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Burner artists go bigger and wider
I've been covering Burning Man for many years, both for the Guardian and my book, so it's easy to feel a little jaded about another year of preparing for that annual pilgrimage to the playa. But then I plug into the innovative projects that people are pursuing – as I did last week for the annual Desert Arts Preview – and I find myself as amazed and wide-eyed as a Burning Man virgin.
And when the weekend came, I watched my old camps go bigger than ever – with Opulent Temple throwing a rocking Rites of Massive six-stage dance party on Treasure Island, and the Flux Foundation lighting up the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas with its newest installation, BrollyFlock – demonstrating the ambitious scale at which veteran burners are now operating.
Increasingly, burners are putting their energies into real world projects not bound for Burning Man, often with the help of Black Rock Arts Foundation, the nonprofit spinoff of Black Rock City LLC that funds and facilitates public art projects. BRAF's latest, a project that is also receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, is The Bike Bridge, which pairs noted burner artist Michael Christian with 12 young women from Oakland to turn old bicycles and bike parts into sculptures that will be built at The Crucible and placed throughout Oakland.
"The Bike Bridge is the next evolution of our community-focused public art projects," BRAF Executive Director Tomas McCabe said in a June 23 press release. "This educational and creative project is designed specifically to engage Oakland's youth."
Later that evening, McCabe and other burners gathered on the waterfront in Kelly's Mission Cafe for the Desert Arts Preview, where he ticked off a long list of projects that BRAF was working on around the world, from the conversion of a bridge in Portland, Ore. into an elaborate artwork to a sculpture made of sails for next year's Figment festival in New York City to a bus opera (written about bus culture and performed aboard buses) in Santa Fe to a cool interactive floating eyeball artwork that will tour Paris, London, Barcelona, and San Francisco to the BOOM Parade (combining bicycles and boom boxes) that will roll through Bayview Hunters Point in October.
But the most ambitious artworks are still being planned for that limitless canvas of the Black Rock Desert, where Burning Man will be staged in late August. This year's temple, The Temple of Transition, is being built out of Reno by a huge international crew from 20 countries headed by a pair of artists known simply by their nationalities, Irish and Kiwi, who built Megatropolis at last year's event.
"We built a city block of buildings and burned it to the ground," Kiwi told the gathering, noting how impressed he's been by a number of recent projects he's watched. "When you start doing that, you feel challenged and wonder what you can do next."
Irish said they were particularly inspired by watching the Temple of Flux go up last year, a project involving more than 200 volunteers that I worked on and chronicled for the Guardian, and said it made them want to bid to build this year's temple. "That's what inspired us," Irish said.
The project includes a series of towers and altars, the tallest one in the center reaching about 120-feet into the air, a phenomenal height against the vast flatness of the playa. They said volunteers have been plentiful and the city of Reno has actively facilitated their work, "but our main concern is having enough finances," Kiwi said.
The project got a grant from the company that stages Burning Man, Black Rock City LLC, which gave almost $500,000 to 44 different projects this year, but most didn't come anywhere close to covering the full project costs. The Temple of Transition bridged its gap by raising almost $25,000 in a campaign on Kickstarter, which many projects are now using.
"It's a great way to cut out the middle man. You guys are funding art directly," longtime artist Jon Sarriugarte, who got a BRC art grant this year to build the Serpent Twins (with his partner, Kyrsten Mate), said of Kickstarter, where he was about three-quarters of the way to meeting his goal of the $10,000 he needs to cover his remaining project costs.
Serpent Twins is a pair of Nordic serpents crafted from a train of 55-gallon containers and illuminated with fire and LED effects that will snake their way around the playa this year, one of many mobile artworks that have been getting ever more ambitious each year.
"I love the playa. It's a beautiful canvas, but it's also a beautiful road," Sarriugarte told the group, conveying his excitement at driving his art into groups of desert wanderers: "I can't wait to split the crowds and then contain them."
Another cool project that is in the final days of a much-needed Kickstarter campaign is Otic Oasis, whose artists (including longtime Burning Man attorney Lightning Clearwater) brought a scale model to the event. It's a slotted wood structure made up of comfy lounging pods stacked into a 35-foot pyramid design that will be placed in the quietest corner of the playa: deep in the walk-in camping area, inaccessible to art cars and other distractions.
That and other projects that are doing Kickstarter campaign are listed on the Burning Man website, where visitors can get a nice overview of what's in store.
One project that didn't meet its ambitious Kickstarter goal was Truth & Beauty, artist Marco Cochrane's follow-up to last year's amazing Blissdance, a 40-sculpture of a dancing nude woman that has temporarily been placed on Treasure Island. But the crew has already made significant progress on the new project, a 55-foot sculpture of the same model in a different pose (stretching her arms skyward), and Cochrane told me they will be bringing a section of her from her knees to shoulders as a climbable artwork.
The Flux crew has been working for months on BrollyFrock, a renegade flock of flaming, illuminated, and shade-producing umbrellas that was commissioned by Imsomniac for its Nocturnal and Electric Daily Carnival music festivals, and it was placed at the latter festival near Wish, large dandelions that were built near the Temple of Flux at Burning Man last year, as well as new artworks by Michael Christian. Flux's Jessica Hobbs said burners artists have become much sought-after by the large festivals that have begun to proliferate.
"I really think a lot of these music festivals are looking at how our pieces make an experience," Hobbs said, citing both the spectacularity and interactivity that are the hallmarks of Burning Man artworks of the modern era. The Flux crew was pushed to meet a tight deadline for the project, preventing them from doing a big project for Burning Man this year, but that's just part of the diversification being experienced by burner artists these days. "We challenged ourselves and we came away with another great project."
As a 10 year veteran attendee of burning man from 1995 until 2006, one of the main reasons I stopped going were rise of these mega-camps and mega-structures.
They seemed to me to be antithetical to the very nature of radical self-expression which was turned me on about burning man in the first place. I was free and not subject to group-think, sure i was part of the totality that was burning man but wasn't guided by it.
How does one self-express in a group of 100? Are you not just following the vision of one or two people? Sure, once you've completed said structure, art piece etc you're free to roam the playa and express yourself, but if you've spent 5 days on it, watch the man burn and go home, is there anything "radical" about that?
Of course people attending for the first time typically go with friends in a group and then come back the next year full of ideas they can execute on their own.
To be part of a tribe within the city is great and offers many benefits, but ultimately isn't it at the sacrifice of the self?
I wondered which troll wrote the title "Memo to Steven Jones..."
My money was on old man Evans. It sounded more like his style than Secretia or Meatlick's. I was right.
"My money was on old man Evans. It sounded more like his style than Secretia or Meatlick's. I was right."
- Greg
Didn't you once claim that Evans, Lucretia, and Matlock were all the same person? Is your paranoia softening of late?
Haven't you urged others not to read Evans' posts? Why haven't you followed your own advice?
Have you ever written a post on this subject free of age-ism? Maybe once or twice, huh?
Are you really a high-school dropout? Or is that just the impression you like to convey with your posts here?
Bottom line:
If this is the best defense that Burning Man can come up with, it deserves to go up in flames.
Discussions about Burning Man often degenerate. I'd like to take a brief look at why I think that happens, and respond to some of the questions and observations in the thread.
Burning Man is about as gender balanced as any organization I've ever been involved with. The LLC has six partners, three men and three women, and there are men and women involved in every aspect of the operation; fence building, heavy equipment operation, cleanup, planning and management. Burning Man seems to attract lots of tough, smart, capable women at every level, and I think that's part of why it's been so successful. It isn't nearly as racially balanced though. My experience would indicate that that's because it doesn't draw from non-white communities rather than resulting from racial bias.
