What Burning Man means to me.

Beat X-ing (the giant cone built on a golf car) and the Beat Police.

Beat X-ing and the Beat Police. The giant orange cone which is built upon a golf cart frame, is an art car that Loopy, Douglass, and I and several other camp mates created for Burning Man 2007.

Since the Man burnt at Burning Man last night, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on it.

I chose not to go to Burning Man this year. I decided to go on this road trip and see some things on my list of things to see and to work on myself and work on some projects that I had wanted to start. For various reasons, it took this road trip to get clarity and motivation and space and time to work on those projects, this blog being one of them. Who knew blogging took so much time?

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Telluride Scenery

Yesterday I went on a hike that was just going to be a little hour or so dog walk. When I got to the top of the Bridal Veil Falls, which is at the end of Telluride Valley, I just had to keep going. I was parked at about 9000 feet in altitude, and by the time I got to the top of the trail, I was at about 12,200 feet. This is definitely the highest Izze and Dusty have been, and I think it might be a winner for me as well.
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Burn On The Bayou – in Telluride?

One of the big reason’s I’m in Telluride this weekend is the Telluride Film Festival. The documentary I edited, Burn On The Bayou, did not get selected to screen, but since today is the 3rd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina coming ashore, I thought I might do a little guerrilla marketing. I’ve printed up posters and post cards and I’m going to hand them out and talk to people about it. I am also going to try and bug the film fest organizers into showing it in one of the TBA slots. We’ll see. ;-)
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