I missed London Decompression 2007 =(

Damn, I travel too much, and I end up being on the other side of the world when I want to be somewhere else. Or to be in the right place, but at the wrong moment. As for London...

I was in London on November 15, for about a week. I spent 4 days in London, then rent a car to drive all the way South-West to Stonehenge, and then South to Portsmouth. Nice trip - a lot of rain, though... and when I tried to get in touch with my London campmates from Quixote Camp, I couldn't find anybody... =(
A couple of weeks later when I'm stuck somewhere else, all of my friends from Quixote, Nowhere, and some fellas from Burning Man Italy met in London for a fab London Decompression 2007 Party!

Here are some of my Euroburners friends such as Kittykaat, Claudi, Dario, Santi e Michael, cut'n'pasted in this photo composition from the amazing shots of NK Guy, who did a photo session at the London party, with great results. The pictures below and many more from NK Guy are available online at Burningcam.com, of course in their full view.

Photo credits: PK Guy at Burningcam.com

You all look good, fellas - keep burning!

Ok guys, I'll definitely make it for Decompression Paris in May, and of course for Nowhere 2008!

In the meanwhile, my wishes for a Burning Christmas, and a Flaming New Year to all of you!!! See you in 2008!
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My Burning Man 2007 videos on Blinkx.com

Here we go, it took a long time to upload them all (and I still have plenty to upload), but you can start browsing them from here =)


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A Video Player full of Burning Man 2007 Videos!

Enjoy my videos at www.dailymotion.com/burning-max!
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Quixote Cabaret Camp and Green Man Pub

It was inevitable - after hanging out with the Euroburners at Nowhere 2007 I ended up camping this year with the Euroburners. Well, after all, I'm European too, and a burner! I guess this makes me an Euroburner too...

It really has been a chance, my friend Paul decided not to set up the Hammock Hangout this year, Flaming Lotus Girls were too tired from an entire year traveling the world with the Serpent Mother and the Hand of God, and decided to just hang out this year, with no big artwork commitment. At the same time, I was hooked with the Euroburners newsletters, reading about these Eurofellas actually setting up a nice thing: the Green Man Pub!

I couldn't resist so I got in touch to join the Quixote Cabaret Camp, and I really had a great time. I have also met great people that now belong to my Burning Man family, with which I hope I'll be doing more stuff, starting with Nowhere 2008, for example!

Yes I had some scratches with a couple of campmates - it never happened to me before on the Playa, but I know this is pretty normal, and it happens all the time at all BM camps. Hey, screw that! I really enjoyed my campmates, and I had a great time!

Here are some pictures of my campmates, and some Euroburners friends and Green Man Pub guests - click on any image to be magically teleported on Flickr.com, where I created a Quixote Cabaret Camp and Green Man Pub dedicated photo collection!














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My Burning Man 2007 pictures on Flickr.com

Check out the 8-set, thousand pictures collection of Burning Man 2007 pictures I created online to share my Playa shots.


I also prepared this Euroburners photo collection for my campmates at the Quixote Cabaret Camp & Green Man Pub.


Enjoy Burningmax's Burning Man pictures!
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All my pictures from Burning Man 2006!

Here are all my pictures from Burning Man 2006, as usual arranged within several Flickr.com photo albums. This year it has been a weird year, after the intensive commitment of last year with the Hammock Hangout.


I believe this has been the first year where I could have just hang out with no much camp responsibilities. I parked my RV at the crazy camp of the Pirates of the Playa, a bunch of cool local people from Nevada who cruise the Playa with a pirate boat where they often perform bondage sessions!

Also, this has been the year where I catch up with Flaming Lotus Girls, the mythic metal-fire collective who amazed everybody this year with the Serpent Mother. I stayed with FLG for four days after burning Man, helping them tearing down and pack up the huge Serpent Mother, but also de-dusting and chilling at the Trego desert hot springs, and poolside in Reno sipping margaritas! Flaming Lotus Grrrrrls rock!
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The Hammock Hangout at Burning Man 2005

Planning, preparing, setting up, running and tearing down the Hammock Hangout this year has certainly been my biggest commitment to the Burning Man experience to date.

Not only because it has been a huge work, but also because the work has been done mostly with the smallest team ever: 2 people!!! well, sometimes even 3, and in some cases we had a great support from our BM family, specially in running the Hammock Hangout. but setting up and tearing down has been a two-men-against-time-and-nature work. Heavy, but amazing!!!

Here are some of the pictures of the Hammock Hangout tear down, the guy in most of the pictures is Burning Man veteran, ex-DPW, crazy Dutch cowboy Paul DeJong, a great friend of mine who lives in San Francisco. Paul look tough but really is the sweetest guy around, and a crazy genius. I had a great time in getting involved with him in this project, and in becoming friends, brothers - desert brothers.






Check out how awesome our Hammock Hangout is!











Look how many beautiful people and good vibes we were having on daily (and nightly) basis. You can click on the images to get to the Flickr.com photo album where you can browse all the pictures in full details.






And how about my DJ Sonic silver RV, which I entirely foiled in aluminum wrap paper (and silver glued glitter for some details)?

I love my Burning Man RV, he just passed away after my recent trip to the Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Desert - but it has been a great companion and comfy home for two Burning Man events, and many trips around beautiful California.

Check out my real grass garden, strategically placed to be in the shade after 1pm, and regularly fed with a water recycling project (all my showers where taken on the lawn, and all the melted ice was feeding my garden too). I really enjoyed having friends over for a tea in my garden in the late afternoons, before getting ready for the Playa nightlife!


Though work that lasted forever, but I really loved it. Paul and I stayed a few more days on site, waiting and hanging out with DPW and PlayaQ and going to the hot springs before even thinking to tear down the Hammock Hangout, then working really hard against a dust storm that lasted two days, and the usual harsh environment of the Black Rock Desert.

But we did it, of course! and we are very proud of it!!! I look forward to set it up again next year, we already have a few upgrading ideas....
Check out also the pictures from the Trego desert hot springs, they are pretty cool...


In the two pictures of me you can see the difference between before going to the hot springs, completely covered in dust, and after hanging out in the hot water ditch all night, back to clean again!!! It's funny, I drunk some water right before Paul took that picture of me, and you can see the sign of the water cleaning off the dust from my mustaches!

If you want to get more info on the Hammock Hangout you can check out www.thehammockhangout.com, or reach Paul directly through his website www.pauldejong.com.
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Burning Man 2004: The Vault of Heaven

My second Burning Man experience, barely contained in these Burning Man 2005 photo albums on Flickr.com.


This year no art installations, I preferred to hang out more within the community helping the guys from Greeter Camp, and starting a great friendship with the G-Spot Camp fellas. Check out the pictures!!!


I think you should check out the Greeters' website (from where I grabbed the cool picture above). Reading the Greeter's Manual is very interesting - I actually strongly suggest doing an experience with the Greeters, specially for those burners who are at their first or second burn, but also for veterans! Go Greeters go!
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