Okay, I'm gonna give this one more try here. We're invited to spin both fire and soft toys at this event. It is not an open jam, I approve people going. We have some of the VCers going and it would be nice to get some of the rest of the fam there. Oh yeah, free wine and cheese:

COMING SOON!
Less than 2 Weeks
Join U s Sunday, June 1st, for the Opening Party

21 DAYS OF BLACK ROCK CITY

TIME LAPSE AND LARGE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT EXHIBITION

IMAGES FROM BURNING MAN

TO OPEN IN MARIN COUNTY MAY 30, 2008

Reception on Sunday, June 1st, 1 pm 5:30 pm, with free wine and cheese
at Marin French Cheese Factory

PETALUMA, CA, April 18, 2008 Creators Equity Foundation announces 21 Days of Black Rock City, an exhibition of time lapse and over 130 juried, large-format photographic prints of the Burning Man event held yearly on the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. We think attendees will find the visual experience stimulating, informative and spiritually enriching. The exhibition will be free of charge to the public.


Temple of Joy (by David Best), 2002 Photographer: Michelle Bates

Black Rock City is a week-long cultural art gathering and societal experiment of 40,000 plus people in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada undertaken each year around Labor Day by the Burning Man organization. (Please see www.burningman.com.)


Aerial Photograph of Black Rock City - Burning Man
The centerpiece of the exhibit is a 120+° panoramic-view time-lapse of the rise, week-long event, and dissipation of Black Rock City the Burning Man gathering, presented on three 50, high-resolution plasma displays. This innovative time lapse project consists of thousands of high-resolution sequenced images taken over a 21-day period by 3 cameras arranged in a 120+° view of the Black Rock Desert and captures Black Rock City as it emerges from the desert, the week-long event, and its dismantling, all in a 40-minute program, synchronized and set to music.

The Foundation and Exhibition honor Burners without Borders with a selection of photographs by Burners without Borders members Lisa Benham, Tony Garcia, and Tom Price.

Also featured in the exhibition is a selection of 130+ large-format photographic prints taken by nine exceptionally talented photographers, who were selected by the Foundation to participate in its Large-Format Digital Photographic Print Studio Program. The participating photographers are: Michelle Bates; Lisa Benham, Tony Garcia, and Tom Price from Burners without Borders; Jason Day; Matt Freedman; Richard Gilmore; Marcel Peelan; Mary Rachel Reynolds; Philip Solomonson; John W. Tucker, Jr; and Joshua Weaver. Seven of the nine awardees came to the Foundations facilities in Berkeley, California some from as far a field as Canada, Florida, and Washington as Artists-in-Residence, each for a three- to four-day residency. They had access to the Foundations Large-Format Digital Photographic Print Studio and were provided, in addition to room and board, the needed materials and supplies to print and mount their selected works of Burning Man Black Rock City . With hands-on instruction and guidance from the Foundations president, Joshua Reichek, each photographer (3 of the 7 assisted by their significant other) printed and mounted their own work.
The exhibition will open on Friday, May 30, 2008, from 1 pm to 5:30 pm. An opening party with free wine and cheese will be held on Sunday, June 1, from 1 pm to 5:30 pm. Through August 3rd, the exhibition will be open Friday - Sunday, 1 pm to 5:30 pm, or by appointment. Admission is free. The Marin French Cheese Factory is located at 7500 Red Hill Road, Petaluma. (For further information, please visit www.reichek.org.)


Conceptual 3D rendering of exhibition by Marty Stack

The exhibition will be held at the Marin French Cheese Company,
7500 Red Hill RoadPetalumaCA94952.

May 30, 2008 through August 3, 2008.

The exhibition is free to the public.

Hours: Friday through Sunday and Holidays, 1:00 pm 5:30 pm.