2007 Camps Revisited
Here's a 3 minute video of some of the smaller builds tucked away at the edge of the festival last year. This may give some of you who are new to the festival an idea of what to expect. Sorry about the shaky camera work.
Lots of creativity here, although I have to wonder about that full size kitchen setup (did you notice that?).
I hope the video may inspire some of you to participate in this years festival and get ideas together for even a small installation.
For more info please use the quick links on the right sidebar of the blog. These lead to the SL Wiki and Linden Lab Forum festival pages.
Land Information Trickling Out
Some more news has been released about the way that the festival land will be organized. I recommend checking out the link lower down. This year the Small art plots on the open playa will have 200 prims each (up from 50). The other Theme camps will range in prim count from 600 to 1500 prims a pop. Still no news on the exact dates of the lottery or the land grab.
(waiting for land grab back in 2007)
The newest info is to be found here, including a new beta map:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_life
Dusty Linden added comment to the general event forum discussion too. You can find that post here:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=277342&page=7&pp=15
Expectations and Camp Creation... plus a great link.
Even though I cannot mention the name "BurningLife.com" on the Second Life Burning Life Forum pages without having the web link deleted (go figure), there is some news on that site well worth mentioning here.
Firstly there is now an application form for people who want to be involved in major theme camps at the festival. You can find Dusty Linden's post and instructions here:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=277895
(one of last years active camps)
For those who are worried about how nudity and mature content will be handled this year, there is this post:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=277884
(not everything is acceptable at Burning Life)
On a different note I have to post a link to this interesting article on the New World Notes site:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/whats-burning-l.html
Perhaps you can add your thoughts to the discussion.
I am worn out today, I think I may just go read the forums
Understanding How Burning Life Works.
This is a very short post about how you can participate in Burning Life 2008. This is based on last year and I hope I'm guessing right about this year.
1) You can be involved in the organization:
Read the post on this at the Second Life Wiki.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_life
(last years organizers having a meeting)
2) You can be a camp owner or part of a group camp:
When the sims go live and the land grab is ready, sign up for the land lottery or be there for the "first come, first served" process. I am not sure how this will work this year. It normally always causes some confusion. Then build a themed or not themed camp on your land. You'll have streaming media rights and the land is free to use for the duration of the event. Usually there are several sizes of camp and for those with big plans you should be thinking about land now.
(one of the many active camps)
3) You can place pieces of "art" on the central playa:
Last year you were allowed to place up to 5 constructions of max 50 prims on the open playa. There were some very interesting piece of work.
(a strange abstract build under 50 prims)
4) You can come and hang out:
You can get your friends together or just come by yourself and meet people at the festival. Hang out at the musical events, grab a floor cushion, or just visit the builds. Lots of SL couples wandered over the desert and visited the creations. It's fun.
If you know nothing about the event I hope that gives you an idea. I will try to post updates on the land situation so you have a chance to participate. Hhmmmm.... I guess with pictures this post wasn't that short
SL Blog calls for volunteers for Burning Life 2008
Everett Linden posted information about Burning Life 2008 Festival on the SL blog today. You can find it located here:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/08/19/burning-life-a-call-for-volunteers/
If you are interested in helping to organize and support the event then please check out the post.
Linden Labs also has an active forum for conversation about the event located here:
http://forums.secondlife.com/forumdisplay.php?f=347
(you need to be a SL resident and able to log in to see the forum)
I recommend checking it out for lively and open discussion. Feel free to ask your questions and participate. It may seem quiet now but I imagine it will be pretty frenzied closer to the event... there's still a few weeks to go.
Dusty Linden says Hello to Burning Life 2008
Today Dusty Linden checked in to leave a note on the BurningLife Community Chat group. Feel free to join this in-game SL group to receive information about the festival.
Here's what Dusty had to say:
WELCOME TO BURNING LIFE '08!
Hi, I'm Dusty Linden, writing to you from the Nevada desert where we are preparing for the real life Burning Man festival. This year, I'm Burning Life's liaison between you— the resident community who builds Wondrous things on our virtual playa—and Linden Lab who provides the land and resources for the event.
