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The author of this article is Steven T. Jones, a member of the Temple of Flux crew and the City Editor at San Francisco Bay Guardian. Enjoy! and please donate if you are able. We are nearly there. Cheers! Colinne – Temple of Flux 2010 Fun Bucks-ter http://www.sfbg.com/2010/08/31/burners-flux?page=0,0
Jill Wildfire here with another (probably the last) update! I returned from the wonderful playa late Sunday night still in awe of everything that has been accomplished out there, the spectacular teamwork and continued dedication to the Temple of Flux. I can’t wait to go back! Now for the update:  Saturday noon
 Cladding On Friday the frames for Antelope were erected, cladding was almost finished on Dumont and cladding had begun on Cayuaga. Most cladding teams consist of 2 or 3 people. Two people up on the framing and one picking pieces and handing them up and helping locate and orient them into the desired positions. By noon on Saturday the burn team had almost finished placing what they needed to in Dumont, El Dorado and Cayuaga and had started on Antelope. At 1:15pm Saturday afternoon the frames for Bryce were erected completing the erection of all the dune’s frames! We had a little champagne celebration as the last nail was shot in!  Frames erected!  Caves After lunch Saturday the first major dust storm came in and stuck around for quite a while. However, work was still being accomplished. The bracing for the frames were finished and Jess wasn’t backing down on the cladding as El Dorado began to get skin. Cladding is going up everywhere with a keen eye for the artistic vision. Caves are being created; some as memorials, some as spots to meditate and all as special places with special meaning to the cave creator. The burn team continues to place burn things here and there all in sequence for an amazing burn Sunday!  Friday night Keep up the good work everyone! I’ll see you in the dust! - Wildfire You’re no doubt up to your eyeballs in packing last year’s dusty stuff. Would be nice to make time to connect, figure out where everyone is camping, make some new fabulous stuff, and support the Temple at the same time, right?! I know time is short, so we are multi-tasking big time. This year’s Temple at Burning Man, is called “The Temple of Flux”, and it’s being created by many of the Flaming Lotus Grrls (yay Fire artists making the temple *whooshBANG!sparkle*)… you may have heard that PayPal was being a big jerk and put a hold on some of their money, so they have had to scramble to find alternatives for fundraising. If, like me, the Temple is special to you, and you’d like to support it in some small way, please bring even $5 to Supperclub on Tuesday, August 24th for a Burning Man Wine Summit, Craft nite, and cuddle op. We’ll have the big lounge area in the Chambre Noir all to ourselves, the glue gun will be HOT, and I will teach you how to do the Tim Tam trick. Bring your crafts, any cash you’d like to donate to this year’s Temple, your personal calling cards, and your sweet self to Supperclub’s Chambre Noir Tuesday night at 7pm. We’ll have drinks, craft, connect, the Tim Tam thing will totally blow you away (seriously this is the ultimate in orgasmic chocolatey ooey-gooey tea biscuit experiences)… and your sexy new Temple of Flux t-shirt is totally waiting for you. Even if you are not going to Burning Man this year, I’d love to see you, YOU WILL JUST *LOVE* this TIM TAM THING… it’s an experience, words do not do it chocolatey justice. And hooray for connecting in person (rather than just the internet)! Crafts: headpieces, fringing things, arm-warmers, and the many uses of duct tape & glue guns discussed. Yes, you can use my glue gun. Pretty please bring your projects. RSVP (sil vous plait), so I know how many packets of Tim Tams to bring. xoxoxoxo mills here, long time blog admin lurker first time temple post’er!  First truck leaving AmSteel What a smoooooth load out – big props to the Catbird and her load crew and those STILL at AmSteel cleaning up through the weekend and beyond (love you Thwen, Brian and crew). It warmed the cockles of my heart to see such a ’stackable and modular’ load! I was helping with the load and after years of trying to stuff huge spiky metal sculptures on a truck it made a nice change to have Gary’s wonderfully organized load.  Frame bundles The surveying began from the moment the first team landed on the playa on Thursday (or was it Wednesday, last week is all a little hazy), I arrived Friday pre-dawn to a small temple site with the first dune flagged out. The trucks arrived on playa Friday with just enough time for Gary to unload one and be ready for another, it was like clockwork and before you knew we had piles of a temple! Off course big thanks also have to go to the Burning Man heavy equipment and artery folks for helping us out on that one with all our needs just a ride to the esplanade away.  Temple in the desert! We continued with the survey all of Friday. Lots and lots of math, spray paint and flags. Big thanks to the architects, PK and Ben for giving us such detailed drawings, kinda amazing really – ring-bound, laminated site diagrams with numbers and everything!! A seriously long way from that time Rbca lost our only site map and found it again stuffed down the back side of her truck seat just as the trencher pulled away (no honey, I will never let you forget that, but I still love you)!  Temple survey flags  Jonny's Moroccan tent As for camp Eva’s kitchen took shape on Saturday and it was wonderful to see the look on her face when that HUGE shade went over her container and she got her dream princess playa kitchen.  Putting the cover on the dome! The common area’s also started to take shape – tables in the eating shade, the Moroccan tent went up, as did my dome (thank you guys for putting that up so Joshy gets a year off from it)  Horse Power! Horse, Mark and the boys worked on the temple power grid and by the end of Saturday night survey was done and we had a functioning camp and job site!
