METAMORPHOSES • DRINKING BACON EDITION • AUGUST 29, 2019 • VOLUME XV, NUMBER III • DIANA & 6:15 • WWW.BLACKROCKBEACON.ORG MARIAN TALKS TRASH photo by Greg Levitt

BY ALEXXX admitting the journey has been both term permit from the government. Marian Goodell, the first CEO interesting and disheartening, Mar- Marian pointed out that Burning of the Burn, shared some sage ad- ian went on to explain the critical Man has a good environmental record, vice with fellow burners: Every importance of every single burner fol- is a safe place and is self-policing. single burner must leave no trace. lowing the practice of Leave No Trace. Also, Burning Man does not sell beer Speaking Tuesday afternoon at the When the dumpster at a 7-11 in Reno like events in Europe. She went on to Pineapple Motel, Marian gave a brief (next to the In-N-Out) gets inundated caution that our use of the Playa is talk about her personal burner his- with burner garbage, the BLM hears conditional on everyone's behavior. tory (she dated Larry Harvey for five about it. When an unsecured bag of The possibility of Jersey barriers is years), and then answered questions burner garbage flies off the roof and real. The possibility of invasive searches sits on Paiute land, the BLM hears at the Gate is real. We all need to do our from burners. She was asked about MAN'S BRAIN UPDATE: Artist Dan Miller stopped by the Beacon camp while about it. Every incident of irresponsi- part to maintain a positive public image the Bureau of Land Management's making rounds of the city on his bike, trailering the Man's Brain with him, ble garbage removal makes it a little bit of Burning Man so this unique event (BLM) latest response to the Bmorg's along with paper and colored pencils to inscribe thoughts. The pyramid ped- request for a 10-year permit. After harder for the Bmorg to acquire a long- can continue well into the future. estal mentioned in our Gate Edition didn't make it to playa, but Fuzz Patrol is still his home camp, at 3:30 & F. There is a Temple of Thought mailbox at 3:32, Dollhouse startles 800' from the Man, adjacent to big red lips--leave your thoughts there. Dan Climb the kissing bees, honey feels this project allows the Man to be a participant, and not just a spectator. BY KITCHEN WITCH photo by Rivers at Homebrew4AHomebrew The Burning Man experience is typically a Saltmine welcomes you joyful one: full of smiles from new friends, Living room in the air offers lovely views. hugs at deli counters, and rainbow bridg- es leading to bunny parades. But for some, BY JADY BROOKS, AKA HIGH FIVE ideas.” Spencer says, describing how one this overloaded fun fest can also create an member may have the concept, while Utah gets a bad rap, sometimes. We unwanted gag reflex. others have the skills to make it “safe act and dress funny. Salt Lake City is a enough” for the playa. If you find this repulsion a familiarity, blue dot on a red board that often gets This year, the group’s most ambi- the Playa has a dark treat in store for overlooked. We are the dorky next-door tious project, “Welcome Home” began you. Drawn by their shared affinity to the neighbors to Nevada who don’t always as a concept project of two chairs on dark and macabre, the House of Rituals get invited to the cool parties. 12-foot ladders. “If you’re 12 feet off the Collective from Eugene, Oregon, reveals a Saltmind Artistic Collective, in Salt playa, you can see the entire city," said fascination with strange art and technol- Lake City, Utah, is seeking to change that Spenser, explaining how two chairs, side ogy in an inaugural Playa art piece. perception, one installation at a time. by side and 12 feet off the ground, be- Awaiting you is a transformative expe- The group's inaugural project, a mu- BY BETH VANDERWERKEN came the genesis of entire living room rience of childhood pleasantries into bee to the next is known as the “bee’s kiss” tant vehicle known as “The Classic Slide”, and dining room set affixed to steel lad- interactive oddities. Transcend age and If you listen closely, amidst the sounds and results in the production of honey. has been making the rounds at Burning ders. You can climb the structure and venture into a supernatural realm as you of laughter and undernoted by distant bass, Serving as a climbable and whimsically Man since 2018, and this year the group settle into a comfy couch above the RVs explore the spooky rooms of this haunted there is a buzz on playa. interactive art installation, this piece not only received a