Happy New Year to all listeners of Into The Fire Podcast. Thanks for listening.  For this first podcast of 2017, meet a man who is behind The Man.  Meet Andrew Johnstone, artist and Burning Man’s Design Steward of The Man. You’ll never think about the man build crew the same way again after hearing Andrew describe his co-builders. You’ll love them as much as he does.

Enjoy these readings that go well with this podcast

http://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/afterburn/03-2/art/the_man/

http://journal.burningman.org/2011/08/news/brc-news/rip-rod-garrett/

http://burningman.org/event/brc/2017-art-theme-radical-ritual/
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Party Fire Safety Video

This podcast is a chat and interview with the director of Party Fire Safety Video, a video that was created in three days after the wake of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire.  Michael Morgenstern, film director and social activist, talks about his experience in making the film as well as talks about his perspective of promotion.    

Website Associated with this podcast for Party Fire Safety Video

Find Party Fire Safety video here: http://www.partyfiresafety.com/

And on Facebook here

Director/Producer: Michael Morgenstern and his Nametag Day website: http://nametagday.com/

Burning Man’s post to the burner community

Saferspaces website  http://saferspac.es/. This is a collection of resources available on the internet.  Send your information and contributions to their email address.  

This is a good read by April Jones about the difficulities of obtaining city permits for events:  https://goo.gl/DdNheI 

Thanks to Sharma Hendel and other members of the Regional Contacts team for East Bay Burners Regional, for making this list of online fundraiser campaigns.  If you wish to make a Financial Donation – there are several online fundraisers.

Go Fund Me

Gray Area’s fundraising page 

Oakland A’s and Oakland Raiders joint fundraising effort

Because this tragedy has affected the community deeply, Sharma also included this list.  If you or someone you know is in need of emotional support, there are many resources to contact.  Here’s a few:

– Alameda County Crisis Support Services 1-800-309-2131

– SF Suicide Prevention (415) 781-0500

– National Suicide Prevention Lifeline online chat and phone 1-800-273-8255

Abram Santa Cruz from L.A. talks about taking his playa art on an art tour

Lots of artists and collectives tour their art after it returns from Burning Man.  Abram Santa Cruz is a designer and artist from Los Angeles.  He has been making playa art for several years now.  His most recent art, The Electric Dandelions,  are three 23-27 feet tall dandelion sculptures that look beautifully natural by day and light up like fireworks at night.  The dandelions are sound reactive and have an app to control their colors.  Abram sits down with us to talk about touring his interactive, large art projects at various arts and music festivals, including the Reno Playa Art Park, a temporary art park in Reno scheduled to be up for at least six months starting in November.  

Websites associated with this podcast
Reno Playa Art Park
Liquid PXL facebook page
Liquid PXL website
Reno Art Park podcast featuring Maria Partridge
Photo credit: Christine Rosakranse.  Additional photos here
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Do you have a park that needs some art?  Do you have a city that would benefit from the culture of Burning Man?   In 2008, Maria Partridge and Crimson Rose decided to bring out an art collection from Burning Man to Downtown Reno. For three months, the temporary art installation became a community space with music, meetups and Burning Man culture, connecting burners with the citizens of Reno.  Over the years, Maria has learned a thing or two about how to work with the city of Reno.  This year, she brings you Reno Playa Art Park, a six-month, temporary art collection in downtown Reno.  If your burner community is thinking about  bringing your burner art to your city, then this is the conversation for you.  Listen to Maria talk about her experience and share the knowledge that she’s gathered. Sparking an interest?  More info to come in the near future!

