Sep 2007
dust storms & rainbows
Sep/19/07 | black rock
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moontroll's
short film celebrating the extreme weather events of Burning Man
2007 now showing!
This is the movie I made from scraps of film footage and fotos and playa field recordings from the Green Man. I just got a new video editing program and this was my first time playing around with it. Right now it is being hosted at YouTube, though I plan on posting a higher resolution version over on the Films section of this site soon -- it is much more impressive and enjoyable to watch it at full screen with decent res & sound.
(update 10/10: the film is now posted over on the Films page, but it is kinda fucked up at the moment--I need to keep tinkering with it, though I think it is still watchable!)
If you like it, please share your feedback in the dBm comments feed.
Enjoy!
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Back Home
sweet
photo by Ramona Mayhem
The Three Broke Dudes have each made it safely back from Burning
Man!
As you might have noticed, we haven't updated the dBM blog much
since getting back -- I've received a number of emails from readers
following the journey asking, "Well, Three Broke Dudes, how did it
go?!? What happened with the Boogie Pyramid? Did you see the Man
burn early?" etc. etc.
Well, it has been a rough transition for each of us fitting back in
to our lives here at home. We're still processing the experience
& trying to integrate some of the lessons in to our day-to-day.
So, be patient. The storytelling will come. But we're gonna need
some time....
Moontroll's Return
Great to see
everybody announcing their returns back home -- all safe &
sound, if not whacked out, dusty and scrambling for a foothold in
this default world...
Amazing the
trials our autos put us through as we tried to crawl off of the
playa -- it took me 3.5 hours to Exodus, and all around me were car
accidents, sleeping drivers, steaming radiators -- an unholy wreck
that looked like a war zone refugee camp. Good god.
Edub and I made it about 5 minutes off playa post-Temple Burn before collapsing on the side of the road. The next morn we saw Grapenuts and Pommes Frites in Gerlach waiting for a tow truck. Then our friend Rachel in Cedarville with a dead car. Then Ramona and Hekter in the Oregon Outback talking to a police officer....sheesh. We hooked up and caravaned with the Ramona Mobile to Bend on monday and got a Motel 8 room for one of the deepest sleeps I've ever had. Edub and I stopped at Smith Rock north of Bend to mark his 35th bday and do some decompression work -- we tried to sort the week out the rest
of the ride home, and began to discover some of the deeper lessons of our week on the playa.
Didn't get back to B'ham til Wed night -- sorry to have missed the truck unloading -- and am now staring at my truck full of dusted-out shit with trepidation. Downloading fotos and sound recordings to my computer and reading up on the post-Green Man gossip, rants and raves on Tribe and ePlaya too. Haven't begun to talk about the experience with my partner, roommate or friends calling to check in. The experience feels to personal, sacred and indescribable to begin sharing it -- I want to hold every moment close, deep inside me. I want to keep these embers glowing for as long as possible before the default world sucks the magic out of me.....
Does anybody have Bassnectar recordings I can burn? I am going through heavy withdrawals...
Can't wait for the Boogie Decompression gathering, and am glad to have Bassnectar at Rumors in Nov. to look forward to!
Finally, did you hear about the 2008 BM theme? You won't believe it -- at first I was repulsed, but 24 hours later, I can see the twisted, reprogramming, ironic
possibilities and think it will work out: http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm08_theme.html
love to you all and good luck with the reintegration,
moontroll
Edub and I made it about 5 minutes off playa post-Temple Burn before collapsing on the side of the road. The next morn we saw Grapenuts and Pommes Frites in Gerlach waiting for a tow truck. Then our friend Rachel in Cedarville with a dead car. Then Ramona and Hekter in the Oregon Outback talking to a police officer....sheesh. We hooked up and caravaned with the Ramona Mobile to Bend on monday and got a Motel 8 room for one of the deepest sleeps I've ever had. Edub and I stopped at Smith Rock north of Bend to mark his 35th bday and do some decompression work -- we tried to sort the week out the rest
of the ride home, and began to discover some of the deeper lessons of our week on the playa.
Didn't get back to B'ham til Wed night -- sorry to have missed the truck unloading -- and am now staring at my truck full of dusted-out shit with trepidation. Downloading fotos and sound recordings to my computer and reading up on the post-Green Man gossip, rants and raves on Tribe and ePlaya too. Haven't begun to talk about the experience with my partner, roommate or friends calling to check in. The experience feels to personal, sacred and indescribable to begin sharing it -- I want to hold every moment close, deep inside me. I want to keep these embers glowing for as long as possible before the default world sucks the magic out of me.....
Does anybody have Bassnectar recordings I can burn? I am going through heavy withdrawals...
Can't wait for the Boogie Decompression gathering, and am glad to have Bassnectar at Rumors in Nov. to look forward to!
