Whoo! That was a race and a half, but the art is finally submitted to the Burning Man Art Support folks.
Long form, lots to fill out (their time estimate is laughable, took me multiple hours), but feels great to be done. Some of the questions, especially about LNT (Leave No Trace) were good, made me think a bit harder about sequencing. The part about sustainability was also good — this year I’ll be running off of a generator, but looking to being able to afford solar power in the next couple of years.
The biggest thing is that its significantly smaller and simpler than my initial design. Instead of 20’x35′, towering 17′ above the ground, its now a much more reasonable 13’x22′ with an 11′ height. I got cold feet when I went out to my driveway and measured just how high 17′ is… I’m afraid of heights, so that was SCARY to contemplate working that high up doing complicated things. The new height is much more manageable, just an ordinary ladder, with most of the structure reachable from the ground. Also fewer sections, less stuff going on… much easier to assemble on the playa.
Another benefit is that I’ll be able to assemble most of this in my driveway without having to rent a warehouse or find someone with a big field. Much more realistic especially given the tight timeframes to get this all done.
Great forcing function to get all the CAD mostly settled down as well. I’ve still got some more detail to go (LED panels are just mocked up for the render, and I haven’t touched the actual kaleidoscope inner workings yet) but its a huge relief to get most of this settled down.
You can attach three pictures to the art submission. The first one is the rendering above; that will appear in the art listings. The other two are CAD drawings, where I turned off showing the outer skin and LEDs, leaving just the aluminum frame.