grant for an installation on and camp structures, enjoying a view of two-story Victorian and discover some of From the artist behind Cirque de Re- provides pleasure to the participant but also Playa, dubbed “Welcome Home”. the city rarely seen. your juvenile nightmares. flexions (2015), Trasparenza (2016), It's offers insight into the crucial role honeybees Saltmind, "collectively pursing fun You can nap on the couch and catch play in our own survival, even as their popula- times," is more than 20-strong: artists, Breaking the paradigm of “no touch” a Chicken and Egg Situation (2017), and the sunset over the city, you can have a tion is under threat. designers, and collaborators making art art, this five-lady power team invites you Bebot (2018), London-based artist Andrea nice family dinner sitting with feet dan- “One out of every three mouthfuls of throughout the year for the Burn as well to a full sensory experience. Implement- Greenlees shows her admiration towards our gling in air, and you can play an epic food starts with the pollination process,” An- as regional projects, including Utah’s ing puzzle-like elements throughout the world’s greatest pollinators in her latest work, game of "the floor is lava," as described drea wants to remind the viewer. Inspired by own regional burn, Element 11. Sporting house, make sure to open the closets, Bee Dance. by Brian Dean, this author's point of the visual of people clambering over the art day jobs and side hustles, they work on cupboards and doors for the surprises The “tremble and waggle” are not contact for Saltmind. “Welcome Home” work, just as pollen would cling to a bee, you the weekends and in the hours of sun- that await. Take a look in the infinity mir- grooves set to the tune of a Motown hit, but is sponsored in part by group member are invited scale this structure’s outer shell, light after work, some putting as many ror and notice how you and the sounds are based on dances used in bee colonies to donations, and in part by a Burning Man or nestle inside for an epic view of its partner as 40 hours over the week to bring their around you seem to go on forever. depict locations of food resources and to re- LLC Artistic Grant. “We make spooky cruit receiver bees to collect the nectar from across and the landscape that abounds. projects alive. stuff, but we make it engineered well.” Let’s not forget about the dolls, our favor- returning foragers. Standing twenty feet high Bee Dance is at 11:55 and 1280', between Spenser Heaps, a transplant from Visit Saltmind on playa at Camp ite tea-party friends. They love to be held and twenty-five feet wide, this pair of kissing the Man and the Temple. For more informa- Massachusetts, has been to the Burn 6 Armageddon, and be sure to check out and walked around the rooms, but watch bees intertwined at the feet demonstrates this tion on the past and present works of Andrea times, camping with the majority of Salt- the living room/dining room on steel out, jealous eyes will track your steps! If intricate form of dance language. The repeat- Greenlees and her crew, please visit: www. mind with Camp Armageddon on Playa. ladders, “Welcome Home”, at 8:16 and you find yourself looking to escape, good ed passing of nectar from the mouth of one andreagreenlees.com “The benefit of being a collective and 1498', about halfway between the Espla- luck. Even the windows will startle you photo by Jimmy Olsen working together is that we can feed off nade and the Man. back in for more. each other’s enthusiasm, feed off their

The Dollhouse is in the deep playa at 11:20 photo by Greg Levitt and 4400'. For more information on the collective and this piece, visit: www.house- ofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse A Sculpture of Mammoth Proportions BY JIMMY OLSEN

Just north of Las Vegas, NV, at Tule Springs, lies one of the world's richest ice age era fossil beds. Tahoe Mack came up with the idea of the life sized mammoth for her Girl Scout Gold Award after listening to a presentation by Sherri Grotheer of The Protectors of Tule Springs. Protectors of Tule Springs was informally founded in 2006 in an effort to preserve the last of the undeveloped portions of the Upper Las which include mammoth fossils. Her search using metal collected by clean up crews at the Vegas Wash basin in the Northwest portion of for artists who could create this sculpture led Tule Springs location. Dana suggested mak- BLACK ROCK CITY POPULATION NOW INCLUDES CREDENTIALLED STAFF, SO the Las