Burningman 2007 Time-Lapse

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Time Lapse Video of the 2007 Burning Man festival as viewed from the Block Rock Solar "Powertainer". Be sure and check out the Sequel video at:

Interesting note: You can actually see the Crude Awakening Oil Derrick go up even though it's about 3/4 mile away! There is a brilliant flash that illuminates the scene. Here is a high resolution still:

Background:
I was originally asked by Tom Price to do this timelapse, and I thought it was an awesome idea. It's been done before by the Folding-Time guys, but they didn't set up this year. The images were captured by a Canon G3 mounted in a weatherproof housing of my own design up on a 20 foot pole next to the Powertainer. There were 18,486 images shot at 2272x1704 which is almost 4 megapixels each. Some of the full-size stills are stunning! The camera was controlled by a custom Daemon I wrote using the Gphoto library, which ran on the Powertainer's Slackware linux system and the images were stored full-size on a hard drive. After the event, I ran another piece of code that downsampled the images to 640x480 then composed them at 30fps into a MPEG-4 video. My friend Tom Sepe added the Music and Titles for me and Voila! I hope to make a more portable rig for future use incorporating an embedded linux system and flash memory. Contact me for more information, to hire me for interesting geekery, or just to geek out. =)

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: September 14, 2007 at 3:31 am
Author: peefpeef

Length: 00:10:45
Rating: 4.74
Views: 81669

Tags: Burningman Burning Man Timelapse Peef Powertainer Black Rock Solar BRC Linux Gphoto slackware

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Video Comments:
KenCat1337 (October 20, 2008 at 8:11 pm)
One of their principles is "radical inclusion", yet their tickets are $250 -- that means I'm not included because I don't have money..

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Doesn't that defeat the purpose?..
Dubhbairn (October 29, 2008 at 9:07 am)
It's the 3rd largest city in Nevada for the time it exists...

Don't you want toilets?
Infrastructure?
Rangers?
7 story art objects erected?
Giant buildings exploding into the sky?
Multi-million dollar parties all across the desert?

Yeah, you stay at home.

I'm chipping in on campfire wood!

...And having the time of my life!

By the way, there _ARE_ cheaper tickets. You just need to look on the site. LOL
spoerl92 (October 31, 2008 at 5:13 pm)
or learn 2 do fire poi and spin there 2 get in 4 free
thats wat im gonna do eventually lol
Dubhbairn (November 1, 2008 at 8:11 pm)
spoerl92 said:or learn 2 do fire poi and spin there 2 get in 4 free
thats wat im gonna do eventually lol
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Hate to tell you this, but spinning poi doesn't get you in free at Burningman. LOL If it did, 99% of the people wouldn't have to pay. ;-)
KenCat1337 (November 3, 2008 at 5:46 pm)
None of the tickets go under $200.. Look, I just don't have has much money as you.
Dairokan (November 25, 2008 at 12:49 pm)
I got my tickets on craigslist for $200. If you're having problems scrounging the money for the event how about
1) pick up and recycle aluminum cans/bottles.
2)Put the money into a savings account every month and voila you'll have money for burning man and then some.

This is how I paid for all of my traveling when i was under 18. I would regularly make over $200 /week just from recycling stuff.
KenCat1337 (November 25, 2008 at 3:24 pm)
I found out a lot more about this festival. I love it and plan on going next year. A dollar a day isn't a lot and it's more than enough.

Thanks!
Dairokan (November 26, 2008 at 12:48 am)
Your welcome. Just make sure to go to the burningman website and read up on the section for the first timers. A lot of really useful information and to ensure you have a good time pack shelter and enough food and water for your time there. Enjoy your burn.
Dairokan (November 25, 2008 at 12:49 pm)
In the end it's up to you and how much you want to go. If you can't figure out how to pay $200-250 for a ticket well that's on you. If you think about it if you just put one dollar a day into a piggy bank and saved it for a year you'd have more than you'd need for the ticket.

Also $250 dollars is not a lot of money for an event that goes on for 1 week and has as much infrastructure as this one does.
KenCat1337 (October 20, 2008 at 8:09 pm)
WHAT!?

That defeats the whole purpose. Bullshit.