Don’t miss this call! Thursday, May 15th at 7pm
What we’ll be talking about
- 10 ways to crash-and-burn your theme camp and what you can do to avoid them.
- Theme camp placement
- The sound policy
- Other important things for theme camps to know for Flipside 2008
Who should attend:
Theme camp leadership, out-of-town theme camps, 1st time theme camps, people who want to hang out with Michael and Jack on a web conference about theme camps
What’s in it for you:
- See the theme camp placement map
- Get the inside info on the event for theme camp leadership
- Hang out on-line with other theme camps before the event!
Brought to you by the Theme Camp Placement Team:
M7, Theme Camp Placement Team Lead, & Jack Miller, Ranger Teflon, Interzone Coordinator, “Doing it wrong since 2004.”
To register, sign up here:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/379507901
It’s like you’re a senior, and you’re close to graduation. In some ways, you’ve got senioritis. Maybe you’re hardly bringing anything. Or maybe you’re still pulling off something big, but it’s become old-hat to you, and you’re now spending more time thinking about the Northern Nevada Regional, or some other non-Flipside project. Good for you.
The biggest trap to avoid this year is nostalgia. Sure, the little Freshman will love to be regaled with your tales of various projects and effigies and mishaps from prior years. But don’t fall into the trap of “It was so much better when ...”
The event changes over time. The population grows, the situation changes, and often the rules change. The coolest art piece from a few years ago will never happen again. (Hell, it’s probably ash now.)
Make sure to meet some new people, especially people new to the event. Just as you can share your wisdom with them, you also get the opportunity to see the event through their eyes, and remember your first time. Sure, maybe some of your favorite things about Flipside are gone forever. But when you see someone having an amazing first-time experience, you’ll realize that it’s still worth the effort, if only for them.
Nobodobodon
I will be taking this year off from Flipside. This will be the first year I have missed in 4 years! It was a tough choice... Flipside reminds me so very much of Killagrrl, who always came out from NYC with me. I am hopeful that by taking a year off, I can come back next year with more of an eye for new experiences, rather than focusing so much on the past! I wish you all a fun and fabulous year.
Last year, I lost a MBRC vinyl banner at smash camp /glory hole theatre. It was white, about 10’x10’and has the MBRC logo on it:
We used it for the event Saturday afternoon, by Sunday it was GONE. Someone may have used it as a tarp. Unfortunately, printed vinyl banners are VERY VERY expensive, and this one was a gift. I would love love love to get it back. I wrote to the list about this int he past, but I am hoping that someone will find it as they pack/unpack for Flipside. If you find it, or see it, please let me know at stacycats@missblackrockcity. I will take care of any shipping charges to get it back. Thanks, and have fun!
stacycats
www.missblackrockcity.com
Wanna help get Flipside go?
Infrastructure truck-loading will be at the warehouse on Saturday May 17th at 7pm. Unloading at the land Sunday May 18th, time TBD. The truck will return for second-round loading Tuesday May 20th, 7pm at the warehouse
Unloading at the land on Wednesday May 21st, about noon.
If you want to help, sign up here:
Pre/Post Ops also help set up the infrastructure: http://www.burningflipside.com/OpsWiki/index.php/PrePostOps
Load In/Out is just the truck stuff.: http://www.burningflipside.com/wiki/Load-Out/Volunteering
Please help the parking crews by adhering to the following:
- Parking in fire lanes or the blocking of Burning Flipside infrastructure is not allowed at anytime
- Parking is limited - Car Pooling is strongly encouraged
- Temporary (2 hr) equipment drop-off is OK with permit
- Drop-offs after dusk are on a case by case basis only - It will re-open in the morning
- Do Not Block Theme Camps without permission
- Car Camping is allowed in designated zones only
- Mutant vehicles will be coordinated through DMV
- Violators of the above may be towed
Note that this is the country. Although efforts have been made to clear areas for vehicles, hidden obstacles still exist (stumps, ditches, cacti, rocks, etc). Volunteers will try and help you avoid these but park at your own risk.
The parking crew appreciates your cooperation in helping everyone have a great time.
Parking Still Needs Volunteers
There are still shifts needing help. Please sign up on the Wiki at http://www.burningflipside.com/OpsWiki/index.php/Parking or contact the Parking Lead at parking08@burningflipside.com. On-site you can sign up directly at parking or see PVC in the grove.
