So now we have a video of Primal Source, enjoy

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Prior Posts:

Primal Source Realized
Primal Source

I just came across a new video of Homouroboros, you remember, THOSE monkeys in San Jose, and I thought you might enjoy it. I love the beginning where the kids (big and little) are obviously loving drumming…

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video Brett Stalbaum

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In our continuing saga of of documenting what community events are happening at the Detroit Dream Project. Check out the video to see how the Temple is being a base for the neighborhood!

I give you Faith’s report on World Hoop Day:

Blight Buster showed up to help set up and and then our first round of kids were just walking by and we hooked them in and they stayed for about 2 hours (and finally won a hoop!!).

Peachy and Doxie who took flyers into the neighborhood to attract kids. I think kids going home with hoops brought more back to us. The fire department showed up (just in time for fire hooping) And started hooping with us! They read about it in the Livonia paper!! And they want to be involved next year. They are clowns on their off time!! How awesome is that!We gave away 15 custom made hoops!!!! The kids were so excited!! I haven’t counted out how many small hoops we gave away, but there were quite a few.

And there are already plans in the works for next year.

And Doxie’s Report:

So another year of World Hoop Day has past..it was 8.8.8 if you did not know…next year it will be 9.9.9 and yes last year it was 7.7.7!!it was a great day for hooping..even if the wind tried to blow Evol away!!

We gave away a ton of kid hoops and 15 custom built ones were raffled off to kids and adults! and the kids picked it up SO quick!! we pulled in kids from all over the hood….and yes now peach knows just how crazy I am ..though i like to think of it as determined ..cuz we cruised the hoods in my little red convertible and i went up to peoples houses where i saw kids outside and was giving away fliers!! and it WORKED!! …

Revolva was in from Portland to perform..Micha came in with her huge crew ( i love that woman) Faith did her awesome fire hooping !! with the Detroit Fire Department watching and their jaws agape! They showed up with a rig and got out and played!! One of them is a Detroit Fire Department Clown crew and wants to be involved next year…we even got the three other fire fighters to hoop..it was a blast!!

video Revolva

The Mangrove Opening Reception is going to be shortly after the Burning Man Festival closes, so mark your calendars now so you do not miss it.

Saturday, September 6, 2008,
5:00pm-8:00pm
Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery17 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV

Join us for a celebration of our first interactive art installation in Nevada.

The Mangrove is part of our Civic Arts Program, and is a collection of tree sculptures, each by a different artist.

The works will grace the bank of the Truckee River in downtown Reno, Nevada, on the corner of Sierra Street and Island Avenue. This currently empty lot transforms into an interactive art grove September 6, 2008, and remains on display, free to the public, until December 13, 2008.

BRAF extends our sincerest thanks to the The Freight House District, LLC,
the City of Reno, United Rentals, Fernley Electric and Peppermill Hotel Casino Reno and the Sierra Arts Foundation for their support of this project.

First exhibited at Burning Man 2007, The Mangrove is an eclectic collection of artworks sculpted by five different artist collectives. Each work offers a different lesson, rendered with exquisite craft and detail, in how discarded materials can be reused to create beauty out of ‘trash’.

postcard design Maria Partridge

I’ll let one of our 2007 Grants-to-Artists matching grant recipients, tell you about their project in their own words.

The Global Lives Project is a collaborative effort of volunteers from around the world to build a video library of human life experience. Our content consists of uninterrupted 24-hour recordings of daily life of individuals selected to represent the diversity of human life on the planet. In collaboration with museums, universities and independent filmmakers in numerous countries, we are working to present this library as both a series of physical video installations and a free and interactive online video collection. We have already conducted recordings in Brazil, Malawi, Japan and the US, and plan an additional 6 shoots in 2008 and 2009.

The installation at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan featured 24 hours in the life of James Bullock, a cable car driver in San Francisco; Edith Kapuka, a junior high school student in rural Malawi, Rael Feliciano, a hip hop singer in Brazil; and Rumi Nagashima, a university student in Tokyo.

In addition, as part of the Black Rock Arts Foundation Civic Arts Program, Michael Christian displayed his sculpture Flock in front of City Hall in San Francisco.

So welcome Kolios to San Francisco, we love to see gorgeous pubic, temporary art gracing our city.

I have another opportunity to give you an update on how the Detroit Dream Project, Temple of the American Dream is benefiting the community. As you know, we have already had a dedication party, a wedding, a fashion shoot, and live music, and World Hoop Day coming on August 8th, and now the Temple was part of Arise Detroit!

But it is more fun if I let Simmer, one of the volunteers and supporters of the Temple tell you about it herself:

So we’re coming back from dinner and Kathleen says “let’s swing by the temple and see how the space is doing?” We drive up to see the parking lot full of cars and people around – Derrick is at the entrance with a serious face kind of waving us toward some other event in the neighborhood, christian revival or somethin’ and I roll down the window and tell him “Just wanted to see how the temple is doing”. His face lights up like the greeter at the emerald city when Dorthy says the right words. Waves us into the near full lot to park. We then see a drum choir with dancers performing under the temple with a bunch of folks in chairs sitting/whooping/ and in general enjoying the performance. It was the dream come full circle and it made me proud of the tenacity some people had in making this happen. We did something truly good.

