.v.ivanov@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVyvUAG
The Intersection X, The Temple of Direction, and the Flybrary
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
The TVs
by: Steve LaBerge, Damon Koronakos and the TV Artists
from: Tacoma, WA; San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The TVs collectively resemble a highway billboard standing about 12 feet tall and 18 feet wide. 20 fiberglass TVs, each embellished by different artists with thoughts of what TV has meant to them.
During the day some people will get off their bikes to take a close look at what each of the 20 artists did to each of the TVs regarding the topic: TV. Participants will think about and relate to the messages put forth.
At night the display shows beautiful LED animations across all TVs as if the TVs together represent a single large screen. As a participant approaches the installation, the participant’s moving image silhouette will be super-imposed upon the animations and displayed across the wall.
#TheTVs
URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92288254@N04/
Contact: labergesteve@hotmail.com
MMETAL
Name Unknown
HELL. Burning Man Mutant Vehicle fuel infrastructure.
Name unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
MDCCLXXVI Mutant Vehicle
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Dust Devil
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
BYTE
by: Jason Blanda
from: Guttenberg, NJ
year: 2019
B.Ÿ.T.E. (Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation) consists of two monolithic, anthropomorphic microchips representing the very first sentient robots to be freed from slavery, Chip and Terra.
Chip and Terra were first set free to play on the dusty dance floor of deep playa at Black Rock City in 2018. Their virgin year home was one of exploration as they adapted to their newly found liberation.
This year, they hope to enter the imago stage of their evolution and return home to embrace the magical whimsy, radical self expression and symbiotic love as they emerge from their chrysalis and blossom into the colorful, loveable creatures they were always meant to embody. They hope to fully complete their Metamorphoses.
URL: https://www.cleaveranimated.com/byte-art-installation
Contact: jay@cleaveranimated.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6XUAW
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly in the dust
Love Her But Leave Her Wild – Atticus
love, earth
by: The love, earth writer collective
from: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
year: 2019
The largest love letter movement ever conceived. The purpose: to inspire a clean climate future by spreading simple commitments to our planet. The art is intended to mobilize citizens to use the power of sending and receiving letters of love from Earth to change, contribute and commit to an environment that we can all be proud of.
The installation will be large enough to be captured from space, and thus our imaginations. In year one, a sky-facing comma will emerge and form a love letter altar. Within the wood structure, a writing area would support a hanging collection of completed letters, growing organically, drawing on attendees to contribute to a siren call from Earth, distributed around the world after the event by the artists.
URL: http://love.lettersfromearth.org/installation
Contact: love@lettersfromearth.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T96KUAS
Burners and Dust
love, earth
by: The love, earth writer collective
from: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
year: 2019
The largest love letter movement ever conceived. The purpose: to inspire a clean climate future by spreading simple commitments to our planet. The art is intended to mobilize citizens to use the power of sending and receiving letters of love from Earth to change, contribute and commit to an environment that we can all be proud of.
The installation will be large enough to be captured from space, and thus our imaginations. In year one, a sky-facing comma will emerge and form a love letter altar. Within the wood structure, a writing area would support a hanging collection of completed letters, growing organically, drawing on attendees to contribute to a siren call from Earth, distributed around the world after the event by the artists.
URL: http://love.lettersfromearth.org/installation
Contact: love@lettersfromearth.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T96KUAS
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly in the dust
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Maxa Xaman
The Temple of Direction in the dust
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Island of Lost Buoys
by: Lillian Heyward and The Island of Lost Buoys, a Create Change Project
from: Bluffton, SC
year: 2019
On the playa is an Island, a wooden tree dominates the center made of recycled pallets, crates and drift wood. Leaves of sculpted plastic bottles rustle in the wind. Strung from a branch is a hammock made of fishing net attached to a ocean buoy marooned on the beach. Hanging from the branches are sea buoys and balls providing a place to write names or leave a message to those who will come after.
Hanging from branches are bamboo wind chimes that softly clatter in the breeze. It is an island, a refuge, a place of calm and childhood in the stormy seas of life. It appears out of the playa as a mirage, the fantasy playground of youth. Discarded materials transform into an oasis, as our adult lives transform back to childhood. Bangarang!
