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This is a tale of virgin sacrifice...
In our hastily-assembled camp, there was a couple who had never been to Burningman before, but were eager to do something cool to participate for their first time out. Their names were Orion and Dia. Orion had decided that he wanted to construct a shape called a stellated dodecahedron out of lumber.
Here's one. Pretty, isn't it? Thanks wikipedia.
Most first time burners take it easy on the participation side. Hey, a couple of nice costumes and a smile counts as participating, right? Not for him. Orion wanted to build the thing out on the playa, and have it be 20ft tall.
He had never built one before, save for some small drawings and experiments.
Yeah. It's easy to just scale it up to 20ft.
Oh, and another small problem. They live in Toronto (which is in Eastern Canada for you geographically challenged folks), so they had to fly out to San Francisco and buy all the wood the day before leaving for Burningman. No time to test, make brackets, or preassemble.
So Orion and Dia flew into SF, rented a van, and bought 1000 pounds of lumber, a shitload of screws, a handsaw, and a drill. The next day, they left for burningman.
In our hastily-assembled camp, there was a couple who had never been to Burningman before, but were eager to do something cool to participate for their first time out. Their names were Orion and Dia. Orion had decided that he wanted to construct a shape called a stellated dodecahedron out of lumber.
Here's one. Pretty, isn't it? Thanks wikipedia.
Most first time burners take it easy on the participation side. Hey, a couple of nice costumes and a smile counts as participating, right? Not for him. Orion wanted to build the thing out on the playa, and have it be 20ft tall.
He had never built one before, save for some small drawings and experiments.
Yeah. It's easy to just scale it up to 20ft.
Oh, and another small problem. They live in Toronto (which is in Eastern Canada for you geographically challenged folks), so they had to fly out to San Francisco and buy all the wood the day before leaving for Burningman. No time to test, make brackets, or preassemble.
So Orion and Dia flew into SF, rented a van, and bought 1000 pounds of lumber, a shitload of screws, a handsaw, and a drill. The next day, they left for burningman.
