2008 Redneck Awards

Like most of you, I get lots of this kind of joke email, some funnier than others. I almost never pass it on, but this group of photos struck a cord not only for it's consistent quality, but for its apparent authenticity, which amplifies it's humor. Look closely at each picture. They are each from different venues, different characters at different times.

If staged photos, these would simply be old jokes. But check each one - these are carefully collected photos of candid shots or sometimes meticulously created art. Sometimes not. I Googled, but couldn't find a source. If you know the collector, send me a link. I'd like to give him credit and a link for such impressive album.

Finally, I'd like to note, these pictures DO represent part of our culture. It's a very creative, irreverent, and yes, sometimes clueless slice of America.

But they ARE funny in their innocence and honesty.

Click the picture for close-up...

The new 2008 redneck award winners.

Redneck Harley







Redneck Bass Boat





Redneck Grill





Redneck Horseshoes





Redneck Lawn mower





Redneck Weather Station





Redneck Pet Carrier





Redneck Gingerbread House





Redneck Guest Bedrooms

Redneck Dreamcatcher














Redneck Palm Pilot





Redneck Powerball Winner





The above Powerball Winner on Vacation





You Might be a redneck if...

A little rain doesn't spoil the fishing...





You need fashion tips from your husband





You wear a shirt like this for your engagement picture...





And your wedding cake looked like this





Your doghouse looks like this...





Your pickup looks like this...





You have a deer's butt for a door bell...





You don't need a lake to do a little skiing...





Or if your wife is quoted in the local paper saying...

You're An EXTREME Redneck When...

1 You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.

2 The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.

3 You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

4 You think a woman who is out of your league bowls on a different night.

5 You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.

6 Someone in your family died right after saying, 'Hey, guys, watch this.'

7 You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.

8 Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.

9 Your junior prom offered day care.

10. You think the last words of the Star-Spangled Banner are 'Gentlemen, start your engines. '

11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.

12. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse.

13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.

14. One of your kids was born on a pool table.

15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.

17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.

Two good ol' boys in a Tennessee trailer park were sitting around talking one afternoon over a cold beer after getting off work at the Local Nissan plant.
After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, "If'n I was to sneak over to your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin' and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?”

The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his head, and squinted his eyes thinking real hard about the question. Finally, he says, "Well, I don't know about kin, but it would make us even!"

NOW Y'ALL HAVE A GOOD DAY

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Superatoms - A Whole New Chemistry

If you thought chemistry was difficult the first time around, get ready for a whole new layer, in more ways than one. Like epigenetics, this new chemistry is above and beyond the standard stuff, all in strange new ways.

It really started with the Bucky Ball but has potential to change all the rules once again. Not only will gold will take on a whole new hue, we may see perfect biological sissors, new batteries, and transparent aluminum. Think about riding in THAT airplane!

Superatoms in Science News

Superatoms on Wiki




Best of Sudden Disruption

Crystal Island

OK. I'm a bit late getting this one posted, but it's worth a look if you like mega projects.

Crystal Island in Moscow will be the largest building ever constructed with 900 apartments and 3000 hotel rooms, school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex much more.

And don't forget the 16,500 parking spaces.

Russia - what a country!

Crystal Island

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Permaburn Review - First Ashes 2008

As noted below, I've just spent the weekend at Permaburn. My first priority was to try out some art and enjoy a regional camp-out. My second priority was to evaluate the Permaburn site and concept.




Portable Zen


If you've seen my prior art, you'll recognize some elements in my latest creation. It's meant to be a simple back-pack portable interactive Zen meditation piece. It's called Portable Zen.

I put it together just in time for the weekend. Dave Orel thought it needed a head. I think he did a nice job. We had to re-do the batteries to distribute the weight but got it working Thursday night.

When folded up, it fits nicely INSIDE the car. Unpacking and setup went well. The light winds mostly cooperated. I'll definitely have it out on the playa this year.

The rest of the trip went well too. We arrived Friday morning and helped tape the road for those to follow. The drive up was fast on open desert highway. The directions in to the site were clear.

