Got a great live music act?  Come perform in our Carbon Garden at Burning Man.  We’ll be having at least one concert during the event some time Wed-Fri (tbd).  Please send a video and song sampler to: brett [at] false-profit [dot] com.

Our first 10′ tall carbon flower with a 42″ diameter bloom.  Here’s a video showing what the flowers look like before trimming and stem attaching.  This stem is also our first one made of pure carbon fiber.  We used a biaxial twill sleeve from Soller Composites and laid it up over foam pool noodles.  After applying epoxy the stretchy sleeve is folded to create a ribbing effect similar to bamboo.

Back in 2003 my maniac friends and I thought it would be fun to start blowing bubbles with oxygen and acetylene and exploding them with a tiki torch. Who knew those were the early days of The Hydrogen Economy!

As you may know our esteemed False Profit Labs colleagues aren’t just fire artists, they’re scientists too!  Well, that’s what they do during the day, and nights too when they’re at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Lab.  But when they aren’t busy curing cancer and dissecting DNA they also like to record explosions at 5000 frames per second.  Here’s a video made by and starring Dyche Mullins and Ethan Garner and other cool folks out in Massachusetts for the summer.  Come for the super slow-mo explosions.  Stay for the pressure waves of a slap across the face.

At Burning Man, Carbon Garden will enter its serene phase, black flowers urging their way out of the white dust, singing along in fire nightly. Now Palindrome (aka DJJD) introduces music compositions written for this setting and our flowers. You can listen to our mixdown sampler, though it will never be the same as what is played on the playa. That’s because this computer-generated music will respond to sensor inputs around the garden. It’s a dynamic composition comprised of a set of basic sounds then dynamically re-interpreted by motion in the garden.

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In case you didn’t catch Carbon Garden at Fire Arts Festival, check out our new teaser video for Burning Man.

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Check out the Hot Preview on KTVU.com about Fire Arts Festival. Some nice coverage of the event including Carbon Garden.

Video: http://www.ktvu.com/video/20046933/
Slideshow: http://www.ktvu.com/slideshow/entertainment/20046824/detail.html

Setup at Fire Arts Festival: KTVU Photo

That party was awesome.  It hit capacity, which is saying something in a 250,000 sqft warehouse.  There was tons of cool art, great music, Random Rab, Dov, Beats Antique, Dr Toast and Welder tore it up on the False Profit/Symbiosis stage.  People seemed to be having a really great time and we did too.

Carbon Garden looked beautiful and the collaboration with the Symbiosis stage went really well.  We just plunked our flowers on their stage and it looked great together.  No trouble with the fire marshall.  Some technical issues but False Profit Labs peeps were stellar.  And people loved controlling the fire on stage.

At one point the power went out to the sound and lights, but for some reason not to our fire.  Beats Antique was playing and one of the guys got up and did an acoustic violin solo.  Carbon Garden accompanied him with a fiery background by moving the fire in time with his playing.  The only light in the room was from our fire and it was really beautiful.

Fire Arts Festival is like a mini Burning Man without all that playa dust. Come play with fire in what is literally a fire carnival, with installations by our good friends Interpretive Arson, Rebecca Anders, Michael Christian, Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito, Wally Glenn’s flaming sands, and way more amazing fire art in a newly expanded area 3x bigger than last year’s.

There will be a Life-Size Mousetrap, the fiery Boiler Bar, The Golden Mean Snail car, The Hand of Man crushing up cars, Alan Rorie’s Neuron Chamber, and on stage Dan Cantrell’s Rootabaga Opera, El Circo, Fire Arts Collective, and many other fiery acts.

Our own Carbon Garden continues its week-long debut after an incredible opening at Sand by the Ton.

Fire Arts Festival in its 10th year of blowing up Oakland every July is Wednesday, July 15 through Saturday July 18 8pm-Midnight

Tickets and directions here: http://www.thecrucible.org/events/fire-arts-festival/157.

Carbon Garden lit up in beautiful fire reflected and shimmering off glossy black carbon fiber flowers. All stems are placed on our flower patch bases and ready to be lifted on to the Symbiosis stage at Sand by the Ton.

The party is tonight from 4pm-4am. Go to http://www.thebigartexperience.com for tickets.