< AM Radio's installation lets you access a web page to paint graffiti on in-world objects.

Burning Life may be over for this year, and the Holiday Season upon us, but that does not mean that the Burning Life Community has drifted off to sleep...

Lets talk about the Future:
Well— first let me interject a word about the very near future and a rapidly approaching event. This Saturday, Dec. 5 at 12:00pm PST, the Burning Life Art Department will present ever-popular SL artist AM Radio, who will install a piece at the Afterburn Art Project area AND hold a class in conjunction with it. This is a don't-miss-it event if you are interested in Art in SL. Here's the SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%...Hole/71/245/24



The other 50 Weeks of the Year:

I'm not sure I can adequately express how amazing the community was this year. The 3+ months prior to opening day were a model of integrity, professionalism, passion and willingness to share that made me so proud of everyone I could just bust me buttons.

There has been much talk of continuing our momentum beyond the Burning Life event itself and to that end meetings have continued and plans have been hatched. A number of Burning Life Departments and their staff have expressed interest in continuing on, so I'd like to introduce those departments, people and ideas. I'm going to describe what the various departments do, what they envision between Burns, who you might propose similar projects to and who your potential collaborators are. We are very into collaboration at Burning Life, finding a more-than-the-sum-of-our-parts synergy in almost everything we do together.

Briefly, we don't plan to have any mini- Burning Life events! What we are talking about falls mostly into the realm of Education, Socialization and Outreach. If you would like to participate or have ideas that would benefit the Burning Life (or Burning Man) community as a whole, keep reading!


The Departments & Ideas:
The Art Department (led by White Lebed) went to a whole new level this year, not just facilitating hundreds of artists, but also giving technical classes and encouraging social activity all around their camp. The Art Department was a huge community hub this year and have masterminded a framework for all sorts of knowledge acquisition of interest to Burners which we have agreed to call Burniversity. This will be the core of our educational plans. The Art Department will be hosting classes related to art and building and optimizing art (including the one mentioned above!).

The Department of Public Works (DPW), shouldered largely by Talia Tokugawa, deals primarily with event infrastructure and public space usage. DPW helps craft the policies for group rights and how we handle scripting and land permissions to keep control of griefing, but still allow Art Cars to roam the event. In 2009, DPW set the estate up efficiently, parcelled, and laid plans for public stages for live music, DJs, Open Mic and Fire Performance. Interactivity was designed into each stage by Kazuhiro Aridian and Donpatchy Dagostino. Kazuhiro gave a wonderful class about designing and building the Berlin stage, then BLEW IT UP at the end. Maybe we can haz more.

The Script Compliance Team, Zuleika Deere and WaYa Sion poured hours into script efficiency tasks, and keeping an eye on region performance. They assisted countless builders with lag-reduction techniques and it really made a difference in keeping script times from hogging system resources. These master scripters have much to teach artists and builders through the Burniversity program.

The Rangers, our mediating and problem solving group, were another department that went to the next level this year. Ronon Carver lead the charge by taking on a revamp of the Ranger Manual then branching into Operations Glue and holding the center together. EmCee Widget mentored and trained new Khaki's (shift leaders) WaYa Sion contributed tools and forward looking ideas. And through it all, this HUGE team internalized even more of the RL Ranger ethos, trying hard to be helpers not cops, learning and morphing as the event and the rules shifted around them, Iterating, refining and Riding the Edge of Chaos... The Rangers plan to hold Official Ranger Training sessions, socials, and classes on mediating techniques thru Burniversity.

The Lamplighters rejoined with the Drumming tradition this year under the care of JeanBaptiste Eilde and the scripting prowess of Desdamona Enfield, Lonetorus Habilis and others. Their group took in 200 new people and involved them in two of the most joyous past times on the playa: the nightly ritual of lighting the street lamps and drumming and fire dancing at all hours. The Lamplighters and Drummers will be convening drumming circles that are open to anyone. They hope you will come to join them.

The Burning Man Regional Network department, are representatives of the RL Burning Man project sworn to uphold the 10 Principles of Burning Man in SL. They are M2Danger Ranger and yours truly, Dusty Linden. This department's mission is to spread knowledge of our community, enlarge it and bring it together. To that end we will be joining with veteran SL Mentors and building our own Community Gateway of sorts, designed to welcome RL burners and other new folks directly into a supportive Burner community in SL all year long.

The DMV (Department of Mutant Vehicles) builds art cars for participants to drive around Burning Life. They charged out of the gate pre-event with regularly scheduled meetings that were brilliant in their collaborative excitement and in opportunities to learn from experts and meet new people. Lead EmCee Widget holds fun meetings, and the whole team outdid themselves providing a HUGE selection of ridiculous vehicles! The DMV plan to hold Art Car Cruises as well as vehicle building workshops.


The Estate Tech Team (Reverend Upshaw and Gracie Goldflake) took an off-the-shelf land rental system and made it work for the '09 land rush far beyond my expectations. The system was never designed to handle the crushing load we put on it, hats off to them for helping us through that phase with humor, grace, clever scripting, and many hours. Sasun Steinbeck contributed wonderful functionality to the land terminals, providing centralized goodie handout and interactive maps. The Estate Team will be building and testing new tools and processes throughout the year.