Linden Lab has been working behind the scenes for the last year, preparing to make Burning Life '08 better than ever, and a great place for everyone to play. There's a new wiki page for you to check out, that will tell you what to do if you'd like to get involved this year. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_life. Go take a look, and WELCOME TO BURNING LIFE '08!
PS— if you are having trouble viewing the forms on the wiki, be sure to enable popups in your browser preferences!
Dusty Linden
(The only picture I could find of Dusty Linden)
http://www.sluniverse.com/PICS/pic.aspx?id=278451
Burning Life 2008 Art Theme
If the usual holds true then this years festival will echo the theme of the RL Burning Man Festival:
AMERICAN DREAM
"This year's art theme is about nationality, identity and the nature of patriotism. One species of the patriotic urge conflates the nation state with mass identity. Governments, as actors on a worldwide stage, become a surrogate for self, a vast projection of collective ego. And yet, there is another type of patriotic feeling that attaches us to place and people, to a home and its culture. Both these feeling states (and their attendant ironies) are relevant to this year's theme."
You can find out more here:
http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm08_theme.html
(Artisits impression of the Burning Man at this year Nevada Festival)
It may be problematic for many international SL residents to grasp this idea. For some the term American Dream has as much validity as, for instance, the Australian Dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dream).
But hey folks... use your imagination. It's gonna be controversial in RL... so it probably will be in SL too.
Burning Life 2008 Staff
Here is a reproduction of a list of current team leads for Burning Life 2008 Festival from the SL Wiki.
Core: Big Picture guidance of event, policy setting body only..
Dusty Linden, Poid Mahovlich, Vicero Lambert, Corvaire Wind
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Dept Public Works Programming: Programming Event Infrastructure.
Lead - Vicero Lambert
Vicero Lambert - Lead Programmer: Builds Event DB and Land Tools
Vicero Lambert - Land / Camp Placement: issue any other land
Vicero Lambert - Art Car Scripting
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Dept Public Works: Design and Build event Infrastructure.
Lead - Talia Tokugawa
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Dept Public Works: Builds Mutant vehicles for participant use.
Lead - Thrall Expedition
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Art Department:
Lead - Poid Mahovlich
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Dispatch: Manages cross sim radio traffic
Lead - Buckaroo Mu
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Communications: Internal & External
Lead - Phaylen Fairchild
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Adminitration: Facilititates meetings, records meetings.
Lead - Dusty Linden
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Burning Man Regional Liaison: Maintains & Moderates email list
Lead - DangerRanger Runo
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Community:
Lead - Corvaire Wind
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Performance:
Lead - Daaneth Kivioq
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This work uses content from the Second Life® Wiki article Burning Life Staff . Copyright © 2008 Linden Research, Inc. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (see the complete license terms).
Missing Images from 2006 entries.
I realized today that a lot of old images from the 2006 section of the Burning Life Blog were missing. It appears that the links to the hosting site for the photos were incorrect. I have fixed these now (hopefully) and you should be able to see the older postings again with all their pictorial beauty.
Why not take a moment to refresh your memory with some of the creations from the previous couple of year's festivities.
Here's a memorable image:
No-one can mistake that magenta and lime green attire... yes it's an earlier more feminine incarnation of Torley Linden.
Burning Life 2008 - Dates - September 27 through October 5
So now there is definitely a festival taking shape and a promo video is even out.
Looks fun doesn't it? There wasn't much info about who is doing what so I wondered who are the people behind this years festival.
After looking online I found a couple of Burning Life 2008 references. Firstly there is this WIKI entry on the SL Wiki (where the video was located):
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_life
This site works as a little primer on the event (in case you are new to BL). So it's worth a quick look.
It also has these dates - September 27 through October 5, 2008
Then the wiki links to another site:
http://vburn.org/
There was quite a lot of controversy about the festival last year, and there were even discussions about holding two separate events this year. So I am not sure what's happening here and whether this suggests a separate event or not. I'll let you know what I find out.
Just make sure you watch the Official Second Life Blog for information about the festival and hopefully we'll get 'welcome screen' notifications too.
http://blog.secondlife.com/
If you want land this year there will probably be only a short time to claim a spot and more often than not someone feels left out. So be on your toes.