For some reason I can't see those pictures. <Argh!> Lucas
2012/5/25 Bender of camp charlie the uniocorn BM <[email protected]>: > https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c3de241d14&view=att&th=13782ae5cf99acf3&attid=0.8&disp=inline&safe=1&zw > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c3de241d14&view=att&th=13782ae5cf99acf3&attid=0.12&disp=inline&safe=1&zw > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c3de241d14&view=att&th=13782ae5cf99acf3&attid=0.6&disp=inline&safe=1&zw > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c3de241d14&view=att&th=13782ae5cf99acf3&attid=0.10&disp=inline&safe=1&zw > > Stay out of the suitcase. It is empty BTW. > > > > On May 23, 10:19 am, Bender of camp charlie the uniocorn BM > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Background. >> Me. Law school dropout, Learned to weld. Fabricated Stock cars. >> Joined the electricians union. (IBEW local 11) economy took a shit. >> I had free time. Always wanted to go to burning man. No money. >> Decided to help a group with my welding and get a ticket and have a >> home for 2012. Sent a quick email to a regional director of burners >> in Los Angeles asking if any needed help. Three hours later I was >> committed. >> >> The Unicorn >> >> Burning Man 2011. Spent 8 weeks welding a giant silly art car for >> Burning Man. These people were strangers with a silly dream. And I >> bought into it, Camp got me a ticket. I was left packing in hefty >> bags and whatever container I could find night before we left. My >> shelter was a large tent. I showed up to BM exhausted. I left the same >> way. I had a blast as the playa will love you if you selflessly give >> to a project. >> I watched people and groups and discovered a truth. >> >> Twenty minutes and one person. That is my rule. If you HAVE TO to >> accomplish anything on the playa it had better be able to be >> substantially completed in twenty minutes and and with one person >> (you). (lol including sex? one burner asked me about this thought. I >> smiled. Yes.) >> >> I watched the people. From large and small. Burning Man is the Super >> Bowl and World Cup of all people watching. Group dynamics fascinate >> me. And I realized there would be more yurts on the playa if it took >> less than three people to put together. If you try to round up more >> that three burners for a task it becomes like herding cats. >> >> Now this idea/goal of anything being able to be completed in under 20 >> with one person presents a challenge to the yurt builders. >> >> And watching them built i realized the two major parts to the project. >> Two smaller parts. The upright walls were one major part. The roof >> the second. >> >> And I knew I was going to yurt in 2012 (playa gods should they smile) >> and I wanted more room than the traditional 4" high yurt i had seen >> everywhere. >> >> Being a metal fabricator and welder I figured things out and came up >> with MY solution. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
