Burning Man comes to the Parade of Lights on San Francisco Bay.

This is a great example as to some of the amazing and creative people that make the Burning Man Festival what it is. The fact that people go out of their way to simply make art to which the purpose is...Art. Art for arts sake. This is the meaning of freedom of expression. My wife and I enjoy the desert experience in Nevada, and look forward to being able to experience it on the water in the future.

A fellow burner and exhibit creator, Dan Das Mann teamed with many other people to create an event done every year on the San Francisco Bay. He reports on this awesome achievement of essentially bringing Burning Man to ... well ... a very fancy San Francisco Bay Area yacht club. Think Caddyshack on steroids, and the caddies not only win the golf tournament, they pretty much set fire to it.

Yeah, this is excellent. Dan writes:

"On Saturday December 13, 2008 the former Navy ship White Holly, now a
privately operated scientific research vessel run by Captain Vince
Backen, was entered into The Sausalito Yacht Club 'Parade of Lights'
held in Sausalito, California in the San Francisco Bay. Boat parades
will never be the same ... the event was organized by Dan Das Mann and
Karen Cusolito in collaboration with Jack Schroll and Black Rock FX
(El Diablo - jet engine fire effect, Chrysler air raid siren, smoke
generator and methanol mines,) John Behrens and Omega Recoil (upside
down Tesla Coil), Epiphany by Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito and
Pyrokinetics (Danya Parkinson and Jo Bard), Headless Point Studio,
American Steel Studios, Flaming Lotus Girls (Mini Mega Junior - fire
poofer), Camron 'Teiwaz' Assadi and members of The Crucible of Oakland
California (flame cannons on the upper poop-deck), Bonfire Bob and
over 150 others! All of this so they could have a good time for
approximately two minutes ... THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! Let's do it again
sometime.








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