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Plan
Inspiration Island props are all bolted and tied together requiring
moderately simple assembly. The props will be unbolted, disassembled
and packed in the trucks on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon, the
Mind Shaft Society will pack all of our personal support gear back
into the trucks and RVs. Cleaning up should be easy since the Mind
Shaft Society will make no significant incursions into the playa
and will not involve burning other than our cook fire in a preapproved
steel fire pit. Playa damage should be limited to light scuff marks
and shallow grooves from buried audio wire and power cable. We will
fill in any scuff marks or grooves we make in the playa and smooth
them with water. We will maintain an ash can for any cinders from
our fire, as well as garbage receptacles at several locations. Our
policy is to leave no trace by never having one in the first place.
Camp members have already been advised of the need to eliminate
objects or practices that might result in hard to clean up detritus.
Mylar, for instance, has been banned. The Mind Shaft Society will
bring four boxes of large garbage bags into which all loose debris
left by the Mind Shaft Society and the visitors to the Mind Shaft
will be placed on a daily basis. All of the loose materials that
have blown into the Mind Shaft area and camp will also be picked
up and placed into the large kitchen bags at the end of our temporary
sojourn on the Playa. The large kitchen bags will be loaded into
the equipment truck for disposal at the San Francisco Recycling
Center across from Candlestick Park upon our return home. All of
the large art debris that the Mind Shaft Society brings to the Playa
for the Mind Shaft installation will be repacked into the equipment
truck and trucked out of the desert back to San Francisco. We will
also bring a shovels and brooms to remove any oil spills from the
RVs, trucks, and generators. We will fill and rake the small holes
left in the Playa from any of the stakes we use to secure our structures
from the wind. The Mind Shaft Society, led by Ms. Sylvia Wood and
her canary, will crawl on our hands and knees picking up any small
trace of debris left in our wake. We promise to remove any vestige
of our meager existence... from the Playa with hopes of returning
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Burning
Man Theme Camp Questionnaire: Project Type 2.Please tell
us the name of your Theme Camp or Village. Please limit the number
of characters to 34: 3. Is this a
"Floating World" Theme Camp? 5.Would you
like your camp to be listed or unlisted on the website? 7.How many people
will be camping with you? 8.What day do
you anticipate you will arrive on the playa? INSPIRATION ISLAND Inspiration Island features a giant flower garden, once used as ancient ritual site by Islander tribes. The garden flourishes around the island's volcano, which features a huge painting of a native god. At the base of the volcano is a recently excavated Mind Shaft, occupied by a giant octopus. Once worshipped as an oracle by the Islanders, this remarkable creature is still alive, and can inspire modern visitors as it did in ancient times. Burning Man visitors will be invited to submit questions to the oracle, as well as help solve other people's questions, in an age-old Inspiration Ritual. The results will be posted in our Big Book of Inspirations. A Little Book of Inspirations will also be emailed to all participants and published on the web in fall 2002. For detailed
description, diagrams and press release, check our planning site:
THE MIND SHAFT SOCIETY The Mind Shaft Society is pleased to share its findings from Inspiration Island, which reveals in full detail the remarkable story of the island's advanced civilization. Ancient artifacts recently unearthed suggest the Islanders had developed a powerful evolutionary ritual, held in their Earthly Garden of Delights. The Mind Shaft Society has restored this sacred site so that Burning Man visitors may benefit from its inspirational power. Last year, our
Burning Man Camp featured an abandoned Mind Shaft where participants
were invited to undo bad ideas from their past. Over a thousand
people wrote up and expiated past mistakes, which were posted in
our Big Book of Bad Ideas. The Mind Shaft featured the giant skeleton
of Mr. Bones, a greedy gold minor who paid with his life for his
bad ideas. Our Little Book of Bad Ideas is posted online at: The Mind Shaft Society is an unprofessional anthropological association devoted to the study of consensual hallucination rituals. Distinguished members include Art Police founder "Are We Really", Senior Anthropologist Dr. Fabio Florio, Chief Gardener Matisse Enzer, Dr. Howard Rheingold and other Bay Area media juggernauts. For more info
on the Mind Shaft Society, please visit our official site:
NO 12.Will your theme camp have sound amplification? YES If yes, please describe your placement request concerning Large-Scale Sound Art and whether you should be placed in that area or not. WE PLAN TO USE A SMALL SOUND SYSTEM TO AMPLIFY THE ORACLE'S VOICE, WITH BACKGROUND SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC. WE DO NOT NEED
TO BE IN LARGE-SCALE SOUND ART. NO 13.How many (if any) generators will you bring? ONE 14.Are you building a stage? NO.
150 FEET WIDE BY 150 FEET DEEP (ABOUT 22,500 SQUARE FEET), PREFERRABLY LOCATED AT A CORNER INTERSECTION, 1 BLOCK FROM ESPLANADE 16.Please describe
the *interactivity* aspect of your project: Performance
Art
Of course you
don't fit into just a few boxes! Please tell us what you're planning
to do? Everyone is invited to join the Inspiration Ritual in the Mind Shaft. There, you can consult the Octopus Oracle to receive inspiration, as well as inspire others. Visitors will write their burning questions on blank Inspiration Cards, which will then be filled with inspired responses from other participants. The results will be posted in our Big Book of Inspirations (a Little Book of Inspirations will also be emailed to all participants and posted on the web in fall 2002). To join the Inspiration Ritual, simply follow these 4 easy steps: Step 1: Write
your Question Step 2: Post
your Question Step 3: Solve
a Question Step 4: Post
your Solution 17.How many large vehicles (RVs, trucks) do you expect to have? THREE 18.How many small vehicles? TWO 19.Will you burn your project? YES, PARTS OF THE EXHIBIT WILL BE BURNED.
YES, PROPANE
NO
YES, PROPANE 23.Will you be storing or using pyrotechnics of any type including, but not limited to, black powder, ground effect fireworks, air burst fireworks, other projectile or missile devices, flame pots, liquid fuel bombs, or any other explosive?
24.Will your art project involve the use of fire in any form at all, including illumination? (Burning Man's definition of pyrotechnics: Arts or presentation involving the use of Fire, Hazardous Materials, Explosives, Projectiles or Pressurized gasses including air.) NO
(if applicable) BY THE OCEAN
LOUD INSTALLATIONS WE WOULD PREFER TO BE LOCATED AT A CORNER INTERSECTION, ABOUT 1 BLOCK FROM ESPLANADE. BEING NO MORE THAN ONE BLOCK FROM THE ESPLANADE WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR OUR PARTNERS AT PLAYA AIR TO LAND THEIR REGULAR FLIGHTS TO INSPIRATION ISLAND. A map or plan for each project complete with dimensions in feet must be sent to us by July 1st. Please enter the URL for the map/plan here (Do not send attachments!). PRELIMINARY
PLANS AND MAPS ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE AT THIS URL:
Optional
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