URL: http://www.createchangeproject.com
Contact: islandoflostbuoys@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVsTUAW
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: themansarmy@gmail.com
The Man Base
SACRA
by: Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA/Bali, Indonesia
year: 2019
Sacra is a totemic gateway, symbolizing a pivotal point between infinite and finite. The sacrum (= ‘holy bone’) is the first gateway through which we metamorphize from space to substance, into the wordly realm. It is also the last bone that disintegrates, holding ritual significance in ancient cultures, as a reminder of the past and future passage that we all share. Sacra’s focal point is a ‘sacral object’, embedded with convex mirrors reflecting our shared cellular origins; a bowed gate like a funnel for source into form; a silhouette echoing Japanese torii gates, which traditionally indicate a passage between the profane/worldly plane to the sacred. “Sacra” mirrors that journey, literally and poetically, in reverse and also ‘in between’.
URL: https://www.kirstenberg.com
Contact: kberginfo@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJBUA4
The Man in the dust
It was a pleasure to chat with you Blade. Congratulations!
Interesting security tactic. Big (plastic) chains on your bike to make them appear to be locked up.
Every time I see my hommie out there he plays me a jam on his ocarina. It’s such a treat.
Name unknown
Great to meet you. Hope that 4k footage turned out!
Sky MOOP. ugh. We can do better. LNT includes the sky.
Great to meet you.
Nice usage of those old recycled electric scooters.
Great to meet you.
BRN 11
Beautiful and happy family.
zOMG! It’s my little friend again!
Spending a little time with my new friend Jamen was one of the highlights of my burn. Jamen is a true gentleman and an outstanding photographer. Thank you for the playa gift. It is one of the best ever! You can see Jamen’s work here: http://www.jamenpercy.com His spectacular photos from this year are here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGX6GHu
Make Art
Lovely Burner
Wonderful colors on the side of a mutant vehicle name unknown.
So great to see you again! (Sorry I couldn’t make a better photo at the time but you look great!)
This was a wonderful morning because we had what felt like two sunrises.
Just married
Just married
Lovely burners
Sunrise at Point 3
Sunrise at Point 3
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of his incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
Sunday Sunrise
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of his incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of this incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
Hani’s Deep Playa Tax Refueling at Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: awfuls@awfulsgas.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Man Base
Henry Chang’s Flux Capacitor Mutant vehicle and I.L.Y
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: ilyproject2019@gmail.com
Playa Penthouse
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Folly in the dust
Good times
Mutant Vehicle name unknown
Fragments, 2019
by: Marc Ippon de Ronda
from: Paris, France
year: 2019
“Fragments” by French artist Marc Ippon de Ronda has been designed for Burning Man 2019. Where the artist turns an old Black Rock Desert legend into reality.
The installation plays with the illusion of appearances and our ever-changing perception of self and surroundings, a recurring theme in de Ronda’s work. During the day Burners see their reflections evolve inside the fragmented mirrors as they move through the sand winds and find shelter in its corners and covers. At sunrise and sunset the installation invites for meditation. Burners ascend and descend the central staircase experiencing a golden hue of warmth from the sun. At night, “Fragments” shifts again into abstract LED surfaces creating a magical apparition in the desert darkness.
URL: https://fragmentsart.org
Contact: contact@fragmentsart.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW2JUAW
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Shewolf
by: Chris Mack
from: Monterey, CA
year: 2019
The Shewolf is nature, constantly giving and directing our growth for thousands of years. Only recently has man conquered nature by what we think is a smart and clever manipulation for our benefit. “What nature can do, man can do better.”
Or can we? Has man depleted our mother or is she still willing to nurture us? Come out and drink from the elixir from nature’s breasts. Lay in her shadow, protected from harm.
Shewolf now has a partner wolf. Can he keep up? Can we keep up?
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9rfUAC
Playa at dusk
Mutant Vehicle (name unknown) and the Head Maze
Head Maze
by: Matthew Schultz and The Pier
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
The Head Maze is a purposeful juxtapositions of two forms, a peaceful meditative reflection and our inevitable struggle with the nature of cognition; a monolithic mind caught in time between multiple selves. The head towers four stories over the playa floor, encased in mulberry paper and epoxy modeled after the work of Yoshio Ikezaki. The head rests in repose while its left hand claws at its mind fighting to reveal a crystalline stained glass structure akin to the “Space Whale” inside.
A series of hidden doors in the mouth, wrists and head open into a four story, 18 room maze. Each modular room creates a unique space dedicated to the nature of our minds, our struggles with being and the weird and fanciful process of dreaming.
URL: http://www.headmaze.com
Contact: headmaze2019@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVtbUAG
Wing Portal
by: Suki Somersall, Sven Eberwein, John Briscella, Maria Dubrovskaya, Alexander Green, Stephan Rodan, Josh McFarland, Glenn Fischer, Vincent Lauenstein
from: California
year: 2019
Built as a gift for California, a sculpture of transcendence made from the ruins of the 2018 fires. This past fall our community here in California was hit by the devastating fires that destroyed hundreds of homes and affected so many lives. These events have deeply changed us.
