Flipside Flame 2009, issue 5
DEPARTMENT OF MUTANT VEHICLES
The only vehicles allowed to drive during Flipside are:
1) Art cars/mutant vehicles
2. Vehicles for those with disabilities
3. Official-use vehicles
Modes of Transportation NOT eligible for DMV license: Plain O’ Golf Cart.
IMPORTANT: MOBILE SOUND SYSTEMS ARE SUBJECT TO THE SOUND POLICY.
Licensing Criteria
To be eligible for a Department of Mutant Vehicles License:
1. Tell us why you want to bring transportation to Flipside.
Why do you want wheels? Or spider legs? Or a hovercraft? If it is just personal means from point A to point B, please think again. The only vehicles to receive licenses will be works of art or vehicles with a high participatory factor for Flipizens. Flipside is not too big to walk around. Ask yourself “How well will this contribute to the creative, artistic and/or highly particpatory environment of Burning Flipside?” Create a visually stimulating, mindboggling beautiful, and/or highly participatory vehicle. Your vehicle should inspire WOWs, WHOAs, and WHATs.
2. Comply with all Department of Mutant Vehicles registration requirements, safety guidelines, deadlines, and commandments at the wiki: http://www.burningflipside.com/wiki/Art/DMV
Pre-event registration is highly encouraged! Avoid the long lines by registering before the event.
3. Include safety considerations in your design and operation. (Yes, third.)
4. Honor Yourself, Your Fellow Flipizens, and Keep Your Commitments.
Obey the 5 mph speed limit. Give pedestrians and bikes the right of way. Don’t drive or let anyone else drive impaired. Don’t steal vehicles!
If you violate these community guidelines, you might lose your mutant vehicle license, have your vehicle impounded, be fined by law enforcement and/or ejected from the event. Owners that cannot follow our simple guidelines run the risk of not being licensed in the future.
5. Fulfill your intent, the intent of the community, and the intent of the universe--create a vehicle or mode of transportation that adds to, contributes more to, or improves upon the creative environment, container, and energy the event fosters amongst us.
ART CAR/MUTANT VEHICLE REGISTRATION
Does the idea of a golf cart sized carp lit up like a X-mas tree really turn you on? Are you always the first one in the hot tub before it takes off from camp headed to the ass-less chaps happy hour? Is dancing like a dervish decked out in disco friendly duds around a decibel dealing ATUPAV (All-Terrain-Uber-Party Assault Vehicle) get you off? Even if you didn’t answer “Hell, yeah!” to anyone of these questions, you’ll still find Flipside’s flotilla of art cars, mutant vehicles, and helicopters holding a special place in your heart once your dogs start barkin’ or you really got lost looking for GET LOST.
All mutant vehicles owners will need to 1) register before OR on arrival to the event, 2) undergo an on-site inspection, and 3) submit to one-on-one on-site safety interrogation with a DMV Rep before receiving their DMV tags imparting the license to drive during the event.
ART CAR/MUTANT VEHICLE REGISTRATION
The 4 easy steps to register an official art car/mutant vehicle are:
1) Submit DMV application
2) Submit to DMV on-site inspection
3) Submit and sign off on DMV Safety Requirements
4) Receive and Display DMV License (Sticker/Badge Laminate)
Pre-Event Registration (Yes!)
In the interest of a complete and overwhelming takeover by technology of the human race, participants bringing an art car or mutant vehicle to Burning Flipside 2009 may pre-register by:
1) Find the 2009 BURNING FLIPSIDE DMV APPLICATION
2) Copy the text into a .doc or .txt file to your desktop and save it
3) Once the DMV app is saved on your desktop, one should fill in the questionnaire concisely and completely
4) Once the app has been saved for your records, email the completed application AND a picture of the art car/mutant vehicle to Burning Flispide’s DMV Lead, Koala, at DMV09@burningflipside.com, subject line: ART CAR REGISTRATION
5) Wait patiently for the DMV response to confirm receipt of your application. (NOTE: Receipt of an application does not equate to a DMV license without on-site inspection and safety signoff)
6) Wait patiently for further instructions about on-site inspection, safety review/sign off, and receipt of DMV license at the event. If you’ve applied but can’t sit still, feel free to email questions/concerns/bribes to DMV09@burningflipside.com
At-Event Registration (like waiting?)
For those in the throes of “X” days ‘til Flipside Syndrome and are too busy with 1000 + other projects, register at the event by:
1) Have the PARKING crew radio for the DMV when you arrive
2) Meet the DMV representative and fill out an application
3) Pass an on-site inspection with the DMV
4) Submit to a safety review and sign off with the DMV
5) Receive and proudly display DMV license at all times
IMPORTANT: Registration and Inspection hours are 9am to 12am on Thursday, 9 am-12 am Friday and 9am-3pm Saturday. If you arrive outside of those hours and want to register an art car please find a volunteer with a radio to contact the DMV team.
