Burning Man Camp

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:30 am

Heh.....It sounds like a good idea, the only thing is I live to far from there and knowing my mom and all even though I'm 21 would have kittens if I tried this......heh I'm even having a hard time getting her to let me go to the A-Kon convention next year

So it does sound cool and I think you should try it definatly

Koshaw · Post by **Koshaw** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:44 am

Sounds kewl but I may be at the European Bodypainting Festival

Hmm if I do NOT go do that then definitely an Idear!

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:46 am

*ponders* What is the Burning Man camp exactly?

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:49 am

Trinity wrote:*ponders* What is the Burning Man camp exactly?

Hmmmm...I wonder if this is it.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburning ... eline.html

http://www.burningman.com/

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:39 am

Just..., Wow.

What I would give to go..., but I know my body would give out.

*shakes her head sadly*

Baphnedia · Post by **Baphnedia** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:52 am

Hey - how far is Eugene from Portland? One of my friends runs the Portland By Night LARP (werewolf/vampire). Might be you two could intertwine your stories.

It was something we did in Germany, when we had Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and one other city running seperate LARPs with linked plots. Oh, it got twisted indeed.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:33 pm

I played a Shadow Lord Theurge in the OryCon Werewolf LARP a couple years ago, I probably know him. Never got up there to play again, but the character didn't mesh well with their group ethic (lots of Fianna and Ahrouns).

I did play in a standalone WWLARP up in Portland but it disintegrated last year, midstory — just as my character was about to do his Philodox Adren challenge...

Eugene and Portland are about 100 miles apart. There's a thriving Portland Burn community but unfortunately they all smoke...yecch...

Regarding Burning Man camps:
A theme camp is basically a camp with a visual/interactivity theme. Mostly nowadays a camp's theme is "Oooh, let's set up a bar and a groovy dance floor and have a deejay bring his gear out to mix it up for us!"

One group back in '01 recreated the Emerald City of Oz and I got all excited, thinking they were doing a Wizard of Oz theme camp with costumes and such — nah, it was just a rave camp and the Emerald City was just a very expensive, ostentatious backdrop. :punishment:

Now everyone and his brother's cousin's dog is doing it. One of the first reasons (before I found out I had cancer

) I stayed home this year was "I'm not busting my a**, dragging 1500 pounds of gear 450 miles one way, just to go on a week-long pub-crawl!!"

Trinity, there's a great Burn community in your neck of the woods. They coordinate a semi truck to get peoples' gear out to the Playa and back every year. There are ways to make sure you don't do a faceplant, too. The trick is to sleep during the hot hours and go nocturnal, and always, always, always, have water at your side. Accept that you won't see and catch everything and pace yourself.

I like to arrive at dusk so I have enough light to put a quick camp up, shade and shelter, eat cold meals and charge up the solar lanterns and shower the next day and take it easy so my body can adjust. Then put up, refine and trick out the camp the next day when I'm compressed (shaking down and tweaking camp throughout the week is allowed). Fortunately they let theme camps in a few days early for just that reason.

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:02 am

ooooooooohhhhhh...

*ponders the thought*

I read through the stories and I am throughly intrigued.

hrmn.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:29 am

Right now, my plans to attend the '06 Burn are *very* up in the air. First priority is to get through this cancer business and get healthy again.

However, my initial inkling is to join Lamplighters and set up in their village. My personal spiritual leanings are directing me towards the Benandanti and being part of a ritual cadre of light-bringers — the Lamplighters carry on a nightly ritual to hang kerosene lanterns on spires around Black Rock City — is meshing nicely with it.

I've always called my personal camp Wolf Camp and I'll be costuming as Christophoros or maybe as the wolf guardian I played in the Oracle of Delphi ritual that Opera Camp put on a few years ago...some plans for my camp include setting up an altar to Apollo Lycaeus and decorating the perimeter of my shelter with those alpine trees and fake pine garlands they sell around Christmas so it looks like a burrow in the woods.

If you're intrigued, Lamplighters is an excellent introduction to Burning Man culture. Camp participation requirements only take up two hours a day, never in the hot part, and the camp is well-equipped. When I went visiting a couple years ago they even had a full kitchen with working fridge, oven range and electricity. They welcome pretty much everyone and their camp is located right in the centre of the action. Last year there were over 1,000 Lamplighters, or one in forty of the entire city populace.