the fire arts festival

 *whew*

just coming up for breath, here!

someone asked me near the end of the day…."do you think there’s anything that could have happened differently that would have made the festival go better?!?!"

the answer is…..no.

i am amazingly pleased with how well things went. i think it was a unifying experience for our group and it felt really awesome to be a part of. if you’d like to see an article that appeared in the paper the day before the event, check out this article: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807180476

and here’s a slideshow they did of us:

http://rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/…=&rgj_date=

they were very nice to us, and are glad we liked what they did.

now, for the actual festival, there were LOTS of pictures taken, here’s a sampling:

Bill Kositzky:

http://www.photoworks.com/photo-sharing/sh…b_pml&cb=PW

Chris Munz:

http://www.hotshottherobot.com/pictures/Fi…2008/index.html

Pat Herz:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9705209@N08/s…57606309016879/

Tommy from Reno Passport

http://renopassport.com/test/compression-f…ontrolled-burn/

i am still riding this wave! don’t feel obligated to look at ALL the pictures. i am sure it’s just me, but i can’t seem to turn away from looking at them all! we estimate that we had about 3000 people there at one point, which for a little corner plaza in downtown, you can see was quite a lot! it was PACKED!

i will continue to look for awesome pictures of the dragon, because he was amazingly cool and his creator was pretty neat, too.

i trust all of you a lot….my real name is all over here, so much for anonymity! having also, however, met several of you in person, i guess the secrets out of the bag, as it were, anyway =)

that’s my update for now. i have to run, but wanted everyone to know how smashingly things went!

take care, and i will catch up as i can…less than a month, now, until burning man!

peace.