Syd Kinge
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A message from your City Planning Team
Yes, the rumor is true, Theme Camp registration is up.
Yes it’s up. You’re still here reading this? GET GOING!!!
http://www.burningflipside.com/camp_registration
One request from all us volunteers. If you submit a camp, please try to make it a final draft. Otherwise we get to go review your application all over again with every revision. If you really have to change something, we can get it done (most of the time).
RV=theme camp
You will need to register on the Theme Camp Registration form if you are bringing an RV and not with a theme camp. Some of our roads are kinder to RVs than others and this will assist us in placing you accordingly. Under camp name, please submit RV – General Camping and fill out the form as complete as possible.
Be kind to your City Planning Team and get you s**t together early and complete!!! We assembled the best of the best for you, and our volunteer team is united and efficient. As our motto states, “MIND OVER MATTER”. Remember, Flipside is the biggest and best thing going in Texas!!! You’re invited!!! Any spot puts you in the ho-down, so be easy like Sunday morning.
Seeya on the Flipside!!!
Children at Flipside
Fellow Parents:
As you may have heard, we have new rules this year about bringing Minor Children to Flipside. (“Minor” is any child under 18.)
In order to bring my minor child into Flipside, I need to bring some kind of documentation that demonstrates that I am legally authorized to sign a liability waiver for that child. This can be a passport, a birth certificate, court order, or adoption papers. Our gate staff will record that document (probably with a digital photo) before my child and I can enter the event.
I’m saying “me” because this rule applies to me as well as all other parents. We all need to do this. We don’t need to carry this documentation around with us during the festival. No one other than the Gate Staff needs to see this.
One thing that hasn’t changed this year is that you will be personally responsible for your child 100% of the time that the child is at Flipside. Please think carefully about whether Flipside is right for your child before you decide to bring him or her. Also consider how responsibility for a child may impact your own Flipside experience.
NobodobodoN
Art Placement Places You
Calling all artists! It is time to register your art for Burning Flipside. Bring it, register it, so we can find it. Request placement and we will do our damnedest to put it there.
Registration ends on April 18th so we can plan our city.
If you are visiting us from afar and would like to create art for our event, we can help. We can provide storage, toolage and maybe even some labor if you give us a heads up! We even have access to a shopbot CNC router at artist prices! Come to Austin early and we will help you coordinate logistics. Contact us: art09@burningflipside.com
Critter Workshop
Critters are plywood animals/creatures that will roam Pyropolis during at Flipside and rampage during the procession. They have fold-flat travel capabilities and can be easily assembled on site. There are pre-made plans available or make your own mascot to safari the grassy playa.
I wanna make one!
April 11th, noon-?.
Materials are provided, but if you can bring a jigsaw it speeds up the process!
I can’t make it then!
If you can’t make it the 11th, email me at to lenell@gmail.com for other times. If you live in the “outlands” but want to bring a Critter to FS, let me know that too.
Lenell, Overlord of the Menagerie
Leading the way (NEW DATE!!)
Are you a Freak Leader? Do you want to be? Already in charge but want to be better?
Jack Miller will be giving a leadership seminar.
NEW DATE
Sunday April 26th.
Who should attend
Area facilitators, area leads, theme camp leads, and those who would like to become leaders.
You can come to learn leadership skills just for yourself, but he focuses specifically on leading Freaks. How to do it? Why bother? Can you really herd cats?
It’s worth your time. If only to find out what you should never, ever do if you want to succeed in cat-herding. Meow.
If interested, email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com asap.
DMV COMMANDMENTS--HOW TO GET OFF (&) ON ART CARS
1) THOU SHALL--make every effort to decorate/create/conjure your golf cart, truck, limo, etc.
2) THOU SHALL NOT--steal/commandeer/”borrow” official gators, official golf carts, or any other official form of transportation
(IMPORTANT: THEFT OF ANY GOLF CART/VEHICLE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AT BURNING FLIPSIDE 2009. THE LLC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO EJECT ANYONE CAUGHT PERPETRATING/PARTICIPATING IN ANY SUCH ACT.)
3) THOU SHALL NOT—try to get on, impede, or stop a moving art car, mutant vehicle, or helicopter
4) THOU SHALL—dance around, wave your arms, and ask politely to get on a passing mutant vehicle:
a) once the mutant vehicle has come to a complete stop, (if needed) ask for assistance or hop on the vehicle in a safe, appropriate manner (Remember: be sure to thank the driver in whatever boundary approved manner y’all choose)
b) If the mutant vehicle does not stop for whatever reason, do not attempt to run down, jump on, hog-tie, and/or flip-off the vehicle or its driver(s) (Remember: when your dogs are barkin’ on day three and it’s a seemingly long haul back to camp, you’ll wish you’d been nice : )
5) THOU SHALL—(if they choose) wait at an approved DMV—UMO Landing Zone, practice your favorite manifestation technique religiously for 30 seconds, and finish by shaking a leg suggestively before any mutant vehicle stops to pick up you and yours (and even his or hers or Its).
