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Look for us at Esplanade and 8:30 NEW See Camp I Am on Google Earth. Camp I Am is home to the Panoramic Photo Wall (giant panoramic photos of Burning Mans from 1988 to 2004) which has been on the Esplanade since 2000, the Embassy Camp (live bands on stage!), "Playa Bell" phone booth (free calls to anywhere in the world!), the Mammoth, Daisy the giantsolar-powered tricyle, and Mondo Spider art vehicles (races daily!), and various small art pieces (come and see!). Overview  Mondo Spider Camp I Am houses several associated art camps, most notably the Panoramic Photo Wall, three major art vehicles (the solar-powered big wheel tricycle "Daisy," Ma`aM the famous pedal-powered Mammoth skeleton, and the new BM-funded hydraulic Mondo Spider), the Playa Phone portable phone booth, and the Playa ATM dispensing "Larry Bucks" gag currency (fake banknotes "entitling" recipients to request things like a cold drink or a shoulder massage, or "obligating" them to do something similar for somebody else). These will be displayed on the Esplanade and will be open 24/7. Behind these will be camping for the artists and support crews.  Photo wall The Panoramic photo wall will be back and on 24-hour display, lit at night. It always has burners poring over the highly detailed photos, remembering or learning about the shape of BRC in years past. The photographer, Brad Templeton, often sits by the wall to greet burners and help them find memories of Burning Man experiences. He also takes a variety of interesting regular-sized photos, including the past 3 years detailed aerial photos of most camps.  Photo wall  Playa Bell The Playa Phone will be back again, enabling folks to call anywhere in the world to share the Burning Man experience with their friends and familes who couldn't join them on the Playa. This year, it will be a "mobile phone" roaming around the city for a little while each day, and available at Camp I Am the rest of the time. In the past the phone has been a shock for the fact that it shouldn't be there at all. Last year it helped many people on-playa connect with loved ones during Hurricane Katrina. The phone is lit and operates 24/7. The phone also has a number where it can receive calls. Many burners and loved ones outside the city call in to talk to a random burner, or leave voice mail. The voice mails are made available on the local internet via the server 4brc.com, so people with laptops can hear them and try to get them to the people being sought. The phone is by Brad Templeton and Brent Chapman.  ATM The Bank of Black Rock ATM returns, dispensing Playa Reserve Notes and "Gifting Certificates." Playa Reserve Notes let you "buy" things like explanations of art, visits to camps, drinks of water, and more. Gifting Certificates are reverse money. You give them along with an ephemeral gift, and thus pass the obligation to the recipient to repeat the gifting, passing along the note in an infinite chain. We will also from time to time open manned Bank of Black Rock teller stations, where live people will dispense these notes to burners, and explain how they operate. The ATM is by Brad Templeton. When not roaming the playa, the art vehicles will be on display across the Esplanade; lit at night.
 Black Rock public works For the past 4 years, the Save-the-Man group within this camp has produced the satirical "Save the Man" protest at the burn. Protest sign-making sessions take place the day of the Burn. The Save-the-Man protest energizes the crowd at the burn, turning them from spectators to participants as they shout to burn the man (or fucker) in tempo with our vain attempts to save him. | ||||||