I am a shirt-cocker. I admit it. I didn’t know I was one until I joined the burner community.
You see, I am a nudist, associated with Hill Country Nudists. We like to be nude, as much as possible. We find ways to do that, often at member’s homes, sometimes at Hippie Hollow, and we love to go nude at The Flipside Burn. I feel a strong sense of community with my fellow burners. You people are great, and “coming home” is my best wish.
It seems that shirt-cockers have acceptance issues in our community. Wearing a shirt without any pants is a frowned upon. Sort of like, “If you’re going nude, go all the way!” Well, I would, and will, go nude, as much as possible. But when the sun delivers so much UV radiation, sunscreen is just not enough. Clothing is needed for protection, just I use gloves in the garden, or a coat in the winter-time.
I love the way that burners accept people, it’s part of the spirit. I may not be the most beautiful body you have seen. We nudists think that all bodies are wonderful. Inside every body is a person that is who we connect to. Pretty body, ugly body, clothed or nude, it’s the PERSON in there that matters.
I’m looking forward to coming home again,
Paul Dirac
1. Fire procession
If you are a firedancer, fire eater, fire breather, or safety spotter (we always need more spotters!) interested in taking part of the fire procession before the effigy burn, please be at Circle of Fire by 8:00 PM (before dusk) on burn night to discuss procedures and to give everyone time to prep their equipment. We will have fuel and towels, but if you have extra to add to the kitty or need special fuel, please bring it.
2. Circle of Fire theme camp
Circle of Fire will be hosting nighttime fire jams and daytime no-fire spin jams throughout Flipside. All fire artists are welcome. We will have a large fire circle with a safe fuel depot and spotters on hand. If you are a spotter and interested in taking a shift, please stop by.
If you are interested in learning how to spin poi or staff, we will have casual lessons during the days. If you are interested in learning how to be a better spotter, we will have organized lessons in the late afternoons. Please check the events schedule.
Avast! I’m taking over this fiery ship.
You were warned.
The golden rule of burn events: “DON’T PUT ANYTHIN IN THE POTTY THAT DOESN’T COME OUT OF YOUR BODY!!!” (except toilet paper). These things did not come out of your body: cigarette butts, beer cans, cups, candy wrappers, handi wipes. You are responsible for taking all of your trash out with you, remember???
Also, Please don’t put candles in the potties. While we appreciate people trying to make it more pleasant, the problems caused by wax are not pretty, not to mention it may lead to someone catching their costume they’ve worked on for weeks ON FIRE.
If you’d like to put an LED or other non-firey light in a potty, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO REMOVE EVERY ONE YOU’VE PLACED PRIOR TO MONDAY MORNING.
And yes, the same goes for signs that people inevitably tape to the potties. If you decide to hang a sign on a potty, remove it AND EVERY LAST BIT OF TAPE that will have invariably melted onto the plastic. The easiest way to avoid this is not taping signs to our potties!! Be creative in getting your message out to folks in other ways.
As a courtesy to all of our noses, please close the lid on the toilet during the hot daytime hours. It makes a huge difference in how rank those things can smell.
And it should go without saying, but I’m gonna say it: NOTHING GOES IN THE URINALS BUT PEE!!! I don’t think that needs further explanation.
Flik
We will need many many lovely people to drum during the Burn and Pre- Burn ceremonies as well as help out all the loverly bellydancers that want to rampage right before the procession to get everyone rounded up starting around 6:30.
We need the thump thump of live drummers if we can get em cause no recording will ever match that!
So if you have a drum and can be avaliable Sunday night of the burn please let me know
audreyjoymaker@gmail.com
Ho me hearties! All good pirates know what happens to stowaways: they’re forced to walk the plank! It’s no different at Flipside.
Any land-lubbing dogs found stowing away in any vehicle will be ousted from the event. As a matter of fact, the poxy swab who stashed the stowaway will be driven off by sword point, too.
But wait...the pen is mightier than the sword, so instead the old salts manning our gates shall draw forth their pens and mark the tickets of those who did the stashing VOID!
All stowaways and those scurvey bits of shark bait that stashed them shall be tossed back into their ship’s boat, asked to point their prow away from our fair ship Flipside and be sent off to feed to fishes. Yar!
