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Pyropolis has grown this year. Not just in the number of people, but also in the number of large structures and art installations. We have over 110 theme camps this year representing over 1,800 participants. Flat Creek will be alive with an unprecedented level of activity.
The Map!
The theme camp map is up on the website:
http://www.burningflipside.com/map_bf08_placement_v7e.pdf
A black & white copy is up, if you need a printed copy before you go: http://www.burningflipside.com/map_bf08_placement_v7e_bw.pdf
When You Arrive
In order to stem the madness of populating our fair city, we encourage each participant to allow time for a proper Greeter Station experience. Park at the Greeter Station, get out, talk to the Greeters, and take a look at the big map showing where all the camps are. If you are a theme camp lead, check in with a City Planning representative. If you are unaffiliated with a camp, the City Planning rep should be able to direct you to a good camping spot. City Planning representatives will be available at the Greeter Station on Thurs/Fri afternoon or at the Parking Station on Friday onward.
If everyone takes a few minutes to get their bearings at the Greeter Station this year, we’ll all avoid lots and lots of unnecessary chaos.
Theme Camps
Our intrepid team of Roads & Flags has marked off the boundaries of all the theme camps for this year’s event. When your camp arrives on-site, your Camp Lead will need to check in with the City Planning Team at the Greeter Station. These folks will show you where your camp is on the map and send you off to your Zone Coordinator. The Zone Coordinator will show you where your camp is and where your camp’s boundaries are.
Seven’s Placement Points
1. There is no car camping permitted in Zones 1, 2, 3, and 5. There is limited car camping in Zones 6 & 7 (as identified specifically on site). If you are camping in a no-car zone, please drop off your gear and park your vehicle before setting up camp. We encourage everyone to park their vehicles in the parking lots in order to keep our city from becoming overwhelmed with cars.
2. Zone 1 is designated as a Quiet Camping Area. No amplified sound is permitted. All generators must run quiet or have a baffle box. Please respect your Pyropolis neighbors and your neighbors in Hays & Blanco Counties by keeping this area free from loud noise (this includes boat horns, megaphones, etc).
3. Please place RV’s, trailers, and utility vehicles as far away from road as possible. All roads MUST allow access for the Port-A-Potty service truck, emergency vehicles, and official vehicles. Don’t be “that camp” that allows their RV’s to block access for the Port-A-Potty truck or Emergency vehicles.
4. Please be a good neighbor and keep your camp contained within your provided camping space. If your camping extends into someone else’s camping space, you will be asked to be move.
Car Camping
If you are interested in getting a reserved car camping space, simply send an e-mail to City Planning at cityplanning08@burningflipside.com with the following info: Your name, your vehicle type, how many campers in your group and the day you will be arriving. We are filling up car camping areas on a first come, first serve basis. If you’ve got a reservation, we’ll reserve one of those passes for you. Passes will be available from a City Planning representative. Please note: Unfortunately, we cannot reserve spots for people arriving Saturday and later since we have no way to prevent someone from taking your spot. We do have a lot of available camping for cars and for simple tent camping. There’s plenty of room for everyone. for the Port-A-Potty service truck, emergency vehicles, and official vehicles. Don’t be “that camp” that allows their RV’s to block access for the Port-A-Potty truck or Emergency vehicles.
If you need to find a City Planning representative during the event, you can generally reach them through the Greeter Station. On behalf of the City Planning Team, we want to thank everyone for an awesome planning season and we look forward to seeing all of you in Pyropolis.
Continued: “City Planning” page 5.
This year, we have a Sound Policy to keep Flipside on good terms with nearby property owners affected by the event.
What you need to know
Know what the set decibel limit is for your camp, installation, etc. By regulating our sound levels constantly throughout the event, our chance of avoiding a complaint to Hays or Blanco County is greatly increased. However, if such a phone call occurs, all of Flat Creek immediately goes into Defcon 10. Once the gate has received a noise complaint from Hays or Blanco County, we citizens of Pyropolis have 10 minutes to get the sound levels down to an acceptable level. The following procedure will help all of Flat Creek to achieve this goal more quickly.