Attending Burning Man is an immersive experience, and for some of us it has a significant, even profound impact on our outlook. It can be difficult to express that to those who have not shared the experience. I'm sure that lots of those who have not attended but who have had a conversation about it with someone who has, have come away wondering just what sort of alien they were talking to, and that it would be very easy to brush the whole thing off as the frothing of a stoner. While Burning Man--like any other city of 50,000--has it's stoners, just experiencing the event can also be mind altering--and can be very difficult to describe in a way that makes any rational sense to someone who hasn't been there. (Unfortunately, it's easy to get defensive about it too.)
Burning Man takes it's name from the first event in 1986 where a small figure was burned, and it has become a mecca for fire art of all kinds, but there is lots and lots of other art there as well; photography, sculpture, painting, performances of all kinds, and events that range from raves to a Quaker Meeting.
Over the years Burning Man has evolved into a very well organized event; it is an experiment, and what is learned is folded back in every year in an ongoing effort to optimize the experience and minimize problems. Issues that surface in the stories that go around have often been solved. On the other hand, Burning Man is not a place where there are protective barriers and warning signs; part of the attraction is the opportunity to touch and even climb on things. But there is also an obligation to be sensible and make responsible personal choices--it's not Disney Land.
So what is so special about Burning Man? The desert setting, the art, the community, the lack of commerce, the tradition of gifting, the tradition that everyone is a participant not just an observer or consumer, all contribute to a surreal experience that's very different from everyday life. Unlike other events, it hasn't been designed by someone to entertain us. Instead, every single thing that's there, is there because someone in the community decided to put it there, to personally make it happen. So it's not slick; instead it's homegrown, roll your own, open source, and over the years we've gotten pretty good at it. There have even been a few masterpieces.
For those of us who call it home, Burning Man really is special.
Thanks, Gary, for your thoughtful post above about the attractions of Burning Man.
It's good to know that there are burners who don't go into a fit when reasonable questions are asked, and who can respond in an intelligent manner without foul-mouthed explosions and personal attacks.
Everybody gains when a discussion is reasonable.
Just checking Troll-Town.
I sense a certain sadness in Ruthie's response to assuming the position marc referenced, I guess when you no longer have the flexibility and joi de vivre of your glory days you inevitably become a dried up, myopic, old misanthrope.
Have a groovy weekend y'all. I'm outa here.
"you inevitably become a dried up, myopic, old misanthrope."
- Pat Monk
This comment by Pat Monk is additional evidence that for some people, at least, Burning Man is a mirror of, and not an alternative to, the ugliness of the dominant system of life.
The basic problem with Burning Man is its underlying current of irrationalism. Burners become hostile and defensive when rational questions are asked.
They believe that emotions should be exempt from evaluation. They resent it when thinking intrudes on their fantasies.
History has witnessed many examples of movements that seek meaning and community through emotional acting-out, free from rational overview. Despite good initial intentions, such movements sometimes come to final historical outcomes that are ludicrous. And sometimes, horrific.
Let's be reasonable.
"It's an experiment in alternative social organization."
- Greg
It's not dominated by straight, while males?
Stephen, thank you for the excellently personal update on some of Burning Man's finest artists. I enjoy volunteering for the ARTery on playa, and I unfortunately could not attend the Desert Arts Preview. Your article has been circulated among some of the volunteers, and we're all grateful for the recognition and attention you've given them and the people and organizations who support their work.
Commenters, let's discuss the content of the article and related topics. Let's not trade rhetoric for the delight of scoring points. It's a rigged game, after all.
Those of us who may identify with Arthur may wish to post the comment that, once-and-for-all, condemns Burning Man in this way or that. But what will have been accomplished? This is certainly not the forum to effectively challenge public opinion on the matter.
In turn, those of us who may identify with Massimo / Burningmax may wish to post the comment that, once-and-for-all, defeats those condemnations of our beloved Burning Man. But how does one defeat an opponent with nothing to lose and no goal? The comments in this thread pretend to debate without agreeing on the topic -- without identifying the problem -- and so there is no possibility of arriving at the solution.
It may be that Arthur would be satisfied if every article, comment, and mention of Burning Man from here-on-out included a disclaimer along these lines: "By the way, I'm fully aware that Burning Man is insignificant to society at large and one's thoughts related to Burning Man are inappropriate for serious dialogue on serious topics." The audience and participants being so-cautioned, Arthur would then concentrate his rhetoric on the topic at hand.
And it may be that Massimo / Burningmax would be satisfied if Arthur confessed to a bias against Burning Man and agreed that from here-on-out, he would no longer condemn those who proclaim its virtues for society. The audience and participants being so-informed, Massimo / Burningmax would then concentrate on the topic at hand.
Of course, neither scenario is possible, and this is not a debate. This is a rigged game. Arthur is an antagonist, and he can only participate by provoking response. -- antagonists cannot win. Massimo / Burningmax is a martyr for beliefs not truly threatened -- martyrs cannot win, either.
"It's an experiment in alternative social organization."
- Greg
Please elaborate. Sound interesting.
By the way, I'm glad to see that you're capable of rational dialogue. Your common pattern here has been to explode with foul-mouthed personal attacks on anyone who dares to question any of your dogmas.
This sort of behavior is common in sects, both of the right and the left, both in religion and in politics.
Let's be reasonable.
Being on the Brollyflock crew at EDC we saw that while it's great that events like this are bringing out (and paying for) big art, the event attendies are a very different crowd when compared to Burningman participants. The attenties, by and large, greatly appreciated the piece, but it was clear that for them the event experience was not specifically about the art. On the other hand, it was very exciting to bring our vision to people who would not otherwise have experienced our kind of art. The most wonderful times for our crew was when, every so often, a few of the tens of thousands of electronic music enthusiests would express the wonder we had evoked in them, and that they had been inspired to seek our opportunities do work on projects like ours. There was nothing better than hearing "I live in [hometown]. Who in my area is leading an art crew?" Those kids are the future of our genre, and these events are how they will find us.
Thank you, Massimo aka Burningmax, for your thoughtful post above. Some responses follow.
You say:
"- funds that gets all sucked in budgets such as military and war / defense / paranoid-obsessive control over the masses and other unreal expenses that ARE the real problem."
We agree that the military-industrial complex and the institutionalization of male violence are real problems.
You say:
"See how many problems?"
Yes, human folly causes many problems.
You say:
"So why blame Burning Man and the burners, if we just want to retire from the 'default world' to radically express our cultures, creativities and selves?"
As I've noted before, it's fine with me if people (in this case, mostly single, straight male stoners) want to get together in a safe space and act-out. Who could object to that?
However, Steven T. Jones holds up this sort of acting-out as a model for a new America. How can any thoughtful person buy into his Philistinism?
You say:
"I don't say let's redesign a world in the model of BM"
You have more on the ball, then, than Steven T. Jones.
You say:
"I'm proudly part of the Temple of transition Crew this year and also one of the donors of $25 to make the Temple happens."
Have fun!
You say:
"I feel that being part of the Temple is the most important and inspiring Burning Man experience I ever made so far."
Admittedly, burning things down does have its charm. But have you ever thought of contemplating the art of Michelangelo, or reading the poetry of Emily Dickenson, or listening to the music of Bach, or reflecting on the dialogues of Plato?
Try it some time.
You say:
"Keep burning."
Socrates once said:
"For a human being, the unexamined life is not worth living."
Hi again, Arthur -
Why are you so negative against Burning Man? And yet, if you don't care about it, why do you waste so much time and energy talking so badly about it? I really think you should go out there and give it a try, before judging things (and experiences) that you don't know first hand.
Just let me say that I'm male and straight, but I'm not single or stoner. I'm an artist and also a professional, and I work hard in my everyday job. And so are many of the fellow burners, that go from the starving student to some of the richest people on Earth, including Google's founder (plus half of the Silicon Valley professionals) and Anna Getty (yes, from the Getty Foundation in LA). And top artists, musicians, performers, architects, philosophers, anthropologist and creative minds from all over the world - all stoners? I don't think so...
