This one time, at Brand Camp?

Hi all,

This is just a quick blog of ideas Matt and I have brainstormed over the past couple of years. Feel free to comment. If you are in the yahoo group for the 2009 village, please post comments there to share your ideas so we can bounce ideas around.

Brand Camp: a suitably offensive theme where we could make fun of the big brand names. And the best movie line ever "Then this one time at Brand Camp.... ?" This would make for fun accessorizing since I am sure we could get plenty of advertising banners to use as shade structures or dome covers etc. The brands shown should all be distorted somehow. Like Pepsi to Poopsie, Coke to Cock, Budweiser to Buttweiser (not necessarily in that theme, those are just the easier to come up with) etc. I think it would be very funny at the camp entrance to have a mannequin of a girl with her bathing suit being pulled down like the Coppertone girl but rather than a dog have a dwarf. Maybe we could do the much discussed Ass Gnome (a 12" tall black vinyl gnome-shaped butt plug shown in the pictures below. Mitja, our friend from Germany, looked confused about this product at Venus Berlin).

I also thought it would be very helpful to people who are lost on the Playa to have a "mallmanac" (mall directory) with a big sign that says "You Are Here". That's it, no pointer on the map or anything, just You Are Here.

I also have a dream of a warped carnival midway with stupid games like whack-a-mole, or water guns to shoot whatever is appropriate to the 2009 Burn theme, miniature golf etc. Oh, and of course a ball pit - a portable swimming pool filled with blinky LED koosh balls.

On a more serious note, I would absolutely love to do a resting dome or structure where we could go to keep cool. It would have a dark interior with LED "stars" and inside would be like a jungle over ruins complete with misters. Think RainForest Cafe meets Elysium style.

Matt and I spent much of the day talking about the camp and possibilities so I'll post more on that later. Happy Temple Burn Day.