About 6 weeks after Burning Man each year a "Decompression" fair is held
on a closed San Francisco street. It's a reunion, and a chance for
newcomers to get a small taste of Burning Man with cell phones and without
the dust. (It does seem that a sizable fraction of the crowd has never
been.)
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Off to do serious hoop spinning, and telling her friends
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A woman contributes a slogan
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Imaginative costuming
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Decked out for decompression
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More art cars
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Art car collection on Indiana
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This art car was a boat on wheels, filled with water via a fountain, containing other float toys. (Did they have boats in them?)
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Some people are serious about their costuming
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The alien semaphore machine spins by day
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Another participant goes through the tunnel. It made for cool pix
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Jigsaw puzzle required assembly of the real constellations. It was done by night.
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K. goes through the tunnel
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Fresnel lenses do more than make you look funny. They burn wood really quickly.
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Silver man phones home?
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A chance to see the scope of the panos with a thinner crowd
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A crowd, present almost all day, examines the panorama wall
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Couple with art-scooter act playful for the camera
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Another crowd at the pano wall
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No feathers on the playa, but here a beautiful effect
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Free calls for people with purple wigs
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Spectators watch and take photos from the overpass. For cheap you can actually meet some of them, guys
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All ages can dress playa-style, and use the playa phone
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The incomparable Camera Girl
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Spectators crowd the overpass at dusk
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Couple shares a secret
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A local resident with a photo studio sets it up for portraits of decompressors
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True love
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Lemme use the phone
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Two of the star-boys walk by.
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Silver people and blue can get along, but blues are outnumbered.
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Ah, silver man is also a photographer
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Now we learn that silver, blue and pink people can all get along.
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A rooster examines the panorama wall closely
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So the top is a drink holder?
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Platform on wheels pulled by fellow drummers
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One ringey-dingey
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Why are phone pedestals so low?
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A butterfly flutters-by on stilts
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Navigating the tunnel of glowing plastic strings
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Array of plastic strings under black light at night, with blacklight cloaked participant
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The alien semaphore at night with flying, glowing green fluorescent tubes
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This guy had a radio controlled helicopter with LEDs, a time exposure shows its path. It looks like a UFO
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This airstream would travel the Playa as well, a popular favourite
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Spinning wheel of fire in time exposure traces many tracks
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Sculpture with fire
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This is the first event shot with my new EOS-20D camera, 8 megapixel and
much better at high ISO for dark and night shooting.
