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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 6

Blurb of Bob Vol. 3 No. 6

AfterBurn tickets on sale at 8 pm 9/30

Volume 3, Number 6

HEY, GUYS! YOU READY?

AfterBurn Tickets go on sale today at 8 pm!  I’m so excited, I’m about to pop my buttons! Read on to make sure you are ready and don’t miss out on this year’s Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn.

How ’bout that?
Bob

In this issue:
Main Ticket Sale starts Monday, Sept. 30 at 8 pm
No spectators: Real Burners volunteer
Theme camps are magical places
Got art? Bring it!
This could be you…

Main Ticket Sale starts Monday, Sept. 30 at 8 pm Eastern time
There are three steps to getting an AfterBurn ticket.

  1. Read the ticket policies, so you understand what you’re getting yourself into.
  2. Buy your AfterBurn Ticket for $105. Vehicle passes and RV passes are also available, and quantities are limited.
  3. Read on for step 3!

Step 3: No spectators: Real Burners volunteer
Once you have your ticket in hand, you are ready to start participating. We are a 100{110293bbcb802f0d3273ec3ed2a9036c4a117c04a3d38823d15ba3bc99706c52} volunteer-run event, and we need every one of you shiny participants! Here’s how it works: Go to the SignupGenius link and start reading about volunteer shifts. Pick a couple that sound interesting and sign yourself up.

Are you new to AfterBurn? That’s OK, we’ll show you what to do. When you sign up for volunteer shifts in advance, you help the event run smoothly. We promise you’ll make new friends while you’re volunteering — maybe you’ll even meet Bob!

Theme camps are magical places
We’ve received about a dozen submissions for theme camps, those magical places where the community gathers and does fun stuff. If you’re planning a theme camp, get yourself over to the Theme Camps page on the website to submit it: www.floridaafterburn.com/theme-camps. Remember, the best placement does not go to last-minute entries!

Got art? Bring it!
AfterBurn welcomes all kinds of art — if you have a piece you’d like to bring, let us know how big it is, so we can help you place it! For the first time, we have lots of room for indoor art in our giant Indaba gallery. There also will be a blacklight gallery and a Florida Burns history museum. Use this form https://forms.gle/G53TZD3sfsWvhGrq7 to submit your self-funded art.

Art grant submissions are now closed and community voting has concluded on those 11 pieces. We’ll get back to you with those results in next week’s Blurb.

This could be you…
Did you know that Bob accepts content submissions from folks like you? If you have a Burning story to share, please reach out to Bob via email. Blurbs must be less than 200 words and relevant to the entire AfterBurn community.

ABOUT BOB

Bob is a radical communicator who loves this community, believes in civic responsibility, and wants to keep you apprised of everything AfterBurn-related.

You can email Bob at  with questions, concerns, or submissions to this announcement list. You can reach the AfterBurn Event Organizing Committee at .
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2019 Art Grant Requests

The AfterBurn 2019 Art Grant Committee has received the following requests for funding. The total amount requested is over $5400, and we have $2500 to allocate.

From Friday, Sept. 27 at noon until Monday, Sept. 30 at noon, you can vote on your favorite projects, to help the Art Grant Committee determine which ones should be funded.

Each of these projects has submitted a line item budget and detailed information, which we’ve removed to help with voting. Are you curious to know which line items can be funded, and which cannot? Take a look at the Burnt Oranges guidelines, which we use to determine the final allocations.

Hot Shots

Participants shoot a basket. If they make it fire or water will explode over their head. A fun interactive art piece that any age and skill level can enjoy

This is a modification of a previously created project. The grant request is to assist with filling the large propane tanks that run the project, not creation of the project itself.

Art Grant Request: $260 (project total $260)

No image submitted.

Better than Crop Circles

Interactive Ground Art with LED Rope Lights

As dark approaches, the installation would be setup with one of patterns. Throughout the night, participants would be encouraged to play and build any of the patterns or create their own large art designs on the ground. If someone has a drone, the photos could be spectacular. During the day, the installation would be rolled up for safety and to allow daytime activities in that space.

Interactivity: Participants can look through the many patterns displayed to follow, or they can get creative and make their own. The ground lights are safe to touch and can be dragged across the ground to draw the desired patterns.

Art Grant Request: $496 (project total: $740)

Better than crop circles
Better Than Crop Circles

Fire Obelisk

Steel Obelisk with Flame

8 ft tall steel obelisk with constant burning torch style flame. It acts as a lighthouse and reference point to guide travelers. To create a beacon for Home. Project is ready, only asking for transportation help in the form of a trailer, and propane consumables

Art Grant Request $144 (project total $960)

Fire Obelisk

Homage to Loins and Groins

Live paintings of loins and groins with volunteer models to express body and sexuality positivity, and the portraits will be gifted to models.