The dirt road in from 395 is reasonably good. You might have trouble with entry and exit angles of long RVs on a few of the drainage dips, but any standard two-wheel drive with at least 7 inches of clearance will not have a problem. Greg pulled in a 24' trailer. Tom brought in one a bit shorter. A loaded down Geo Metro even showed up. The steepest part of the road is on a north face, so early spring access might be a bit of a problem depending on snow. But no problems this weekend.




First Arrivals


The site has excellent curb appeal as you top the final ridge over-looking Permaburn. You'll find a gently-slopping valley about a half mile long and a couple of hundred yards wide. This is where the sound camp was located. Music was already in the wind. So was a big white kite. Here we met one of the DJs and a few other early arrivals. But the road went on, so did we.

Toping the next ridge presented the caldera with a pond in the center. This is where most of the campers set up using the trees for shade, as did we.




This camp was about three tenths of a mile and a hundred feet above the sound camp with a nice over-looking view. There are also several small volcanic peaks around both valleys ranging from a couple, to several hundred feet higher. All of these peaks were on the property except for the highest.




As soon as we met the host and set up camp, we climb the closest one and found a fantastic view of Shasta, Lassen and other unidentified peaks of the Cascades. We were also overlooking a panoramic presentation of the Madeline valley to the south.



A Square Mile of Permaburn


The ground itself is mostly sage and rock with a few Juniper and other trees here and there. Virtually all of the ground is build-able with gentle slopes up to small peaks.

Currently the property is open range will cows making a muck of the ponds and leaving droppings. Be careful where you step! I speak from personal experience. One other negative were a few mosquitoes and flies from the pond and cows droppings. Greg promises the cows will eventually be fenced out by a large berm defining the property boundary.




As for First Ashes, the turn-out Friday night was light but picked up quite a bit on Saturday. A few came and went, with a total of between 40 and 50 over the weekend, mostly from Reno, Tahoe and Susanville. Yes, this was a small turn-out for a rave, but fair sized for a camp-out and provided a nice mix. The vibe was mellow with lots of interesting people. There was an excellent pot of chilli at the sound camp on Friday night and various food offered from camp to camp.

Besides music most of the time, there were quads and dirt bikes, someone shooting targets and several people with dogs. There was also a massage camp, trampoline and large swing. Camp Lazy Fucks from Klamath Falls had a nice chill shade up.




Most campers went hiking at one point or another. The ground invites it. I climbed four peaks with the highest providing a 360 degree view of northeastern California with the agricultural andranching valleys to the north and south.



Reservoir


On Sunday An and I hiked down to the reservoir and back. It's at least a mile long. Others swam there but we came down through the trees at a muddy cow dominated part of the shore so didn't go in. We followed cow trails back to camp. In total, I hiked 27 miles in three days.


Conclusion

The idea of Permaburn is visionary, the site is excellent and the commitment impressive. Greg plans to split the square mile up into eight, 80 acre parcels then sell quarter-acre lots for $200 each with an annual fee of $500. This is about what you'd pay for a storage spot anywhere else. It's certainly a LOT less expensive than driving an art car all the way back to the bay area. And it doesn't count the freedom to development and experiment in any way you like.

This annual fee will initially be used to improve the road as well as bring in water and other improvements. I imagine some form of on-site security will also be needed.



Greg and Friend Building Fire Ring

Permaburn Link

Greg hopes these lots will self organized into "theme" camps, creating central kitchens, bathrooms and hot tubs. These common facilities will anchor permanent "camps" of all types to explore different architectures, energy and art.

He sees Permaburn as a big "toy" to be created and explored by hundreds or eventually thousands of people over a period of years. He says he's in it for the long haul and not looking to make a profit, only recover costs.

It's an ambitious plan, but not unreasonable. The site is only five miles from highway 395 and 65 miles from Susanville. Permaburn is an inexpensive place to try out new building ideas and experiment with different materials as well as stage Burning Man projects which are too big for your driveway. It's also a nice place to get away for the weekend.

No, I haven't bought in yet, but it's on my list as soon as I come up with a purpose and a plan. And I will. The concept and ground invites the imagination to run wild.

