transportation
Glowtus Lounge
Jun/10/07 | permalink
All right kids... our visions are
solidifying right in front of our eyes. I've been battering
my brain about trying to figure out how to create the pedal powered
lotus lounge art bike (you know, this year is all about keeping it
green) and look at what craigslist delivered to my
cyberstep...
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...a golden ray of light, with wheels,
steering wheel and the best part - there is a trailer that attaches
to the mothership with room for two more pedalers..... hee hhe he
eh....can you see it now...smell the scorched playa
wind....crunchy grit in the molars..... pedaling around BRC
with DJ Playaduster and Edubious flowing out of the elevated sound
fort and flabbergasting the masses. This is
beautiful! The frame for the glotus lounge (glowing
cause it will be black light powered my friends) has already been
built for us... all we have to do is "accessorize" the unit.
This is where all you cyberfriends enter.... you know your parents/kids/grandparents/friends garages are full of much needed "accessories" for our mobile sound system. Even if we could borrow, with oaths of solemn integrity, some of these items (especially the ** ** items) for a week it would sure help keep our tires inflated. We have agents from Whitehorn to Selkirk.... oops sorry about the code there.... all over western Washington and a few undercovers hiding out in the Spokompton/Panhandle of Idaho. If your in Washington, Idaho or Western Montana then dig it out and we'll come pick it up if we can use it :) Keep posted for updates on the Glotus Lounge and it's destination to burning man. The bike/trailer combo is costing $500 (after much barter debauchery) so if you just feel like dropping a dime in our piggy bank then that is always relished too! Gotta go..... gotta find a welder!
Scotty "Hekter" Gonzallass
List of materials needed/wanted for Glotus Lounge:
**Stereo System/ I-Pod compatible**
**Golf cart sized trailer**
**Generator (1,500 - 2,000 watt)** borrow one?? Honda is best.
Black lights (2-4) with ballasts
Primer/Paint - black light reflective
Headlights/Taillights
Deep cycle battery/cable to lights/stereo
El wire
Materials for lotusing it out:
White fabric
Shapeable poles
Someone who can sew
and an RV to take it all in... just kidding... well not really.
Contact us if you can help out with any of these items: destinationburningman@gmail.com
This is where all you cyberfriends enter.... you know your parents/kids/grandparents/friends garages are full of much needed "accessories" for our mobile sound system. Even if we could borrow, with oaths of solemn integrity, some of these items (especially the ** ** items) for a week it would sure help keep our tires inflated. We have agents from Whitehorn to Selkirk.... oops sorry about the code there.... all over western Washington and a few undercovers hiding out in the Spokompton/Panhandle of Idaho. If your in Washington, Idaho or Western Montana then dig it out and we'll come pick it up if we can use it :) Keep posted for updates on the Glotus Lounge and it's destination to burning man. The bike/trailer combo is costing $500 (after much barter debauchery) so if you just feel like dropping a dime in our piggy bank then that is always relished too! Gotta go..... gotta find a welder!
Scotty "Hekter" Gonzallass
List of materials needed/wanted for Glotus Lounge:
**Stereo System/ I-Pod compatible**
**Golf cart sized trailer**
**Generator (1,500 - 2,000 watt)** borrow one?? Honda is best.
Black lights (2-4) with ballasts
Primer/Paint - black light reflective
Headlights/Taillights
Deep cycle battery/cable to lights/stereo
El wire
Materials for lotusing it out:
White fabric
Shapeable poles
Someone who can sew
and an RV to take it all in... just kidding... well not really.
Contact us if you can help out with any of these items: destinationburningman@gmail.com
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blueprints for the Lotus Lounge
Apr/30/07 | permalink
Hashing out
some ideas for the mobile soundsystem, sketchin' out some dream
designs...
I tried to flesh out some
early designs for the Lotus Lounge, a bicycle-powered mobile
soundsystem that we intend to build and then bring to Black Rock
City in '07. IF skills and money were no option, we'd build
something beautiful, an 8 foot-tall lotus flower, heavy with bass
nectar, who's petals could unfold at random points across the playa
and deliver sweet music.
These plans clearly show a bird's-eye perspective as well as two views from the side. You can see the three-bike pyramidal-platform design, and the mighty lotus sprouting up the middle. The front of the vehicle has an large oversize tire and is steered by the Mad Hatter. There is an insulated under-compartment beneath the lotus designed to hold and keep cold hundreds of cans of ice-cold Schmidtties. Whent he flower is open, speakers rise above the desert floor and play downward towards the people, creating a "sound cone," an audial effect scientifically explained in the sketch on the far right.
Also of interest is the note expressing a wish to have the whole sound rig powered by the sun.
Let's bear in mind that the three broke dudes have little to no engineering experience between the three of them, nor do they have any money. So what are thh chances of the Lotus Lounge ever actually roaming the dark, techno-filled nights of BM, bringing juicy music, real music, to the masses? Much of it depends on how this blog performs, if we can shake a few dollars out of the heavens...
These plans clearly show a bird's-eye perspective as well as two views from the side. You can see the three-bike pyramidal-platform design, and the mighty lotus sprouting up the middle. The front of the vehicle has an large oversize tire and is steered by the Mad Hatter. There is an insulated under-compartment beneath the lotus designed to hold and keep cold hundreds of cans of ice-cold Schmidtties. Whent he flower is open, speakers rise above the desert floor and play downward towards the people, creating a "sound cone," an audial effect scientifically explained in the sketch on the far right.
Also of interest is the note expressing a wish to have the whole sound rig powered by the sun.
Let's bear in mind that the three broke dudes have little to no engineering experience between the three of them, nor do they have any money. So what are thh chances of the Lotus Lounge ever actually roaming the dark, techno-filled nights of BM, bringing juicy music, real music, to the masses? Much of it depends on how this blog performs, if we can shake a few dollars out of the heavens...
another playakart idea....
Apr/13/07 | permalink
solar golf carts & more
Apr/05/07 | permalink
MicroMoog
Laboratories of Portland, Oregon are serving the three broke dudes
as a consultant in the early stages of playa
transportation-visualization. Their motto is "Keep the Dream Alive"
and the hypervisionary dRF has got some fine ideas on how we might
go mobile with our desert soundsystem....
Dear three broke dudes:
if you don't go flinstone this could be a possible inspiration:
or, if you have some cash you could re-fit this model...
I might suggest emphasizing to a greater degree the donors' participation in the first of its kind "killawatt powa" dub selecter golf cart system. People like to get behind one of a kind machines and their construction. Donors can become human sponsors to provide livesaving dusted dub beats to music starved individuals lost in the sands of bad music as it were...etc.
I will keep hunting for ideas. I'm on board with this plan.
Keep the dream alive.
dRF
if you don't go flinstone this could be a possible inspiration:
or, if you have some cash you could re-fit this model...
I might suggest emphasizing to a greater degree the donors' participation in the first of its kind "killawatt powa" dub selecter golf cart system. People like to get behind one of a kind machines and their construction. Donors can become human sponsors to provide livesaving dusted dub beats to music starved individuals lost in the sands of bad music as it were...etc.
I will keep hunting for ideas. I'm on board with this plan.
Keep the dream alive.
dRF