Promoting body positivity through art…. one loin at a time.

5×7 hand painted canvas portraits of volunteer models

Art Grant Request: $250 (project total $247)

Homage to Loins and Groins

UV Reactive Foosball Table

UV Reactive Foosball Table This is a completed project, which will be best displayed with additional blacklights. Grant requested is to provide three additional blacklights to best display the table.

Art Grant Request: $68 (project total $400)

UV Reactive Foosball Table

Azathoth – Mutant Vehicle

15ft long mutant vehicle covered in programmable led lights and a cuddle space.

Azathoth will operate as public transportation offering rides around burn. Doing his due diligence assisting people who suffer from limited mobility. He will be scanning the property and stopping to pick up all MOOP.

Art Grant Request: $662 (project total $5,094)

Azathoth Mutant Vehicle

Precious Plastic Upcycle Art Gallery

Participants will be invited to bring their plastic items they wish to dispose of and drop them into the shredder under staff supervision. Then the participant will handed the plastic shreds and be directed over to the precious plastic injector where they will dump them into the hopper and down into the heated injection tube. After 2-3 minutes the plastic is hot enough to inject. The participant pulls down on the lever and injects the hot molten plastic into an aluminum mold of their choice. Once the plastic has cooled down, the object is removed and the participant can keep the item as a souvenir.

Art Grant Request: $1,000 (project total $1,250)

Precious Plastic Upcycle Art Gallery

Esthetic Lab

To share and display fluid art with the community. I want to do a class to teach people an easy way to start playing with fluid art!

This project will be interactive in two ways. the first is that I will teach a class and do a live paint pour. the second is at night the displays will have LED lights in the back on them that you, the participant, will be able to turn on and off to see how it changed the physical look of the painting.

Art Grant Request: $500 (project total $535)

Esthetic Lab

Spread Your Sass Art Class

Instructional class painting the stars in the night sky with a tree line

Art Grant Request: $102 (project total $255)

Participants will get an overview of painting a night scene in a Bob Ross style with acrylics that they get to take with them. To allow self expression and immediacy in the form of painting

Spread Your Sass Art Class

Gaia’s Grace

Visual and auditory immersive space that inspired gratitude and kindness toward the Earth, creation, and the divine feminine energy.

Visual art display, elevated viewing platform, attractive seating space to inspire intimate interaction and conversation. Possibly a small fire pit, water feature and LED light display.

Art Grant Request: $300 (project total $364)

Gaia’s Grace

Fountain of Dreams

This will be a large interactive kaleidoscope fountain, which changed effects depending if its day/night. The viewers will be able to look through the kaleidoscope as water trickles and circulates down the tapered shape of the art piece. In the day, you will see water act as the pattern of the kaleidoscope. Viewers will be able to manipulate the water to change the pattern. At night, the water will be lit up with RGB LED lighting, along with a fire flame at the end.

Participants will be able to manipulate the water pattern. They will be able to put their face and hands on the end where the water pours out. It highly encourages creative thought, leaving it up to the viewers imagination. They will have the option to stick whatever they’d like on the one end of the kaleidoscope.

Art Grant Request: $1,434 (project total $1,434)

Fountain of Dreams
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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 5

The Blurb of Bob

AfterBurn 2019 has official event status!

Volume 3, Number 5

HEY, GUYS!

We have more good news to share: We just received word that AfterBurn has been granted official event status by Burning Man in 2019! Read on for more news and updates regarding the November 1-3 event in Lake Wales.

How ’bout that?
Bob

In this issue:
Important dates and times
Volunteers needed this Saturday, Sept. 28
New email addresses for AfterBurn
Got a theme camp? Get it registered!
Art news: Grants closed, gallery submissions open
Got a Burning question? Help us write our FAQ

Important dates and times
Monday, Sept. 23 (today!): Core Volunteer tickets are now on sale. If you volunteered at least two 4-hour shifts last year, and you plan to volunteer that much or more this year, you may be eligible for a Core Volunteer Ticket before General Sales. Reach out to your team lead or email for more information.
Friday, Sept. 27 at 8 am EDT: Volunteer shifts will open in Signup Genius. The best shifts always get snapped up fast, so mark your calendar!
Monday, Sept. 30 at 8 pm EDT: Main ticket sale begins. If you’re on the email list, you’ll get a reminder that day.

