The Crucible fire art festival

Sorry for the crazy amount of pics, but there was all this great stuff that you usually only see at Burning Man (where I don't walk around with my camera-phone), so I couldn't help myself. I was really happy Ian was at this festival too, to see the sort of stuff that is so inspiring and beautiful to me.

Some of it is hard to see, but hopefully you'll get a taste of it.

The funniest was Dance Dance Immolation, a play on Dance Dance Revolution, only with this game, if the dancer messes up, a big cloud of fire gets shot at them (they wear heavy fire protection with a breathing tube). If you can get over the danger factor, it's quite hilarious to watch. [Ian got a better pic]

The most inspiring was a water fountain that was a large glass vase container with flowing water and something else that fire burns. We watched the water and fire swirl around in harmony; kind of mind-boggling.

Kookiest was a gigantic pendulum with the dangling weight part comprised of 4 fire shooting rockets that would shoot the thing in one direction or another. Looked like someone's big fantasy toy.

Most traditionalist was a group who created molten steel, right there at the event, and poured it into molds. Very quiet and almost meditative; seemed like an ancient skill being practiced. It wasn't showy at all like the other installations, yet quite awesome...to see this group work together silently in the dark with this molten steel. I mean, when have you last seen molten anything?

I'm proud that I got a video of tesla coils in action, like Dr. Megavolt's. His performances are hard to catch on the playa, let alone video them.

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