Beginning the Project

2007 will mark the 3rd Burning Man attendance for HandChop & Bronwen, otherwise known as BronChop. It will be our second Burn together. This year is all about being active with other members of our community as far as we're concerned. Our first years were selfish years - 2004 was Bronwen's first year and 2005 was Chop's first year. We each went our first year with the intention of having singular experiences (we didnt know each other then). In 2006 we went together with the intention of having a year all about us as a couple. We succeeded in that and came home with the couple's Playa name BronChop. Thanks to our beloved Nads for that one! So this year is all about group participation.

In dreaming about the Burn and buying various coffee table books & DVDs, Bronwen began to feel that a new type of book should be available to people interested in the social experiment that is Burning Man. This book would consist of personal photographs taken by Burning Man attendees (not the media) as well as some individual anecdotes. At a gathering in July 2007, while discussing camp plans for BM 2007, someone mentioned a book she had read of dirty little secrets. The author had handed out postcards and asked people to decorate them and return them with a story of their biggest secret. He then compiled the decorated postcards & secrets into a book. Bronwen would like to use this idea to add to the Through the Eyes of Burners photography book. She & Chop will be bringing 500 - 750 postcards to Burning Man this year to give to likely suspects. Keep checking back here to see what kind of stories, postcards and photographs are returned and for progress on the book. You can submit your own experiences in the comments here as well.