Check out the video I made from many of these shots at www.vimeo.com/26704023
I was trying to capture the whole scene rather than get portraits of band members playing, like I often do.
Stuff I've gotten at estate sales or vintage shops.
Hey check out this set of scans from the Official guide book. I was going to scan those ads too, but found his set.
The Ballad OF Danger Couch (By TROLL!)
In the 4:30 plaza center
There was a marked off area for art to enter
But when no art came coming
Some dirty hippies started slumming
So the kids at Costco had a plan
To make the stinkiest art at the man
They took their slimiest grimiest couch that stunk
And stuck it next to the hippies - ker plunk!
So with alcohol filled bladders they let loose
They pissed and peed their bodily juice
Someone even puked all over this grime
And to warn others they made a sign!
"DANGER COUCH - DO NOT SIT"
For if you did you'd be an idiot
The couch in the heat started to smell
Even the dirty hippies ran like hell!
The kids at Costco were not done
They planted fake drugs in the couch for fun
Little baggies filled with flour
And spent nitrous chargers for the couch to devour
And many times in the days that followed
Many tourists found themselves swallowed
Sitting on this toxic waste
Costco took their picture post-haste!
Later in the week DPW caught a whiff
Of this couches particular gift
And in stinky matters they do tend
They decided to bring this couch to its end
DANGER couch grimaced as DPW brats
piled into trucks and braced for an attack
The biggest of their trucks made the first move
And rolled over DANGER couch oh so smoothe
DANGER couch shattered into a hundred pieces
And DPW giggled tittered and wiggled their pierces
Flat on the ground DANGER couch lied
No one could sit on it, but some hippies tried
Costco gave their couch the rest it earned
they lit it afire and so it burned
This be the story, I so do vouch
Of the one, the only, stinky DANGER COUCH!
www.smashputt.com
The industrial artists of HazardFactory apply their practiced predilection for mechanized mayhem to the humble sport of miniature golf. Forget everything you expect and be prepared for innovative chaos. Compete with your chums during 21+ evenings.
I took some B&W Fuji film packs, and a color pack, to Burning Man.
I was eager to try out using a red filter on B&W instant film. I really like how the sky turned out.
These photos were shot with a Kodak stereo camera, a Sputnik, a Viewmaster, a pair of Sony digital cameras, a Nimslo, twinned Olympus XA2s, and probably a few more I can't remember right now.
~1987, me and some friends visited an old abandoned mine near the UCSC campus.
This was a super-stupid thing to do, as there were nearby large indentations in the earth where other mines had collapsed.
The wood inside was very spongy. I'm surprised it could hold its own weight, much less bear any load.
We walked the length of it, and got out.
A campmate of ours, just a few hours after arriving at Burning Man for the first time, (years ago), saw a bunch of clowns in center camp performing a group.....act.....with rubber gloves...and lube.
Let's just say they were also wearing diapers. Or not wearing them.
Anyhow, he's joked since then that he has a fear of clowns.
We decided to cure him via a surprise clown ambush.
salonofshame.com/
The idea is simple: Seattleites stand before you and read their middle school diary passages, high school poetry, unsent letters, and other bits of horribly shameful, and inadvertently hilarious adolescent writing. Founded in 2005, the Salon is cathartic for readers and hilarious for listeners. Everybody wins when it comes to embarrassment!
I shot these with a 120-size Noblex swing lens camera on a tripod. The camera does a 1/2 rotation before exposing the film, so there's enough time to run back a few steps and get in front of it.