Alchemy 2009
While Joshua and I closed on our new house in mid-September, we didn’t move until mid-October, because for the beginning of October we were participating in Alchemy, a Burning Man-related event in Georgia. I’ve tried before and failed, so I’m not going to attempt to describe a burn to you. If you’ve never been, you can probably tell from pictures whether it’s your kind of thing, in which case you should go. It’s always the pictures that speak the most to me about burn events, so I’ll just share some of the photos with you. None of these photos are mine. They are all borrowed from various artists from the Alchemy 2009 Flickr pool.
A fire dancer:
How about a green guy?
Here are some of The Love Drum folks:
And a random happy person:
A trapeze set-up in the corner of the event that hosted amazing circus craziness at night:
The Lamplighters lighting the city at dusk:
The effigy during the explosions, prior to it catching fire:
And the beginning of the Temple burn the next morning:
As a bonus, here’s a little video of how the effigy was lit this year:
Tags: Alchemy, Burning Man, Effigy, Georgia, House, Joshua, Temple, Video, YouTube
[...] Alchemy 2009 [...]
[...] although that could be less with them being on pasture. My goal is to have them finished before Alchemy. We’ll be gone for a week then, so it’d be nice to not have to arrange their care for a [...]
Leave your response!
RSS
Most Used Tags
Categories
Archives