Illumination weekend 2008























This year our illumination weekend was a bit smaller than in years past. I was pretty focused on getting our driveway done and so the whole 17 people camping thing was not going to work. as it turns out - most our friends were in P-Town this weekend anyway for carnival, so it was really just Eric, our friend Jeff and myself. My friend Derick from Elmira stopped in for the day as well.

The project -

The new driveway is raised 24" off the ground and i was concerned somebody [ err...me] would take a plunge off the edge some dark night, so the idea of lighting the perimeter started there. I thought something flush with the driveway would have a modernist look to it, but all the solutions i found were beyond the price range. so that's were the glass block kicked in.




The original plan has the lights all LED on three channels. But I had a tech failure mid-week

[ those darned external resistors! ]

SO - it was back to the old standby - and I dragged the C7 christmas lights out of the closet. Jeff and eric helped out getting the driveway ready for saturday night. It really came out good - and I hope to expand on the idea next year.

Burning Man Dreamin'

It is coming up to Illumination weekend at the campground and hopefully we can pull off a good show. Several of my mail lists have been all the buzz this week about getting ready for Burning Man. I will have to admit - I was more of an observer last year when i went - but I have never stopped talking about it to anyone who would listen. I am planning to go next year. [ If I can afford the gas...] but in the meantime i have been watching some online programs about last year's festival.


The famous Cubetron




This film does a great job covering the festival and sites. the Skydiving scene is awesome





Cant wait till next year!