Contact Rangers if there is a Stowaway issue.
Just a reminder that with Flipside just around the corner, now’s the time to start thinking about where your extra tickets are going to go.
There are still a ton of people on Bob’s list who’d love your extra ticket. The sooner you figure out where it’s going, the less likely you waste your money and that available slot at the event. The link below will list all the people still looking. Just click any name for a contact form to email the ticket requester. If you know that one of these people have already gotten tickets, just click their “(Report that this person says they don’t need tickets anymore)” link.
http://plasmator.net/tickety08/list.php
!Bob
In 1878, my great-great-grandmother and her parents traveled from New England to San Francisco and then up to the coast of Washington, passing through the Panama Canal. They carried mail for people they knew and people they didn’t know. While there was already the Pony Express, it was still common practice for traveling citizenry to transport mail for one another.
First, what is Pirate Mail?
#1) Envelopes are spraypainted, silkscreened, printed, stamped, sometimes drawn. The skull-and-crossbones logo was designed by a stencil artist who has since moved to Cincinatti. I intend to send mail to him in Cincinatti, if you’re going that way.
#2) The blank envelopes acquire people. At a giant party, 1 IN 30 actually wants to write mail, however nearly everyone wants to be on AN envelope in case someone wants to write them mail.
Deadletter or The Wrench
Watershed, PDX
Giant industrial building in SE Portland, take 19 bus out of downtown
Write about: social engineering through the provision of infrastructure
#3) The mail gets written. Someone gets a bug to write to their friend. Or perhaps one of the ‘write about’ topics engenders such a disproportionate response that they immediately get sucked into epistolary activities. Especially on drugs and alcohol. That’s when the best mail gets written.
#4) The Mail gets fucked with! Someday when we have the ability to scan or photograph all the mail that comes through our hands, we’ll let the mail go much more quickly. As it stands, it’s too tempting to hold onto the good mail for awhile, especially for the reading mail at open mics with puppets. The mail gets altered, added to, read, crumpled. It’s all about Open Source Messaging. We hand out red pens for people to correct spelling on too-earnest love letters.
#5) The Mail travels. Oh? you’re going to Berkeley? Take this mail. Give it to whomever you like when you get there. Does the mail get delivered? Generally not. It sits in drawers of that guy who says, ‘Oh, I’m going to see them this month, I’m sure of it!’ and then they forget and it waits and waits and waits.
Don’t Deliver Your Own Mail!
If I am standing next to you with pirate mail from me, to you, I’ll turn to the person between us, and have them deliver the mail. The shortest connection for pirate mail would be o ‘ 1 ‘ o. At the other end of the spectrum might be handing off the mail to someone in a city far across the world, taking potluck as to whether or not the mail ever gets there. o ‘ infinity ‘ o’?
Good mail has good meta, which means that you point the mail towards people who are well known, locations that are hubs, or for whom your targets are one or two layers removed. ‘Regular at The Player’s Bar’ or ‘Good Friend of Pearl Jam’ are ways to get the mail on its way in hopes that having reached the easier location/community, some agent will map it to your target.
Accept all substitutes
Dead Letter is a branding for film production, a Burning Man Mutant Vehicle Devoted to the Mis-Delivery Of Mail, a 51-week Pirate Mail Service, branding for Free Fun and a cover for the metavirus. We’re a metaphor about Pirate Mail, and everything about our branding is stealing. Steal the logo, the envelopes, the idea. Set up a massive acid smuggling operation from Canada to Mexico using the pretension of Pirate Mail to cover your operation, it’s all fine by us. The Underground Railroad was Pirate Mail for People. The Crying of Lot 49 has actually engendered several other underground mail systems. Any time you ask someone to give your lost-and-found to someone who will see you, you’re engaged in Pirate Mail.
