Confessions of a burning man

26Sep07

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Il y a quelque chose de fascinant dans cet événement planté en plein milieu du désert, qui part aussi vite qu’il arrive, telle une tempête de sable ne laissant rien d’autre sur son passage que la poussière. Le Burning Man me fascine, et je remercie Pierre-Olivier Labbe de me l’avoir fait découvrir, ainsi que Fabienne de m’avoir fait découvrir Darkhorse. L’univers du Burning Man, c’est une sorte de joyeuse fête hippie poussiéreuse, à mi chemin entre manifestation carnavalesque et manifeste mad maxo Priscillien, et foncièrement décalée avec les icônes polies d’une Amérique qui sourit de toutes ses dents blanches, sans pour autant se montrer dramatico-lyrique, en montrant un visage souriant et joyeux. La notion d’éphémère rend tout ceci inconstant et fragile.
Le burning man, je viens de le découvrir, a fait l’objet d’un documentaire: Confessions of a burning man, dont la musique donne le ton, une musique sensuelle et suave qui nous transporte dans un univers inconnu.

Quelques morceaux de Darkhorse sont disponibles à l’écoute chez Napster, et pour les acheter il faudra passer par Three Sixty Records, un label électro dans lequel on pourra trouver des petites pépites telles que Sr Mandrill ou James Bernard.
Par ailleurs, je ne saurais trop conseiller la lecture du fabuleux livre de Magnus Mills, 3 pour voir le roi, lequel nous plonge dans cette ambiance un peu baba en plein milieu du désert.
Visions multiples du Burning Man en vidéo.

Burning Man 2006 Hope and Fear slide show - xjackiboyx
Snapshots from my forth trip to the most amazing place on earth. Burning Man! I realize these images are just snapshots to most who'll visit here but for me, I feel the emotion well up inside me when I relive each moment. I feel lucky to have been there! I LOVE Burning Man. You will to, It changed me. Let it change you too. "Participate".
07:03 - February 25, 2007
Burning Man Trailer - holystrawberry

Magic Glasses Camp at Burning Man

03:38 - March 26, 2006
Burningman 2007 Time-Lapse - stemcellfilms
Time Lapse Video of the 2007 Burning Man festival as viewed from the Block Rock Solar "Powertainer". Be sure and check out the Sequel video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4FxBq...

Interesting note: You can actually see the Crude Awakening Oil Derrick go up even though it's about 3/4 mile away! There is a brilliant flash that illuminates the scene. Here is a high resolution still: http://mindfart.com/pic/?crudeawakeni...

Background:
I was originally asked by Tom Price to do this timelapse, and I thought it was an awesome idea. It's been done before by the Folding-Time guys, but they didn't set up this year. The images were captured by a Canon G3 mounted in a weatherproof housing of my own design up on a 20 foot pole next to the Powertainer. There were 18,486 images shot at 2272x1704 which is almost 4 megapixels each. Some of the full-size stills are stunning! The camera was controlled by a custom Daemon I wrote using the Gphoto library, which ran on the Powertainer's Slackware linux system and the images were stored full-size on a hard drive. After the event, I ran another piece of code that downsampled the images to 640x480 then composed them at 30fps into a MPEG-4 video. My friend Tom Sepe added the Music and Titles for me and Voila! I hope to make a more portable rig for future use incorporating an embedded linux system and flash memory. Contact me for more information, to hire me for interesting geekery, or just to geek out. =) My email is peef at mindfart d0t c0m
00:26 - September 14, 2007
Daft Punk's Electroma "The Burning Man" - theGreatestDay
This clip is just touching, and i dont know why, this is the end of Daft Punks Electroma, a wierd and unintresting film, but this clip is a masterpiece. Song: Jackson C Frank - Dialogue
07:03 - April 24, 2007
Burning Man 2007 - jazz5000

Burning Man 2007

07:03 - September 11, 2007

1 Response to “Confessions of a burning man”


  1. 1 Fabienne Posted September 26th, 2007 - 10:14 am

    you’re welcome

    (d’autres titres de Darkhorse à écouter sur ma planète ici et )

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