Finally, did you hear about the 2008 BM theme? You won't believe it -- at first I was repulsed, but 24 hours later, I can see the twisted, reprogramming, ironic
possibilities and think it will work out: http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm08_theme.html
love to you all and good luck with the reintegration,
moontroll
Hekter's Return
Hey der
Boogiers..
Hekter here,
sitting behind a desk with a funny looking square light box staring
me down.... I just blinked so I guess I lose. Finally got
home to Spokane last night (Wednesday) at 9:00. It took more
than 3 days, 3 different cars, 4 states, a lot of coffee crank,
lying my way out of jail and other unmentionables to get home......
but I'm here and I'm not sure what to do with myself. From
Gerlach to Bend to Olympia to Seattle to Methow to Spokompton....
that's what happens when I pack my GPS unit so deeply in the
funbox. Helped my buddy unpack his trailer in the Methow
yesturday, the playa dust reconfigured my reality protocols once
again and I think my cranial grey matter is a bit
greyer.
Just wanted to give a giant shout out to the Booty Universal..... I am grateful for the opportunity to share space with an amazing tribe of funks(wo)man and feel like I have a whole other crockpot of family simmering on the coastal shelf. Intertidal salad bar of O.G. goodies. If any of ya's find yourself in North Idaho or Spokane, know you have a place to stay and a story to hear. My treehouse is your treehouse!!
Thinking of quitting this appraisal business and focusing on writing and photography......
Vamos a Ver!!
Much Love and a lil' rooster sauce,
Hekter
Just wanted to give a giant shout out to the Booty Universal..... I am grateful for the opportunity to share space with an amazing tribe of funks(wo)man and feel like I have a whole other crockpot of family simmering on the coastal shelf. Intertidal salad bar of O.G. goodies. If any of ya's find yourself in North Idaho or Spokane, know you have a place to stay and a story to hear. My treehouse is your treehouse!!
Thinking of quitting this appraisal business and focusing on writing and photography......
Vamos a Ver!!
Much Love and a lil' rooster sauce,
Hekter
Edubious' Return
What's up
Brothers and Sisters!
Back in Seattle
after an incredibly transformative week on the Playa. Many lessons
to decipher, interactions and adventures to process, pictures to
peruse, music to acquire, and thanks to be extended. Of course,
I've got to start with the Boogie Universal crew.
THANK YOU ALL! I am still so incredibly blown away by the way in which we did what we did. Creation. Creativity. Collaboration. Resilience. Perserverence. Love.
I am sorry that I was not able to be up in Bellingham to help with the unload. Thank you to those of you who put forward the energy and effort to get the truck unloaded. I will definitely be coming up Bham way for a decompression party and will be happy to help refurbish the
Boogie equipment.
I don't recall the exodus from BRC as I was in a state of delerium like I have never experienced - bone deep exhaustion and the residuals of many days of medicinal excess reduced my exodus experience to a semi-lucid dream of blurred tail lights and uncomprehensible requests and comments from Moontroll. I was spent. I have never been so happy to throw down my sleeping bag on the dusty side of a highway.
The drive home was spent recalling and capturing details of the the days spent on the playa. It felt imperative to capture the memories before the details blew away like so much playa dust. As it was, it was still pretty difficult to recall it all.
I am still Burning and will do whatever I can to continue to Burn as I reintegrate into the default world. So far the transition has been slow but promises to accelerate with a return to work on Monday. I look forward to joining you all to rekindle the Burning man and woman in each of us.
Much Love & Respect!
Be the Peace. Spread the Love. Breathe deep and BURN!
~ Edubious
THANK YOU ALL! I am still so incredibly blown away by the way in which we did what we did. Creation. Creativity. Collaboration. Resilience. Perserverence. Love.
I am sorry that I was not able to be up in Bellingham to help with the unload. Thank you to those of you who put forward the energy and effort to get the truck unloaded. I will definitely be coming up Bham way for a decompression party and will be happy to help refurbish the
Boogie equipment.
I don't recall the exodus from BRC as I was in a state of delerium like I have never experienced - bone deep exhaustion and the residuals of many days of medicinal excess reduced my exodus experience to a semi-lucid dream of blurred tail lights and uncomprehensible requests and comments from Moontroll. I was spent. I have never been so happy to throw down my sleeping bag on the dusty side of a highway.
The drive home was spent recalling and capturing details of the the days spent on the playa. It felt imperative to capture the memories before the details blew away like so much playa dust. As it was, it was still pretty difficult to recall it all.
I am still Burning and will do whatever I can to continue to Burn as I reintegrate into the default world. So far the transition has been slow but promises to accelerate with a return to work on Monday. I look forward to joining you all to rekindle the Burning man and woman in each of us.
Much Love & Respect!
Be the Peace. Spread the Love. Breathe deep and BURN!
~ Edubious