Category: Creations

Just happened to be at the same location as the phoenix from the two 2007 Burning Mans this Friday. During last year’s second burn, I noticed that head didn’t burn, and then someone from my camp exclaimed that a friend had taken the bird out of the head. She had it at Decompression, and DPW wanted it, but the artist plans on creating an elaborate temple for the bird this year. It was amazing to touch it and read the DPW messages on the back. The burn scar is from the Eclipse burn.

Olafur Eliasson’s Glass Walkway at SFMOMA, Looking Up from the Stairwell Below

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Jonathan is working on a crankie for the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, and it is not motorized like I recently thought. I helped him work on primering the canvas for two crankies that will run a scene on two sides of the performers. Was at his place last night after the painting, and grabbed a few cell pix of the K’Nex crankie that he made. It actually works (see the second photo)! (K’Nex also has a set building blocks for carnival games.) Outrageous.

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I’ve had three people call me up this past year asking questions about the cranky (crankie). Three years ago I produced CRANKYfest at CounterPULSE here in San Francisco, and this nifty storytelling device continues to demand attention by curious performers who usually want to know how to make one. I know of at least three devices that have been built since the event, and I am surprised that my site is still the main source out there for Crankie knowledge.

Today, I got a call from a friend who’s making a motorized crankie, so I once again went online looking for other sources of the art form. I only found two other sites, one with decent diagrams by George Konnoff. The other one was just a photo of the performer’s crankie. So I’ve decided to put all the links I can onto one page, and add to it as new content comes along. I also decided to post the new page on the RSS feeds as well (the post will not be updated in the future).

If you’ve found this site and have your own crankie, or hold knowledge, please pass the info along!

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The Erwin House, first built as a cabin in 1800, stands in all its antebellum  splendor. This is the house my mother grew up in, which I visited time and again in my own lifetime. I look back at those memories, cane pole fishing in the pond out back, playing football by the green bean fields, and running wild in the woods as some of the first connections to nature that I cherish today. Got to make it out this visit for my Grandmother’s 82nd birthday.

Long shadows after a short hike up part of the Kennesaw Mountan National Battlefield Park.  Spent a freezing New Years Day morning with my friends Todd and Jeni, hiking up the hill that barely kept Sherman’s Union troops from taking and burning Atlanta.

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Got a new fangled smart phone last month, mostly because of the 2.0 megapixel camera that is part of the package. You can also add MicroSD memory up to 4gb and capture video as well. I know why they call them CrackBerrys now because I jump every time the Pearl downloads email (it “yells” at me with two vibrations, which I think is an incoming call most of the time). Trying to use the phone to take interesting photos. Hope you like this batch.

Saw this inside ATA on Valencia St. and couldn’t resist taking a photo. Bet Heart doesn’t mind being crossed by KUK!

Jaut has been spraying bikes around SF for a while now. I plan on showing a bike graff slide show at an upcoming event I’m producing, so have started capturing Jaut’s bike art.

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Thought I’d post these while I had time and notion:

I looked at the PARK(ing) Day’s online map for San Francisco and jotted down some stops along the way to lunch with Laura. First stop: Rainbow Coop and Friends of the Urban Forest’s park. Liked the wood chips instead of sod (overheard DPW folks later that day wondering what to do with the sod) as well as the free veggie plants. I took a chard plant for Laura’s garden.

Rolled to Road Rage Bike’s park, and got to catch the REBAR posse on their “parkcycle.” That’s the velodisco art car under the sod, tree, and aluminum siding. Ran into Justin, one of the velodisco’s creators, at City Hall later on, so he told me that a lot had been tweaked. Behind the Parkcycle, the neighboring cosmetology school had massage tables set up. The SF Bike Coalition gave away coffee and cookies, stickers, and buttons. Across the street, One Taste’s park had free chair massages. When the parkcycle drove off, they literally stopped traffic on Folsom St. A delivery truck almost ran over them as they meandered over to the far left lane! Continue reading “Photos from Last Friday’s PARK(ing) Day”

The best of the best. I mostly photograph stencils out at Black Rock City, but also photograph inspiring art from time to time.

During an amazing full lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning, Paul Addis (and friends?), toasted the Man. I noticed it, and then my friends and I finally realized what was happening after about 5 minutes of disbelief. The Sustainable Living Roadshow games where in a pavilion beside the Man, so we hauled ass out there to see what was up. The games where closed for most of the week, and I checked in there regularly to see when they’d open. Got to know a few rangers thanks to those visits, and learn a huge lesson in dealing with things that aren’t in my control.

The headless second Man (Burning Man 2.0, Ernie, etc.) goes up on Thursday, after the DPW worked 2 days straight to build it. Shortly after I took this photo, a huge dust storm hit, causing further delays in opening the pavilion where the SLR games where. A ranger said they where calling this Man Ernie, so I assume that the first one was Bert. This Man’s head had a phoenix from the first Man’s remains. A person in my camp said her friend took the phoenix out of that head Saturday night. The DPW had messages of defiance written on the mythic bird.

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On the way up to Portland’s Village Building Convergence, Jonathan wanted to stop at the “Bus Graveyard” to meet the owner. I wandered around the yard, snapping photos, and came across the legendary Studebaker. Fozzie and Kermit hit the road in it, landing them smack in the middle of the Electric Mayhem (which Jonathan had dolls of on the dash of the Wonder Truck).

We stopped at Mt. Shasta to take a few photos of the van. Such a photographic moment! The running joke up this way was that UFOs where landing on the cloud-covered mountain, and the seagulls at the rest stop where the aliens.

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Just got these dandies and would love to mail them to you. For a simple $1 donation via PayPal, I’ll give you a few along with some other nifty treats. Breaking even on the $1 cost (postage and printing), so am doing it b/c I love you all!

CREATE! DESTORY! happyft…