Carbon Garden is ready to hit the road and get planted in its intended desert soil on the playa at Burning Man. Here’s a quick vid showing our crew hard at work. No idle hands round these parts the past few weeks. It’s been late nights, lots of pizza and chinese, a huge effort to get our new 12′ tall flowers standing tall. The tall flowers are made purely from carbon fiber, including the bloom, stamen, Flame Element holder, flanges, and stem. Thanks to everyone who helped make the project a reality!

Carbon Garden will be placed in the center of the playa, 700 feet from the Burning Man along the 4:30 axis.  The Garden will be alight with fire and music each night from 9pm - 3am.  There will also be two dawn sessions on Thursday and Saturday, with an acoustic concert on Saturday morning with surprise players.

Here’s the layout for Carbon Garden as it will appear on the playa this year at Burning Man.  The four gates will be each have two flaming carbon fiber towers, and infrared sensors to trigger music and flame behaviors as people enter and exit.  We’ll be located 700 feet from the man along the invisible 4:30 line on your clock dial, pretty near to the Tea House, so it will indeed be quite a zen corner of the desert.

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Got a great live music act?  Come perform in our Carbon Garden at Burning Man.  We’ll be having at least one concert during the event some time Wed-Fri (tbd).  Please send a video and song sampler to: brett [at] false-profit [dot] com.

Our first 10′ tall carbon flower with a 42″ diameter bloom.  Here’s a video showing what the flowers look like before trimming and stem attaching.  This stem is also our first one made of pure carbon fiber.  We used a biaxial twill sleeve from Soller Composites and laid it up over foam pool noodles.  After applying epoxy the stretchy sleeve is folded to create a ribbing effect similar to bamboo.

At Burning Man, Carbon Garden will enter its serene phase, black flowers urging their way out of the white dust, singing along in fire nightly. Now Palindrome (aka DJJD) introduces music compositions written for this setting and our flowers. You can listen to our mixdown sampler, though it will never be the same as what is played on the playa. That’s because this computer-generated music will respond to sensor inputs around the garden. It’s a dynamic composition comprised of a set of basic sounds then dynamically re-interpreted by motion in the garden.

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In case you didn’t catch Carbon Garden at Fire Arts Festival, check out our new teaser video for Burning Man.

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Check out the Hot Preview on KTVU.com about Fire Arts Festival. Some nice coverage of the event including Carbon Garden.

Video: http://www.ktvu.com/video/20046933/
Slideshow: http://www.ktvu.com/slideshow/entertainment/20046824/detail.html

Setup at Fire Arts Festival: KTVU Photo

That party was awesome.  It hit capacity, which is saying something in a 250,000 sqft warehouse.  There was tons of cool art, great music, Random Rab, Dov, Beats Antique, Dr Toast and Welder tore it up on the False Profit/Symbiosis stage.  People seemed to be having a really great time and we did too.

Carbon Garden looked beautiful and the collaboration with the Symbiosis stage went really well.  We just plunked our flowers on their stage and it looked great together.  No trouble with the fire marshall.  Some technical issues but False Profit Labs peeps were stellar.  And people loved controlling the fire on stage.

At one point the power went out to the sound and lights, but for some reason not to our fire.  Beats Antique was playing and one of the guys got up and did an acoustic violin solo.  Carbon Garden accompanied him with a fiery background by moving the fire in time with his playing.  The only light in the room was from our fire and it was really beautiful.

Fire Arts Festival is like a mini Burning Man without all that playa dust. Come play with fire in what is literally a fire carnival, with installations by our good friends Interpretive Arson, Rebecca Anders, Michael Christian, Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito, Wally Glenn’s flaming sands, and way more amazing fire art in a newly expanded area 3x bigger than last year’s.

There will be a Life-Size Mousetrap, the fiery Boiler Bar, The Golden Mean Snail car, The Hand of Man crushing up cars, Alan Rorie’s Neuron Chamber, and on stage Dan Cantrell’s Rootabaga Opera, El Circo, Fire Arts Collective, and many other fiery acts.

Our own Carbon Garden continues its week-long debut after an incredible opening at Sand by the Ton.

