Burning Man 2018
Renewing the WOWs with AWE, yet again!
Back to That Thing In The Desert. 12th time for me – 6th for Tammy Remington, my partner in life and art (AnomalyWorksNYC).
I have contributed artwork to the Center Camp Café Kiosk from 2010 to 2014. You can see the works in the “galleries” at aleXanderhirka@nyc.com .
For the last three years Tammy has collaborated with related short stories, printed in small booklets to share at the event. We’re did it together again this year. See photographs below.
2017 was a year of two life-changing events (one emotional/spiritual, one physical) – both of which played a big part in my return to the playa. The latter was a serious leg injury (careful getting off that bus!) which seriously impacted my mobility around Black Rock City. Not easy for a both-ends-burning man! The former event I wrote about HERE.
The summer of 2018 seemed to offer recovery, a real renewal of energy and stamina – until weeks before the event some mysterious pinched nerve caused intense pain in the same leg. Treatments days before the trip helped a little, but the journey’s adventures were still marred with intense distracting discomfort.
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(See our “Press Button For Quick Service : A Life/Art Performance Piece” in Reno, Nevada in 2013 – documented HERE.)
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“(Joseph) Campbell’s first requirement was that mythology must inspire awe in the universe. Modern America was built on biblical desert mythologies, even if most Americans would want to do anything but live in such an environment today. Standing in the middle of the Playa — the art-driven center of the camp — at 2 a.m., whipping yourself around to find a perfect circumference of lights, mutant vehicles and sound systems the size of midtown Manhattan clubs is, to say the least, awe-inspiring.” >>> The entire article, The Mythology of Burning Man, by Derek Beres, HERE.
613 photos from Burning Man 2018.
“#12 for Alexander, #6 for Tammy. Theme: iRobot.
Renewing our WOWs once again.”
From Burning Man 2018. Posted by AleXander Hirka on 9/24/2018 (612 items)
- Tickets arrive. Here we go again. #12 AleXander, #6 Tammy.
- AleXander’s 12th time to Burning Man. Photo 2017.
- Tammy’s 6th time around.
- Thorough washing out of the bladders inside the hydration packs, and wiping down the …
- Notch added to my hydration pack- ready for number 12. Original patch created many ye…
- 8:15 and Elektron. Link to live map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1j…
- In Harlem – production on the short story book to be gifted at Black Rock Cit; while…
- Art for Center Camp Cafe – printed at Skink Ink Fine Art Giclee Printing, WIlliamsbur…
- Art for the box in which the story book will live at Center Camp.
- The term comes from a Czech word, robota, meaning "forced labor" the word ‘…
- Phase One of Pee Jugs for Gifting. Officai Anomalous Duo UriNation Pee Jugs Ⓡ ™
- Finished three Pee Jugs for Gifting. Officai Anomalous Duo UriNation Pee Jugs Ⓡ ™
- Preliminary suitcase review. Dali Dolly, 10 time Burner, supervises.
- Sorting and packing begin.
- At the Center Camp Cafe this year: there will be a short story ("Eye, Robot"…
- The printed banner to be hung up somewhere at our camp – Poly Paradise – celebrating …
- Your turn to be A Big Deal at Burning Man – the Banner will be hung up somewhere at o…
- Burning Man Kitchen Shrine, with worshipers.
- Awaiting the arrival of the car service. 4:40 am.
- Sunrise departure.
- Northern suburbs of Chicago, Lake Michigan.
- Northern suburbs of Chicago, Lake Michigan.
- Dali Dolly on her 11th journey to Burning Man.
- Sacramento. The place where we went to pick up our UHaul truck.
- This place carries EVERYTHING!
- Phase one of packing truck done in Sacramento. Onto Reno and the big stuff. Some wo…
- Most Famous Anomalies in the Biggest Little City in the World.
- RENO!!!!
- Wallet contents retrograde.
- Cash donation center.
- Step right up.
- Book jacket material, no?
- Dali Dolly on her last night in Reno. Tomorrow DD’s 11th Burning Man.
- Morning has broken.
- At Mel’s Diner.
- We never did figure out what these were.
- A delicious meal at a truly lovely Mexican restaurant we stumbled upon in Reno. Bert…
- Unloading the storage space in Reno into the truck.
- With AleXander and Dillon injured and Tammy being a girl and all, the heavy lifting f…
- USA Today reporter interviews/photographs us.
- Never talk to the mass media – they hear what they want and what sells papers. Redact…
- The parking lots in Reno get really weird around the end of August each year.
- Fireworks over Reno.
