Another mind-blowingly impressive thing is the camps. Thousands come and
build marvelous and elaborate camps. Some only bring enough to give them
a place to live, but many build a showpiece, with art or interesting
temporary architecture. I only shot just a tiny few.
Our camp was Oregon Country Fair Embassy, which builds an interesting
connected network of silver domes in which to live.
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This tunnel of lights was meant to be viewed with distorting glasses they gave you as you passed through. Quite interesting
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The back of Oregon Country Fair Camp, our home, at 7:15 and Esplanade
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Two towers, a horse and a rope bridge
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Weather Gods in the illuminated village
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The "topless Canadians" sing "Oh Canada" on the Alien Love Nest stage. In theory Howard Stern, or a lookalike, is judging them.
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A pegasus rises from the playa in a camp in the interior, at sunset.
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The giant Croquet pitch. The balls were full of water for very unusual bouncing and rolling.
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Typical scene inside Oregon Country Fair at night. Friendly hippie crowd with mostly acoustic music. Some blacklit observers stand in the entrance.
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Another scene, from the front, or people enjoying Oregon Country Fair Camp
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Front of OCF camp at night, with stage of Illuminated Fools. Each night many sat in the chairs and watched the world parade by.
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Lorax Camp
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The Emerald City, in daylight. I didn't get over to it (far south end, no bikes) during the night with a camera. It was quite spectacular as those tubes are actually translucent with green neon within. The builder spent $100,000 to put this camp together. Performances ranged on the stages all night.
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These guys, a rave camp, have had this flower at up for years.
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The flower and magic bus
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At about 6:30 and Esplanade
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