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Transformus And More Burns

Sunday, June 3, 2007

T R A N S F O R M U S
July 20-22 2007
The 4th Southeast Regional Burn is coming soon to Deerfields near Asheville, NC. Tickets may already be sold out, but you might check first on Tribe.net. Transformus promises "one long, crazy weekend of imagination and buffoonery … a music jam, a costume party, a reunion," and the burning of "The Bamboozler," a 25 ft tall human effigy.

Know Your Burns - They are all LNT (leave no trace) events and are organized in the spirit of Burning Man, conforming to the 10 Principles made famous by that big daddy of events.

#1 - Burning Man
GA - Alchemy
NC - Transformus
DE - Playa del Fuego
SC - eleMent
TX - Flipside
TX - ntxb
VT - Firefly
AZ - Toast-Town
CN - Ontario Burn

from di.onys.us
2007 North American Summer Psy Festival Guide

Rainbow Serpent Festival

Over The Rainbow by Rak Razam

"I'm here with my friends Matty from Byron and Kaptain Khaos from Paris and a slew of aging dancers that have come out of retirement to celebrate the 10th anniversary Rainbow Serpent Festival, a four day celebration of "soul and technology", according to the organizers. Here in Australia the outdoor party scene has been flourishing for over a decade at bush 'doofs' (named after the bass beat of the electronic music), where 'doofers' revel in Trance music, community and enhanced states of mind. "Since the first gathering in 1998, Rainbow has become a popular annual get-together for thousands of like minded people," says Frank Venuto, one of the festival's founders. Rainbow Serpent is a landmark of the Global Trance music calendar, where semi-retired doofers like myself mix it up with the young turks of the dancefloor and the old hippies that can still shake it."

Nice piece features the 4 day account in Australia with photos.

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Surrealien's warping wallpaper

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Surrealien's warping wallpaper technology is custom designed and printed on fleece wallpaper rolls at 190 dot per inch on professional wallpaper stripes made of fleece which can be papered as usual.

These optical illusions warp around doors, fixtures and walls to an effect that Dali would approve of. Go ahead--- warp your room.

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