As a visual metaphor to transcendence and metamorphosis, our team is building a sculpture out of the ruins from the fire and is bringing it to another place of deep personal transformation: Burning Man. And after the Burn, the sculpture will be publicly installed in California.
The wings span 60 feet across, and are built out of recycled metal, iridescent dichroic acrylic panels and thousands of LED lights.
URL: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wing-portal-debuting-at-burning-man-2019#/
Contact: suz@kirakira.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXjOUAW
Name unknown
Name Unknown
Tulpa Ashrams
by: One Art Museum
from: Peking, China
year: 2019
TULPA ASHRAMS is a tower group represents the fusion of senses. Tulpa is a concept in mysticism and the paranormal of a being or object which is created through spiritual or mental powers. It was adapted by 20th century theosophists from Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་པ་ which means “emanation” or “manifestation”.
Emerging from a study into the geometry of Chinese art and architecture, the tower group references motifs and elements traditionally found in Tibetan Buddhism, chanting music, sacred places, and daily objects though in itself.
Tulpa Ashrams has ties to no religion. It transcends time and space, memories and culture.They are chaotic eons of the past and a distant future of the unknown.
URL: http://bit.ly/2pFBH0Q
Contact: jinxu0924@hotmail.com
Burning Man Is Stupid.
If memory serves this is called The Oasis. Random passerby burners get pampered and fanned. You get misted and they hand feed you fruit in the chair while you recline. Some people we’re trying to do one of those colorful smokebomb photoshoots upwind from us. The smoke was so thick we could barely breath. I went over and politely asked them if they could take their photoshoot elsewhere. I also asked them to think about whether or not smokebombs are MOOP…
Nice to meet you!
SACRED GROUNDS by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 14.5 X 10 FT
6.5 X 4.5 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
SACRED GROUNDS by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 14.5 X 10 FT
6.5 X 4.5 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY USE STAIRS
Lingerie 3rd floor
Name Unknown
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Name Unknown
Some of my friends discussing their various creative endeavors. Not sure who that interloper is in the back. Just kidding. I freakin love you Mr. Wonderful!
Black Rock City
Black Rock City
Black Rock City
I took a rest sitting up here. I love pieces with chairs…
The Bard’s Branch
by: Pam Ward
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
I would like to bring my childhood joy of books and climbing trees to the playa by building a tree library. A comfy armchair will be in the nest at the top for folks to read in, shaded with branches. It will look like an old organic library with bookshelves, staircases and books stacked all over it. Recessed shelves will be hidden in the trunk and books will have light up letters, inspiring words and pop-up images inside. There is a playful childlike energy to the piece. The Bard’s Branch will bring joy & stir the imagination.
Contact: thebardsbranch@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVqXUAW
(Thanks to Annelise for the caption update here)
These pink cowgirls we’re SUPER fun.
BLM Ranger
This guy was about the healthiest looking person I’ve ever seen. So I struck up a conversation with him about health. I’ve got a major dadbod going on these days and he was a doctor. So we had a lovely little chat.
Shout out to the people who maintain their fitness out there. I can’t even stay fit in the default world so it always impresses me when I see folks staying active out there.
Out Of Band III mutant vehicle.
One of my favorite moments from the burn was when this little one came to me and reached out her hand. She was just learning to walk and was curious about my camera. She grabbed my hand and played with all the buttons on my camera! It was so such a sweet little moment.
Mayan Warrior
Some of the people who make Burning Man so great.
So great to meet you and thanks for being such a great person to photograph!
Love this Burner’s whole vibe. He was so nice.
Name Unknown
Drinking from the gas pump at Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: awfuls@awfulsgas.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
Elevation at sunrise
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: mc@michaelchristian.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Temple of Brad Pitt
by: Geodesic Temple
from: Upstate NY
year: 2019
The Temple of Brad Pitt channels the famous Hollywood actor. It captures Brad Pitt’s aura, extracts the essence of his being through data gathering and redisplays it as a data portrait and performative sculpture enabling Burning Man 2019 participants who enter a special apparatus to briefly experience what it is to be him.