Your favorite djs, now also sound marshals
Sound Marshals will be easily spotted by their brightly colored camo T-shirts that say “Sound Marshal” across the front. They will use their ears and decibel meters to monitor sound levels throughout the event. The Sound Team is composed of a small handful of passionate, brave volunteers who are taking on totally new and uncharted territory. Willingly, they have signed up for Sound Marshal shifts in order to do what they can to keep Pyropolis going without interruption. When you meet, greet, encounter, or discover one of our friendly Sound Marshals, treat them with respect and do your part to keep Pyropolis out of Defcon 10.
Normal sound
When a Sound Marshall asks you to turn something down and we are NOT in Defcon 10, there is a simple procedure:
1. Turn the levels down gradually until the marshal indicates that the desired sound level has been reached.
2. Do everything in your power to keep this sound level constant for the duration of the event.
What happens if we get into Defcon 10:
1. A Sound Marshall OR Ranger will inform you of Defcon 10. Any sound-emitting art piece, theme camp, art car, etc. is to reduce sound to the Defcon Sound Limit, which is extremely low. All subwoofers and other devices producing bass frequencies are to be turned off.
2. Wait until a Sound Marshall OR Ranger indicates that Defcon 10 is over.
3. Once Defcon 10 is over, sound limits will be raised gradually every 15 minutes until a maximum desired level is achieved. Subwoofers, etc. will be turned back on. DO NOT TURN ANYTHING UP OR BACK ON UNTIL A RANGER OR SOUND MARSHAL TELLS YOU TO DO SO.
4. Party continues
Remember that Defcon 10 is an attempt to quiet 2000 people in 10 minutes; the sooner you respond, the sooner it is over.
Sounding out
We the Sound Team urge you to do your best to make this easy. If you have any questions or useful input, email me at chiefsoundmarshall2008@burningflipside.com. If you think Sound Marshals are the shit and want to be one, please go to http://www.burningflipside.com/wiki/Sound/Shift and sign-up for a shift. There will be a training session on-site Friday the 23rd at 2 pm at the Grove.
The advice I am ending on is this: be prepared to hear about sound A LOT this year, whether you are a large sound camp or a lone pup tenter. Ultimately, it is up to all of us to keep Flipside from an uncertain future.
Thanks to the Pyropolis Emergency Team! When we fall down, the PETs are there to pick us up. When we’ve drunk too much strange elixir, they’ll be there to determine whether it’s time to call the men in white ambulances. If you see a PET, thank them for keeping you safe from bad medicine.
There will be much Tribal Belly Dance at Flipside this year! Workshops! Performances! Droves of Tribal Belly Dancers on Burn Night!
**WORKSHOPS**
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the Grove, 2-4pm
Tribal Belly Dance is performed in groups following a leader, so it’s easy to learn! Come to a workshop in the afternoon, learn the moves we’ll use in the performances, and then dance with us at that night’s performance. And on Burn Night!
**PERFORMANCES**
If you want to dance with us, arrive a few minutes early so we know who we have and can do any planning, if neccessary.
THURSDAY, meetup at wISH, 9pm
We will be roving around Flipside, searching for places to dance a song or two, taking over sound systems when neccessary! Look out for us!
FRIDAY, Taj Acoustica, 9pm
More dancers in a most beautiful setting!
SATURDAY, wISH, 9pm
Even more dancers take over ISH!
**BURN NIGHT**
Droves of belly dancers, dancing to live drummers, before the effigy burns! Gather at the Grove at 6:30pm. We will parade about the event with all the art cars and drummers inviting people to join the procession and getting people excited about the burn.
**AFTER BURN PARTY**
Everyone is invited to dance all night to Middle Eastern Dance Beats of DJ Sacred and Valerie at Circus Nefarius/Goth Camp.