Vegas Valley. Encroaching urban sprawl, to local artist Louis Valero Rico to create the ing this a Burning Man project. After the burn, THE NUMBERS ARE ~10K LARGER THAN USUAL • TUESDAY, AUGUST 27: 68,856 trash dumping, and other abuses threatened 16 foot mammoth body. San Francisco artist this sculpture will be permanently placed at • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28: 74,101 the existence of the Tule Springs fossil beds, Dana Albany created the rest of the sculpture Ice Age Fossil Beds State Park. "Witnessing the moonrise each month, a per- "A season of loneliness and isolation is son cannot resist noting a modest sense of op- when the caterpillar gets its wings. Re- timism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule member that next time you feel alone." of bodily fluids." e BLACK R CK BeACON - Mandy Hale - Kilroy J. Oldster

BRAINTEASERS BY DURGY Burning and gifting: Mega Cake A H T N I C A Y H BY CASS Who doesn't love a good birthday well, cake! Shortly after, they built their revealed, followed by the Moon Phases, N S D I A N A G T celebration and a delicious piece of first cake. and the Zodiac on the final tier. cake? Piece of Cake Productions has In 2019, the group received a Love The Mega Cake was built in Norfolk, D U F I L Y R A N taken the best part of a birthday party Burn grant where they were able to com- Virginia at team member Beau Turner's and brought it to the Playa to not only plete a four-layer Mega Cake, complete maker space. Tom White is the architec- R H K I P A N N I celebrate birthdays, but also weddings with a candle. The main structure is 48 tural genius behind the structure, not O C R C N U O Y R and anniversaries. Largely self-funded, feet tall and reaches 62 feet tall with only beautiful, but built to withstand Piece of Cake raised money for its build the addition of the candles. Participants winds up to 85 miles per hour. The light- M C O A T E C M Y through crowd funding and art sales by will find a unique gifting opportunity ing and electrical design was thoughtfully team members. throughout their climb to the top tier. created by Evan Lazer, adding the final E A N R C C A E B While attending the Burning Man The main level has a traditional touch for an incredible after dark cel- exhibit at the Hermitage Museum in Nor- calendar, arranged by a well-designed ebration. D B O U H H B D A folk, Virginia in 2017, Jeremiah Sheffield, shelving system. Gifts are left by partici- Join them at 11:59 p.m. Thursday Tom White, and Christina Taphous- pants, for participants, on their birthday night as they light the candles for the last A F S S J O V E L Fletcher met, mingled, and knew they date. Venturing by a spiral staircase to time! shared a passion for art, creation, and, the second level, a Chinese calendar is FindFind the thefollowing following words wordsin the grid: in theAndromeda, grid: Andromeda, Bacchus, Bacon, Bacchus, Cu- Bacon, Cupid, Diana, Echo, Fortuna, Ganymede, photo by Rivers at Homebrew4AHomebrew pid,Hyacinth, Diana, Echo, Icarus, Fortuna, Jove, Ganymede, Kronos, Hyacinth, Labyrinth. Icarus, The Jove, remaining Kronos, letters spell a place you probably can’t go. photo by Jimmy Olsen Labyrinth. The remaining letters spell a place you probably can’t go. photo by Jimmy Olsen

The Folly - Update: " Shanty Town" BY JIMMY OLSEN Dave Keane has brought to the playa an Irish "shanty town" fishing village con- structed with recycled wood of demolished housing from San Francisco. What you end up with is a "Folly" or an architectural project artistically created to resemble an old ruin. Explore all the rooms inspired by shops you The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance: 12:00 & 5300'. Burn: 2am Saturday may expect to see in a real fishing village. There will be live performances including the Black Rock Philharmonic. Playing The Folly will burn at 11:59pm Friday ALMANAC night. It is at 12:38, 5000' from the Man. 45 piano With no Moon to speak of this year, Happy Birthday! (Mega Cake) is located at 11:41 & 5550' it is a good time for stargazing. This Highway death update harps year's A road is Andromeda, and you can find her in northeastern sky, ris- BY JIMMY OLSEN The man killed in an accident on ing above the mountains around 9:30 p.m. An easy way to locate the Tyson Ayers, assisted by Leah Des- Pineapple lights pulse County Road 34 on Sunday has been constellation is to find the big W, BY SUZANNE identified as Lonnie Richey, 61, of Carson jardins have brought to