CIMG5966 Effigy still being built
CIMG5966 On Friday night, the effigy (the Man that’s burned on the final night, giving the Burning Man events their name) was still being worked on. Somebody later commented:
“At the point this photo was taken, they were still adding railings, filling in gaps between ramp segments, and adding lighting to the railings.
There had been a plan to make the railings into MIDI input devices, so you could play the effigy like an instrument, but I think that got pushed back because of rain (imagine!).”
About 3 weeks earlier, I was at a fundraiser for the team that builds the effigy, and there I got to see the effigy’s head.
And here are some pictures of the effigy burning.
Effigy catches fire
Burning effigy from a distance
The cello-shaped head is prominently visible in the fire.
Burning Flipside, May 2007, near Austin, TX.