**WHAT TO WEAR**
For workshop and performances:
- a long flowy skirt or comfortable flowy pants
- a cropped top (choli, crop top, fancy bra, etc)
- hip scarf or belt (triangle-shaped scarf with tassels or fringe, belt with tassels or jangles)
- we’ll be dancing on the bare ground most of the time, so protect your feet! Wear comfortable shoes.
For performances, add if you want:
- accessories: more hip scarves or belts
- jewelry: armbands, bracelets, necklaces, dangly earrings
- hair stuff: tribal hair usually means loaded with stuff: jewelry, yarn, shells, hair up in two buns, hair down in braids, all of the above, etc
- fancy makeup: usually dark eye liner, bold lipstick, bindis, whatever else you want
Nous Nous ‘Agite!
Drishti Dancers
Everyone has been rounded up to the upper field by the Leave No Burner Behind rampage. It is Burn Night.
It’s cocktail hour. Chill music plays, conversations are everywhere. Beautiful people in their finery, greeting each other as family.
It’s twilight.
Everyone has had an awesome Flipside and they are ready to burn and release.
As the effigy is prepared for her fiery sendoff, announcers signal the start of the procession.
Camps go quiet. Flags are raised and the people rally around them. Theme camps flags. Flags for individuals or for dreams and ideas.
People bring things they want to burn, their ideas of the old self that they want to release.
We walk
Together
Onward towards the future we want to create together
We are one community
We circle around the effigy with our flags and torches
We become the spark that lights this fire.
We find our places around the effigy and build the energy that becomes the burn!
Each of us has a light that shines
We have arrived
We are ready
We are one
GOTH VAMPIRE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Please plan to arrive and leave during the official gate hours listed below. If you don’t have your shit together, don’t rush. Make sure you have the requisite level of chill/flow/naps/goodies/whatever before making the trip to Pyropolis.
Gate hours
Thurs., May 22: Noon – Midnight
Fri/Sat., May 23/24: 9am – Midnight
Sun., May 25: 9am – 6pm
No one will be admitted to the event after 6 pm on Burn Night, Sunday, May 25th. Greeters need a chance to enjoy the Burn too.
Exodus
You must head back to the default world and figure out where you left your keys/job/life. Sadly. You don’t have to keep any of it. But you do have to leave the venue by Monday, May 26th at 6pm.
Howdy Flipizens!
One of our Terms of Use for Flat Creek this year is to provide better perimeter security. To address this, the LLC has contracted off-duty Hays County Sheriff’s Officers and some of the Child, Inc staff to patrol the outer perimeter of the event. Their job will be to make sure that the roads outside of the event remain safe and unblocked throughout the course of the event, and to discourage would-be trespassers from attempting to sneak into the event. Please be aware that anyone attempting to park on the County roads or in the Madrone Canyon subdivision will be placing their vehicle at risk of being towed at the owner’s expense.
For clarification, the deputies will not enter the event unless requested to do so; their responsibility is to the roads outside of Flat Creek Crossing.
Do you have a special something that you would like to burn in the effigy fire? If so, you will have Sunday morning and early afternoon to place it on the effigy as long as it is not hazardous. Please understand that it might get moved to a different location while the effigy is being prepared to burn.
For a more personal send-off, Fire Chief Henry is allowing a thirty minute window for folks to add their special somethings to the pyre once the perimeter collapses. PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANYTHING TO THE FIRE AFTER THIS THIRTY MINUTE WINDOW. Pieces of art and personal memorabilia are welcome to be added to the fire. This opportunity is for parting ways with special treasures, not camp infrastructure. If you have any further questions, please ask a Ranger or a member of the Pyropolis Fire Department.
Every year we wait with bated breath under the ever present threat of a Burn Ban. It goes without saying that if Blanco County has a Burn Ban in effect during Flipside that the effigy will live to burn another day. While this potential outcome isn’t favorable, it’s better than possibly being responsible for burning down half of Blanco and Hays County.
