THE BURNING MAN ADVENTURE 2012

After months of preparation and following an long ticket process CO2 Green Drive was performed at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada 30 August 2012 under the moniker "Electric Parade". 

All the images in this post was taken by Martin Ersted

This time around the project was intended to try out the concept in the harsh desert conditions and saw the inclusion of some 30 pedestrians and bikes - and one stuffed and very popular badger!

Thus, amidst the thousand of events that takes place during the week long festival project organizers Michael Wolffhechel and Martin Ersted together with IT-wizard Henrik Gilvad alongside Tad Snyder and Bianca Berger from SolarBeatz summoned at the Man Thursday 30 August at 16:30h to "tag" Burning Man with a huge CO2 painting.

Following an opening speech by project organizer Michael Wolffhechel and greeting of the Electric Parade participants the biodiesel and solar powered party truck from SolarBeatz began its journey around the center point of the festival to create the O.

All to the tune of Melody Club's "I'm Electric"

Having completed the O project manager Michael Wolffhechel addressed the crowd once more to salute them and to express the hope that some of the Burning Man magic may rub off into the world outside Burning Man". And that this rubbing off will also embrace the festivals principles of Leave No Trace and a sustainable approach to our daily life.

Following the speech the convoy embarked on a larger C route again centered around the Man where the convoy passed the 36 core effigies created by Burning Man chapters around the world. Following this C tour the convoy embarked on a 2-shaped tour on the open playa taking the convoy by the monumental Burn Wall Street art piece that was to be burned later Thursday night (due to heavy winds it was postponed til Saturday after the burn of the Man). 

The painting of the 2 ended by the beautiful Temple designed by David Best where a happy project group could witness the completion of the CO2 painting on Henrik Gilvader's tablet that had tracked the entire journey live. 

The 2012 events proved the viability of the concept for Burning Man and the project group is already preparing a 2013 follow up. 

More news to follow about this along with video and replay of the CO2 painting from 2012.
Meanwhile, enjoy Martin Ersted's amazing images from Burning Man 2012!

Lastly, a HUGE thank you to SolarBeatz and Gobi Mobile for supporting the event and being a totally AWESOME COOL group of people. We look forward to collaborate with you in Chicago! 

And of course thanks to all the participants and in particular all the cool people from the Palace of Balunsia camp - look forward to party with you again!

THE BURNING MAN CO2 TAG DONE!

The Smartphone Interface showing the performed CO2 tag at Burning Man 2012.
More images, videos and stories about how it went will be posted soon!

OCCUPY THE IMAGINATION AT BURNING MAN

CO2 Green Drive's Michael Wolffhechel will give a 10-15 minutes speech about how
Burning Man (and Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen) prompted him to make a life altering decision and what came out of it: The Electric Parade / The CO2 Green Drive Project. 


Talk will be held at the "Occupy the Imagination" Speaker Series at Center Camp Café on Wednesday August 29th at  13:45h. For more information go HERE
Image from www.CrackaJack.de

For more updates, please go to our Facebook page HERE

CO2 GREEN DRIVE AT BURNING MAN

Image above by Martin Ersted that was one of the Project Coordinators for the project at Burning Man 2012

June 15 2012 was a bearer of good news with the Burning Man Organization confirming that CO2 Green Drive was able to buy tickets to Burning Man. 

This is long awaited news and we are now full steam planning the activities in detail. 

The activities include an Art, Climate and Technology Theme Camp.



The Final version of the CO2 tag - Satellite image courtesy of GeoEye

Here we will investigate climate related issues in a co-creative and playful process. The objective is to establish an environment where we all feel comfortable and can experience what creative and innovative ideas that can spring when you set your mind free. We plan for the camp to be open 2-3 hours every day.

The plans will be developed together with the final group of participants and what their specialities are. 

On Friday 31 August we will perform the CO2 "painting" performance using renewable energy powered transportation means. Our vision is a big parade of bikers, pedestrians, stilt walkers, bunnies and electric Art Cars led by a brass band. All completing a GPS tracked CO2 painting on the open playa.
We also see Dancing. Definitely Dancing...Electric!

If you would like to learn more do get in touch and we will be happy to forward you 

our presentation of the plans.

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THE BURNING MAN EXPERIENCE - 2012

The plans are taking shape fast for the idea of bringing the CO2 performance to Burning Man in the end of August 2012. The above CO2 tag is the second sketch for the route of the performance. It is not confirmed as of yet, but we are working on it!



The above video is with David Koren who brought elements of Burning Man out to the world in the shape of a wonderful project on Governors Island in New York called Figment.
The CO2 E - Race Project is a natural progression of The Triangle Project, which collaborated with Figment in 2008 on Governors Island, as part of the exhibition Emergence.

More information and updates about our plans check out the dedicated Facebook page HERE
For more information about Burning Man go HERE

(Satellite image courtesy of GeoEye)

UPDATE: To see what actually DID happen at Burning Man 2012 go HERE