Volunteers needed this Saturday, Sept. 28
From RobL on behalf of the DOGS team: Looking for volunteers this Saturday to meet at the Bartow property to get the storage containers ready to move. Meet at 9am. Bring water, gloves and snacks. Contact  for more information.

New email addresses for AfterBurn
Hey, guys, I have a new email address! You might have noticed that this message comes from . There’s also a new email box for the organizing committee, . We love hearing your input and questions, so write to us!

Got a theme camp? Get it registered!
Do you have a gift to share with the community, and you need a place to do it? When you register your theme camp, we’ll work with you to provide appropriate placement for the weekend. So get your information together and go to the Theme Camps page on the website to submit it — we can’t wait to see what you’re bringing! www.floridaafterburn.com/theme-camps

Art news: Grants closed, gallery submissions open
We have now closed submissions for art grants and effigies, but we are still accepting submissions for the indoor art gallery at the Burns Phambly Reunion. Use the Art Gallery Interest form (https://forms.gle/G53TZD3sfsWvhGrq7) to submit your art, and email the Art Grant Committee () if you have questions.

Got a Burning question? Help us write our FAQ
Bob is helping the web team put together www.floridaafterburn.com, the site that covers all things related to AfterBurn. If you have a Burning Question that you think belongs in our list of Frequently Asked Questions, please email it to us. Even if the question only gets asked once, that might be frequent enough to get it on the website!

ABOUT BOB Bob is a radical communicator who loves this community, believes in civic responsibility, and wants to keep you apprised of everything AfterBurn-related. You can email Bob at  with questions, concerns, or submissions to this announcement list. You can reach the AfterBurn Event Organizing Committee at .
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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 4

The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 4

September 17, 2019

HEY, GUYS!

Announcing a fabulous new venue for The Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn!
Camp La Llanada, 2819 Tiger Lake Rd, Lake Wales, FL 33898
November 1-3, 2019

This past weekend, the organizing committee, department leads, and Burnt Oranges directors held a Leadership Summit at the new venue. We conducted safety training, scoped out the property, and decided where to put the art. The camp is a well-developed FLAT property with shady camping, a swimming pool, showers, and indoor gallery space. Most importantly, it has fewer ants!

The Camp AfterBurn announcement video.
  • Tickets will go on sale September 30 at $105 per participant. AfterBurn is an all-volunteer event, so as soon as you purchase your ticket, you’ll need to go to Signup Genius and sign up for shifts. We’ll provide that signup link in our Sept. 30 announcement. We recommend you buy your ticket ASAP, because if we get enough volunteers to release additional tickets, the price will go up after the first block of “Volun-Tier” tickets are sold.
  • If you are a Mandarin Supporter, thank you! You will receive a separate email with a code that allows you to purchase a $90 discounted ticket right now.
  • Did you do a ton of volunteering at last year’s AfterBurn? Reach out to your team lead or send an email to . You may be able to buy your ticket early!
  • Everyone attending must have a ticket, including children. Minion tickets are available at the following prices: Under 5, free; 5-11 years old, $45; and 12-17 years old, $90.

Vehicle Passes
To encourage carpooling, every vehicle coming to the event must have a Vehicle Pass. These are available during all ticket sales for $10 per vehicle. Please note: There is no offsite parking, so every vehicle coming to the event will need to purchase a pass.

RV Passes
We have a parking lot set aside with a limited amount of space for RVs and camping trailers. If you are planning to camp in an RV or travel trailer, you’ll need to purchase a $25 RV Pass instead of a Vehicle Pass.

Theme Camp Registration is now open!
Now that you know where we’ll be, it’s time to submit your theme camp registration. To submit the details of your awesome plans, go to the Theme Camp page.

Art Grants, Commemorative Ticket Art and Effigy Submissions have been extended until Sunday, September 22!
The new venue has incredible space for art, including dry interior spaces for our new Art Gallery. Gallery submissions will be open until mid-October. Send your grant applications and gallery submissions using the links here:  https://burntoranges.org/about-burnt-oranges/art-grants/

So, get your art and theme camps submitted now! And then watch your inbox and the floridaafterburn.com website to make sure you don’t miss the sale announcements. Remember, there are absolutely no ticket sales at the gate, and there are no spectators at Camp AfterBurn.

How ’bout that?

Bob

ABOUT BOB

Bob is a radical communicator who loves this community, believes in civic responsibility, and wants to keep you apprised of everything AfterBurn-related.

You can email Bob at  with questions, concerns, or submissions to this announcement list. You can reach the AfterBurn Event Organizing Committee at .

