

You don’t experience that in the default world, because there is always a transaction.
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This sense of gratitude, I don’t know how to describe that, but you get an amazing sensation when you’re Gifting. We had common goal to make that thing work, and to contribute our gift to the playa. Everything felt broken, but I didn’t care about anything other than getting that thing going.įinal touches MW 1.0 Shadyvil, 2012. I remember the tips of my fingers because I was peeling cables with no gloves. The electrical connections were all messed up because they suffered a lot of damage on the way from Mexico City to the Burn, which is like 8,000 miles. We had to make some big changes to the chassis because it was too heavy. We didn’t get it moving until Wednesday of event week.

Our first year on the playa was 2012 and the vehicle didn’t work well. I was super excited about this concept, and we felt it was perfect to represent our culture in a modern vehicle and a platform for expression of new talent in our community. It was the end of time in the world as we knew it the start of a new cycle. We started to think about something with Mexican roots, and if you remember, 2012 was the year there was this buzz going around about the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar. We were talking about how cool it would be to have giant head of the vehicle. We invited them to Mexico City, and we took a tour of the archaeological places inside the city. Then we had this trip with some friends that we met at the Burn from San Francisco. MW just about to leave shop for the first time, 2012. I didn’t even know what it was going to look like or anything, but that was the first step when I came back. I came back to Mexico City, and after I was looking for this super old rusty truck a different state in Mexico. I was getting all these ideas from the art pieces and art cars I had seen the year before. When I got home I started to see everything through the eyes of myself being a future participant the next year. Talk me through that, from that first night you were in Black Rock City to the Warrior getting on playa for the first time. So yeah, I started to think about what I was going to do the next year from day one.Ī lot of what happens for people who come to the playa is the transition into making things for the event. I that anywhere else the actual artists and producers soldering and welding, and doing the hands-on mechanical work right there. It really amazed me to see the hands-on of the work involved. It took me one night to start thinking about an art car.

Kind of like the same sandbox that you played when you were little. When he came back, he said, “Dude, you have to come to this place.” So, my first year was 2011.įor me, the first moment I came out onto the playa that first night, I realized that it was the perfect place to contribute, to express, and to get in touch with my passion for light, sound, and community. My good friend, Paolo, the lighting designer for the Mayan Warrior and also Ilumina, went to Burning Man in 2010. I didn’t have an outlet to express my passion for production and all that comes with it. Pablo : My passion is production, organizing concerts and small parties but I stopped doing that for years when I changed my industry. Where did this contemporary symbol of Mexican history and culture come from? How is the diverse team taking the lessons from the playa to the larger world? I sat down with Pablo González Vargas, founder of the project, for a conversation about how it all started, how theme camps can activate beyond Black Rock City, and how Gifting is an integral part of our human core.ĭominique : How did Burning Man come into your life? To determine whether a practitioner has been previously disciplined, click on this link for the List of Previously Disciplined Practitioners.Many have seen the Mayan Warrior mutant vehicle light up the playa night sky. 13, 2012).įor more information about a practitioner's disciplinary history, click on the date highlighted in gold. The term expelled has been replaced by the term disbarred, which has the same meaning and effect.

*These practitioners were expelled from practice prior to January 13, 2012. Newest changes are also indicated by highlighted blue text that is annotated with the word (NEW). Recent updates to the list: Christopher Louis Contreras
