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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 30, 2016
Caption: Burning Man Timeline, 2011 - 2015 Marker
Additional Description: Captions: 2011: Even sold out ... there's plenty of room.; 2012: Longtime BRC designer Rod Garrett's final work before his untimely passing. The Man strides an interactive pavilion. Pier pressure - getting it ready. Victoria BS's CORE project PsychoPhillia resembled funnyman Marty "Hello Dere!" Allen when it burned.; 2013: 2013 Man designed by Lewis Zaumeyer, with input from Baron von Frankenstein. "you maniacs! You blew it up!" - uh, yeah, that's sort the idea.; 2014: The Really Big Man getting ready for the Really Big Show. The guy in the crane is checking to see how things are hangin'. The belle of the ball in this scribe's opinion was EMBRACE by Matt Schultz and his sweet Embraceable Crew. Hey, it looks like he survived.; 2015: Man base designed by Larry Harvey and Andrew Johnstone. The amazing Killbuck did some 32 sideshow images, including this one, for mysterious reasons. Cartoon history, the expression "a Rube Goldberg contraption" comes from - you guessed it - a cartoonist Ruben Goldberg (1883 - 1970). Google him, won't you?


Submitted: September 8, 2016, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p361953
File Size: 3.371 Megabytes

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