I read, listen (and play) music, and get easily engaged in philosophical conversations. I don't know where you live, but I live in Rome - three minutes walk from the Coliseum. Same distance but slightly different direction and there is San Martino ai Monti, where the Moses of Michelangelo is kept, and exposed to the public. Did you know that when Michelangelo finished the Moses, he looked at the artwork and suddenly hammered the statue at a knee, saying that it was "too perfect" and needed some scratches?
Yes, I guess it's fun to release a great creative tension. We burn, and we feel good - also because we are also taking care of what we burn - no chemicals, and no toxic fumes. This is the Temple, not the Thunderdome! =)
Massimo / Burningmax
Thanks again, Massimo, for your latest post.
You say:
"We burn, and we feel good."
Good for you! I support your right to have fun in the desert.
However, when Burning Man is put forward as a model for a better America, then it's appropriate for it to critiqued rationally. Otherwise, why should one model be adopted over another?
The Puritanical tradition, which has long influenced the U.S. to some degree, used to say "If it feels good, don't do it."
On the other hand, the Countercultural tradition, which came to the fore in the 1960s, used to say "If it feels good, do it."
Both are traditions are wrong. Whether something feels good or not is no indication, in and of itself, of whether that thing is worthwhile.
Rational judgment decides such questions.
And that's what I'm looking for from burners who claim, not just that Burning Man is fun, but that it is a model for a better America. Steven T. Jones, among others, makes this claim.
Where's the rational argument?
Better America? I don't belong to the Burning Man community to build a better America. I lived in the Bay Area for 5 years, but I'm now VERY happily relocated back to Italy, traveling across Europe for work on regular basis - there is no comparison with the standards of living of "America" and the European quality of life - I feel much better here in Europe, thanks.
But let's point out something important. Burning Man is not a festival happening in Nevada once a year. Beside of the fact that BM has not to be filed under "festival" (more like a "project", or an "experiment in temporary/alternative community"), it is important to underline the fact that Burning Man is an all-year-round community. An international community, with thousands of members who don't live in "America" and who brought the BM principles elsewhere.
Just for you to know, I'm leaving tomorrow for Spain, where I'll be part of Nowhere, the European regional Burning Man event http://www.goingnowhere.org - now at its sixth year, Nowhere is a small but very dynamic event happening in a Spanish desert, with people flying in from all over (this year we are expecting people from all over Europe, the States - including the Bay Area), South Africa and New Zealand (both countries also have their own regional BM events).
Beside of this, here in Europe we are organized into Italian Burners, UK Burners, Irish Burners, German, Spanish, Swiss, Scandinavian, etc.... and we all have local events with the entire community flying over. Our Italian group (certainly not a sect), while already mentally being at Nowhere in July and getting organized for Burning Man in August, is planning for the Italian Burning Weekend (now at its forth year) in October, while I'm already scheduled as dj for both Dublin and London Decompressions (November and December respectively) - and last month I attended an event in Belgium organized from the French Burners to field test their interactive installations for Nowhere.
We are not building a better America - I personally don't care. I am - with all my fellow burners friends - building a community. We meet several times per year since years and we are all friends - more, brothers and sisters. Fellow burners. And very creative, smart, self-reliant people.
Burning man is an emotion, a state of mind, a soul community. None of these can be put in the same dish as rational argument. You like movies, or sports, and often go to the cinema or to the stadium. Or you like the feeling of nature, or art, and often go to a park or a museum. Or you like to run, and run 10 miles per day, rain or shine - where is the rational argument?
We go to Burning Man. And to Nowhere. And to Kiwi Burn. And to Afrika Burn. Or Mount Shasta's. Or to Santa Cruz, Brooklyn or London. We are a creative community. We ARE Burning Man.
It's not a sect - sects are generally supported by (true or false) rational arguments. We are all different yet we share. We get together because of the soul. Sorry this one does not apply to your evaluation metrics.
Enjoy the burn -
Massimo / Burningmax
"Burning man is an emotion, a state of mind, a soul community."
- Massimo
In the absence of rational judgment, emotions, states of mind, and communities can turn out very badly.
Rational judgment has a role to play in every aspect of human life, even when people are burning things.
Let's be reasonable.
Sometimes, Arthur, and let's be reasonable, you've just got to throw your legs in the air and take it up the ass, not all is rational.
"you've just got to throw your legs in the air and take it up the ass"
- Marc Salomon
Now we all see what's on your mind.
Inspiring stuff, huh?
I wonder if he posted this after commenting on the record with the BAR re: circumcision. "as a gay man who has been around a lot of penis"
always classy that Marc guy
Such homo- and sex-phobia, and in San Francisco of all places!
"Such homo- and sex-phobia, and in San Francisco of all places!"
- Marc Salomon
You missed the point, Marc.
Crudeness can be found in every sexual orientation and gender. In fact, it's the default state for human beings when the quest to be civilized is absent.
Plato was right, after all. By developing character and intellectual excellence, we stand the best chance of becoming good and refined persons.
Otherwise known as evolving.
To the contrary, such "evolution" has led humanity down the path of philistinism. We've seen the progress of civilization, which was predicated upon the study of the humanities, actually cut off that source of intellectual inspiration by allowing the liberal arts to atrophy in the academy.
To its credit, Burning Man tries to demolish some of the more oppressive aspects of "civilization." Whether the alternatives BM presents are sustainable or viable models is another question entirely.
Human beings are both crude and refined, all of us. Often time, those who see themselves as the most refine are often the crudest. It is possible to be as evil and mean using civilized, refined language as it is using the crudest of street language.
The damage comes when we are made to repress part of our animal nature. To its credit, Burning Man does bring people together around fire and that touches something special about what it is to be a social human animal. And escaping the city for an intentional community does allow us to drop our urban armor that we've defensively built up, which changes the way we behave over the long term, often for the better.
Apparently, communicating in metaphors goes above your rational head. The world is both ordered and chaotic. Sometimes, you've just got to say "to hell with it, I'm horny."
Each of chaos and order brings its own plusses and minuses. One would do well to embrace them all rather than pretend that only that which you favor exists and the other does not. There will always be chaos, against entropy, you can never win.
You say:
"To the contrary, such 'evolution' has led humanity down the path of philistinism."
Without the development of character and mind, art and technology are just different words for barbarism.
You say:
"Burning Man tries to demolish some of the more oppressive aspects of 'civilization.'"
Such as?
"It is possible to be as evil and mean using civilized, refined language as it is using the crudest of street language."
We are all born savages. Through decades of developing mind and character, we have some chance of becoming civilized. No guarantee. But without character development and mental development, there is no chance of becoming civilized.
You say:
"The damage comes when we are made to repress part of our animal nature."
What about the animal urge to hate and destroy in the face of opposition? Shouldn't that be repressed?
Our animal nature has the potential for both good and bad. The good should be cultivated. The bad should be repressed.
Otherwise, we end up as high-tech monsters.
You say:
"Burning Man does bring people together around fire and that touches something special about what it is to be a social human animal."
What is this something special?
You say:
"escaping the city for an intentional community does allow us to drop our urban armor that we've defensively built up."
Provided we escape in a thoughtful, positive manner.
The Unabomber also escaped city living.
You say:
"Apparently, communicating in metaphors goes above your rational head."
I'm trying the best I can to get up with your superior brain, marc.
Bottom line:
* * * * *
There's no substitute for thoughtful reflection, even when escaping to the countryside and burning things.
Conduct is more important than language, doing trumps saying.
"Conduct is more important than language, doing trumps saying."
- Marc Salomon
Isn't the above an example of language and saying?
Yes, and while true, it is not as important as doing stuff, no contradiction here.
Intelligent action.
And intelligence requires deliberation.
All of the intelligence in the world absent action is meaningless.
Only intelligence translated into action has substantive meaning and even then not always.
If thinking, speaking and writing alone could change the world, we'd be living in a very different place by now, dontcha think?
Intelligence minus action is useless.
Action minus intelligence is misguided.
Both are needed.
Of course action without thought is risky.
But thought without action accomplishes nothing.
There is no contradiction in these two statements.
