Assorted Art & Animation

I went to Burningman for my first time in 1998. I'm not even sure where the following story came from, but I feel that whoever took the time to recount their experience did a wonderful job. I have been awe inspired in the past, but rarely have I been truly enchanted. To be among such imaginative and talented people, a totally unique and magical experience that surprised the performers as much as the people it touched. My friend, Chris Schaefer invented and built the "horse bike" which he used rally people at Burningman to come see our parade. My contribution to the parade was the mobile PA system sound cart which I designed and built with some help from my dad. Paul and Earth Circus joined up with me and helped to push the boundaries of music and performance art with his Midi Saxophone and my Wah Wah pedal. People go nuts for simplicity and consistency .Ha! Chris has a website, "Making of the Horsebike."

Chris' main website is pretty cool too at: http://www.1reality.org/

Below is an unknown woman's experience upon encountering our parade at Burningman:

Enjoy,
Kent

he blue horse -
So Friday night was the night of the electric parade - Mo took off in his electric cart all decorated with assorted Christmas lights & moon & stars I set out by myself on my Schwinn Hollywood cruiser...... Out onto the Playa darkness to the processional avenue - I had missed the main event and Mo was gone - what was left was the most outrageous group of folks that had devised wonderful fiber optic ( I think) outfits including two (one purple and one blue) dancing giant sort of gingerbread cookie people and a butterfly (with moving wings) towing an elvish driver. They all were accompanied by a moving amplified musical extravaganza - great tunes have no idea how theywere produced - it's better to have that mystery in the darkness anyway. There were actually two butterflies - one was on a motorized contraption - that woman encouraged me to lead the procession in my fabulous outfit that consisted mainly of clear tubing filled with glo-stick liquid (for bicycle safety on dark nights) I gave myself a ropes badge for my ability to tie myself up if no one else would............... anyway I digress because I just want to give a little more space to the blue horse to make the dramatic entrance. So captivated by this creature that I fell instantly in total love and longing for a floating galloping electric soft/blue vision. or the person that offered this lovely gift - man or woman - I would follow out out into the darkness of the mystery. This horse was actually silhouetted on a bike, silently moving through the night. With legs that had total motion - perfectly understood and presented. Motion that could vary in speed from a slow float to full gallop charging and flying. And she would weave on and around the parade floating to the music and then fly out to forever on the flat playa dark night so fast and then circle back in a wide arch to weave through the other beings once again. and then again to soar. I didn't follow with my body but my heart was captured. Oh yeah, blue horse with pink glowing top hat floating several feet above. I mean it: captured. En-tranced. In love.

Click here for, "Making of the Horsebike."
or for Chris Schaefer's website