Burning Man 2012

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This was my 4th Burning Man and this was the first time I didn’t have an RV of some kind.  I liked the idea of the hexayurts but didn’t need that much room and wanted to be different so I designed and  built a “hotel” to match the theme of out houses.  While the hotel was dust-proof as I wanted, I wasn’t able to achieve all the benefits of a hexayurt because:

  1. There wasn’t enough surface area to keep it cool without the swamp coolers.
  2. I painted it red to get the “hotel” vibe but lost the reflective power of the insulation.
  3. I used incredibly good filters to keep the dust out that immediately clogged and limited airflow to next to nothing.
  4. It turns out my fridge radiates heat from the sides as well as the cooling unit so I started with a sauna before I cut a hole in the side for the fridge.

I got everything working well after a couple of days but it turns out that a 17 hour drive followed by 6 days on an air mattress was too much for my poor back and I had to leave earlier than expected.

Here’s the 2012 pics:

 

Here’s some videos:

The Dalek art car I missed last year

This cool art installation is really just lights on difference length poles connected to a horizontal pole.

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Spinning_fire

Watch the changing colors

Watch the tuba flames change as he plays

Watch the muppet man move

Watch the muppet man get busy

I stood in the middle of these spinning jets after this video

I stood in the middle of these spinning jets after this video_ii

I was a little better at remembering to turn on the GPS during my travels in black rock city and recorded 21 miles over 3 days and 11 hours.  This was probably about 60% of my adventures.


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