Weblinks Associated with This Podcast

Reno Playa Art Park at theGateway Project

Building Community Through Burning Man Art | Maria Partridge | TEDxReno

Arts and Civic Engagement  at Burning Man

Artech, Reno

Photo credit: Christine Rosakranse.  Additional photos here

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Clovis Buford and Central Texas Regional

Sit down and have a chat with Clovis Buford from Texas!  He is one of the(3) Regional Contacts for Central Texas, a regional of Burning Man who helps to make Flipside happen.  Every year in May, Memorial Day weekend burners from Texas and all over come together to Apache Pastures for an amazing burn that lasts (5 days).  Just like Burning Man, Everything about Flipside is created by burners- from the annual theme, the ticket, the infrastructure, art, performance, fire and community.  How do burners from outside of Black Rock City make a regional event?  How did Flipside develop over the years?  Listen to Clovis and find out here.  

Websites:

Central Texas Regional Page: http://regionals.burningman.org/regionals/north-america/austin/

Central Texas on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/BurningFlipside

Community web page: https://www.burningflipside.com/

Flipside on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQQqMzI1_JVu-goVCpqGSA

Mentioned was Danger Ranger’s 2001 Roadtrip website: http://roadtrip.burningman.com/content/silverseed.html

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Photo credit: Ira Weinschel Photography

Jimmy Descant, a “severe reconstructionist” artist from Salida, Colorado, brought out his Amalgamated Debris Assemblage Guild to The Man in 2016.  As a part of the da Vinci’s Workshop Guilds, his team of seven helped him bring his signature art style to the playa.  Jimmy decided to take his art style with him to the playa when he went to Black Rock City for his first time.  Supported by his good burner  friends who encouraged him to apply for an art grant, Jimmy received a 20-by-20-foot booth, an opportunity for seven early arrival tickets and the grant.  HIs booth was located in the  square piazza surrounding da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” along with 28 guilds from around the world.  HIs truck was full of pieces of “finds” from all over the street corners, back alleys and yard sales that he scrounged and scraped up over the years.  The team transported about 1,000 pounds material pieces,  tools and hardware and invited burners to create assemblage art “from the detritus of American society.”  He his Red Cobra, a signature art piece that he had made as a mascot sat in the center of the booth and watched over the making of about 350 pieces of art made over four days.  His years of community art experience helped him prepare well for his first playa experience.  When he returned back to Salida, he came back with half of his truck and a renewed thinking about art and community.  

Photo credits:  Man with trophy by Paprika and Men of ADA Guild by Chris S.  

People in Picture: Jimmy Descant, Chris Seaton, James Brown, Gary Kneeskern.Not shown and part of the team, Shannon and Penelope

Websites:

Amalgamated Debris Assemblage Guild: https://goo.gl/WYvSZ4

Facebook:  https://goo.gl/hj6T6V

Jimmy Descant website: http://www.deluxerocketships.com/

Colorado has two Burning Man local Regionals.  Here’s a link to one of them.

Denver Colorado BM Regional: https://goo.gl/JOJSPO

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Join Torrey Smith, aka Sarge, James, aka Heavy Metal, and Dan Dan as they sit down at Moxy Build Space in Oakland, California, and talk about Sextant Camp.  Sextant is hard science, hard engineering, and hard work. Yes, there is something sexy about Sextant Camp.  Sextant Camp does sexy science and makes it into art!  Check out the rest of the crew with this Sextant fly-by.  https://youtu.be/owFPBoNgW2U  Find Sextant online at http://www.sextantcamp.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/sextantcamp/

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The Icarus Art Car is “ a moving sculpture, a roaming art gallery and music stage all in one massive vehicle. Think Firefly, Elysium and Alien meets Studio 54”.  Take a 25,000 lb cargo loader with a 350 Horsepower diesel engine and design it into what looks like a junkyard space ship.  How do you do that?  With really great concept skills that  persuaded a collection of volunteers. Eventually, that developed into a  community.  This decked-out cargo loader with eight big-truck tires lifts burners up to 14 feet so they can watch the man burn with a great view.  But it’s more than that.  The build site is the community clubhouse, there’s tons of events to bring people together.  This monstrosity has developed more challenge headaches and more character than either Ilya Polyakov or Brandon Robinson, two of the four producers of this art car, could ever have imagined. Listen to their story.