Spark: A Burning Man Story Page #6

we get a group of us

and we come down to Haight

and kind of kick off our... our

adventure down here

looking for costumes and

whatnot, so...

Look, it doesn't matter

how I dress up,

I always end up

looking like Bea Arthur.

That's adjustable.

That's a good thing, yeah.

Medium doesn't work,

I think I need large.

Woohoo!

I've got a little kudunkadunk

I got to get rid of.

[WILL ROGER]:
We're at the

Black Rock city center

where the Man is going to stand

in the 2012 event.

And we're probably within a few feet

of where the Man is going to stand.

I was a dreamer.

Once I was a dreamer.

I thought I could be an artist and

I opened up a studio in Oakland.

And Crimson saw one of the ads,

and it's a self-portrait

of me with a werewolf mask on

holding a glass dildo.

[CRIMSON ROSE]:
I was

immediately drawn to it.

Yeah, so we finally decided

that after 19 years,

we're going to get married

on the playa.

We thought that that would be

appropriate for us,

for our wedding.

[ILO KRATINS]:
This is our...

our Burning Man effigy.

It's made of a little more

than 400 pieces.

It's about 35 feet tall,

it weighs approximately

3,000 pounds.

We have a crew of

20 to 25 people.

It takes us about six days

from start to finish

from a pile of lumber

and plywood.

The procedures for

making everything

are put together in

people's minds

and passed down as sort of

an oral history each year

because there's a definite way

that this has to go together

in order for it to

go together easily.

They say, "Build it, burn it,

repeat as necessary."

[ROSE]:
It's basically a bunch

of wood that's nailed together.

And I don't know if it's a

child-parent relationship

or it's something

much bigger than ourselves

that is a relationship that really

is about drawing you to the man.

But for me, it's more

psychological and subconscious.

Much deeper.

I don't know if I'll ever know.

I mean, maybe that's the reason why

we don't tell you what it means,

we want you to

figure that out for yourself.

Oh no.

Oh guys that's even more

sacrilegious.

No clown nose on the man!

Right now, this is the

Black Rock Desert,

but as soon as you break

the bottle of champagne

it's Black Rock City.

It's the city that

we build, 2012.

Mr. Will Roger, cofounder of DPW,

actually the founder-founder of DPW,

my best friend for the longest

time, I love you, Will.

[cheering, applause]

You still got the touch.

So this is my 18th burn.

The real thing begins

in this moment.

So what we have this year

coming is 60,000 people

and those people are all

going to be affected.

You people here today are the

people from this moment on

that creates the framework

and the cauldron

that will cook their souls.

[cheering] Okay?

You're... you're creating

that cauldron.

And so I... I hand this off... I hand

this spike, the city, everything to you,

it's dedicated to you and

this moment going forward

and the effect it will have

on the world.

[cheering, clapping]

What's happening is we're setting

the trucks into place right now.

They're trying to square it.

And this is our boss.

That's Otto Von Danger.

This is his project,

Burn Wall Street.

[over construction noise] Pay a little

attention, move it into place and let it down.

Alright, I'll try.

And you can do a little bit.

That's way too much,

you're not going to

be able to move it.

That way?

- Oh, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t.

- Relax, just relax.

F***, f***, mother f***.

Just relax .

I need to go out like that.

Yes, what are we doing?

They're going to try to

set that corner first.

Oh my god.

Oh, it's looking good.

It is, it looks beautiful

right there.

One side down,

the other side resting.

Thank you God.

I'm frustrated about the piece

not being out.

There's still a lot of work

to be done to it,

which can't happen 'til it's installed and

it's still sitting in a f***ing truck.

And I keep getting told

"Go talk to this person. "

"Oh, you're going to need that? Okay, wait,

first you've got to go and do this."

"And then go back and talk to

that person."

Then I go back and that person's

not there anymore.

Well, now who do I talk to?

That's cool, we'll dig

stuff out, it'll be fine.

It'll be fine, thank you.

Is it true that you get billed

for heavy equipment,

you get a

bill for what you use?

No, I don't know.

But you've got... just tap into

your endless wealth.

Yeah, this is the first I've

heard of that at all.

Your trust fund.

I would think that...

how could they trust

...they'd have to tell you and get you to

sign an agreement you're going to pay...

I would think so. And frankly, right now I

wouldn't feel like paying them for sh*t

'cause they aren't f***ing

showing up.

Katy, start crying.

It's tough to be the boss.

But she's doing good,

it's just really stressful.

But then when it's hers, it is

hers and she's doing it.

Welcome... welcome... welcome

to the Cordon Bleu.

We're really doing well, we're

really on good schedule.

You know, making sure that the

infrastructure's going in place,

making sure that the build is

going on time.

Are there any parts that we can

take off the back side?

You guys know my goal is, you gotta

stack people on top of each other

if we're going to fit the maximum,

maximum amount of people.

It's like 180 degrees from where

we were last year

in this complete panic mode.

Knock on wood, ahh!

Can you do me a favor? Can we

pull down the schedules?

Awesome. Thanks, Travis.

Alright, next adventure. Daxie!

So you want to go for a ride?

[indistinct chatter]

It's nice out there, very calm.

It's beautiful.

Oh well this is my

leg-pilot, see?

Radical co-dependency.

Collective Interdependent-

so someone said,

"this is a radical, collective,

co-dependency experience here."

We believe in radical

co-dependency

Radical collective codependency.

That's why they corrected me.

That sounds like something you

go to a clinic to get cured of.

I know. Well, the clinic for it

is Burning Man.

Why don't we start a clinic to

cure people of Burning Man

and that's where-that's where

the money is.

Oh the ticket thing.

Yeah, the ticket kerfuffle.

It turns out it's the best thing

that ever happened to us,

but I didn't expect the public

to think of it that way.

In curating those tickets, we

sent out a message.

It's not quite always enough to

just attend.

You need to contribute.

[ZOLIE MAE]:

Yay, I get to drive.

Just steer towards what you want

to see.

Where are we going, Zolie Mae?

[ZOLIE MAE]:
Uh, Salt Temple!

Who's got the map?

I do. If you follow the esplanade

around, you should run right into it.

Do you want to go see that

thing right there, Zolie?

I think that might be the Temple of Salt.

We have no idea what we're looking for.

ZOLIE MAE:
Then why didn't you

look on the map.

KYRSTEN:
We did look on the

map?

ZOLIE MAE:
Let's go

on that first.

- Make yourself at home!

- Okay.

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