And so will the Burners who come here.

Thanks to Greg for this excellent opportunity.

And a fun weekend.

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First Ashes at Permaburn - June 13th and 14th

In late March I got an email from a guy who called himself BadAss, a leader of 16,000 Jedi. He's also the west coast representaitive for Permaburn.

And he wants to throw a party in the desert.

If you're not aware, his friend Greg Glover bought a square mile of northern California in a caldera of a dormant volcano. It's mostly surronded by BLM land.




Greg's intent is to have Permaburn as a location to store and develop art for Burning Man, as well as create a year-round community for those interested in similar ideals...

Permaburn Link

For lots of people, Burning Man is about freedom - freedom to turn the music up too loud, freedom to get naked, freedom to express ourselves in any way we want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

Ever since my first Burn, I've heard it's just not like it used to be. People talk about the good old days when there were fewer restrictions. You could bring your dogs, drive your quad or shoot your guns, as well as the more "normal" forms of artistic expression still found on the playa.

BadAss is giving us the chance to return to the good old days. This is a perfect venue to pre-compress and test your art. Think of it as a proto-camp for the playa. Greg and BadAss will provide 640 acres of sage canvas. We apply the paint.



Of course Federal, State and local laws for a private event will still apply, but since this will NOT be an official Burning Man event, BadAss has promised - No other rules!

You will be free to attend, as in NO CHARGE!

You will be free to make noise!

You will be free to burn things! (burn permits applications are being made)

You will be free to enjoy the sun on your skin!

You will be free to dance!

You will be free to bring dogs and pets!

You will be free to create new forms of social interaction!

You will be free to bring motorcycles and quads!

And free to DRIVE them when you get there!

You will be free to quote poetry at the top of your lungs!

You will be free to make things go boom!

You will be free to light things up!

And free to seek the darkness!

You will be free to a howl at the waxing three quarters moon!

You will be free to find solitude in the sage!

You will be free to express yourself in any way you wish!

So come and help us initiate this square mile of freedom!


As for the site, the heavy equipment was out there two weeks ago, and I'm told even the last two miles of road can be traveled using two-wheel drive with reasonable clearance. There will be a radio at the cattle guard for those in need of assistance just in case.



Here is we they have organized so far...

The sky is there.

The land is there.

The road is in.

The weather looks great!

BadAss promises porta-potties (donation accepted, AND donations accepted). Update - 4 Porta potties will be there Friday through Sunday (formula called for 3, so we should be good. Bring all your shit!

There will be a shower and a 250 gal water tank up there but not set up yet.

We have a trampoline - not set up yet.



The swing is already set up.

Cresta is bringing a Burning Barrel.

Rod will have a fabric meditation art piece under test.

Tom is bringing his quads.

Rick & Sue will bring dogs.

Clothes are optional.

Anything legal on private property is allowed.

The music art car "Dragon Wagon" via Fixxxation Station will be on hand.

Fixxxationstation

DJ Helios, Psy Lotus, Gato Mato and Speci are out - maybe or late shows. Kauze 'N F'X (GyPsy and Sedousa) are in. There WILL be music!



DJ Helios

DJ Helios MySpace


RSVP

So what might YOU add to this stone soup? To help us prepare, please email your RSVP with ideas and approximate head count to...

sudden.net at gmail.com

I will update this blog post with your feedback as the event approaches. Or just leave comments here.





BadAss

If you wish to coordinate performance art of any kind, or just have questions, contact BadAss at...

Phone : 408-316-2578

BadAss's site

BassAss quote - "Once Permaburn Starts, it never ends".



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How to get there...

Take 395 60 miles north of Susanville to Madeline, California
(395 junction starts just east of Susanville).

Go 6 miles north of Madeline on 395 to the 134.92 mile marker at 41 7'43" 120 30'0".

Watch for the orange tape from this point on. If you go to Google map you won't find any names on any of these roads, but the mile marker is past Sage Hen and before S. Fork Mountain Road. On the ground, the key is the mile marker and orange tape at each junction.

You have five miles to go.

Take a left onto the shortcut to a gravel road.