URL: http://tobrit.geodesictemple.com/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9nYUAS
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Bee Dance
by: Andrea Greenlees, Andy Tibbetts, and Josh Haywood
from: London, UK & Reno, NV
year: 2019
Bee Dance is a whimsical and inviting art installation in the form of two gigantic Dancing Bees, their legs entwined and their heads touching in a bee kiss. It celebrates one of the most fascinating examples of communication in the natural world — when forager bees return from their exploratory flights and perform the Bee Dance for the other bees, carrying out specific routines in order to communicate the distance and direction of pollen, nectar and water from the hive.
Bee Dance is a strong climbable structure that Burners can clamber over and cling to, just as pollen clings to a bee. The Bees are bronze in colour, but on their dancing feet they wear gleaming copper ballet shoes with copper ribbons. The Bees are transformed into dancers.
Contact: andrea@hylemo.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVlmUAG
The Man Base before sunrise.
The Artery
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: howelljosephw@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: howelljosephw@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: howelljosephw@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
These folks stopped me and said hey can you take our picture. I was like hell yeah I can!
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lovely burners.
These ladies we’re very excited about breastfeeding.
Tzompantli
by: T. Booth Haley
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Tzompantli were skull racks that were built in front of temples in a number of Mesoamerican civilizations to demonstrate the power of the ruling elite and their gods. The sacrificial victims are thought to have been mostly captives of war.
Each victim was skinned and had a hole cut in the cranium by an expert using obsidian blades. Tzompantli is a Nahuatl word, the language of the Aztecs, and the largest one was in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. It was 60 by 30 meters, several meters tall, and contained an estimated 60,000 skulls.
This BRC tzompantli is a replica of the ancient ones. The historical tzompantli stood outside the oldest temples of the Americas and here the skull rack stands outside the newest temple of the Americas.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXAxUAO
Playa hug.
Love this one.
These guys we’re so nice.
These guys we’re so nice.
These guys we’re so nice.
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Name Unknown
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Lovely Burners
Lovely Burners
Nice to see you Takeshi!
Name Unknown
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at the Folly
Name unknown
It was a pleasure to meet you.
747
doin it right. 1800 go pudgey.
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction and the Larry Memorial
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Wonderful Burner
Tatanka
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Tatanka is an Indian word for buffalo. For the Northern Plains people Tatanka meant life. Ceremonies and daily life revolved around sacred reverences to Tatanka. They relied upon the bison for food, clothing, housing, tools, just to name a few. This piece is a 9′ tall mosaic buffalo created in Reno, NV by large scale sculpture artist Peter Hazel. The piece is made up of thousands of handmade tiles of various colors, textures, and sizes.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9wBUAS
Wonderful Burner
Name unknown
Lovely burner
Couple of classy gentlemen and a cool bike.
Lovely burner
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
Lovely burner
Connections
by: Oxana Belka
from: Chicago, IL
year: 2019
We will bring ten mannequins. Building on the foundation of the human form, each mannequin will be uniquely painted and designed and will represent the spectrum of human emotions.
As a whole, the art piece will represent the human experience. We live in a symbiotic relationship where we influence and affect change in one another. Through creativity, expression, and vulnerability, we are able to transform those around us, and they in turn transform us.
At night, the mannequins will also be illuminated. The illumination will breathe life and further animate these forms. To the observer, the mannequins will become representative of not only the burning man experience but also a transformative journey, fueled by our bonds.
Contact: oxanavfursenko@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TABCUA4
(thanks to Reddit user petrograd for the caption update)
Name unknown (remote controlled couch thing)
Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: awfuls@awfulsgas.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
Lovely burner
Deep playa sunrise
Nice contact lenses. This fellow mentioned they actually worked as lenses!
Deep playa sunrise
Lovely burner
Nice flamethrower! Name unknown
Mayan Warrior
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Robot Heart, Broken But Together, and a Polar Bear (Bear name unknown)
Maxa Xaman Mutant Vehicle
Positive Reactor
by: Assaf Allouche
from: El Sitio de Playa Venao, Panama Republic
year: 2019
The Reactor is a large complexed geometric structure made of endless triangles. From the ground it looks like a crown or a pomograne, but from its center it forms the sacred geometrical shape of the Merkaba.
Its purpose is to remind us that acts of kindness reward the giver, the receiver and the witness of the good acts, with a boost of oxytocin, producing good feeling to all and taking nothing in return. Therefore creating energy — a Reactor!
URL: https://www.thereactorproject.com
Contact: onlylove@thereactorproject.com
(Thanks for Reddit user jlev for the caption update here)
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: tyson@soundcave.org
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
The Larry Memorial
by: Dana Albany, Andrew Johnstone, David Best, Flash Hopkins
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
A stepped pyramid crowned with a palanquin and large spire, flanked on each corner by lamplighter spires.
