PLACEMENT-ANNOUNCE #8, '08
-- WHAT CAMP WAS THAT AGAIN?
-- EARLY ARRIVAL COUNTS DUE BY E.O.D. MONDAY
-- IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL RACK 'EM
-- WARNING: LIGHT AMPLIFICATION STIMULATED EMISSION RADIATION!
-- BOUNCE!, BOUNCE!, OUCH!?
-- ICE OPENING NOON ON SUNDAY
Greetings the scrambling Placement team -
PLEASE IDENTIFY YOUR CAMP
With emails flying in and out of Placement HQ at a truly furious rate now, we ask that you remember to put your CAMP NAME in the subject line of every email you send in. This will speed things up a great deal and help us get your message to the right placer. And please be available by phone.
Fasten you set belts . . . we are rapidly approaching Placement zero-hour!
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EARLY ARRIVALS
BEFORE 11:59 PM MONDAY JULY 28TH, send your camp name and early arrival count (not names) to this address (don't reply to placement-announce, please):
tc-earlyarrivals-2008@burningman.com
Your email subject line should read like this: "WOBBLY H CAMP - 5 - AUG 21"
Remember, we will be referencing your camp layout plans and the early arrival date requested in your original questionnaire.
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FIGHT EVIL BRC BIKE CLUTTER - BUILD A BIKE RACK (OR TWO) FOR YOUR CAMP
As important as bikes are to Burning Man, large clusters of bikes haphazardly strewn about on Black Rock City's roads and access paths are not only a nuisance, but also a public safety issue. In the worst of cases, deep thickets of bikes can impede Black Rock Rangers, ambulances and fire trucks from responding quickly to emergency calls.
We therefore encourage camps to build their own bike racks -- especially those camps who pull in the big crowds. To help, we are providing two different bike rack construction plans here for download:
Bike racks work great: even when they're full, folks just continue to extend the neat rows of parked bikes besides the racks. Think of how this will preserve your beautiful camp frontage!
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L.A.S.E.R. SAFETY
Care and feeding of your laser light show:
Yes we all love us some lasers on the playa. They look great in the distance and add a lot of atmosphere to your theme camp. But before you party please do some basic homework to ensure you are safe. Lasers are by no means toys and they can cause injury, fires and other problems if set up improperly or if the incorrect equipment is used. Remember to install the lasers in such a way that they don't point down at eye level as people can be temporarily or permanently blinded by the beam.
Get read by checking out some on-line laser safety resources:
Basic: http://www.laserinstitute.org/subscriptions/safety_bulletin/laser_safety_info/
Laser Light Show Safety: http://members.misty.com/don/laserlia.htm#lialls
Informative: http://members.misty.com/don/lasersaf.htm#saftoc
Regulatory: http://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_6.html
If you are going to have a laser set up on playa and no one in your camp is a laser professional consider these tips:
* Use the lowest power laser that will effectively work for your needs and use it at the lowest power settings to accomplish your effect.
* Treat lasers operation as a serious safety matter and have only sober operators.
* Designate a laser safety officer to make sure your lasers are being operated safely by your operators.
* If your laser operates automatically or without an operator having a laser safety officer monitoring the system is just as important to ensure nothing goes wrong with its safe operation.
If you have related non-technical questions about the use of lasers at Burning Man, please direct them 911@burningman.com.
- Joseph Pred, Burning Man Emergency Services Department Manager
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TRAMPOLINES
Are you bringing one out? When trampolines are not monitored they can lead to accidents that could cause injury and liability. Please monitor your trampolines whenever they are available for the public to use. Please make them inaccessible when you are not able to monitor them.
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YOUR 'MORNING AFTER' ICE, SUNDAY AUGUST 31ST
A funny thing happened at Artica, Ice-cubed, and Ice Nine on the Sunday AM after The Burn last year. We threw full ice sales shift at all three locations in the morning and nobody came. Well everybody was probably doing their two hours of playa clean up outside their camp -- you know, the tiny print on the back of your tickets?
In any event, we will be opening at noon on Sunday at all three locations for all your hang-ove . . . I mean food preserving ice needs.
Stay tuned!
The 2008 Placement Team:
Abdullah, Baulknaub, FakeJake, HepKitten, Manflesh, Retro, Sacred Flame, Scar, Shadow, and Sweetthang.
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