It's great that groups of people with similar needs can meet together in safe spaces and act-out. There would probably be less violence in the world if more people did so. At least, there would be more fun in the world.
But is acting-out art? This question is especially relevant to Burning Man because the major demographic of burners consists of single, straight male stoners.
Is this group known for its esthetic vision? Is its politics known for its thoughtful acuity? Is its philosophy known for its depth?
Acting-out is fun. But there's nothing artful and progressive about Philistinism, even on drugs.
And, to add to the mix, the Flaming Lotus Girls brought "Mutopia" (from Bman 2008) to EDC this past weekend, and they, too, are building a new piece called Tympani Lambada for BRC 2011. Please see this link for more info and to support this art group's efforts:
Reports Steven T. Jones, with approval:
"'We built a city block of buildings and burned it to the ground,' Kiwi told the gathering, noting how impressed he's been by a number of recent projects he's watched. 'When you start doing that, you feel challenged and wonder what you can do next.'"
Tens of thousands of Americans have lost their homes through foreclosures, many millions of people around the world have become homeless because of natural catastrophes, schools and universities in CA are begging for funds, and SF has to borrow millions of dollars in order to do basic street repair.
At the same, a burner built "a city block of buildings and burned it to the ground" while hundreds of stoners looked on, applauded, and called it art.
Anybody see a problem here?
Look up some photos of the Megatropolis burn. They are easy to find.
Then you will see, it wasn't a REAL city block. It was not actual shelter. It was plywood painted to resemble a city block.
What is your point anyway? Are you saying the economy is too bad to allow art. Are you saying artists and stoners are not doing enough to fix California's poverty?
What is your solution? I'd rather hear that than some misguided whining.
In case you're not familiar with Arthur, he is what we call a "troll." He's not here to offer solutions.
And marcos... what can I say? You've never been, and you don't even want to understand.
Like you, I'm a world traveler. I've been all over this country, and some thirty others. Like you, I see the value in it, in spite of the carbon footprint, in spite of the priveledge of relative wealth, in spite of the criticism that someone could conceivably make, that the money I spend on travel could help x amount of poor people in need. And yet in spite of all the criticisms, I know that you agree with me because you spend money this way too.
But when someone once asked me, "What's the one place you would go back to?" The answer was obvious. Of all the places I've been, the one place I want to go back to -the one place I *do* go back to -is Burning Man.
The first time I took my wife along (who was reluctant to go for the longest time), she was in a daze on the way back (and no it wasn't drug-induced). Driving down the freeway, she tells me, "I feel like I'm in a foreign country now." Suddenly she understood why it is that people say "I'm going home" when they go to the playa... why it has to be so far away from everything for it to work... why it has to be in such an inhospitable environment, and so many other "whys."
It's hard enough to verbally explain even to someone who has an open mind about it. Damn near impossible to explain to someone who has never been, but *thinks* they already know everything.
These criticisms by Arthur and Marcos are absurd. Burning Man is a wonderful thing which does indeed offer many lessons for how we view ourselves and each other outside of Black Rock. There is really no downside to it.
"In case you're not familiar with Arthur, he is what we call a 'troll.' He's not here to offer solutions."
- Greg
Thanks for not using any obscenities in your latest comment, Greg. You're getting better!
As I've mentioned, there's a difference between (1) acting-out at events and (2) putting these events forward as models for a new America.
The first is just a matter of having fun according to one's personal taste. Fine.
The second, however, involves norms, values, and standards. These are subject to rational review and criticism, just like any normative claim.
Steven T. Jones and some others put Burning Man forward as a model. When questions or objections are raised about this model, its defenders become hostile, flustered, and inarticulate.
If you're going to put forward a model for a better world, then you had better be able to defend it rationally.
Otherwise, you come across as a Philistine.
You do love your straw man arguments, don't you, Arthur. I've written dozens of articles and an entire book on Burning Man, and I've never suggested it's a model for the rest of the country. You claim to be a big reader, Arthur, so you should read my book. Then you'll be able to offer more intelligent criticism. You'll also have a whole book's worth of my writing to criticize, which should make you very happy because criticizing me seems to be your favorite pastime. You can pick it up at your favorite bookstore, through Amazon, or directly through my website: www.steventjones.com. I'll even sign a nice inscription for you so you have even more of my words to criticize.
Greg, Greg, Greg, What's with this "either you love Burning Man or you don't understand Burning Man crap?" I was first invited to Burning Man in 1993, but the friend told me that had gone too commercial, so I might not want to go. We may disagree, but please don't deny my perceptiveness.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Burning Man is not the first temporary autonomous zone phenomenon. In the US, there is a rich history of similar gatherings, Earth First! and Rainbow being two. I've attended many EF! gatherings and understand what it is like to shed the urban armor amidst fellow travelers.
But I've always disliked disco, techno and the assorted culture that is the core of Burning Man just like I've disliked the deadhead stinking hippie culture of Rainbow.
When I get away from civilization, I like to be unplugged, far from cars and preferably in the forest, with a smallish gang of like minded folks. Yes, there are folks who are like minded to me, believe it or not, and I don't think I'd find many of them at Burning Man.
The idea of hanging out in a dusty sterile desert sustained by fossil fuel generators and living amidst a RV farm populated with tripping wannabe hippies listening to pounding techno music makes me want to puke, okay?
The only aspect of Burning Man that entices me is the prospect of helping some young curious men to explore their queer sides, given that their barriers are already coming down in such special circumstances.
How about creating art that does not require 50000 people to motor up to a desert, to live in RV's, to burn fossil fuels to keep it all going, culminating in the release of all sorts of toxic and greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere?
Actually, marcos, Black Rock City uses far less energy and produces less waste than most American cities of 50,000 people. Sure, some fossil fuels get burned in generators and whatnot, but this is the most car-free city on the planet while it exists. Everyone walks, uses bikes, or rides on art cars (BRC's public transit system) the entire week, never getting into a car. And I honestly don't think the drive there should be counted that heavily because this is people's vacation and they're most likely going to travel somewhere, and a seven-hour drive is better than even a short flight. I'm not claiming BRC is some kind of eco-utopia, and we certainly do wantonly waste propane just so we can see fire explode, but your environmental critique is way overblown.
Steven, the enviro critique is not overblown when compared to truly off the grid gatherings like Rainbow and EF!
I am told that it is very difficult to camp there because of the winds and the dangers of being run over by motorized vehicles and the steps required to pitch a tent are almost prohibitive. Hence, driving all of those 4mpg RVs over the mountains and into the desert casts a heavier footprint.
As far as air travel goes, those planes are going to fly anyway. The incremental cost per passenger due to weight versus flying an empty seat is insignificant.
BM is not pure evil, but it is quite contrived.
You've been told wrong, Marc. The vast majority of Burning Man attendees camp in tents, which are easy to pitch, and there are roads for motorized vehicles and bikes, so getting run over isn't an issue. Honestly, the environmental argument is usually only made by people who have never gone because it just isn't true.
Its been clarified, that it is onerous due to that you've got to use serous rebar to stake because of the wind, and to have structures to deal with dust and threat of rain, but not impossible, to do a minimal tent camping outfit at BM like you'd do in the forest.
Still, the heavy reliance on RV's and generators portends significant impacts.
-No RV I know of gets 4mpg. The average is about 12, ranging from 7-8 for an old 25-foot clunker from the 90s, to about 16-17 for a new mini RV. That's not bad considering that the larger ones can fit 6 comfortably -much better than taking an SUV for 2 people and packed to the gills with all their stuff.
-It's actually really easy to camp and pitch a tent. About half the people do. And there's no danger of your camp getting run over by any vehicle. That happened once in the 90s, and the way it's set up it doesn't happen anymore. That comment is just so unbelievably divorced from reality, that only someone who has never been, could say something like that. Are you sure that you're talking about the same event, marcos?
These two comments taken together perfectly illustrate the point I'm making -that you don't know what you're talking about, you don't understand, and you don't want to understand.
