Thursday-Sunday, Aug 22-24
at Warehouse 23, Sasha packs Tensor into its shipping crate | 
Great Salt Lake, UT - the loaded van | 
Great Salt Lake, UT | 
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on the road in Nevada | 
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highway 447 in Nevada | 
Nixon, NV |
Pyramid Lake | 
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clearly not your average tourists |
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approaching the playa | 
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Tuesday, Aug 26
Sasha duct-tapes something important | 
the view from the Esplanade in front of our camp, Kamp Krotus | 
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the Shiznitz tent in front of Kamp Krotus | 
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assmebling Loxodrome: Dustin, Gene and Jon's LED dome |
the 38 kVA diesel generator | 
the Roncogon, Ronco's shade structure | 
Carl | 
Quinzee |
inside my dome, Dylan illuminated by CK lights | 
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Tensor, in front of camp, not yet fully functional | 
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Dustin |
down the street, an amusement-park-like ride | 
glassblowers | 
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the Man, his base still under construction | 
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inside Xara, a jungle-themed nightclub on the other side of town | 
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Wednesday, Aug 27
Bo and Ronco erect 20' of radio tower for the 64' parachute | 
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Ronco's brain-melting patterns now running on Tensor | 
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the sun starts to rise; Loxodrome in the distance | 
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Julia sets on Tensor | 
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Thursday, Aug 28
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persistence-of-vision images on Obelisk 2 | 
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Corbett hangs out under the parachute | 
Chromodome, next to my dome, illuminates the parachute from the inside |
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Friday, Aug 29
blacklight-illuminated art out on the playa | 
Spheres of Transformation down near center camp | 
Dr. Megavolt's tesla coil | 
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the Thunderdome | 
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Saturday, Aug 30
the Man in his last few hours of existence | 
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the Temple of Honor, seen from the Man | 
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Johnny On the Spot |
Cleavage in Space | 
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the Temple of Gravity, Corbett's project | 
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the sun begins to set | 
Dustin, under the parachute | 
Dylan's sanity is slipping away... |
the view from the top of the radio tower | 
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a man and his homemade flamethrower, minutes before the Burn | 
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fire dancers | 
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t-0:00 | 
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vortices of dust and smoke swirl off the fire |
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the Man collapses and people rush towards the flames | 
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Thermo Kraken, a flower-like metal sculpture with blowers and fuel jets and resonant, crackling bursts of fire | 
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rivulets of burning fuel drip from the petals | 
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back at camp, Sublimination's radio tower with Obelisk I | 
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dancers in front of Tensor | 
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glassblowers | 
Center Camp Cafe |
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the Cafe's flags flutter in the breeze | 
Tensor seen from the top of the radio tower |
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Chromodome running Ronco's patterns | 
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sunrise begins |
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Tensor's glow bathes the playa in light |
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yours truly |
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Bluehouse's dome |
Sunday, Aug 31
Dylan samples Sav-On Osco by Albertson's brand "whiskey" | 
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Becca and Matt |
Josh | 
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finally, relief |
piano entrails over by Foodlab | 
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Gene, Dustin and Josh relax in the Cafe |
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Spheres of Transformation and Kaleidosphere | 
the Temple of Honor in its final day | 
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Thermo Kraken cools off from the previous night | 
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Tensor's rear end | 
the Temple burns | 
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Thermo Kraken, crippled from Saturday night, makes a last stand | 
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jets of flame shoot from the blowers | 
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Thursday, September 4
Elko Body Shop, Elko, NV. the van after the crash. | 
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on the way to Angel Lake outside Wells, NV | 
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Angel Lake, elevation ~8300 feet |
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the sun sets through the clouds in Wendover, NV |
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