Take another left to go south on this gravel road.

Go 0.1 miles till you reach the green gate. Open the gate if you have to.

Go 0.4 miles until you see a second green Gate on the right.

Open the green gate and take a right.

Take the yellow cattle guard about 30 feet beyond the gate for 2.4 miles.

You will see another yellow cattle guard.

To the right, will be a sign for the reservoir.

You are at 41 6'45" 120 32' 6".




Go just BEYOND the cattle guard, and then take an immediate LEFT turn on the dirt road on the other side of the fence. Turn left just AFTER the cattle guard, not before!

There will be a radio at this cattle guard to call for assistance if needed on these
last couple of miles. Again, watch for the orange tape.

Go 2.2 miles south on the dirt road.

At some points the road tilts pretty bad, and there are a few rocks protruding.


You will reach a small hill and then come down into the site.

There are two ponds that identify the spot at 41 05' 00" 120 32' 36".

Welcome to Permaburn!







What : First Ashes for Permaburn

Where : Madeline, California - 60 miles north of Susanville

When : June 13th and 14th



See you in the sage!

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Governor's Cup and Other Business Awards

Perseverance



A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to help judge the Governor's Cup Business Plan competition. I spent a couple of days last week getting it done. It was an interesting exercise, with widely divergent results. Some plans are better than others.

In my daily work I see plans being carried out, and more significantly, LOTS of action without benefit of much planning at all. Often business happens organically. The plan follows.

A good example is the guy who writes some code, needing it for a business process. Someone else sees it and wants a copy. And another. And another, leading to it becoming a successful software suite.

Or someone who lashes up a unique computer solution for a customer, which then goes on to become not only a new hardware product, but a whole new profitable company. It happens. So, do the best companies come from plans? Or are they simply people responding to need?

It's a bit of both. I've written about starting Sage Computer, which had little planning. It's genesis was about the product and the people.

Plan or not, here are my six "P"s on what makes a good business...

Passion
Product
People
Plan
Principle
Production

Passion - This can be stated in lots of ways - conviction, drive or perseverance. But it seems to be critical for action to occur. There are literally thousands of good ideas. And every good idea has a thousand people thinking it, all at about the same time. To paraphrase Heinlein, "When it's time to railroad, there will be railroads". The real question is, who drives the first spike? The person with the passion. That's who.

Product - This is almost as important as a bias to action. The product (or service) has to be more than a "little" better. It has to be TWO to TEN times better! That's not always easy. Benchmark your prototype. Is it REALLY worth doing?

People - None of the above happens without the right people. That obviously starts with a leader - and his vision. The rest are almost as critical. Do what you need to get the right team.

Plan - Even if a good idea sneaks up on you, an actual plan at some point WILL help. It can be the key to getting your point across. Even a great vision needs a map.

Principle - The plan will tell you how much capital you'll need. But have a care. I believe more businesses fail from TOO MUCH capital, than not enough. Stay lean. It keeps everyone on the right side of the power curve and motivated.

Production - Don't wait. Get to production as quickly as possible, even as just a test. You'll learn in the process. Take a page from military doctrine - TAKE THE HILL! If you took the wrong one, but took it fast, you'll have time to take the right one. Just like that first spike - do it NOW!

Speaking of great business plans and awards, this is a good time to congratulate a couple of my friends for honorable mention at Reno Gazette-Journal's 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year awards...

Darren McBride - Highly Reliable Systems

Bruce Robertson - Great Basin Internet Services

Nice work guys!

Women in Film

In case you were wondering...

Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

Survival of the Sickest

02-17-12 Important update on host manipulation - How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy






If you've ever HAD to read a science book, you might not believe someone could write one more compelling than a Clive Cussler novel, but it's happened. This is a short, fast read about some VERY important topics involving, biology, medicine and human evolution. Believe it or not, it's a real page-turner.

Over-all, Dr. Sharon Moalem nicely presents what I think is a new concept in biology - that life rides an edge between ALMOST, but NOT QUITE enough. He posits that this edge is expressed in the form of disease, plus and minus by degrees. As environmental conditions change this edge moves back and forth adapting to these new conditions.