Sunday was a big day. Heavy equipment – trenching for the power grid, bobcat with the auger for the burn preparations and installation of the temple ‘foundations’, lots and lots of digging, grading and stomping to make sure our temple doesn’t dig into the ground and start to lean. As that was happening our resident Rockstar Lou had a crew and before I knew it I turned around and Dumont was on it’s way up! Within a couple of hours they had the whole frame erected – So exciting I actually l yelped when I turned around and saw it.  Lou raising the temple That is it for me, I had to leave around 3pm Sunday – Josh and I jumped in the truck and I actually started to blub when I got to the gate – I was leaving….BOOOOOOOO…..I knew they could totally do it without me but I wanted to be there too – stoooopid default world job. I took this feeling to solidify the fact that we have such an amazing project and an amazing crew – everyone is wonderful and have worked together so well to get this built and it is well on its way to being up!  Jax and Peter  Dumont! Last but not least I have another call out for donations to help us push through the end of this project. We are looking just a little short of our budget and could do with some donations to bring us out even on this crazy project. We have dumped paypal due to our issues last week (see previous blog posts) and am now using wepay: http://www.wepay.com/donate/add/5443 Look Catie, look Jess – I blogged!!!! mills out
Prepare For The Playa This Sunday August 15, 2010 Everything you need for a great burn from BurnerPreneurs 12pm-7pm at Cafe Cocomo – 650 Indiana St SF, CA 94107 Come check out the Prepare photo booth by Max Koo Photography Benefiting The Temple of Flux – Burning Man Temple 2010 we’re sitting here together on the porch at the Saloon in Gerlach, NV, and we just finished watching this fantastic profile of our favorite architect, PK. We are rockin and rollin in the desert. All our trucks have arrived, and we are moving at the speed of light out here–on playa time of course:) PK is an amazing visionary, a tremendous architect and a wonderful person I have had the privilege of working with for the past 5 months. Check out the video and get to know him a little. And wait till you see what we’re building our here. xoxo catie Temple Artist Profile #5: PK from Sean Donnelly on Vimeo. amazing. the past 24 hours have been a whirlwind. after our post yesterday. we received a call from a Paypal account executive about our account status. They agreed to a one-time release of our funds but will not allow us to use our account until we received word from the State of California about our incorporation as a nonprofit. While standing in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart Super Store, i got a call from Steve Jones from the San Francisco Bay Guardian about the events of the morning. Shortly thereafter, Steve wrote another blog post and we hit the road. finally. as we pulled in Gerlach, i got word that our Kickstarter campaign raised nearly $8,000 in less than 7 hours. and that Fast Company wanted to do an interview with us. so, we checked in with the lovely Sherry at the Burning Man office, and headed to Bruno’s Country Club where we did a conference call interview with the Fast Company write, Lizette Chapman. surreal, indeed, sitting inside the diner, talking about the last few weeks and all that led up to yesterday. and from all of that came this: http://www.fastcompany.com/1680570/burning-man-defeat-paypal i’m sitting in the gerlach office now, blogging, catching up on email, while Jess & PK take care of business on the porch outside. this morning, we hit the Temple site and started surveying! in the midst of all the chaos that has been swirling around us, it’s actually happening! stay tuned for more pics and updates! xoxo catie Hello Friends! Needless to say, we’ve have had an eventful week. We are all collectively happy to return to the work of creating the big, beautiful Art! As of today, we are getting closer to reaching our fundraising goal. As a protest to the Paypal funds freeze, we decided to launch another kickstarter early yesterday. By the time we received the phone call from Paypal, we already had enough pledges to have that kickstarter funded. It is still growing as I type. Love that! I can hardly believe it was just two days ago that I was contemplating how I could maybe print some Flux Foundation Fun Bucks as I bought a lotto ticket. Since then, our longtime pal Steve Jones from SFBG posted the article heard ’round the world, friends of the Temple rallied for us with mind boggling results, Paypal “allowed” us to make a withdrawal, I joined Facebook (yep, I said it) and we are back on schedule. There is still plenty to do. I had better get back to work. Come visit the Temple of Flux Prepare for the Playa *** FINAL EVENT*** Sunday August 15th @ Cafe Cocomo More information @ http://www.preparefortheplaya.com/ *Burner Marketplace * * Fashion Shows * Playa University *ARTist Benefit! During our PayPal debacle, we were contacted by one of the founders of WePay, Richard Aberman, who has come to the rescue with an alternative online donation solution! Our account is now active, so please feel free to donate directly to The Flux Foundation via WePay! Thanks so much to Richard and the WePay team for reaching out and working with us during the PayPal curve ball/crunch time/ playa departure madness! You can donate here! https://www.wepay.com/donate/start/5443 |
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