Even without a ban, the area is still very dry. See the current burn ban map here: http://tfsfrp.tamu.edu/wildfires/DecBan.png. ANY unattended flames may be extinguished by Rangers or Fire personnel if a potential hazard exists.
Upon entering the event, all participants will be informed of the existence of a Burn Ban if one is in effect. There will be signs posted, Greeters will inform folks, and PSAs will be disseminated throughout the event via KFLIP and our Town Criers reminding folks if we’re under a burn ban. If you have any Burn Ban related questions, please feel free to ask any of our Pyropolis Fire Department volunteers!
It’s here! It’s here! Flipside’s finally here! Water? Check! Blinkies? Check! Discussion with your significant other about expectations and rules? Check! Volunteering? OOPS.
If you forgot to sign up to help make the next few days the best of your life, then don’t despair! We here at PVC (Pyropolis Volunteer Conscription) are ready to help make you have no regrets this year. We still have opportunities open in dmv, ice, parking, greeting, grove coffee serving, clean up and more. Visit our booth in the Grove and we’ll make sure that everything on that list of things you were going to do this year is crossed off!
Got something that you need to let go of? A bad habit, dashed expectation or lost loved one? Whatever it is, The Temple is a place for you to work on that release.
Write it down in the notebooks. Leave a symbol of it: pictures, letters, that thing from the time that you went to that place together. Get it out of your head or your heart. It will all burn together after the effigy burn.
The Temple is a place for catharsis, a place to let go and heal, a place that will not be complete without your participation. It is there for YOU.
Defacing art or any other property that belongs to others, including the land at Flat Creek, (defined partially as, but not limited to the actions of altering it or tagging it with paint) is NOT an acceptable exercise in self-expression. It is a violation of someone’s property or artistic vision that they have offered as a gift to the community, investing days or months of hard work and personal finances. Anyone caught defacing any artist’s work without that artist’s express permission will be subject to both eviction from Flipside and any potential legal charges that the artist may wish to file against the person vandalizing the art or property, with the full support of AAR, LLC.
Yeah, you should make sure you’ve got your ticket. Your ticket to survival, that is.
The handy-dandy survival guide has all kinds of useful info that you will need, including:
- A list of basic necessities. Check your gear for these!
- Directions to Flat Creek
- Hazardous flora and fauna of Flipside
If you’ve found your ticket, please make sure to read your Survival Guide. If you were gifted a ticket or bought one from someone else, the survival guide is online here:
http://www.burningflipside.com/survivalguide2008.pdf
Because you can’t get enough Flipside…
Where: Recreation Plantation
When: Friday, June 27th to Sunday, June 29
Cost: $10.00 per person, child or pet
For More Information: check the decompression Yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decomp2006/
To join send an email:
decomp2006-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Helpful Hints for Decompression
Same rules apply to this event as for Flipside. If you don’t know those rules please go here now and read them:
http://www.burningflipside.com/survivalguide2008.pdf
If you bring someone new to our community, it is requested that you have them read the survival guide.
There is no assigned camping at Decompression. You can park your car by your camp. Generally speaking, the lower field will be loud. Quiet camping is above the cattle guard. Please don’t camp on the stage.
Bringing a child or a pet means you have to take full responsibility for them. If you let your dog (or child for that matter) run wild, terrorize people or other dogs, or poo on stuff, people will be pissed at you and you may be asked to leave.
This is a Leave No Trace event as always. I recommend bringing sunscreen and bug spray as well as lots of water. There are showers, flush toilets, a pool, a creek, and a pavilion and stage for our use.
There are no official volunteers set up, so that means no rangers, no medics, no greeters. If anyone would like to help out the biggest need is cleanup! If you plan to stay until Sunday evening, and would like to be on the cleanup crew, let me know. This is usually the only issue we have, so be sure to take a bag of trash with you from the pavilion when you leave.
Flipside Flame can has Flipside now?
It’s been real. It’s been fun. It’s been real fun. If you loved the Flame, come to wISH and love up on me. Wanna take it over next year? Do-ocracy, baby.
Kisses and ass smacks,
Delia
