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Join Our Camp?

1. Setup - We have a few extra early weekend entry passes.
2. Greet & welcome artists, help them get started and use the web page, explain general concept, give some ideas or hints, just generally be friendly and welcoming.
3. Attend the "What, Where, When" times, 1:30-3pm, Tues, Wed, Thurs.
4. Moop cleanup, during the week and when we pack up.
5. If you have room in your car/truck, help us haul materials (though we mostly have this covered).

We will be in center camp! We're on the side roughly opposite where Arctica usually is. Since we'll be in such a high traffic area, more than anything we need more people to simply spend time each day greeting visitors and get them started drawing, help them with the web page, and assist them getting their art onto the installation, and so on.

We are NOT looking for money (like most theme camps do). We ARE looking for a few good people who love welcoming and greeting and helping others. No special tech skills are required beyond knowing how to use a web browser, and maybe a wrench or screwdriver during setup. Please contact us if you're in Portland and want to join up with us.

About Us

Stuart has the longest Burning Man history of us, at 4 years. Since his first year on the playa, he has been hooked on the culture of Burning Man... the people, the attitudes, the atmosphere and the creativity. He has done number of projects, el wire costumes, providing glow sticks, blinking x-mas lights, and helping the rest of the camp get online with his wifi antenna & gear. Stuart had been searching for ways to make a bigger contribution to the Burning Man community, and in 2006 joined up with Paul & Robin to build the Tiki Ice Bar (www.tikiicebar.com)

Paul loves building ambitious projects, perhaps sometimes overly ambitious. Even as a virgin burner in 2005, he built elaborate motion-controlled LED bicycle lighting and electronics to blink the Burnstream Court sign in animated patterns. In 2006, he insisted the Tiki Ice Bar (art car) gift 5000 snow cones! Even before his first day on the playa, he has dreamed of building "big art". This uber techy art installation is mostly Paul's creation, built in his lab which Robin calls "the scary room".

Robin is often the voice of reason and practical concerns. She excels at coordinating those little logistical details that would otherwise be forgotten. She wants everybody involved to have a successful and satisfying experience, and to accomplish that, details matter. She is concerned with aesthetics, making things pretty. Robin is also the one among us with with the important skill of "shopping".

Last year the Tiki Ice Bar was an amazing success. We managed to gift 5000 snow cones, consuming 40 gallons of syrup and hundreds of bags of ice. It was a LOT of work, yet also really an inspiring experience. We're going to bring the Tiki Ice Bar again, though its operation will be greatly scaled back so we can focus on this project.

Where last year we focused on pure gifting, this year we're looking to explore the creative artistic process. Not just art, but radically interactive art that includes enables anyone to participate not only in creation of the art but also the interactivity their art will have!