Mild Bill
Tucson
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Playa or AZ Burner Name: |
Mild Bill
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First Name or Nic Name: |
Bill |
Your personal website: |
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Name of the camp you are staying with this year: |
Love to Bone |
Camp website: |
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Camp crossroads: |
Last year 9:30 and Alante |
A description of camp you're staying with: |
A health-outreach camp, we distribute thousands of condom each year (10,000 so far) via our 24/7 condom bar. Our camp also features an "authentic replica" disco dance floor. You can bring your own ipod, plug into our system and groove to the music of your choice. Also a chill space which is an "inflato" dome designed by the original inflato genius of Ant Farm fame. |
Job/Career Title: |
Engineer... student |
Your job/career and what you actually do: |
nothing presently... will be in School. |
Past Camps: |
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Why Burning Man? Why are you going? |
Well... to be totally direct: I have never had this quality of interface with person after person after person all in the same place at the same time... there is just something about burners... they say "Welcome Home" for a reason. |
Zodiac Sign: |
Aries |
Zodiac Sign of Partner: |
Aquarius |
How or where did you first hear about Burning Man? |
1993 I had friends that I was not able to go with... When I first started attending in 2006 I knew that I should have been there the whole time... no problem... Contributing furiously to make up for lost time. |
Volunteered with: |
Own art projects, including wedding, disco dance floor concept and construction, "Igloo" 35 foot tall inflato, was intended to be a "Dance Pod" but will be a separate chill space due to logistical constraints of that much square footage of wind catching, sun catching plastic which would be a solid greenhouse oven/ roving playa death ball if it went up at the wrong time (during the day and or during wind storm.)
Also health outreach every year since I started with around 10k of condoms distributed. |
What would you do differently if you could go back in time from a past Burning Man experience: |
Well last year if we had a little more power capability and a blower to replace the one that burned out... we would have had a more functional camp. |
Where are you from? Where have you lived? |
I am in Tucson presently. I grew up in Santa Barbara, went to school in Davis and Santa Cruz, CA, worked in Napa, and the SF Bay Area in general. |
All About You |
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Age: |
35 |
Singe or Married: |
Married |
Tell us about being single or married: |
Alison/Prudence is the love of my life. We were married in BRC (real not "playa" wedding) in 2007. We had been together nearly a decade at that point. We are non-monogamous but are permanent primary partners. We have been through all kinds of things together and have and continue to support each other in this ongoing adventure. |
Top 10 reasons to go to Burning Man:
(or as many as you can think of) |
These are reasons to go and or criterion that you must meet in order to do so:
1. You should know if you are meant to be there if you have discussed it with anyone for more than 30 seconds.
2. You can just be a freak about fixating on some project that may take months of blood sweat and tears, but will really only be on display for about three days once you get it up and before you
take it down at BRC... and you will still be thrilled to bring it out there and have people check it out.
3. Your relationship can survive the week.... Possibly your relationship will benefit from the week.
4. You can survive the week (or actually we have one member of our camp that may or may not be true of but he will die happy if he doesn't make it back to CA... he is 85 + and has one lung -so far no one has been able to dissuade him from coming - which I guess I can understand in a way).
5. You like heat and dust, or at least can deal with heat and dust, oh yah, also freezing cold, rain, mud, heat and dust and dust and dust. Also stinging dust storms. You are willing to be in conditions that if you get sprayed down with a mister it is possible to go into hypothermia even when the air temperature is 120 F in the shade.
6. You are basically impervious to complaining under the above conditions.
7. Your work/school can sustain being without you for least a week in August/September.
8. Hell, probably mostly burners reading this anyway... you know why you should be there. |
Top 10 things you don't like about Burning Man:
(or as many as you can think of) |
Not complaining. Alright... I have had people ragging on my lack of being dressed up... when I had just finished putting together a dance floor that required hundreds of hours of work to design and build: "they ruined my burn" ... can you tell. |
BurningMan Experience: |
Yes. |
BurningMan Tips & Tricks: |
Bring too much water.
Bring sprayers to cool off.
Be prepared to work your ass off.
Don't get playa foot.
no spectators = NO SpEcTATORS = NOSE TATERS (be prepared)
Make shade
shade goes up first (Period)
uh, when partying: ... pace yourself or you will not make it through the week.
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Years you've gone to Burning Man and your "Burning Moments":
(these are when you say, "oh my god did you just see that" or when something unigue happened to you.)
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Attended since 93 in spirit. Attended 06: first year: health outreach, but no art or other projects except geodesic shade. 07 got married there, genuine fake disco floor, the "Love to Bone" icon was printed on the back of our wedding invite: there was no name at this time... Alison was just into Osteology... so she chose a stamp of a heart with a bone though it, doing the condom thing "love to bone" made sense, so the name stuck. Also all of our best friends and family were there even though they were all virgin burners and they loved it. 08: first theme camp, dance floor came back incarnated into the center of a "dance pod" which was a 35 foot tall inflato dome driven by air pressure, major technical problems (power and blower failures) major stress: "Welcome to Theme Camp Land." Had a great last half of the week. There was also that night on the bus :) that got us out of freak out mode and into enjoying ourselves despite the technical difficulties.
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