Time Travel Booth portrait For 2009 CO2 Camp brought the Time Travel Booth to Burning Man. The Booth plays out a complicated narrative about travel to another time and place,and back,from the convenience of the playa. immediately upon entering the booth the machine comes alive;you are asked to make a multiple-choice [...] This year’s model follows the motto,“as simple as possible but no simpler.”Stovepipe bent to tray shape,2x2s,1x2s,2x4s,drywall screws. The tray is full of water that turned green from the green algaecide they put on the pad material. [...] This thing is made of not much stuff really,gets the 5 gallons of water hotter at a rate of 20 degrees per hour in August sun. The pump has a timer:on for 2 minutes,off for 15 minutes,adjustable with two knobs. I’ve been working on these. Kimi needed something to pass out honey with. Souvenir spoons like on your Grandma’s spoon rack,with different text and pictures engraved on each one,most along a souvenir/bee/honey theme. Kimi and I will make an umbrella sort of a thing out of a bike wheel to suspend them from. [...] The trailer is becoming a shower with lots of room to move around. It’s about 5 x 7 feet in size and supported on sturdy feet so it won’t wiggle. The inside is as nice as the outside. I’m still looking for furniture. [...] David,Mary Lynn and I worked on the booth back this week. The skin is recycled bilboard and attaches with marine snaps. The frame is half inch conduit. The whole thing breaks down into a nice small package. Just a few more apparatuses to add to the Chronos #28 Time Travel Booth facade on the playa! We got the Time Booth facade cut out and assembled today. Tuesday we will begin embellishing and detailing it. Shade,putting up with all those other assholes in camp just got a little bit easier. The finished product should end up being about twenty feet wide and sixty feet long,has a floor and room to hang out or get away. Now who’s got a chandelier? [...] Okay people,this is a rough idea of how we might put this together. It’s basically a conduit or similar frame with a skin over it. The front is all decorated up nice and pretty and bolted on. This is just a basic construction plan and doesn’t include the electronics or power supply. Some [...] | |
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