Fire Arts Festival in its 10th year of blowing up Oakland every July is Wednesday, July 15 through Saturday July 18 8pm-Midnight

Tickets and directions here: http://www.thecrucible.org/events/fire-arts-festival/157.

At American Steel in Oakland this Saturday night Carbon Garden will fire up its carbon fiber flowers for the very first time. Dancing to the beat of False Profit and Symbiosis DJs: Tinker, Dr Toast, Welder, Heyoka, Beats Antique, Random Rab and Dov, our first 20 flowers on the stage will emanate tendrils, twists and outright blasts of fire with up to three foot flame tails each!

Carbon Garden will also appear at Fire Arts Festival in Oakland Wednesday through Saturday, July 15-18.

Carbon Garden is filled with mysterious flowering life forms–flowers up to ten feet tall with 3 foot blooms made entirely of space age carbon fiber. The Garden has four portals with a central patch facing east to catch the sunrise. Wandering through the garden, sensors detect your presence, process your motion and respond in tendrils and waves of fire with up to 30 three-foot flame tails. Swaddled in firelight and zen themed music, Carbon Garden is the perfect place for all life forms to seek respite and connect.

SAND BY THE TON
http://www.thebigartexperience.com for info and PRE-SALE tickets!

200 tons of sand (REALLY!), 5 swimming pools, multiple stages, 250,000 square feet, Oakland’s newest indoor beach!!!

Presented by: DAN DAS MANN & KAREN CUSOLITO (BIG ART STUDIOS at AMERICAN STEEL), CIRCUS METROPOLUS, DUSTFISH, SPACE COWBOYS, SYMBIOSIS, FALSE PROFIT, NEUROWEAPON, GRAVITY POINT, OPULENT TEMPLE

Featuring:
MAJOR MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE and INSTALLATION by: DAN DAS MANN & KAREN CUSOLITO, THE FLAMING LOTUS GIRLS, CYCLECIDE HEAVY PEDAL BIKE RODEO, MICHAEL CHRISTIAN, OMEGA RECOIL, FALSE PROFIT LABS, ORION FREDERICKS, MICHAEL STURTZ, MARK McGOTHIGAN, KINETIC STEAM WORKS, JUSTIN GRAY, EVAN TRACY and….

LIVE MUSIC and PERFORMANCE presented by DUSTFISH & CIRCUS METROPOLUS featuring:
THE MUTAYTOR, MERMEN, EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND, GOOFERMAN, VAU DE VIRE, THE ERIC McFADDEN TRIO, POLKACIDE, BEATS ANTIQUE, 999 EYES, MARK GROWDEN, DROP MOTION, SOLAR FLARE, DEPARTMENT OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, BOILER BAR SEASIDE SANITARIUM AND MEDICINE SHOW, THE BURLEY SISTERS by SuDoNu and more

ELECTRONIC MUSIC by: SPACE COWBOYS, OPULENT TEMPLE, SYMBIOSIS, FALSE PROFIT, NEURO WEAPON, GRAVITY POINT
Featuring: Syd Gris, Dutch, Vinkalmann, Cosmic Selector, Jeff Taisch, Random Rab, Welder, Heyoka, Dov, Dr Toast, Tinker, Adnan, Michael Tello, T-dUb, Mace, Timmy, Robb Green, Micah J, Pork Chop, Brad Robinson, Mancub, Kaptn Kirk, Ernie Trevino, Aaron Jae, Tamo

4 live music stages, 4 electronic music stages, full boardwalk carnival midway with rides, 200 tons of sand with 5 swimming pools (swimwear encouraged), a quarter million square feet of space under one roof, thousands of your best friends, more lights blinkin’ than ever blinked… bookoo (6) bars….you thought you knew the drill till you came here.

Please Help Us Help You Get Lost…..

JULY 11, 2009 @ THE AMERICAN STEEL BUILDING 1960 Mandela Parkway Oakland CA
$25 presale tix & more info @ www.thebigartexperience.com $30 @ door $125 VIP (check the site for VIP info, includes a 50 ft. yacht suspended from the ceiling)
4PM-LATE free BBQ 4-7pm Close to BART~LATE NIGHT BUS SHUTTLE TO SF!~ample secure parking
21+ (sorry)
and, thank you.