BM2K3 Plans, part 1.

[tugrik]

Intially these posts will be left public-viewable. If they get too common, too long or too annoying I'll start locking them down to just the group that's going with us this year to keep from spamming others' friends-lists. More than likely it'll just be Revar, two or three others and myself going. If we actually score interest with a wider group of friends and it turns into a nice mob I'll start up a separate LJ just for this year's camp. Until then I'll use my own journal.



Not counting individual preparation/survival, a basic categorization of what we need to get together is as follows:

• A group shelter, as our PVC dome of four years is finally dead.


• An energy project to go with the Alternative Energy Zone village theme, as we're no longer doing solar/wind like before.


• Toys. We must do more light-toys, camp-toys, tech toys. This is why we go. What to do this year? (this is the fun part!)


• A theme! We need a theme!

Revar is already starting work on the first one. We have some interesting options coming together. I'm working on the second, and trying to score us a fuel-cell stack to power the camp. The third is something we're both going to tackle together but we're definately hoping for more input on.

The fourth has always been our biggest problem. We never seem to get a coherent theme together in time... and end up being Yet Another Geek Camp. Heck, one year, we even had a sign that said that: YAGC. I still have that around somewhere. This is where we hope the new folks attending for the first time will step in and help. Not only do we need some kind of unifying idea but then we need to start working on the bits to support it: artwork, decoration, costumes, activities. Even if you're not going with us, please, suggest things! Actually having a theme before summer is here would be an amazing first, and it would help us steer our purchases and efforts towards something coherent.

As we make progress on each main category I'll post updates

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I wanna go! I'll help!
How about a Theme along the lines of Zen Energy, or the power of passivity. I know there are ways to sculpt living spaces that do the work for you, tent tops that do convection airconditioning by the way it uses heat's knack of rising etc. Solid state man! Fewer Moving Parts To Break!
Umm I am mostly talking out of my ass here. I know very little.

[noressa.livejournal.com]

I still want to go! We could pick a favorite mythology, to go with the theme of BM this year also. ^_^

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

#3 is where I can be useful. *nod*

[octantis.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for anyone else themewise, but I do know what I'd like to do. I know we'd spoken about the environment suit before, and while that's obviously not feasible, I'd probably do an offshoot of that. I'm thinking of doing a sort of body obscuring post-apocalyptic arabian look. With a lantern on a stick, yeah. I'm sure it's been done a zillion times, but I just can't help liking the thought of drapey blowing cloth, bug-eyed headdress, and something to attach and conceal supplies under. If we could make our camp look Moebius-styled ala Panzer Dragoon, well, that'd just rock the hizouse. :D 'Scuse my bias!

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

You need to see the Nephilim video for Sumerland. Cosmic magical arabian nomad look to everything. :D

Making a Panzer Dragoon camp would be the best possible thing. :D Damn, now I wanna go to Burning Man!

[traveller-blues.livejournal.com]

Keep me on the list whatever y'do. I'm always interested in hearing more about your adventures, even though I dun' ever want to go to Burning Man, myself. It's just camping, only with sand! Agh!

-Traveller

Beyond Belief....

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

I've dealt with desert extremes before now by wrapping up in wool; it's Beyond Belief (BB) for Americans that this works, not minding it's what Tuareg did all the time...insulation. The tents they use are low and dun and easy to make once you grasp the tensegrity of them; and there are other lessons from the rhythms they live...but what purpose, what service to the community would this be?