And it's not about "liking" it. I know people who don't like it; it's not their thing and that's fine. But whether they wind up liking it or not, I think virtually 100% of the people who've ever gone will tell you that unless you've experienced it, you can't understand it. And what really irks me is when people try to dismiss it out of hand without ever having had the experience, and then make ignorant comments like yours, all the while smugly secure in their belief that they have their facts right.
Alright, Greg, I'll talk to my friend who told me about the tents, who went last year, to confirm. I'm not making this stuff up. It is not like I don't know people who go and don't talk to them about it, like everyone who is not down with BM is clueless, in need of enlightenment via a little techno and E.
What you're saying is ridiculous. We take the RV route, but most of my village camps in tents, and they're totally fine.
I just like to have my hot showers, bathroom, and ability to cook gourmet food on the playa. Some purists frown on RVs, but even they appreciate ice cream in the desert.
As for carbon footprint, consider that an RV gives you 12 mpg, not 4. If there's a group of several people, it's more economical than packing 2 cars. Consider also:
-You're not commuting to work during the week you're there, offsetting some of the gas you're using. And of course you're not driving once you're there.
-If you're from anywhere but San Francisco, you're not using air conditioning that you would be using if you were home. If you're from San Francisco, you're not using heat that week.
-Your water useage goes way down. Yes, you drink more, but that's offset many times over by the fact that even in an RV, you have to be ridiculously conservant with water. In a tent, you're using even less.
Oh, and I think it's also closer than Death Valley
I'm not claiming that Death Valley is an eco friendly tour, but Burning Man proponents claim that it is some ecotopia. We'd rented a Prius last drive to DV, and we had to fill it up with 4 tanks of gas for 1500 miles.
One of my skills is preparing delicious vegan food on camping stoves, in the forest, under a canopy of old growth trees, where there is no risk of alkali dust poisoning my meal.
I confirmed last evening from my friend who attended last year that there are requirements for rebar to secure tents against the wind, that few if any use a single tent, and that most have elaborate contraptions designed to insulate burners from the elements.
Call it car camping on steroids, er, party drugs, but don't call Burning Man sustainable or ecologically friendly, okay?
I'm not saying that people losing their houses or schools begging for funds are not a problem, Arthur. Also a lot of social services are shutting down in the US for lack of funds - funds that gets all sucked in budgets such as military and war / defense / paranoid-obsessive control over the masses and other unreal expenses that ARE the real problem.
By the way, ask yourself also why Hollywood actors score millions for a couple of months of work (while being VIPed and all luxury expenses covered), or why a football player has a salary of a few millions (and gets even more with advertising, just a photo shooting with a watch or other consumer product) while many people doesn't get to meets ends - or why other spend thousands and thousands of dollars for aesthetic surgery while entire families cannot afford basic health.
See how many problems?
So why blame Burning Man and the burners, if we just want to retire from the "default world" to radically express our cultures, creativities and selves? All this when a gift economy is set in place, discrimination doesn't exists and inspiration happens at every blink of our eyes?
I don't say let's redesign a world in the model of BM, but sure I say if we want to blame the dark areas and the lack of justice of our "democratic" society, we should start blaming (or better, fighting) in a different directions.
I'm proudly part of the Temple of transition Crew this year and also one of the donors of $25 to make the Temple happens. We funded our own art directly, also with the contribution of many burners and friends, who love the Temple on the playa and want to help us make it beautiful. Dozens of volunteers are working as we chat on the major structure in a warehouse in Reno, where they started cutting timber and nailing wood more than a month ago, many leaving behind their jobs, families and friends (I will join the Temple Crew - from Italy - a couple of weeks before BM opens its gates). You can follow the progress of the Temple build stage at our blog http://www.temple2011.org
We are committing to the Temple of Transition because we feel it very deeply and strongly as one of the pillars of our Burning Man culture - personally, after 8 years with the Burning Man community and working on many projects, I feel that being part of the Temple is the most important and inspiring Burning Man experience I ever made so far.
We need to build the Temple, so we can burn it to the ground, and release in the desert wind sorrows, pains, joy and a plentiful of other emotions that need to be let go. Too hippie? Maybe... but, whatever... you should get the playa and being inspired too - like Steven, myself and hundreds of thousands of burners worldwide. If you do, make sure to spend some time at the Temple, we'll love to see you there (also for the burn).
And if you want to contribute, we are running another fundraising campaign on IndieGogo.com http://www.indiegogo.com/Temple-of-Transition - we are far from closing it successfully like the one on Kickstarter, but we'll be honored if you will decide to contribute as you can, even if with just $25! =)
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This is my first purchase of a CD in 2003 – And what a CD it is! This is just what the doctor ordered to start up the year! If you don't have this yet – get it now! It is brilliant! Exceptional! Sean Malone has it for sure. Also nice to see Hackett and Bruford working together again on a modern, non-nostalgic effort, shows that these guys still have it too. Jason Gobel and Jim Matheos play fantastic also. If you are a guitar player you should definately check this out. This CD smokes & burns with superior musicianship and writing!
Beautifully written, flawlessly executed, Sean Malone's second Gordian Knot project "Emergent" is a stunning achievement. Once again, he has assembled a top-notch lineup (including notables Bill Bruford, Jim Matheos, and Steve Hackett, along with various Cynic alumni), and the excellence of the results simply cannot be understated. Malone has a talent for constructing compositions that are, first and foremost, beautiful, and the virtuosity of the respective musicians is at all times carefully directed towards the greater good of the composition. This is most clearly reflected in the solos, which are never about anything more than advancing the composition itself.For those who are familiar with the first Gordian Knot project, this one is a bit heavier, largely a result of replacing Trey Gunn's Warr guitar with a greater emphasis on the guitars of Hackett, Matheos, Jason Gobel, and Paul Masvidal on one track. But in many ways this is a strength of this album, which has a more organic feel than the first. If this album is to be compared to anything, it perhaps fits best with some of the finest offerings of the classical genre.But even these comparisons fail. This album is an absolute masterpiece, a stunning work that demands attention. I recommend Emergent in the strongest possible terms; among the hundreds of albums in my collection, I can think of none that I would recommend above it. You do yourself a service, and support an emerging musician of the highest caliber, by ordering it immediately.
I very rarely call any album absolutely perfect, but the mysterious entity known as Gordian Knot has practically redefined the term. The first album from Sean Malone's exquisite brainchild was a stunning instrumental work that I'm still hearing new things in, and somehow this disc has managed to top even that. Incredible, dynamic, masterful, a mind-expanding sensory journey for the ears: I could throw out descriptions all day and not quite convey the sheer absolute brilliance that is Emergent.Ok – that last sentence may be exaggerating a little, but this is unquestionably an album that instrumental rock or jazz fans (or anyone who appreciates incredible composition when they hear it) will be sorely lacking if they don't hear. I'm almost lost for words. The instrumentation is plain – guitars/bass/keys – but the execution covers part of the rock, metal and jazz camps all at once. It's heavy, it's ambient, it's forceful enough to shake some walls if played loud (slightly heavier overall than the first), but sprinkled with a few moments of peaceful brilliance so gorgeous they have to be heard to be believed. Case in point – a live version of the previous disc's closer, "Grace," enhanced with layers on layers of Chapman Stick that build higher and higher to the heavens. It's one of the most rapturous things to be heard on this earth. On the other end of the spectrum: "Muttersprache" and "A Shaman's Whisper," a crazed mix of furious guitars and driving beats – though still lightened with some moments of rest before the next storm comes. GK is full of fireworks, but fireworks of the most sublime kind: they're found in otherworldly performances and phenomenal compositions, and any instrumental pyrotechnics add to the whole subtly, not with wild abandon.In 54 minutes (or 50 on the American edition) this disc runs a wider gamut of tones than I even expected: "Arsis," two minutes of calm solo bass. "Some Brighter Thing," a slowburn of sweeping grandiosity that stays ineffably down to earth throughout. "Fischer's Gambit," slow moody half-funk with a Mediterranean edge, courtesy of some masterful acoustic guitar. "The Brook The Ocean," a wild ride that goes from calm to frenzy and back again without blinking an eye. That track inevitably seems like more of an intro since it wanders off into a Bill Bruford drum solo without resuming (and quite a head-spinning solo it is, just try to count to it!), but it's all right, since the thing it leads into is "Singing Deep Mountain" – a masterpiece in itself, and possibly the most wonderful GK track ever. This is the one that's got it all. Slow-building grooves. Wild surges of soaring guitars. Rock-solid bass work that's a gem of harmony all its own. It's even got vocals, wordless "aah"s that provide the perfectly sweet topper for everything else. Then it fades into more of that heavenly ambience, spending the last minute in utter blissful peace.I guess that's a good way to end the disc, but if you're obsessed enough to pop for the Japanese edition, you're also treated to the brilliant "Surround Me" as a bonus. This one is four extra minutes of rock beats and crunchy guitars weaving in a fluid jazz mode, and every bit as worthy as the regular tracks. Too bad it's a rarity.Any more words from me will be redundant to those who've heard this marvel already, and inadequate for those who haven't. Listen, enjoy and discover for yourself.