the playa the higher in the sky, to the east of the City, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. world's largest musical instrument. North Star, which if you could find The pineapple is a universally recognized hospitality symbol, so it's only The Washoe County Sheriff's Office Sympathetic resonance is a sound your way to Black Rock City, you should have no trouble locating. The natural that a pineapple would roam around the playa and light up the told the Gazette-Journal that Richey's phenomena in which sound sources W is Queen Cassiopeia, Andromeda's night. pickup truck crossed the center line resonate with other sound sources and mother – either sitting on her throne echo back the original sound, forming or tied to it, depending on who tells The pineapple car contains 10,000 LED lights, and, using software, reacts of Highway 34 and hit an RV going in the opposite direction. The people in a harmonic likeness. The project is cre- the story. Andromeda's feet are is to sound and music and creates synergistic patterns, said Pineapple, who near the bottom of the W, her head the RV were treated for minor injuries. ated from 45 piano harps and tuned created the art car and is also known as Pineapple Boy, Pineapple Guy, and sharing the big square that's part of The Gazette-Journal reported that inves- to pentatonic tones. It is based on the Pegasus, the flying horse. The rest of Pineapple Dude. The heated mattress inside the pineapple vibrates in time tigators think fatigue may have contributed earth's fundamental frequency known her is in kind of a dancing pose. with the music. to the crash. as the Schumann Resonance. As the night wears on, her husband Pineapple has "been partying with pineapples for the better part of a Perseus follows her aloft, he looks decade" and got his nickname when he grabbed a pineapple at a Burner- like a fire plug. On the open side The Black Rock Beacon Special Thanks to the of the W is Cepheus, Andromeda's photo by Rivers at Homebrew4AHomebrew 10 Years After Burner Express Bus for father, who looks like a child's inspired music festival drawing of an upside down house. and started dancing driving this issue from Reno! Cepheus was king of Aethiopia Thursday, Sept. 3 with it. (which may have included modern At the annual Black Rock City news Ethiopia) or perhaps Joppa, which "I just kept getting conference, Bmorg bigs announced they had is now Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Ei- deeper and deeper into ther way, Andromeda was a person given up the idea of adopting a not-for-profit of color, Ovid tell us in Metamor- the pineapple," he said. status. [Editor’s note; This decision was even- phoses, despite marble statues that When he decided to tually rescinded, and the for-profit Black Rock indicated the opposite. make an art car, it City LLC was donated to the not-for-profit Thursday, August 29 was destined to be a Burning Man Project at the start of 2014.] Sunset: 7:36 p.m. / Dusk ends: 8:04 pineapple. Pineapple, an Saturday, Sept. 5 p.m. automotive engineer, We reported on Kate Raudenbush’s Brain Drop art project, which helped raise Burner Friday, August 30 built the car on a 1952 Some poor camp is probably suffering awareness of water issues, especially the then New Moon chassis, and believes from caffeine withdrawal after losing a gigan- novel-idea of fracking, using water and other Dawn: 5:53 a.m. / Sunrise: 6:21 a.m. it's the oldest mutant tic coffee maker on the playa. Sunset: 7:34 p.m. / Dusk ends: 8:03 fun chemicals to extract gas and oil from shale. vehicle on the playa. The coffee maker, which is three feet wide and 27 inches tall, was turned in to the Saturday, August 31 The Pineapple car's lost-and-found at Playa Info pre-event by some burners who reported that it fell off a International Bacon Day home base is at Lovin' pickup truck driving faster than necessary across the playa. Sparkle Ann from Playa Info Dawn: 5:54 a.m. / Sunrise: 6:22 a.m. Oven, Rod's Road at reported that some people suspect it came from an art support camp. Ice Sales: Noon-6 p.m. Sun/Moon data courtesy 6:15, just across the BMIR has run ads about the hunk of steel, but as of 9 p.m. Wednesday, no one had www.SunriseSunset.com wedge from the Black shown up to claim the massive caffeine-generating mechanism. Astronomical data courtesy Dominic Ford's Rock Beacon. Sparkle Ann said that this is the largest item lost and found has ever received. in-the-sky.org

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