Rain in Medford

Rain in Medford, originally uploaded by RM Stormfeather.

We are on our way. Only saw one
Burner car in Salem!

worm skin!

Worm with skin!

Worm almost ready to roll

Shai-Hulud is just about ready to roll. Tomorrow we disassemble it and pack it up to go. Any help would be appreciated in the afternoon. Last chance to see her without playa dust but with skin.

Oh, did I mention? It has a skin. :-)
The front is open-ish, no covering on the mouth, but they may give us the full thumbs up. Which will mean we'll need more fuel.

-Pork

BM DPW 2009 - Man Base

BM DPW 2009 - Man Base, originally uploaded by afx_triplet.

Looks like the worm will be eating waffle cones!

This is Blair doing something with fire and metal!

Parade Flyer

Parade Wed at BRC! Other Mutant Vehicles needed to help...

We need some help transporting approx 20 members of the Burning Band to the start of our parade.

The band needs a ride from 8:30 and Esplanade (Spanky's Village and Wine Bar) at about 5:00pm on Wednesday, Sept. 2nd to Camp Sietch Grabrear (located at 6:00 and Fossil).

Parade leaves between 5:30 - 6:00 PM.

If you know of another mutant vehicle that can help bring the band to us, please let me know. We could use more than one, so that no one is overloaded. And spread the word, we don't want Shug using his cattle prod on fellow band mates to herd them there!

Walkers, dancers, stilters, bicycles, mutant vehicles, musicians, off worlders and humans are all welcome to join in the parade too!

Just a short march (more like a crawl) up 6:00 from Fossil to Center Camp.
Be sparkly!
wear something out of this world!
- Stormfeather

What:
The Intergalactic Species Parade

Where:
Camp Sietch Grabrear
http://sandworm.tikimojo.com
6:00 and Fossil (back side of Silicon Village)
Black Rock City

When:
Wednesday, Sept 2
Gather and garb at 5 pm.
Parade leaves between 5:30- 6 pm.

Who:
All evolving creatures are invited to join us.

Last year BB member David and his flaming tuba, joined us for our Burning Sam Parade! We are happy and honored that the Burning Band will be joining us again this year!

Progress and little worms

Marie, I love your baby worms! Larger than sand trout, at the stage
where they are eating each other.

On the build front, we figured out the Big Question, which we've been
scratching out heads about for months. How to open and close the mouth
easily? BenK's idea and Ted's model and some kibitzing and TADA!
Perfect! Two ropes and two pulleys and it's working. Piece of cake.
See BenK's video.

We had a short day working on the lower rib frame. Ted and BenK threw
in on it and we chowed on Cary's spagetti. Rain chased us away.

Big day Thursday, it's now crunch time and we need all hands on deck
Thursday-Sunday. If you can sew, or cook, or mix drinks, or work metal,
or zip-tie, or wire, or just kibbitz and add to the energy, this is it.
We won't make it there without you. Much glorious fun awaits us!

Mouth opens!

giant fuzzy worms

These are the worms I made - fun for dancing, rolling, capturing...

Look forward to meeting you all! Marie

More belated pics

Pic

Progress 6/9

Hello, this is the first time I'm blogging Worm build updates directly.  So many updates have not gone to this blog, I hope no one has been paying attention.  Newfangled bloggimagigger!  Over the last week we finished filling out the mouth with a really cool looking grid of heavy steel wires.  Awesome looking if I may say so myself!  BenK and Noodles chipped in, and Noodles' burner house-mate too.  The sides of the people bucket are covered in green carpet with green fur on top!  Today we made the last big steel parts, for the frame that goes around the bottom.  Over the week (Tue. and Thu.) we'll connect it all up.  We're a little behind, but not irreparably so.  We even hauled out the carpets from last year's burn and started hosing them off.  Much thanks to Grockstar who brought around a bucket of delicious alcoholic something or other.  Hours of intoxicated conversation resulted, but work was somewhat impaired.  Thanks also to Cary who brought us a pot of spaghetti and drinks today.  You two made our days of work feel appreciated.  More Tuesday and Thursday!  Here's a cool shot from a couple of weeks ago. 

Fabric wrangler shout out

I picked up some semi-transparent stretchey black cloth to cover the
back of Wormie's mouth. Fabric Depot at 122nd and Start is doing 40%
off with coupons and 50% off fur, BTW.

So who wants to sew this up into an 8' disc with a cord around the
periphery?
I have the stuff... It's lightweight, and just two seams plus the border.

Map of Camp Sietch Grabrear Location in Black Rock City

We are embedded in the backside of Silicon Village!
Happy to be sharing such a sweet spot with friends...

regarding placement and Camp Sietch Grabrear:

BTW: There are 658 placed Theme Camps this year. 130 camp applications
were rejected (last year, only about 10 were rejected).
About 1/6 of the total camp submissions were rejected. That's pretty
steep. Many worthy camps got the boot.

I am grateful to Placement for the good location (Close in and great
neighbors--Silicon Village) and that we got the ALL real estate we
asked for.

It is now our duty to come together and "Make it so!"

Rich is working on the list of confirmed campers, and fiquring out how
to make all of our stuff fit.
If you have any major changes to your footprint let him know, ASAP.

He will be soon posting a list of confirmed campers ( we are 20
something in number right now).
He still has some questions for some of you.

It is encouraged that you bring some art to contribute to the camp.
It could be performance (dancing worms, serving tea and helping others
learn to play Mondo Croquet) or visual (including decor, signage, or
just plain old "art").

Sunday afternoon, I will be working on Flags/banners for the sTEAp T
house- the community shade structure, if anyone want to help, give me
a call.

- Stormfeather

Burning Man Art Tours

form the BCWA list:
You can download the full Honorarium Art Tour onto
your MP3 device of choice, and take your own art tour on playa.

Here is the link:
http://www.burningman.com/installations/09_art_tours.html

The art tour features such pieces as Steve the Robot HeAID by UberGeek, and In'cu-nab"u·lum by the Iron Monkeys.

Ger yer iPod on.....

- Stormfeather

Hexayurt!

HEXAYURT!!! Rich and Kerosene were accomplices in this one, so technically I didn't make it . . . but look how shiny!! (For those of you who have seen enough hexayurts, my apologies.)

- Rich Mackin

The Maw

We got the mouth mounted and the steering of the mouth done. Next it's the controls so it can chomp unsuspecting victims.

Camp Sietch Grabrear Placement!

Camp Sietch Grabrear has received placement!
we will be at 6:00 and Fossil.
(facing 6:00 avenue).

link to the 2009 Map of Black Rock City
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/maps/09_maps/

Send snail mail (and care packages) to us through the Black Rock City
Post Office!

Happy Camper
@ Camp Sietch Grabrear
6:00 and Fossil
C/O BRCPO
Burning Man
Gerlach, NV 89412

- Stormfeather

2009 Burning Man Survival Guide now online

Required Reading: Contains basic what to bring at BM plus info specific to 2009.
2009 Burning Man Survival Guide .pdf version

http://www.burningman.com/media/doc/preparation/event_survival/2009_survival_guide.pdf
- Stormfeather