It's been a long wait for _Emergent_, which was delayed (and delayed!) for a long time before finally being released. Now that I have it, I can definitely say it is everything I expected it to be and more. While similar to Gordian Knot's first release, _Emergent_ is far more realized and astonishing. Fluid, heavy, bold – so pure in manifestation that it is nothing less than genius.Although Gordian Knot was a project initiated by Chapman Stick player and bassist Sean Malone, it would be a mistake to credit the album's brilliance solely to him. Malone has recruited an amazing team of musicians, but they are embraced into this project rather than performing as session players. The chemistry between these musicians is so dense its like gasoline fumes distorting the air. Songs unfold in a musical arena where each player listens and adapts to the others, baiting with challenges and responding to twists. The music is clearly composed, but it has that spontaneous tension and exuberance of improvisation. You cannot describe this music in a nutshell. Different styles of music are so seamlessly integrated that picking them out is basically impossible. You really just have to listen. The instrumental interplay is so tight Robert Fripp would probably stop and take notice. _Emergent_ is heavier than _Gordian Knot_ was, but not really in a "metal" kind of way.Consider the lineup: Sean Malone (bass, Stick, keys, guitar), Bill Bruford (drums, percussion), Jason Gobel (guitars), Sean Reinert (drums, percussion), Steve Hackett (guitars), Pat Masvidal (guitars), Jim Matheos (guitars). Careful, you're drooling. Solos are abundant: the album probably has around 30 in its 53 minutes, but they don't "feel" like solos — they are merged into the total compositional framework in such a way that it all feels surreally organic. Gordian Knot is anything but a showcase of exhibitionism. The music here is a perfect balance of structured backdrops and individual freedom so perfectly realized that both elements overlap with one another and become indistinguishable. The symbiosis of all musicians involved is probably the most entrancing part of _Emergent_. Featuring all the members of Cynic, "Muttersprache" cultivates the affinity between their jazz tradition and an almost atonal metallic flail… which alternates with the pure lunar energy of the gorgeous middle section. Here, the V-cymbals are sparkles of distant starlight set against musical breaths and undulations across the ether. And when that one ascending melody comes in (you'll know the one) it is impossible to allay shivers. In "Fischer's Gambit", with absorbing curls of rhythm and Jim Matheos' proto-andalusian guitar cadences. A deep rhythmic tension intensifies these placid expressions, giving the song a desperate, edge-of-the-seat excitement even while slow and beautiful. "A Shaman's Whisper" is a fusion crunch-monster, rife with jaw-dropping guitar interplay and rendered amusingly exotic by the complex, alien melodies and worldly drumming of Bill Bruford. On this track, Reinert performs on the kit and Bruford is heard on slit drum for a dual-percussive quality which you have to love.For the best example of the magic chemistry shared between Malone and Bruford, the riveting neo-jazz of "The Brook The Ocean" cannot be topped. Where Malone and Bruford share an intense rhythmic collegiality, trading off solos before coming together with a dazzling violence.The soft-piano intro of "Some Brighter Thing" does not warn you that a slamming dissonance is about to gush from your speakers. The band comes together at last for some complex prog-like melodies and deep crunch. The main theme of this track is slippery and spine-tingling. "Singing Deep Mountain" builds on and on until the breaking point at around 7:00, where Steve Hackett's devastating guitar solo unleashes a wave of dense rhythm and sublime, wordless vocal melodies (quite electronically processed so they barely sound like vocals). Unless you get the Japanese edition, _Emergent_ ends there. If you're insane and get the Japanese import (like me…insanity is cool), you are blessed with the fortune of listening to the sublime "Surround Me", which is largely a Jason Gobel composition, peppered with sparkling arpeggios and graceful, articulate bass playing. There is a live version of "Grace", which was the last song from the first Gordian Knot album. There is no audience noise so it doesn't detract from the album's atmosphere. It is a solo performance featuring Sean Malone, honestly it approximates visual art. It's easy to soak in the celestial atmosphere but paying attention to the sonic richness here reveals the beauty of texture and ambience that Malone is capable of creating on his own. Equipped with the mighty Stick and an Echoplex, he ingeniously creates so much layer you'd believe three or four musicians are up on that stage. This halcyon performance is the most sublime moment on the album and one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. Brilliant, challenging, complex, and truly progressive — _Emergent_ is one of the best albums ever and I get the feeling there will be no better album released this year. (surprises are always possible, though…)


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High-Performance Hybrids
There's electricity in the air as experimental technologies redefine high performance, both on and off the track
Paul A. Eisenstein
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Saturday Night Live: How it Shapes Our Politics & Culture, September/October 2011
Our ears pick up the first sign that things are not quite as expected as we blast through the winding canyon roads of the Austrian Alps. At 145 klicks (90 miles an hour) the Porsche's roar has suddenly gone silent. A quick glance down reveals the reason for the initially unnerving surprise: the tachometer reads "0 rpm," our Panamera's 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 engine has automatically turned off, briefly shifting to battery-only mode.
The German automaker best known for the incredible performance of products like the classic 911 sports car is suddenly going green. In recent months, Porsche has unveiled an assortment of models that use a variety of alternative propulsion systems. Among them is the new gas-electric drivetrain in the $95,000 Panamera S Hybrid that we've come to Austria to test-drive.
And the company is not the only luxury maker exploring alternative powertrain technology, a segment previously reserved for vehicles saddled with low performance and few frills as the price for maintaining a clean ecological conscience. It's difficult to find a high-line maker that isn't looking at the potential of battery-drive systems that range from relatively conventional hybrids to plug-ins and pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). Mercedes-Benz already has several hybrids on the market, and is fleet testing BEV technology. Audi promises to put its battery-based e-tron on the market in the coming years, while Jaguar has unveiled the radical C-X75 plug-in supercar. BMW is launching an all-new battery car brand, and even Lamborghini is exploring its battery options.
But you might say that hybrids are in Porsche's blood. In 1899, the young engineer Ferdinand Porsche, fresh to Vienna, designed the Lohner-Porsche Mixte for the Austrian coachbuilder Jacob Lohner. In some ways, the car, which ran off batteries and a small generator, might be considered advanced technology today, with its frictionless drivetrain. Porsche skipped the drive shafts, chains and belts of the day, instead placing small electric motors in the hub of each wheel.