Did someone forward this lovely message to you, and you want to sign up to receive Bob’s emails? Go to the newsletter page to join our mailing list.

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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 3

August 29, 2019

HEY, GUYS!

A Creative Opportunity
1. Do you want to see the breadth and depth of artistic talent of our community, but insulated from the elements in an enclosed structure, complete with power?
2. Have you ever wanted to see your art displayed, gallery style, where all your favorite burners could fully appreciate it?
3. Do you have smaller scale canvas, sculptural, fabric, or photographic art that you would be excited to have displayed?
4. Maybe you would like to create new art (possibly financed by an art grant) before AfterBurn?

For the Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn we are excited that we will provide such a space. The Art Grant Committee has a vision of creating a gallery to honor and appreciate the incredibly talented artists we have in our community, complete with a gallery opening party.

Go to Burnt Oranges – Art Grants to submit your desire to participate: https://burntoranges.org/about-burnt-oranges/art-grants/ If you have any questions, please direct them to .

Share Your Imagination
Your Committee would like to provide a commemorative ticket and sticker for our Burns Phambly Reunion (like the good old times). We want you, the community, to create the design to represent this year’s theme: Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn.

Please send your design as a .gif or .jpeg file to the Committee email: with a small description and your name for proper credit. Submissions for ticket/sticker designs will be open until September 15th at midnight.

Leaders Needed
A huge Thank You to our returning and new Leads & Co-Leads. We still need Leads and Co-Leads in the following areas:

Leads: Sound Marshal, Theme Camps
Co-Leads: Dogs, Cats, Earth Guardians, Volunteer Coordinator, Parking, Certified LifeGuard(s), Shower Guardians, Sound Marshal, Theme Camps

If you want to be a part of the fun and creativity that goes into creating the canvas for AfterBurn, step up to fill one of these great roles by emailing your Committee at .

How ’bout that?

Bob, on behalf of your AfterBurn Event Committee

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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 2

August 17, 2019

HEY, GUYS!

Your Event Committee has listened to you, and we’re happy to confirm that we’ve found a new location for Camp AfterBurn. It’s FLAT, with showers, LOTS of shade and fewer ants. More information will be coming soon.

Calling all our artists and dreamers!

1. Do you art?
2. Do you want to share your art with the community at our Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn?
3. Are you ready to bring your “A” game?
4. Would an art grant help you do this?

If you said yes to all of the above, your time has come.

The period for formal submissions of art grants, including burnable art, is open. It will close at midnight on Sunday, September 15th.

There will be at least $5,000 available for art grants at AfterBurn.

This year we have decided to let the Phambly decide what art they would like to see brought to the event. After the submission period closes on September 15th, the Art Grant Committee will open the grants up to the Community for voting.

All references to artists and camps will be removed; we are asking that the artists allow each submission to be judged according to the art’s own merits. Voting will be via a Facebook poll, similar to the one used for the event committee members. Note: Any grant requests received after September 15th at midnight will not be considered for the community vote.

New this year: We will have some enclosed structures with electricity available to display your art and keep it safe from the elements.

Information on how to submit your art grant and online forms for submission can be found at https://burntoranges.org/about-burnt-oranges/art-grants/

Submissions for the Effigy and Temple should be sent to your Event Committee via email at

We can’t wait to see what your creativity will bring to life!

How ’bout that?

Bob, on behalf of your AfterBurn Event Committee

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ABOUT BOB
Bob is a radical communicator who loves this community, believes in civic responsibility, and wants to keep you apprised of everything AfterBurn-related.

You can email Bob at with questions, concerns, or submissions to this announcement list.

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The Blurb of Bob, Volume 3, Number 1

August 13, 2019

HEY, GUYS!

I’m writing on behalf of your Event Committee, the hard-working group that is enthusiastically taking responsibility for planning and creating an amazing AfterBurn together with you, the community.

They’ve confirmed that many of our past Department Leads will be returning (including me, Bob!). Thank you, Leads, for stepping up!

(Drumroll, please) And now, for the information you have been patiently waiting for:

1: AfterBurn 2019 will be held from Friday, November 1, to Sunday, November 3.
2: You have 80 days to get ready.
3: This year’s theme will be “Burns Phambly Reunion at Camp AfterBurn.”

So start thinking about ART! And stay tuned for the Art Submissions Form next!

How ’bout that?

Bob

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ABOUT BOB

Bob is a radical communicator who loves this community, believes in civic responsibility, and wants to keep you apprised of everything AfterBurn-related.

You can email Bob at with questions, concerns, or submissions to this announcement list.