Camper Bios - 2013
Name: >Knotch<
Age: 55
Where I Live: Elfrida, Arizona. Beautiful high desert between no place and nowhere.
Been to Burning Man before? When?
Yes - 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012
Camped with? When?
Camp Incendiary Nation (CIN) 2008
PolyParadise 2009, 2010, 2011,2012
PolyParadise Favorite Moments? Early Arrival and staying over a couple days for MOOP patrol are favorite moments for sure. I love seeing the city from the 12:00 extreme point of the trash fence. Every day and every night provides a whole new world and new moments and I enjoy them all.
Why Burning Man? When we meet the greeters, the door slams shut with the default world on the other side. Immediacy rules on the playa. The real world waits but it’s locked outside my bubble for the time I’m on the playa.
Burning History: I read first-hand accounts of Burning Man by astro-artist Don Davis around 14 years ago and immediately wanted to go. My first burn didn’t happen until 2008. My goal was 5 years in a row. I made that goal and now my goal is 10 years in a row.
Describe BM: It is as impossible to describe as to believe what you experience when you are there. In a Great Paradox, my inner child creates Burning Man and it, in turn, re-creates me. I love Burning Man. I love the playa. I love the people. I love it all. Especially sharing it with my Shadow.
My Life: The seriousness of responsibilities in life left little room to experience living. My first Burning Man gave me a concentrated dose of living that continues to carry on after I left the playa. Burning Man changed me. It allowed me to see that a great part of living is experiencing the uniqueness of other’s, without judgment tainted by social conditioning. Burning Man is a "Before and After" Life Marker for me, more so than marriage, first child or even first Lindor chocolate truffle or bacon.
I am hard to get to know but have been told I'm a pretty nice guy by those who finally do. Did I mention I love Burning Man, all of it, and you too.
>Knotch<
Age: 55Where I Live: Elfrida, Arizona. Beautiful high desert between no place and nowhere.
Been to Burning Man before? When?
Yes - 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012
Camped with? When?
Camp Incendiary Nation (CIN) 2008
PolyParadise 2009, 2010, 2011,2012
PolyParadise Favorite Moments? Early Arrival and staying over a couple days for MOOP patrol are favorite moments for sure. I love seeing the city from the 12:00 extreme point of the trash fence. Every day and every night provides a whole new world and new moments and I enjoy them all.
Why Burning Man? When we meet the greeters, the door slams shut with the default world on the other side. Immediacy rules on the playa. The real world waits but it’s locked outside my bubble for the time I’m on the playa.
Burning History: I read first-hand accounts of Burning Man by astro-artist Don Davis around 14 years ago and immediately wanted to go. My first burn didn’t happen until 2008. My goal was 5 years in a row. I made that goal and now my goal is 10 years in a row.
Describe BM: It is as impossible to describe as to believe what you experience when you are there. In a Great Paradox, my inner child creates Burning Man and it, in turn, re-creates me. I love Burning Man. I love the playa. I love the people. I love it all. Especially sharing it with my Shadow.
My Life: The seriousness of responsibilities in life left little room to experience living. My first Burning Man gave me a concentrated dose of living that continues to carry on after I left the playa. Burning Man changed me. It allowed me to see that a great part of living is experiencing the uniqueness of other’s, without judgment tainted by social conditioning. Burning Man is a "Before and After" Life Marker for me, more so than marriage, first child or even first Lindor chocolate truffle or bacon.
I am hard to get to know but have been told I'm a pretty nice guy by those who finally do. Did I mention I love Burning Man, all of it, and you too.
>Knotch<