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Mike Ross opening – Off The Grid
Mike Ross opening – Off The Grid, originally uploaded by Caution Mike.
From one grid to another. After working on the Burninator Grid at Burning Man, I gave Mike Ross a little help with his new installation titled “Off the Grid“.
The show opens Friday, Sept 18, 7 pm.
414 Van Brunt
Brooklyn
Burninator Grid
I was a crew member on the Burninator Grid project at Burning Man 2009. This was the 3rd incarnation of the Burninator – a creation of Bill Codding. Essentially it was a field of 16 large fire cannons 20 meters apart that were triggered by a computer sequencer.
The Burninator had some unique safety features, including a solenoid fuel shut-off valve and bullet spliced wiring… so that any sort of mishaps, such as an art car backing into a tank, would immediately shut down the whole system.
The effect was a very loud, hot and intense experience. At more or less two hours past dark each night, we lit up our pilot lights and waited for an unsuspecting person to wonder into the grid. At which point we’d fire all the cannons and watch the person jump out of the skin. Of course the lucky winner got to climb the 4 foot platform in the center, select a sequence, and trigger the fire cannons.
We were happy to get many people up on stage to trigger the big booms: friends, kids, Burning Man staff, EMS workers, cops, people with big stupid grins on the faces, as well as a long line of dudes asking ‘how does it work?… how much pressure in the tanks? how big are the valves? etc.” To which my response was, ‘less talk, more rock. Push the button and make the crowd happy.”
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Guerilla Systems – 2000
My friends put on this performance in 2000. I shot the video. My wife is the cow girl.
Guerilla Systems from mike connor on Vimeo.
Tom Kennedy – Art Car Artist – RIP
Art Car artist Tom Kennedy died on Easter Sunday 2009.
At Burning Man 1995, he blew my mind with his Ripper the Shark. Here is some video I shot.
Note Tom going in ever tighter circles as I chace him on my bike with a camera. This was one of the happiest moments in my life and I have it hear on tape.
I’m deeply saddened to hear the Tom is no longer with us.
Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001)
Watched Mau Mau Sex Sex– a documentary about two old soft-smut peddlers. Wow. Seems like another magical universe.
I did love Dave the carnie.