- Robots on their way.
- Donner Pass.
- Arrival at Black Rock City
- There’s that smell…….
- 2 and a half hours at Gate; not bad.
- Gate. Skull.
- Tent is up in time for a dusty sunset.
- Unloading.
- Ahhhh, yeah, all the futon!
- The comforts of home.
- Full moon.
- Baba Yaga’s home.
- Hard to say what this was but people were climbing up inside it.
- Home for a week.
- Updating last year’s banners.
- The homestead.
- Sunset.
- Art hung up at Center Camp.
- Dusty day!
- The headless warrior.
- The Duo’s famous NYC hot dogs with super delicious sauerkraut.
- There sure were a lot of Big Deals at the burn this year!
- C’Ring toss.
- Center Camp Cafe
- Center Camp Cafe stickers
- Because Real Burners use portos!
- PortAPotty Profundity.
- Some art cars are more, shall we say, "sincere" than others.
- Ever wonder what to do with those rabbit skeletons you picked up for a song at the me…
- Mechanico Pulpo reborn as Rabid Transit.
- At least three people asked if they could take a picture of our banner on the tent.
- PolyParadise
- Tammy LOVES her trike!
- Our camp
- Our camp shower
- Camp kitchen at night.
- Rabid transit in full glory.
- We never did see this one after it got uncovered. I guess it was real shiny.
- With Natomas John.
- The shrine to Larry beyond the Temple.
- Tammy left a copy of "Eye, Robot"; hope he liked it.
- Dust at night is kind of magical.
- Because tubas should always be on fire.
- C’Ring toss.
- So this is the art car we were invited to ride out to the Great Train Wreck burn on F…
- Thunderdome during the day isn’t very impressive.
- Lots of Canadians!
- Shopping carts
- Shopping carts.
- A little daily clean-up
- Snow cones!
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Center Camp murals
- Real civilized.
- Another fine year at the Dome!
- Arctica- where one gets ice!
- This was way out at the very edge of the city where no one goes.
- All the comforts of home
- Kostume Kult’s NYC (given the work it takes just to get our tent up the idea of putti…
- Kostume Kult’s NYC subway
- Kostume Kult’s NYC subway
- Kostume Kult’s NYC subway
- Kostume Kult’s NYC subway
- Kostume Kult’s NYC subway
- Cell phones arrive in Black Rock City
- Giant marionettes because it’s Burning Man, that’s why.
- Stacking a bunch of wrecked cars and letting people climb them to get up to the bar a…
- The Man
- Camp kitchen in the daytime.
- AleXander makes art on the Duo.
- Trash can turkey.
- Milk and Honey camp https://journal.burningman.org/2017/05/philosophical-center/spir…
- https://journal.burningman.org/2017/05/philosophical-center/spirituality/ritual-princ…
- The corporate camp
- The fake moon.
- Kostume Kult’s Broadway red steps
- Bacon design band-aid.
- Out at John’s estate.
- Nice set up!
- Remote control lid opens and closes
- Set up to watch the Man burn with lots of young people pausing to admire how the old …
- Set up to watch the Man burn
- Set up to watch the Man burn
- Man Burns
- Down comes the art…..
- Flee away home, Corporate Worker Bees! The staff will clean up after you.
- Sunset
- Temple Burn
- Sunrise
- Breaking down camp
- Where did that bird come from???
- Packing it all away for another year.
- The Moopers…..
- And the moop.
- Exodus (fairly painless at just under 3 hours)
- Back in Reno – site of 2013 Performance Art. http://alexanderhirka.nyc/other/reno-pe…
- Back in Reno – site of 2013 Performance Art. http://alexanderhirka.nyc/other/reno-pe…
- Back in Reno – site of 2013 Performance Art. http://alexanderhirka.nyc/other/reno-pe…
- Back in Reno – site of 2013 Performance Art. http://alexanderhirka.nyc/other/reno-pe…
- The Living Dead of Reno….
- Photo with Burt Reynolds at Mel’s Diner. We didn’t know that he had just died.
- That was the Delta fire which had blown up from covering 200 acres to over 2000 in ab…
- Our new storage space in Sacramento. Shared with Margot.
- Dave helping us move in.
- Cleaning the truck
- They don’t call ’em Speed Bumps in Sacramento.
- Sacramento airport.
- Airport malteds.
- On flight to Chicago – using paper to block the screens that we were not able to turn…
- Mantis in Chicago.
- Approaching Newark.
- Before and….
- ….after AleXander’s hard work!
- On both pairs.
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