He starts out talking about iron, and when too much can be worse than not enough. And vice versa. And that's the point.

When he applies the same concept to sugar and ambiant temperature, all of a sudden diabetes makes a lot more sense.

And when he gets into how worms can control a rat's behavior to hitch a ride in a cat's gut, the concept of host manipulation becomes so vivid that the idea of those very same worms turning women into sluts becomes quite plausable.

OK, some of this is speculative, but the science is all referenced so you can dig as deep as you need. You get to reach your own conclusions.

His presentation on epigenetics convinced me that genetics is just the first layer in an amazingly complex and dynamic interaction between genes and the environment - maybe your grandfather's. So much for nature versus nurture. It's now nature AND nuture. This is facinating stuff.

And finally his presentation on the Aquatic Ape was my first exposure to this fairly novel idea. It makes far more sense than what we've been taught since grade school about primate evolution.

Dr. Moalem not only has brough together some diverse ideas into a presentation more meaningful than any single study could accomplish, he does it in a way that makes you want to ask even MORE questions.

Even though he sets up the premise, he doesn't quite take things to the level of extropy. I'll do that for him in another blog post - stay tuned. In any case, his are very fun thoughts.

And it's REAL science.

I sincerely hope there's a sequal.

Does Google have an Achilles' heel?

John Dvorak has been a favorite of mine for years. Here is a collection of his observations about Google, Craig's List, conformance and control. There's even an interesting comparison with Burning Man and "The Matrix".

I obviously agree with Google when it comes to content over presentation, steak over sizzle, but find the attempts to control outrageous! Marketing can be such a fluffy topic and I guess it shows it's hard to do that much good without slipping over the line now and then.

Let me know what you think...

Tech giant and its weaknesses are sheltered by media

Burning Man Art Ideas

Burning Man is about art, which can take many forms. The best art affects people emotionally and hopefully makes them think. Whether it's beautiful, challenging or nasty, pushing the limits helps us to hone our creative edge.

Over the years, I've had too many Burning Man art ideas and not enough time and resources to try them all. So I hereby gift them to those who seek inspiration. They are listed from the more visual to the interactive and finally the most challenging...

Zen and the Art of the Playa

The point in this group is to find a Zen art form where the playa itself provides the creative elements. Sort of like, get out of the way and let the playa express itself. You'll see this theme in lots of my favorite ideas...

Light Chimes - lasers hitting mirrors on strings in the wind so the beams in the dust flash about as an expression of the wind.

Flaming Man - A twelve foot Burning Man with mylar on the arms blowing in the wind and red lights to simulate fire.

Shade Man - Belt Mounted poles suspending Mylar or Nylon fabric for shade.

Cross Pole Sun Shade - works well but difficult to control in the wind. (From here I started using the hammock on my deck as a foundation).

Floating Words - Hammock holding up a Nylon canopy with words about wind written on it.

These two ideas expanded to become the Zen Hammock in 2004 and 2005. But I used Satin instead of Nylon or Mylar. And I dropped the words in a nod to Zen. It turned out to be my best work so far.

Wind Dome - Hinged hex doors on top of a center support structure diverting wind down into a fabric dome to keep it inflated most of the time using playa wind.

Playa Worm - A large painted fabric windsock "worm" with its mouth pointed into the wind.

A Huge Playa Worm - an even bigger version wrapped around my motor-home with PVC ribs.

Wind Hug Machine - this uses rows of vertical pieces of fabric on PVC pointed vertical to the wind so that people could walk through and be buffeted and hugged by the fabric blowing in the wind.

Playa Organ - pipes in the wind. I've since seen this done but could have lots of interesting variations.

Mylarian Radiation Shield - BIG Mylar shade for Heliophobe like me.

MegaShade - 20 x 20 feet - this got MUCH bigger and ended up as the Tyvekian Radiation Shield in 2005, 2006 and 2007 but you could still do LOTS of variations.

Wind Puppet - shoulder harness to hold torso above catching wind to inflate the skirt below. Eyes holes at belt-line with poles to move "arms" and "legs".