Community Services were much more in evidence this year. The Greeters, Tour Guides, and Linguists lead by Countess Decosta and Joao Mastroionni welcomed an endless stream of visitors and gave newcomers an all-important chance to understand what in the world we were doing. They brought life and fun to the very process of arriving at Burning Life! If you like greeting and mentoring, Community Services will be instrumental in welcoming newcomers throughout the year.


The Performance Department was amazing, efficient, professional and kind. Doctor Gascoigne, Rails Bailey, Jewelkicker Spearmann, Drakon Cortes, SHAWN Masters and Jezzie McCellan never slept as far as I can tell, and yet responded with a smile to 311 performers and facilitated 469 stage hours, both scheduled and open mic, over 9 days. Wow! No doubt they will throw a few good-old-fashioned parties in the months ahead.

The Man Crew, Debbie Trilling, Gypsy Paz and Elfod Nemeth built and tested, tested, tested— eventually delivering 3 amazing burns that went off right on schedule and hosted nearly 600 people in 3 time zones. Bravo! If you have any interest in pitching in to produce elaborately scripted theater, these are good people to talk to.

The Temple Crew, Damanios Thetan and Treasure Box, provided the spiritual ending of our "Burn Year" with 3 spectacular & heartfelt fires, hosting about 400 more people.


The fledgling Fire Performance Department began the attempt to bring more Burning to Burning Life. Yman Juran, along with Rekka Berchot, Ohmy Shalala, Talia Tokugawa and Firefury Burns planned and executed more fire than we have had before in our public spaces.

Communications were greatly assisted by Photographer Cienega Soon, Machinamist Chantal Harvey, BL Information Radio mistress Ganesha Xi, chat moderators Skylarian Isachenko, Jezzie McCellan, AnnaQuay Heart, Shawn Masters, and writers Apollo Manga, and Raven Haalen. This team will be expanding this year as well.


Actually there were so many people that were part of the huge teams listed above. It was a watershed year for participation. I'm just going to roll the full credits now: these are known collaborators in Burning Life so send love and ideas to the people listed below! Stay connected with them. And get in the Burning Life group if you aren't in it already!

Keep the fire Burning!
"NO SPECTATORS!"
—Dusty Linden

ROLL CREDITS: (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Burning Life 2009:

Department of Public Works:  Designs and Builds event Infrastructure
Department Lead - Talia Tokugawa
Estate Management - Talia Tokugawa, Zuleika Deere
Script Witch (Compliance) - Zuleika Deere, WaYa Sion
Center Camp Build - Talia Tokugawa
Man Crew - Gypsy Paz, Debbie Trilling, Elfod Nemeth, Lorin Tone
Temple Crew - Damanios Thetan, Treasure Box
Berlin Stage: Kazuhiro Aridian, Markus Inkpen

Tokyo Stage: Donpatchy Dagostino

Burn Platforms: Rekka Berchot, Ohmy Shalala
Gate Road: Veluu Faulds

Community Camp: Biancaluce Robbiani, Yendor Destiny

Gate Road signs - Eden Toll

Media Mecca Build - Scope Cleaver


Technology Department:
Land Rush - Gracie Goldflake, Reverend Upshaw
Group Adds - Haven Topaz
Kiosks - Sasun Steinbeck


Department of Mutant Vehicles: Builds Mutant vehicles for participant useDepartment Lead- EmCee Widget
Scripting Lead- Gypsy Paz
Chief Script Inspector- WaYa Sion
Mascot- Kitty Tandino
Build Team:
Cierra Anatine

Hans Baldwin, Lead Emeritus

BeeBee Bekkers

Rekka Berchot

Yvon Broek

DMom2K Darwin

Fhanglupis Fensen
Vanshon Flow

Speeddude
Jewell
JoJuu Jun

PixelProphet Lane

Xenophile Neurocam

Rose Patel

Jopsy Pendragon

Nylon Pinkney

Paige Raven

Razzi Rockett

Simple Rotaru

OhMy Shalala

WaYa Sion

Evangelina Skytower
kev sweetwater

Zorch Voom


Art Department:
Department Lead - White Lebed
Playa Art Curator, 12 Big Art Installations - White Lebed
Porta Potty Engineers - Naomee Noel and Ziah Oki
Porta Potty Placements - Naomee Noel
Porta Potty Art - Community
Art Pathfinders - RobertSteven Smythe, Aino Baar, Iono Allen, Physeter Nicholls, Chaos Teardrop, Olivia Hotshot, Taralyn Gravois, Morgue McMillan, blissDK Constantine, NohnPaul Perway, Silene Christen, Corwin Carillon, Eden Toll, Rose SpingvaleArt Pathfinders organizers - RobertSteven Smythe, Taralyn Gravois, MenuBar Memorial (tours board), Mariposa Upshaw
Big Green Tent- Orhalla Zander
Gift Program - community
Anti-lag classes and art talks - lonetorus Habilis, Lorin Tone, Orange Planer, Dusty LInden, EmCee Widget, Zuleika Deere
Transcript Board- Miso Susanowa
Center Camp Décor & Theme - lonetorus Habilis, Talia Tokugawa, Miso Susanowa, Trill Zapatero, Morrigan Denimor
Afterburn art project curator - White Lebed


