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May 20, 2007
Burningman meets NASA??!!
I just ran the Burningman Earth project at a very cool event called "Yuri's Night" down at Nasa Ames Reserch Center in Mountain View.
It was to mark the aniversery of Yuri Gagarin's first manned flight into space, and I anticipated a rather dry and academic event.....NOT!
It turned out to be a delcious mix of brains and creativity, with a large chunk of the Burningman geek infrastructure in place for the night. We trucked in several loads of projection systems, lasers, fire dancers chill domes, playa art, sound and light rigs and several thousand of our closest and wierdest friends to turn NASA's cavernous hanger 11 into little piece of Burningman.
I got into a great conversation with a guy who wanted to know every detail and dream of the Burningman Earth project only later to find out that he was the director of NASA. Whats more, he was on the cusp of pulling the plug on the event earlier that day as he saw the installations going in and only had the notion of "rave" as a paradigm... he finally left the gig at 2am with hugs all round and promises of "lets do the again next year!"
This is a shot of me taken by my pal Greg MacNichol at 2am as I pray for photons as the projection system went down... Fun, fun, fun.
Posted by Andrew at May 20, 2007 2:30 AM