Mylar "Umbrella" - with weights at the ends of the tassels so that when you spin the handle it goes horizontal

Drip Sculpting - Leave water trails in playa dust from a pendulum hose, then let the playa wind blow away the excess dust leaving the mud shape as it builds up over time.

Ice Sculpting - place ice shapes in a dusty white-out to see what form the mud takes.

Dust Sculpting - use existing objects and water sprayers.

Cyclops - Glowing head on top of white robe as alien. Actually created and used in 2004

Kerilian Toad Man - made with Taco Bell cups

Burning Films - project movies on the playa surface from a tower

Fiber Lights - A BIG bundle of PVC with tip lights to simulate a twenty foot fiber-optic lamp with the lighted PVC blowing around in the wind.

Steps that ring with each foot-fall to play a song as you go up and down the stairs.




Interactive Art

Free Association - as a gift, respond to comments with prepared random thoughts forming the opposite of communication, but in which people would try to find meaning.

Origami Man - attach arm and leg panels made of ridged Mylar triangles to "hide" under a Mylar structure until someone walks up. Then SURPRISE!

Anonymous Hugs - use a wall of stretch fabric with people on each side pushing and moving the fabric in different ways.

Hugmatron - A body suit with finger and chest switches driving 96 LED lights in 4 x 6 groups of red, blue, green & white LEDs controlled by a 4 x 4 matrix of body switches and 4 hand controlled color switches so that when you hugged someone, others could see your points of contact on your back to allow the hug take on a visual form.

Vibrating Hands - Mr Tingles. In 2007 I actually found and used some factory made gloves with vibrating finger tips. It worked quite well, as you might imagine.

What Women Want - Vibrating body suit like the gloves, but an all over a body-suit with lots of vibrator points for VERY intense hugs.

Burning Man - Infrared laser as a remote heat gun - just to watch the reaction and confusion. Keep it below a blister.

Burning Mirror - Use Mylar to focus and create a solar furnace for setting fire to things as demonstration. Works well.

Vapor Lock - Rum punch in a pressurized mister that you could spray in people's mouth as they breath in. - Tried briefly in 2004 and gave quite a kick within a couple of seconds, but should use PURE alcohol to keep non-vapor materials out of the lungs.

Playa Blindfolds - Hand out blindfolds to one party of a couple so people can explore trust.

Playa Award - Give recognition with Blue Ribbons to recognize various art forms - all 1st place of course. Here are some examples...

Beyond Belief
Nicest Hooters
Most Unexpected
Sweetest Raisins
Cutest Smile
Warmest Hug
Most Giving
Best Booty
Best of Burn
Just Nasty!




Art Cars

Playa Dumpster - Take one of the large curb dumpster and put a car battery and electric motor in the bottom then sit inside and drive away when someone approaches with garbage.

Gangcycle - many bikes driving one large platform w/ shade

Wind Car - Egg-beater style wind-mill driving a gear down and shaft and art car VERY slowly.

See and Be Seen Art Car - Voyeurs go below, exhibitionist go above to the second floor where they can dance on a transparent floor.

Gotta Go - A Porta-pottie on wheels that drives away when you get close.

Exams to Go - Powered Gynocoligist's Table with Stirups. You could stand at the one end in a white lab coat as you drive around looking for patients.




Socially Challenging Art

Pregnant Nun - Nuff said. Been done. Take it somewhere new.

Nun's Habit - Nun's habit from the waist up, fishnet stockings below. These last two ideas were for Beyond Belief in 2003 and I've since seen various versions.

Lick Your Plate - Leave No Trace. Used in 2005.

Aural Sex Camp - home of the Nape Raper, where erotic things get whispered in your ear.

Mylar Mystery Booth - which became Mylar Surprise in 2007.

Blinking Nude Woman - This uses the one way mirror effect at night. It would be some kind of costumn a woman would wear that was a bulky dress or hoop skirt made of semi-transparent Mylar that just looked spacy until a stobe went off underneith. The flash should occur in a random fashion and last for less than a second but long enough to display a silhouetted naked figure.

I haven't found a volunteer yet.

Let me know.