Rangers: Mediators/ problem solversOperations Leads - Toxic Menges, Tom32 Anatine, Saxet Uralia, Ronon Carver
Ranger Training - Dusty Linden
Ranger Manual - Ronon Carver
Dirt Rangers (in no particular order):

Generaal Joubert

Saxet Uralia

Verdito Aeon
lilbuttons Aristocrat

Rails Bailey

Budster Bashly

Phya Baxton

Hippie Bowman

Crystallia Brandenburg

RangerMickey Burner

Tai Cameron

Kandi Carnell
Ronon Carver

Gemma Cleanslate
Leary Collins

Jasper Dogpatch

Haplo Eberhart
Kahlest Enoch

DanOfWA Flanagan

Hyper Frequency

Angelique Gausman

Gellan Glenelg

Edconnect Gufler

Calamity Hathaway

DaQbet Kish

Pierce Kronos
Leondra Larsson

Marianne Levasseur

Aree Lulibub

Apollo Manga
Jezzie McCellan
Poppy McDunnough
Toxic Menges

Dee Michalak
Marin Mielziner

Chaos Mohr

lufpleh Obstreperous

Smeagol Palen

Rose Patel

M2Danger Ranger

Diana Renoir

Athena Rickena

Gumby Roffo

Dakota Schwade

Waya Sion

Evangelina Skytower

Vixus Snowpaw

Kev Sweetwater
Iknow Tomorrow
Sporty Tone

Exorcist Uriza
Belldandy Watanabe

EmCee Widget
Tinka Willis

Tom32 Anatine


Dispatch: Manages cross region radio trafficDepartment Lead - Buckaroo Mu

Communications: Internal & External
Department Lead - Dusty Linden
SL Wiki, Forums, Burning Life Web Page - Dusty Linden
Blog Posts - Dusty Linden
Publicity/PR, Real World - Catherine Linden, Pete Linden, Viale Linden, Melissa Linden
Media Mecca, Publicity, In world - Apollo Manga, Raven Haalen
Photographers - Cienega Soon, Wyeth Slade
Machinima Documentation - Chantal Harvey, Toxic Menges
Education Team - Dusty Linden
What, Where, When event listings - Dusty Linden
BLIR/Shouting Fire Radio - Ganesha Xi, Bobzilla, J. Knizzle
Group Chat Moderators-
 Skylarian Isachenko, Jezzie McCellan, AnnaQuay Heart, Shawn Masters


Administration, Project Management:
Department Lead - Dusty Linden


Burning Man Regional Network:
Department Leads - M2Danger Ranger, Dusty Linden

secondlife-list@burningman.com Moderator - Ronon Carver

Community Services:
Department Lead - Countess Decosta
Greeters - Countess Decosta
Costumers - Harper Beresford
Tour Guides - Countess Decosta
Linguist Team Lead - Joao Mastroianni
Linguist Team Scripter - Data Landau
Linguists:
Sandor Balczo

Atthosz Amiot

Ourasi Ferraris

Morgue McMillan
Slatan Dryke

Silene Christen

Marianne Levasseur

Werner Kurosawa

Serge Connoisseur

Xue Meili

Ch Jigsaw

Tom32 Anatine
Biancaluce Robbiani
Ludinha Kamachi

sunflower Yiyuan

Ambre Boram

Raff Magic

Codewarrior Congrejo
Vixus Snowpaw

Tinka Willis

Maxie Mostel

Tracy Molinaxil

Generaal Joubert
Icepegel Coates

Catinka Anatine

Aeneas Beaumont

Marimar Berchot

Clione Clary

Misha Otaared

Jorden Allen

Radioactive Rosca
Burning Burner
anna Begonia


Performance:
Department Lead - Doctor Gascoigne
Lamplighters - JeanBaptiste Eilde
Drum Circle - JeanBaptiste Eilde
Fire Performance- Yman Juran
Live Performance Coordinator - Doctor Gascoigne, Rails Bailey
DJ Music Coordinator - Jewelkicker Spearmann
Center Camp Stage Coordinators - Rails Bailey/Shawn Masters
Berlin DJ Stage Coordinator- Jewelkicker Spearmann
Tokyo Open Mic Stage Coordinators- Jezzie McCellan/Drakon Cortes
Fashion Show - Harper Beresford

Lamplighters
Administrative Coordinator: JeanBaptiste Eilde
Technical Coordinator: Desdemona Enfield
Performance Coordinator: Brigitte Kungler
Village Coordinator: Kell Babenco
Village Build: Kell Babenco
Native American Village: Valley Parmalee
Village Stage: Damanios Thetan
New Lamps, Spires & Control System: lonetorus Habilis
Drum Builder: JeanBaptiste Eilde
Drum and Control Systems Scriptor: Desdemona Enfield
Drum Sound Loops: Brigitte Kungler
Animations: Michael Somerset
Keeper of the Book: Angelique Gausman
Keeper of the Lamp: Carolyn Artful

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