Burning Man -- the SubG Logos in Use

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Wed, Dec 19, 2001 10:34 PM

These are frame grabs from my High 8 video (after it was transfered to
DV)

The first series are the pics showing the T-shirts and decals that we
made from the KEEN logos made by Heart Ignition, Legume, LeMur, Enki
and all. The decals were on the sides of the rented RV.

It is traditional at Burning Man to artfully disguise corporate logos.
You know, that's "cool" with the Youth generation. Your RV isn't cool
if it hasn't been jacked with.

Thus you'll see in the pics we changed El Monte RV to El Morte RV and a
few other alterations.

The Dobbsheads on the side of the van were our main advertising besides
some notices on the notice-wall. We had a small drive-in movie set up
and some benches. People could sit and watch ultraviolence collages
made by Puzzling Evidence -- or Great Badfilm -- video projected, with
good sound... as long as the generator was running. Sand in the
generator was a constant problem.

People honked and hollered out "Bob" occasionally as they went by. A
few Subs from X-Day Drills of yore found us. We didn't save a single
new soul though. Didn't try very hard. It is enough that Dobbs has a
presence at this marvelous festival for as long as it can keep
happening before it implodes.

Wei and I bought iron-on transfer paper at Office Max and some plain
shirts and ironed on the logos the day before we left. We made 6 shirts
which went to the 4 Subsketeers in our RV -- Rev. Sven Serrano, Philo,
me and Wei, and for Puzzling Evidence and Dr. Howll.

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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
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SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

This is the AntiPopeMobile of Raul from Argentina, a friend of Pepper
Mouser and the other art car guys at Burning Man. Raul and his insane
buddy needed Dobbsheads and they needed them bad, right after the Man
burned. I told them I had them back at the RV but that was miles away,
at 3:15 and Enlightenment. Well HOP IN, they said, and next thing Wei
and I knew, we were aboard this fucking Road Warrior thing which SHOOTS
HUGE GOUTS OF FLAME from a propane fueled fire cannon nozzle on the
front. I got to fire the cannon at zombified hippies who wouldn't get
out of the way. I also got to ride up in the crow's nest on top, which
afforded an INCREDIBLE but not very photographical view of the whole
Playa full of crazed shit the night of the burn, all the way from the
Man out in the desert to the "town". The whole contraption could have
exploed at any time. We almost had a wreck with the giant art car
shaped like a roach, the bugmobile.

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