Burner Trap

You’d be surprised at how much attention one could get from a good piece of fabric.

Or not.

In 2011, a glorious purple fur  coat was made by master stylist Darshan, with the intention to keep Brad warm and fancy.  It was huge, furry, and ridiculously warm.   However, she (and the coat IS a she) was one beautiful bitch.

The sleeves were two long and hard to get your arms into.   The hood was confusing and unintuitive – a mixture of a parka and hooded coat that really was neither.   She needed broad shoulders to stay put, and Brad,  with his puny-man shoulders (sorry Brad), couldn’t stand having to constantly pull the coat up.  He was stylish, but the struggle/reward ratio was definitely starting to teeter towards the former, and when you’re out in deep playa, the last thing you want to do is struggle with your shit.  Which Brad ended up doing a lot of (bless his heart).

So, one night while watching shit burn, we traded coats and discovered that my wonderful pirate coat worked for him better, and this beautiful, furry, purple bitch of a coat did wonders for me.  And I wore it around, soon to discover the joy it brought to others.  She was the best social lubricant I’ve ever seen – a warm beast that brought beautiful playa-people to me in numbers I’ve never experienced.

I was a walking purple cuddle puddle.

Now, I’m thinking of making my own this year.  Not just a coat, but a costume of epic proportions.  And of what? A fucking unicorn.  Oh.  Fuck.  Yes.   I want platform boots.  White mo-hawk (working on that).  White Contacts, body paint, and a staff of unicorn wonders.
Guess I better get started learning how to stitch.

This guy is creepy. Imagine the laser with a way better image.

I found this project on Instructables when Gino was here in Seattle, and since then it has become my obsession.. We will have lasers in the sky!

I found an old Kodak slide projector at Goodwill, and am awaiting a 300mw laser. I want to project an image of the Temple of Transition onto the playa dust in the air above the new temple. How cool would that be?

The way these things go, it might just end up being a big blurry cone of light with playa dust on the lenses and the slide melting from the heat of the laser. You never know. The playa is not always kind to my inventions.

But this will be my love letter to Black Rock City, so maybe luck will be on my side. Also, if anyone happens to have a high-power blue laser from Wicked Lasers (*cough* Russel *cough*) you might want to check out that project and build one too. It looks pretty simple.