At just a glance, it's hard to tell the difference between the standard Panamera S and the S Hybrid, other than by the badge and some subtle changes on the instrument panel. But at the heart of the new driveline on the former vehicle is an asynchronous electric motor that pairs up with the Panamera's V-6 through an eight-speed automatic gearbox to send power to the rear wheels. The gas engine develops 333 horsepower and 325 lb-ft of torque, but when you need it, the electric motor kicks in another 46 hp, with torque climbing to 428 lb-ft, enough to launch the Panamera S Hybrid from 0 to 60 mph in just 5.7 seconds on the way to a 167-mph top speed. At speeds up to 109 mph, the system's controller will decouple the gas engine—effectively shutting it off—while coasting. The battery side of the driveline will also permit driving limited distances solely in electric mode—while boosting fuel economy to levels one simply wouldn't expect from a Porsche. Preliminary numbers suggest around 35 miles per gallon using the European test system. So, the Hybrid not only gets nearly 11 miles more a gallon and more power than the normal Panamera S with a V-6 engine, its performance comes close to that of the Panamera V-8, which gets 12 fewer miles per gallon than the S Hybrid.
"This way, you can go very fast and it still would be socially acceptable," explained former Porsche CEO Michael Macht at the Geneva Motor Show last year. The heavily attended news conference saw the German maker roll out an assortment of new hybrids, including the 918 Spyder, a limited-edition two-seater that it will produce for a staggering $845,000. For your money, you'll get a 500-horsepower V-8 that's paired with twin electric motors—one mounted at each axle—kicking in another 218 hp. Considering the price tag, it's nice to know that the plug-in hybrid is expected to get about 78 mpg, and operate in battery mode for 16 miles—a dozen times farther than the Panamera S Hybrid. And when you throw gas-saving precautions to the wind, the Spyder is estimated to reach 60 in less than 3.2 seconds and has a 199-mph top speed.
It's often remarked that advancements in motor sports have driven the development of passenger cars as new technology moves from track to street. These days, the migration seems to go two ways as the interest in alternative power in racing circles grows. Earlier this year Porsche revealed another motor-driven model, this one the 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a racecar that recently began track testing. It avoids hefty weight penalties associated with batteries by turning to an unusual energy-storage device, a low-weight flywheel that spins at speeds in excess of 40,000 rpm and can instantly pump out several hundred extra horsepower.
Moreover, Formula One has been pushing for the use of flywheel-based hybrid systems. "We want, as soon as possible, to have new categories with new energy," Jean Todt, president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA, announced earlier this year. Though still a matter of much internal debate, the F1 governing body could have a series of electric car races going in the next few years, perhaps challenging Formula One itself someday.
Alternative power has already proven itself on the track. Audi routinely dominates the endurance race circuit with such diesel cars as the new R18, which swept to victory at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans. One reason is fuel economy. The Audi "oil burners" get significantly better mileage than conventional racers, which translates into fewer time-eating pit stops. Hybrid power can deliver a similar advantage.
That might not seem to matter to luxury car buyers. After all, does someone buy an $845,000 Porsche 918 Spyder and fret about $4 a gallon gas? But studies find that even the most affluent motorists are demanding better fuel efficiency, if for no other reason than social acceptance. "We are listening to the people," suggests Audi CEO Rupert Stadler.
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And again, how is it bad writing for a Captain to do what he thought he could to save his ship? The warning from Ayel was clear. Refusal would be unwise. If the Captain did not go, the Kelvin was immediately doomed. By Captain Robau going, he bought the Kelvin a little extra time to shore up what little it could in the way of weapons and defenses...not that they did much more than hold off a few torpedoes while the shuttlecraft escaped.
And we got one James T. Kirk out of the deal. Might not have if Robau hadn't gone over.
Brief rise in action.
No suspense at all.
Worst Battle of Trek's History.
This was far from a catch 22 Martok.
That captain against just about every current day standard gave himself up like a lamb to a hostile enemy. If this had been any remotely logical enemy he would have been milked for intelligence that would eventually compromise his military and country.
Saving the lives of the crew is an absolute secondary. Not an absolute priority. It was the worst action any so called competent commander could have taken.
a-He didn't take a strike team to cause havoc on the enemy ship and to by them time.
b-He didn't take a load of explosives to cripple the Enemy
c-He didn't ram the enemy ship
d-He didn't send someone in his place rather than abandoning the bridge of his ship. (Deceiving the enemy on who was the captain which should have been a MUCH HARDER and BETTER decision)
e-He didn't attempt to attack the Enemy Commander to assassinate him
f-He didn't detonate the shuttle inside the enemy ship.
Once a stupid enemy gives such a wild opening like Nero gave the Commander of the Kelvin, there are any number of solutions one could have employed to by the crew time and even save the ship. Infact with a much smaller opening Kirk saved his ship from Khan in a FAR BETTER written scene where the enemy has reason to pause only a moment for the secrets of a doomsday device. Just like the Kelvin, Enterprise was wounded. The fact are Kirk was simply written smarter. He offered to transport himself aboard, but he knew that wasn't enough time. But with Kirk that was just an offer to stall. If he had would his crew have thought of prefix code?
That's why he's the Captain.
I completely agree about the First Contact battle....too brief, and certainly blew the action wad at the beginning of the film.
We cannot judge the Kelvin incident by current day standards though. Likely the protocols for dealing with deep-space, first contact scenarios, especially hostile ones, would probably be different in the far future...especially if it is realized that the Kelvin had no change of doing any significant damage whatsoever to the Narada, short of ramming her, which the Kelvin ultimately did.
By the standards of protocol likely set forth in Trek's 23rd century timeline, Robau acted as correctly as he could.
I don't know why you wouldn't, Martok.
The same stakes are involved and they have the same tier of priority.
Starfleet Order 2005: Orders the destruction of a starship by allowing matter and antimatter to mix in an uncontrolled manner. This is a last resort for a captain that allows him/her to prevent their ship or crew from falling into enemy hands.
The Captain is part of and the most important part of said crew.
(I meant to post this earlier, but the posting protocols for this site are frakking wonky!)
We cannot judge the Kelvin incident by current day standards though. Likely the protocols for dealing with deep-space, first contact scenarios, especially hostile ones, would probably be different in the far future...especially if it is realized that the Kelvin had no change of doing any significant damage whatsoever to the Narada, short of ramming her, which the Kelvin ultimately did.
By the standards of protocol likely set forth in Trek's 23rd century timeline, Robau acted as correctly as he could.
The Romulans were from the future, and probably fairly familiar with Federation starship bridge layouts, even if they were just a mining ship. Going by the standard that whomever was sitting in the center seat at the time was probably the captain, and considering that Ayel's transmission was forced into reception, not voluntarily received, there was no time for Robau to set up any kind of deception. Ayel suddenly appeared, gave the ultimatum, and disappeared. The clock was ticking, and Robau, witnessing firsthand (along with the rest of the bridge crew...and certain missing crew persons) the swift destructive power of the ship before them, had to act. Offensive action was futile...defensive action even more so. Ramming the ship with who knows how many souls aboard was not a first option. He did not authorize directive 13 until he gave command to George Kirk.
Directive 13 (General Order 13?) apparently states that if offensive and defensive options have been exhausted, or are unavailable in the conventional sense, then the crew is to abandon ship, and the ship be set on auto-pilot to ram the enemy, and do as much damage as possible.
But remember too, that diplomacy is probably the first option to be attempted anyway, even in a hostile situation (in the Star Trek universe). So, Robau, having been forced into a defensive situation that clearly proved that an offensive tact would've been futile, he went with diplomacy, thinking of the lives of his crew, before himself... as a selfless StarFleet captain would, since it was not an exhausted option. As far as he was concerned, diplomacy was an option given to him, but only from a position of strength by the enemy. Robau did not know he was going to be interrogated, but he was probably sure it was his last away mission...evaahhhhhh.
Let's put it like this, my friend:
I have two laws of storytelling....and I'm sure I'm not the first one to actually think of them.
1. Entertain thy audience.
2. Logic and physics will always give way to the purposes of dramatic storytelling...no if's and's or but's...if it threatens to bog down the progress of the story, and bore the audience.
So sayeth I, and so likely before me, someone else.
That's how what was science fiction crosses resolutely into the realm of pure fantasy.