It serves as a physical representation of Larry’s mind palace and contains some of Larry’s books and mementos.
Contact: danaalbany@juno.com
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Taking Flight
by: Nicki Adani
from: Mill Valley, CA
year: 2019
Nicki Adani’s “Taking Flight” emboldens visitors to be who they truly are, inspiring them to leave behind what is holding them back. A 10-foot tall feminine bird-like figure, welded from raw steel rods and tubes, her wings spread wide, takes flight from her perch upon a 10-foot tall spoked wheel, representing the circle of life. Viewers interact by making colorful ropes and weaving them into the wheel as a metaphor of releasing one’s past. Experiences already lived through can’t be erased, but they can speak their truths, and be let go. In the process, individuals can connect to their inner strength allowing them to spread their wings to fly free.
URL: http://time2flyart.com
Contact: nicki@time2flyart.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW74UAG
The Man Base
Fireworks by DaveX and The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: tulemammothproject@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Elephant Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Elections Fucking Matter (artist name unknown)
Mutant vehicle driver
I love meeting friendly burners who have nothing but good vibes like these dudes.
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: templeofdirection@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: stonetwentyseven@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Hundroid Mutant Vehicle at Night
J, bring yur dad back and keep going with the real videos my man! Nice to see you again T.
Andromeda Reimagined
by: Playa Muses
from: Bay Area, CA
year: 2019
In myth, Andromeda earned the god’s respect by her earthly deeds and was rewarded with celestial immortality as a constellation. We reimagine the Andromeda Myth, evolving it from a classic male hero focus to a strong feminine and collaborative paradigm.
This art piece brings Andromeda back to earth, and asks, should we aspire to immortality? Can our fleeting actions ultimately stack up to monumental outcomes?
The piece, built by first-time playa artists, consists of a 26 ft spire, with ornate star-patterned walls. It shines like a Moroccan lantern at night, and beckons viewers to rest in a plush interior, seek shade, duck a windstorm. It incubates change. People come to reflect on their course, and to feel inspired to set their sights higher.
URL: http://www.projectandromeda.org
Contact: bigart.andromeda@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9r6UAC
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: swigmiller@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
Bon voyage!
I’m always out shooting alone so it’s really nice when I run into friends. In this instance some friends we’re going on a little cruise!
Hani’s Deep Playa Taxi at The Folly
This fellow built himself a remote controlled fridge.
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: info@thefollybrc.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Garage Mahal Mutant Vehicle from the Bay Area (Thanks to Phil for the caption update)
The gentlemem was standing there when someone walked up and appended the yellow “cutie” badge on him. Cuteness confirmed!
Nice to meet you Benjamin and thanks for the 27 Stones! It scared me!
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: info@weldqueen.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: info@weldqueen.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: info@weldqueen.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Great to meet you and thank you for our little chat!
Great to meet you and thank you for our little chat!
Good times. Mutant vehicle name unknown.
Jay doing a fun pose for me.
The Dollhouse
by: House of Strange Rituals
from: Eugene, OR
year: 2019
The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, modeled after a turn of the century Victorian home, where participants are encouraged to discover haunted elements by interacting with objects that trigger lights and sound. The back side of the home has the illusion of being completely exposed to open playa, but is enclosed with clear acrylic paneling. This allows citizens of Black Rock City to see the illuminated structure, and the people inside, from afar. Each room has a unique interactive sound installation, which plays off the concept of a seance gone wrong. The Dollhouse transports participants to an ethereal world on playa, captivating and enticing all to play and discover more secrets within.
URL: https://www.houseofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse
Contact: thedollhousecrew@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVxYUAW
Friendly burner on the Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale crew.
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale and The Temple
by: Blake Marcus, Chris Welch, Seven
from: Amherst, MA
year: 2019
The SkyWhale is a life sized flying technicolor whale and she will kindle the flames of imagination and wonder within all who see, touch, and listen to the piece as she arrives into the dusty desert. She strives to open the possibility of using the sky as a 3-dimensional medium for art. In nature, water creatures live in a place physically below that of terrestrial humans, and they have been downstream of many harmful human activities. SkyWhale aims to show that there can be progress and she can help heal and transform the human relationship with Nature. In recognition of the metamorphosis theme, the SkyWhale will embody the transformation of a sea creature to dream that takes to the air.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/skywhaleproject/
Contact: theskywhaleproject@gmail.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW6pUAG
Friendly burner. We traded cameras for a while and played around. It was fun.
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