Don’t Give Us Anything You Want Delivered
We’re total wankers about the mail. Your mail is as likely to stop an oil leak on the Dead Letter Truck than to be delivered. Which is not to say that we never deliver anything or can’t be convinced to take your mail seriously. We once got a set of welded wings from Berkeley to Portland through 5 sets of hands, in less than 72 hours. One time we pirate mailed a bunch of graywater (take your wastewater home from the playa, assholes!) We pulled up onto the grass violently in the Dead Letter Truck, filming and honking, climbed out and poured the bottles all over their car. They didn’t expect to see THAT pirate mail again! Dead Letter Is All About Misdelivery. We’re more of a metaphor about the concept of pirate mail. Our avid misdelivery places our envelopes in places we’d never DREAM! We think it’s funny to give away a letter for Seattle in St. Louis, a letter for Boston in Austin. Given the totally wankernous with which we mishandle the mail, I’m astonished that any of our mail ever gets through.
Seriously Though, What’s It For?
Consider the connections you can almost reach. You don’t have their number, but you have john’s number, and he can certainly reach them when you want them. But John moved away and you still want to reach them. Pirate Mail them!
Every Time Mail Gets Delivered, A Hippie-Raver Loses Her Wings.
Plan to never see your mail again, or ever to hear if it ever made it to your target. I’m sure it didn’t. However, it probably made it to someone else. And if you included your email, or even better your Pirate Mail address, perhaps you’ll get something back. Mail never dies until it gets delivered. As long as it is out there, it is alive, being written on, looked at, read, modified.Mail in travel is much more dynamic than mail that has arrived.
Pirate Mail at Flipside
To participate in Pirate Mail at flipside, bring a piece of ready-made mail for someone off-campus. We’ll put it in an envelope with the Pirate Mail Address.
Name
Campname/Vague Directions of How to Find The Person
City/State
Write About: __________
Deadletter: You’ve Got A Friend In Noise!
As Earth Guardian, I’ve been entrusted with giving you guys some very important information.
There will be NO on site recycling.
Each camp is in charge of its own trash and recycling. Let’s repeat that so there is no confusion…
Each camp is in charge of its own trash and recycling. You bring it in, you take it out.
That being said there is still plenty that you can do to make sure that we leave no trace as we do at all events.
Some things to remember…
Bring plenty of trash bags for your camp. You will use far more than you anticipate.
USE CANS whenever possible. Glass is heavy, fragile and dangerous when broken. If you have the choice, choose cans. Or better yet KEGS!!!
Remove excess packaging before you leave home and head out to Flat Creek. Things like battery packages, boxed food (just bring the inner bag if it has one), those frustrating “blister packs” that are Hell to get open, and whatever else might end up as trash. Just take a look at your gear and think to yourself, “self, what’s going to end up being thrown away?” and then do your best to eliminate it.
Bring a bunch of those plastic shopping bags that you have lying around your house. They are great for use in your tent, as well as putting into your backpack for MOOP you find in your travels. Hint, hint…
Most people already know this one but it doesn’t hurt to remind everyone about using empty Altoid tins (or the like) as portable ashtrays.
Keeping things clean is a common sense issue. We will be judged by the way we leave the event grounds and this year it is very important that we leave a good impression.
We will be doing a sweep of the site before we leave on Monday. The cleaner you leave your camp site, the quicker we can get done with Site Sign-off. We will also be taking note of any camps that leave their areas trashed and forwarding that information to the LLC.
Thank you guys for your time, and HAVE FUN DAMNIT.
Flame
Flipside 2008 Earth Guardian
6:30-7:30 pm, Burn Night
Starting and ending on the upper field near the effigy.
The mission: go to every camp to invite people and get them motivated to join the procession at 8pm and get ready for the burn.
In order to cover all of Pyropolis, the Rampage will be split into two parts. Art Cars will go on paved roads, taking Bellydancers and Drummers with them. Bikes, gators, and golf carts will take another group on paths that cannot be accessed by road, including the creek.
We are looking for
- announcers (top hats and megaphones)
- all kinds of vehicles
- performers
- drummers
- musicians
- hulahoopers
- kazooist
- acrobats
- cheerleaders
- bellydancers
- and all manner of entertainment
Many people will be eating, dressing and generally busy, so please be respectful yet enthusiastic. We are celebrating and welcoming participation, so please be entertaining, gracious and inviting to both join the rampage and the procession.
No one will miss this Burn from lack of warning!
If you want to be in the Procession, bring:
- you loverly selves
- your flags
- your torches
- your light up costumes
- your drums
- other noisemakers (kazooos!)
to the upper field at dusk on Burn Night around 8pm. (It will be dark when we Process so light yourselves!)
Everyone is invited!
