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Rather unexpectedly, I'll be at Burning Man next week, camping at 'Sacred Spaces Village [SSV]'; Which is apparently not on the Esplanade this year.

Decompression 2008 D700, photo, October 2008, The Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA, USA, party, Burning Man, Decompression Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... )

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Burning Man 2008 Sometimes I just can't decide which photo to use for this teaser here rarr; D700, D300, photo, August 2008, Black Rock City, NV, USA, Gerlach, playa, Burning Man Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... )

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Burning Man 2008 There were many photos I had planned on making this year -- that I didn't. All of the photos here were completely spontaneous and unplanned. D700, D300, photo, August 2008, Black Rock City, NV, USA, Gerlach, playa, Burning Man Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... )

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These were my instructions:

Hey Julia;

I just wanted to let you know that we have space for black-and-white photographic of art of people in movement or engaged in spiritual activity at some point or dancing.. etc.

If you would like to show your work on the playa, we just need it printed in canvas with grommet at the corners. You do great art so it would be awesome to include it in the temple this year.

> I'll have to see what I have. I know I have some stuff like that from
> other (non-BM) events. It's all in color, but I can make it B/W. And I
> know someone who can print onto canvas.

Cool. :) Anything ritually, mystical activity like, or dance/movement like. :)

larger sized prints best. :)
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even numbers of them would be good..and largish! 3x3 or greater. Yay! it wll be great to have some of your beautiful photographs up there. :)

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So this is what I came up with:

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I compose everything for the typical 3x4 aspect ratio, so when cropping down to a square I'd have to make some hard decisions, and some photos just did not work right after cropping. (There was no way to recompose them well.) There are also several different ways to crop a photo, and each of them is a unique photo by itself. The small changes in size and position of subject matter within the frame will change the mood dramatically.
There were a lot of other photos I was considering, and working on. But I'm out of time. Here are some examples. [For the record, not all of them.]
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So, Aug 1-3, I'm going to be up in Eugene, OR for Faerieworlds 2008, and then next week, from 08/08/08 to Aug 10 I'll be in Las Vegas, NV for DEFCON 16, I think I'm going to skip Black-Hat this year, cause I'm just not getting enough out of it for the price. (The next time I go, I'll probably be presenting my research.)
And then… Aug 25-Sep 1 is Burning Man!

Back in June, a button got pressed somewhere, and I started to obsess over Burning Man; I was having dreams every night about it for several days in a row. This year I plan on taking it easy, and not building anything big, and not camping with a theme camp, and basically not doing any physical labor, or having any great responsibilities. I'm thinking that my contribution to Burning Man this year will be documenting it through photography.

Stuff to bring:

• Food that doesn't require cooking, and 35 Gal. of water
• Fur coats, furry boots, and brightly colored clothes that I'll never be able to use for anything else again.
• Bicycle(s) and parts.
• Camera gear.
• Goggles and dust masks. (Sunscreen, Lip gloss, garbage bags, etc.)
• Bright blinking flashing glowing things.

Ok, so, what am I forgetting? I'm deliberately not going to bring a tent this year, as every single year I set one up — and then never sleep in it.

I'm considering rigging up some kind of plastic covers for my cameras (mostly the lenses), so that they don't get completely impregnated with dust. (If you saw my old D200 you know what I mean.) The D300 body is dust and water-proof, but my 50mm f/1.4 lens isn't — It started making crunching noises when autofocusing by about Wednesday of burn. I saw another photographer on the playa a year or two ago, who had their camera inside a plastic shower cap, with rubber bands around the lens and stuff. The only part exposed was the objective surface of the lens. I might do that.

Burning Man tickets go on sale today, I'm currently number 6760 in line. I won't be surprised if they've already sold out the first 10,000. Although I'm not 100% certain that I'm going to Burning Man this year, I'm sure that I can find someone to use the ticket(s).

Shmoocon rejected my talk proposal along with 90 others submitted, yay! This tremendously simplifies my life, since when I submitted the talk, I didn't realize that Shmoocon was at the same time as something else I had committed to doing in San Jose. I was worried that I'd have to fly out to DC, go to the hotel, give my talk, go back to the airport and jump on the first plane back to the bay area, all on one day.

Anyway, as a consolation, Shmoocon is offering me a normal registration for only $75. So, if you want/need a Shmoocon ticket, I can get you one, since I'm preoccupied that weekend and can't make it to DC.

Burning Man Decompression 2007 I though that I had already posted some of these; I guess not… Anyway, here are some of the better ones, more to come. burning man, decompression, party, rave, tag, photo, dog patch, Oct 7 2007, San Francisco CA Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2007 ( Read more... )

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So, I am definitively going to be at Symbiosis this weekend. The only question is to whether I'm leaving on Thursday or Friday.

Here's where else I might be…

Forecast	Event	Date	Location
100%	Symbiosis	Sep 20-24, 2007	Angel's Camp, CA
0%	Salon Con	Sep 22, 2007	Somerset, NJ
50%	Folsom Street Fair	Sep 30, 2007	San Francisco, CA
100%	SiliCon 2007	Oct 5-7, 2007	San Jose, CA
100%	Decompression	Oct 7, 2007	San Francisco, CA
100%	Northern CA Ren Faire	Sep 8-Oct 14, 2007	(Casa de Fruta) Hollister, CA
100%	Toorcon 9	Oct 19-21, 2007	San Diego, CA
0%	Phreaknic 0x0B	Oct 19-21, 2007	Nashville, TN
0%	FurFright	Oct 19-21, 2007	Waterbury, CT
75%	Yaoi-Con 2007	Oct 26-28, 2007	San Mateo, CA
75%	The Odd Ball	Oct 31, 2007	Santa Cruz, CA
100%	Vintage Computer Festival 10.0	Nov 3-4, 2007	Mountain View, CA
25%	OryCon 29	Nov 16-18, 2007	Portland, OR
25%	Midwest Furfest	Nov 16-18, 2007	Chicago, IL
0%	SECtor	Nov 20-21, 2007	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25%	Loscon 34	Nov 23-25, 2007	Los Angeles, CA
100%	PantheaCon	Feb 15-18, 2007	San Jose, CA

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