6) THOU SHALL NOT—attempt to or attempt to get off a moving mutant vehicle
7) THOU SHALL NOT—operate any mutant vehicle and/or its artistic additions without permission of its owner(s)/operator(s) (e.g., fire cannons, pants cannons, attractive body parts on vehicle occupants, sounds and light systems,etc…)
8) THOU SHALL NOT—hijack, hoodwink, harass, or harangue the driver whilst they are in command and control of the mutant vehicle. Note, these helpful hints apply to occupants, too.
9) THOU SHALL—have a good time
10) THOU SHALL—ask politely as well as wait patiently for a mutant vehicle to come to a complete stop before disembarking from it
11) THOU SHALL—help look out for the safety of their fellow freaks, aliens, and even passer-bys at all times
12) THOU SHALL—report any safety issues, violations, and/or problems to the Pyropolis Rangers immediately
Strip o’ Glam
Once again BurninGlam will be bringing some glamalicious hides to cover your tender nakedness. And bits and pieces to create wearable art. And hats to cover your noggin! Come play dress up with us!
More, dahling, more!
Got more than you need? Want to retire some costumes? Feeling generous? Want to help newbies prance and play? Bring all the optic, sparkly, bright, loud, shimmery, see-thru, sexy, silly and fun stuff you have. Drop donations off at Burning Glam for someone else to strut around in. We love to see you strut your stuff, transformed by the Glam!
This year we are also adding a special selection for kids and Ranger. Lovin’ us some Rangers ! (Think khaki with: snake skin, leopard print, or optical khaki!)
Jade
by :petra: on Flickr
DMV, continued
Procession progression
Love puppets?
The procession plan may involve large puppets of the animal variety. Are you an experienced puppet maker? Would you like to be? Anyone crazy enough to learn, attempt, craft puppets via trial and error?
If you want some puppet action, Zonk’s looking for a small crew to foster his plans for total procession domination. This may involve leading a second procession, but full plans were not divulged to my operative. Interested in burn night shenanigans? Contact Zonk at zonkism@gmail.com
No Dogs Allowed
Change of plans. There is now a NO DOG policy at the warehouse. The bad cop of the warehouse team warned you. Come to Church Night but leave the pets at home.
Flyers at Flipside
Putting flyers on cars at Flipside is not art. It has another name: MOOP. What is MOOP? Matter Out Of Place. A fancy way of saying TRASH. Flipside is a Leave No Trace event. Don’t make people pack out your trash.
Your band/event/thing will NOT get more participation this way. No matter how ardently we admire and love you, we will ignore you if you plaster our cars with crap at Flipside.
A word from T’rrist camp
DURKA DURKA JIHAD, FILTHY HIPPIES! Terrorist camp is here to steal your women and taint your drinking water. The infidels of Pyropolis insulted our Great God Hashshishee for the last time when they DARED to bring their decadent Western ‘safari’ to the sacred lands of our people. Now you all must pay.
Legions of Terrorist Troopers outfitted in the latest liquor-based weaponry will roam the plains and derries of Pyropolis, spreading a plague of sticky, drunken vengeance throughout your ranks. You cannot hope to stand against us, infidels. Your only hope lies in joining us; complete our obstacle course, swear allegiance to our god, and then you too can help us stalk the savanna with murderous intent.
JIHAAAAAD!
Bonus points
Did you read this far? Wow. You are so awesome that I’m inviting you to my shared bi-annual birthday bridge party.
Friday, April 17th. Lamar Pedestrian bridge, 10:34 pm. Mission: Join epic battle. Shake groove thang. Hang out.
(Fine print: BYOE. LNT. Open container law does apply. Bring your friends but do not repost invite. This is a public place; freak responsibly.)
You don’t have to know me. You do have to pick a side. Where once went robots & schoolgirls, now go adjectives:
SHINY vs. FURRY.
Bacon Bang Boom
B3 (being the adventures of young burners whose principal interests are bacon, underground films, and noise) presents a special screening of A Clockwork Orange on Saturday at the AAR LLC Warehouse.
Double Feature
The film will be followed by short films and The City of Lost Children.
We’ll be bringing live noise performances to Flipside again this year, along with a circuit bending workshop, twisted film screenings, blood wrestling, and a dark new chillspace called the Infinity Lounge. We will once again offer a stage for experimental sound performances, and we encourage creative and avant-garde musicians to contact us for scheduling.
B3 is a rave-free zone.