It's one of the reasons I'm not much of fan of Trek anymore. Entertainment is so cheap and easy to find and my time is rather limited. I could go with the entertainment RULES position but I'd rather do something else unless for once the story-teller wants to wow me by doing something more difficult than waving a wand to make all the problems of reality just melt away. At which point Trek ceases to be even remotely special and worse than mediocre.
I like space travel because it's possible and grounded in reality. I also like characters that can do nearly impossible things because they think outside the box. Dreams based on reality are far more exciting, intriguing and meaningful and expand my horizons. There is this feeling I've learned to love....when my mind is open to new and wondrous possibilities. That is a feeling I crave.
Largely, Star Trek, like Star Wars, is pure fantasy. Sure, certain things have come to pass....cell-phones (communicators), iPad and other smart devices (PADD), but overall, Trek is still fantasy.
I don't go to a movie to seek enlightenment. I don't go to a movie to ponder the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything (including the Restaurant at the End of the Universe...LOL).
The only things that really irk me in fantasy and fiction are when people (especially those in military organizations) use improper communications protocols. Other than that, I'm pretty wide open for what passes for that universe's reality.
As much as I'm certain we'd love to have seen some individual adventures of the U.S.S. Kelvin, the writers could not turn the Kelvin incident into its own three hour affair just to kick off the remaining two hours. As you said, peoples' time is limited. The story must be told quickly, and yet satisfyingly. But, not everyone will be satisfied....alas, such is the nature of things.
Hehe......you wanna see something where not everyone is gonna be satisfied, and likely some are gonna be quite peeved? Just wait'll I release my BattleStar Galactica Wars video....then watch the proverbial fur fly.
Martok I would say care or don't care.
Don't pretend to care.
There is not much in the way of logic in what happened in about 3/4's of that film. I point it out because I'm a person in search of realities.
I look up at the stars every night and I know it's possible to travel among them, to settle new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations. I know it's possible to go where no one has gone before. All those astronauts and cosmonaut that made traveling into space from a dream to reality know that too.
I've always been an explorer, that, with my desire for information has always defined me. I live for making two synapses come together...discovery understanding and exploration. Perhaps just as important is creativity, uniqueness and expression.
I tend to put a negative spin on entertainment just for entertainments sake because we justify alot of negative things just to be entertained. People out there have selfish ulterior motives and politics they're pushing that ultimately mean so little in the grand scheme of things. But I can't say enough about a teacher that entertains AND EDUCATES, a movie that Entertains and inspires our minds to be intelligent. It's how I will teach my children because I know just by watching the people around me that with so much time spent between the TV, the computer, video games and movies that....Entertainment motivated people are just about as bad as drug users looking for a daily fix. I may not have a wife or kids to care about and occupy the majority of my time but I have an abundance of work. Even if I did it doesn't mean I have to surrender my consciousness and intelligent self over to mindless entertainment and if you haven't noticed the media is giving us a lot of mindless entertainment...
The things that really matter are being neglected.
It repulses me. Absent fathers, declining education, drunk driving even dieases like cancer...just because a drag on a cigurette or joint ...feels good. Yet there is always an abundance of Entertainment. I don't want to just FEEL my way through life I want to learn and risk the chance that I might contribute something meaningful and selfless to society. Perhaps, though, I'm speaking beyond my years.
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You have some profound sentiments there, my friend. And certainly no one can hold them against you.
There are people who can accept entertainment for what it is, and separate fiction from reality, and there are those who cannot...and you'll find them in almost every form of entertainment that involves fiction....novels, movies, tv, video games, etc.
Yes, I am entertained by violent movies, and video games, but I also know that what happens in them is:
A. Fictional.
B. Not condoned by rational people.
C. Likely so over the top that it couldn't happen anyway.
My mom used to let me and my little brother watch R rated movies all the time, usually under her supervision. (I'm sure I regaled you with my "A Clockwork Orange" story... That was a course of a different holler.) She figured we'd be watching 'em eventually anyway...might as well get us ready. We turned out quite alright.
But when parents use video games and video entertainment as electronic babysitters....that's when I get irked.
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ODU's Jim Raper Inducted into Virginia Communications Hall of Fame
Jim Raper, the editor of Monarch magazine and science writer at Old Dominion University, was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame the evening of Thursday, April 12.
Print and broadcast journalists and managers, corporate and advertising executives, educators and a noted photographer were among the 2012 inductees who were honored in Richmond. This was the 25th anniversary of the Hall of Fame.
Raper, the former award-winning Virginian-Pilot journalist and newsroom manager, served for 20 years at Virginia's largest newspaper, most recently as managing editor. The Virginian-Pilot won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1985 while he was managing editor.
He has served in a number of faculty roles and university communications positions in Virginia, and has been "The Humble Steward" wine columnist for The Virginian-Pilot since 1992. He has worked for ODU's Office of University Relations since 2005.
This year's Hall of Fame honorees were inducted at the John Marshall in Richmond. Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Mass Communications hosted the ceremony. Television journalist Roger Mudd, one of the inaugural inductees in 1986, served as emcee.
The Virginia Communications Hall of Fame recognizes communication professionals with exceptional careers in journalism, public relations, advertising and other media fields. This newest class of 14 inductees will bring the total number of inductees to 140.
"Induction into the Hall of Fame is a very appropriate way to recognize the contributions to excellence in mass communications that these 'superstars' have made, especially as we celebrate our 25th anniversary," said Judy VanSlyke Turk, professor and associate director for special projects in the School of Mass Communications at VCU.
Proceeds from the evening will benefit the Hall of Fame scholarship fund at VCU and the Hall of Fame's endowment.
This article was posted on: April 13, 2012
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MLS owners approved several competition changes that will have dramatic effects on the 2012 season, the league announced on Sunday. Among the changes are a hyper-unbalanced schedule that will feature teams playing as many as three games against in-conference opponents, an additional game being added to the conference finals and the MLS Cup being hosted by the team with the highest regular-season point total.
"We have established a fair and compelling format for the 2012 season," MLS Executive Vice President Nelson Rodriguez said in the league release."This regular season will include more games between regional rivals and less total travel than we have seen in recent years. Because of the wide geographic distribution of MLS clubs, this structure should improve the quality of play, while continuing to give every club an equal chance of qualifying for the MLS Cup Playoffs."
While it's been known for some time that the league would go to an unbalanced schedule, but just how unbalanced is now clear: All Western Conference teams will play three games against each other, while the 10-team Eastern Conference will play three games against seven opponents and two against the other two teams. Each team will play their out-of-conference opponents once. The Montreal Impact will join the Eastern Conference, while the Western Conference will remain at nine teams.
As a nod to this unbalanced schedule, their will be five teams from each conference making the playoffs. The Nos. 4 and 5 seeds will play in a wild-card round as they did this year, with the winner going up against the conference's top seed in the conference semifinals.
Unlike in previous years, the conference finals will be two games, just like the conference semis. While this change makes some logical sense, it also diminishes the value of the regular season as it effectively eliminates home-field advantage from that round.
Perhaps because of that change, the league also decided to allow the team with the highest regular season point total will host the MLS Cup. In previous years, the final has been held at a predetermined site.


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26-year-old Stephen Doane was on his way to Chesterfield's House of Prayer on the morning of October 21, when his Honda Civic was struck by a pickup truck on Courthouse Road near the Powhite Parkway. Doane was killed.
44-year-old Reynaldo Solano, who lives two blocks from the crash scene, ran a red light and hit Doane, according to police. Solano was in a GMC pickup truck with one other passenger. Neither Solano nor his passenger were injured.
Doane's pastor says he was an active member, a student, and an iron worker. He was thought to be a role-model for young people in the congregation.
Police do have witnesses who say the pickup ran a red light. Alcohol was not a factor. At this point, it's not clear if speed was a factor. That's something that will come out as proceedings move forward.
As to whether the intersection of Courthouse Road and the Powhite parkway is dangerous, police told us it's not on their top ten list for the county's most accident-prone roadways.
Solano is facing reckless driving charges. He's set to appear in court at 1 p.m.
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