So what, you may ask is Arise Detroit, from the Arise Detroit! website:

ARISE is the acronym for Activating Resources and Inspiring Service and Empowerment. It is a way to link together the hundreds of programs and agencies working on child and family issues anti-violence, parenting, illiteracy, education, drug, neighborhood development, youth mentoring, etc. — to produce more resources, more volunteers and more help for the people who need it. ARISE will create a massive community wide movement, supported by people, non-profit groups, the media and individuals, to offer hope and let people know that they can play a personal role in improving their communities. Detroit has had years and years of individual programs and campaigns. And they have produced individual results. What is desperately needed now is an ongoing Hurricane Katrina-like rescue relief effort to address the chronic social ills that plague our community violence, illiteracy, poor parenting, misdirected youth, inferior education and many others. The resources are here to do a much more productive job of solving these problems but we must be united to do it!

To read more about the Detroit Dream Project!

Cozy in the Burning Man office, come put a few flags together and hangout with other Burners, with a few snacks and tea.

We will be making more ‘flags’ for our installation this Tueday. We will provide the supplies, snacks and fun.

Come Join us!

For more information about our ScrapEden on the Playa Project.
Tuesday August 5th, 2008 6:00-10:00pm
1900 3rd Street
San Francisco, Ca 94158

Please email volunteer @blackrockarts.org  (volunteer @blackrockarts.org)   to let us know if your coming (so we can have enough snacks and materials). Thanks for participating.
See you on there!

Homouroboros in San Jose, originally uploaded by marytsao.

The monkeys we love are named:

BEST STROBOSCOPIC ZOETROPER
Burning Man has inspired and elevated some amazing Bay Area artists over the years, but Peter Hudson, a.k.a. Hudzo, has become a star both on and off the playa using a unique medium: stroboscopic zoetropes. Hudzo is a San Francisco carpenter and stagehand who has designed sets for the San Francisco Opera, Kink.com porn flicks, and the upcoming Milk movie. His first piece for Burning Man, Playa Swimmers, used strobe lights and precise molds of the human form to give the appearance of figures swimming in the desert sands. He’s returned every year with steadily more ambitious projects, which culminated last year in Homouroboros: a bicycle- and drum-powered carousel that conjured up the vision of a monkey swinging from limb to limb, then taking a bite from an apple delivered by a snake slithering down a vine. Installations in San Jose, Minneapolis, and other cities followed. Now Hudzo is busy putting together his next piece, Tantalus, working with a huge group of committed volunteers out of his SoMa home.

www.hudzo.com

http://www.sfbg.com/bob/2008/city.php (You have to scroll down some)

I suspect that many of you are getting ready for Burning Man even as I write this. Have you been wanting to bring a little more luminescence to the Playa? Here it is! Whether you want to make a big impact or just show off a little, stop by GlowFur.

Glowfur has been a generous contributer to our Black Rock Arts Foundation auctions and has generously created a GlowFur™ BRAF Bracelet. GlowFur is DONATING 100% of the net proceeds to BRAF, so check them out and do it soon because the Man burns in 37 days.

We told you last week about about the BRAF Grants-to-Artists recipient, Primal Source by Usman Haque at the Santa Monica Glow Festival.

A beautiful film, in a beautiful theatre, packed to the rafters, produced and directed by a sweetheart, Laurent Le Gall. Beautiful photography, beautiful production values.
http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/accueil.htm

John Mueller, the Treasurer of the Black Rock Arts Foundation and his wife, enjoying the after party at Cafe Flore

The “Man” signalling the after party

A buddy and Erik Davis having a drink at the Black Rock Arts Foundation cocktail fundraiser, thank for coming. Erik is on the Advisory Board of the Black Rock Arts Foundation.
Josie, Maggie Best and Tomas, BRAF’s new Managing Director
The BRAF Pack
Thanks David for your very generous contribution to the Black Rock Arts Foundation auction at the cocktails fundraiser. http://www.glowfur.com/

Scott London’s beautiful Burning Man photos were also a generous contribution to the BRAF auction. Thanks Scott. http://www.scottlondon.com/

Scott London

David Best and some of the other stars from the Movie
David arriving at the Premiere in style

Larry Harvey, JD Petras, owner of Cafe Flore who hosted the after party and one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence perhaps Monkey, Stardust and FireBoy at the afterparty at Cafe Flore

Alix Rosenthal and friend
affinity representin’ photo: Scott London

Jewel, MonkeyBoy and Actiongrl

photos: A special thanks to Rich Stadtmiller for the great photos, to see more: http://www.phototrove.com/Archives/2008%2007%2018%20Burning%20Man%20Premiere/Welcome.htm