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Oh the places we’ll go… because we can’t all go to Burning Man.

Well said by Halcyon.

Just for the record… I’m not really sweating the Burning Man ticket situation. I’m fascinated by it.

I love Burning Man. It makes sense why the lottery was implemented. When the announcement was made that the lottery was going to happen, there was some grumbling but NO ONE expected it to go down like this. It seemed like a good attempt to solve the ticket shortage. Seems to be turning out that it wasn’t a good solution. Now we have to make the best of the situation.

I started the survey on Isopop so i could have more info. I want to know if I realistically will be able to get tickets for The Spin Cycle build crew. We’ve already started planning and some work to prep for next year. Should I put the breaks on that? We don’t have any tickets yet for the build crew of 10.

I’m confident that with some determination I can find a ticket for myself. But their is a team of people that need to be there in order for us to execute nearly a week of build and break, before and after the burn.

Given the current stats, it’s not looking super promising that we’ll get all the tickets we need. I’m going to give it through the March sale to make any decisions about attending this year. For the time being, I’m halting financial investment in this years burn.

That’s sorta liberating. I love setting up The Spin Cycle. It’s amazing and I hope it happens. It’s also a lot of work. We might have a year off… a year to devote that energy somewhere else.

I don’t think that all that many tickets went to scalpers. I think there is likely a massive influx of new participants. My challenge to them is to PARTICIPATE!! I’m thinking virgins are supplanting a massive swath of seasoned burners. It’ll be a different Burn and that’s cool, as long as the virgins own this, realize the opportunity they have, and step it up.

If this is your first year at Burning Man, create an art car, organize a camp, and definitely contact theme camp organizers.

Theme camps need fresh blood to fill the holes. If Theme Camp organizers get a flood of emails of newbie volunteers offering to fill the necessary roles, it’s all gonna happen nicely. Theme camps are in trouble without your support. If organizers get dozens of emails from people offering to show up early, rent a moving vans, hoist structures in the air, and do all that’s needed to build a camp… that will put the wind in the sails of all the theme camps. that’ll show that this year is still possible for all the theme camps.

Just my two cents.

Please fill out the Survey if you haven’t yet:http://isopop.com/2012/02/01/burning-man-ticket-survey/

Cheers,
Rich

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AkytVXBS75t-dDdQaWFEREhzS2laTEI3VGY3RFVhMFE&output=html

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After years of organizing The Spin Cycle Camp, I did not receive a ticket in the 2012 lottery system. Grant and the others who build our camp didn’t receive one of the first 40,000 tickets either. In fact, so far I’ve only heard of a handful of people who received tickets out of the 100 people who camped with us last year. This survey is really just for my own curiosity. I’ll post results here and on Facebook.

Detailed Real-Time Survey Results
(Go to Form>Show Summary of Responses for graphs)

Here is a formatted PDF of results, as of 1:00 on Tuesday February 2nd, 2012.

I’ll be updating the PDF in the next day.

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Made me tear up. This was shot by Teddy Saunders who’s associated with the Firegroove folks.

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As far as I know Philo is the Jack of Diamonds, Khan is the Jack of Hearts, Spiral is the Queen of Spades, Michelle Clark is the 7 of Clubs, Kamala Mathis is the 9 of Hearts, Deanne Love is 7 of Hearts and I have no inside info on this but I’d bet just about anything that Stefan is one of Jokers if not both. I can’t wait to see them all!

Order yours here.

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It’s hard to post this. Cheb I Sabbah isn’t doing well. If you made the 2009 Burning Man Hoop Jam, you know Chebiji. Many will know Chebiji from Bassnectar’s track linked at the bottom. I grew up hooping to this track.

Years later, Lauren and I had the opportunity to meet and connect with him a several times through dinner parties at Janaka’s with our deer friend Saba.

Janaka called me from the hospital the other day as I was boarding a plane to North Carolina. Chebiji has stomach cancer, no insurance, and he’s not doing well. On July 8th, Janaka and friends are organizing a fundraiser to get Chebiji the help he needs.

Dear Friends and Fans of Cheb i Sabbah:
Recently, our dear friend and musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer at San Francisco General Hospital. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung. Without immediate and proper treatment, the prognosis given is very grim. The phrase “weeks maybe months” was repeated to a devastated group of close friends and family who were there to support him as he received the heartbreaking news.

More here: http://chebisabbah.org/

I’ll be performing on July 8th at 1015 Folsom with Janaka, Karsh Kale and others. I chatted with Anah and she’ll be there too. Spiral is probably in as well. Please com out and support Chebiji.

Thank you,
xoR