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This year or skipping a year? Preregistration is required to get in on the first attempts at tickets, January 4th. If this year, is the idea to try to order two tickets each, selling if both are fortunate? Yeah, I won't scab them, they have a fair price buy-back system. Do unto others, plus, I have enough in life, innit? I almost lost track.
It looks like it is a one ticket, one person dealio. I signed up to get access to the sale on the 20th. I expect there may be more opportunities to get tickets that will follow.
ReplyDeleteOk, one per email address. I have more than one of those...:D
ReplyDeleteAh, you should see the weeping and gnashing of teeth on their blog. This is a sale of only 3000 tix, overpriced versus the lottery-based sale to happen later, but you'd think Wall Street just bought out BM to hear them. LOL!
ReplyDelete$650 per is pretty steep versus last year's $450. But it is a near-guaranteed spot at the party for those willing to pony up the difference.
And the theme! Ah, if I were more of a real artist, what I could do with that: A mural with a Christ-like Obama astride a white skittles-shitting unicorn, Wall Street burning in the background a-la last year's theme, with the jubilant masses surrounding him, catching the skittles and Obama-Phones that emanate from his steed's posterior. Perhaps some Olympic columns somewhere, reflecting his Zeus' temple theme at his inauguration, perhaps those children singing their praises to Obama that we saw four years ago, certainly the ObamaPhone woman herself must appear in the crowd! And of course in a banner across the bottom: "Burning Man 2013--Cargo Cult"
ReplyDeleteDamn. Now all I need is a six foot high, eighteen foot long canvas, several gallons of paint, and some artistic talent!
Hmm, $650 eh? I can figure on that, plus another $1k, give or take, for the rest in cash and possible reserves if need be? If you are sure you want to travel with Doom, I will get going on that.
ReplyDeleteAs for themes... Hmm... I'm sort of... non-artsy. Some of it can tickle or be of interest, but... Or how about, people are where I see art? Something. It is the people I will be viewing, interviewing, seeing, interacting with. Even the trembling bum, heretic, or hermit has more to him than any art I have ever seen. The eclectic collection of mortallings at this place should be... quite the show for me.
Oh, no, I don't 'look down' upon them. I might be slightly different, but I just view them. There is great hope in even the most lost among them. Very possible, probably, more hope in the least than in the highest of others, save God.
Still, it would be cool if you did some such. Art doesn't come from skill, but vision. It may improve, things may be learned to sculpt that vision from thought to flesh, but none start with skill. If you have the vision, your shame is not some mythic lack of skill but in not attempting to exhibit what you see. Though... the dollar can be a limit, and real one. We can't all be artists, either. It's up to you.
Though I wonder, would something anti-Obama be welcomed among so many who choose to not see? The savages love savage emperors... until they don't.
The "holiday sale" is tomorrow. Looking at my finances, I can't see dipping even deeper into savings to make this attempt. My cat and his oral surgery hit my savings pretty hard, and I feel like the remainder is thin ice.
ReplyDeleteIf this is to happen, it looks like taking a shot at the lottery happening later is the way to go.
Unless you have the wherewithal to front for two tickets at this juncture...
Oh and re your question, no I doubt that it would. But that would be the point (smirk). Art is supposed to be "provocative", no?
ReplyDeleteI'll check. Tomorrow? I thought it didn't start until January 4th or something. Hmm, I'll check my finances but that might be pushing it. Still, if I can I will. That takes some of the cost out upfront, meaning less on the back end of finances. I'll check tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteOh, controversial too eh? You might be more of an artist than you think. All that pro-Obama crap is the stuff that will end up on the heap. The gems are in the rough, and have never been all that popular in their time. Me? I'm thinking a Zero button in a jar of holy water. Unfortunately I don't think they make salty holy water, or with the right button, the art would improve with time, like a fine wine.