Community Art Makers

Community Art Makers returned to Auditorium Shores for First Night Austin ‘09 with “Dorothy”, a 30-foot fire tornado. As always . . . a raging fire means a raging success.

Beautiful slow motion video shot by Jason Mika.

Dorothy from jaysinspace on Vimeo.

We bringing our three story tornado of colored fire to Auditorium Shores in Austin for New Years’ Eve!   To help fund that project, we’re having a holiday bazaar.  On Thursday December 17th, meet us at the United States Art Authority from 5pm to 11pm to peruse some amazing last minute gifts and be entertained.   Photography by Ira Weinschel, vintage clothing from Amelia’s, artwork from Community Art Makers and Curious Customs as well as a huge pile of oddities and suprise auction items (Like Kim the Dog Trainer gift certificates!)

Get the whole skinny on our fundraising page here.

The Austin American Statesman (great pictures on the top left) and The Texas Observer have published some wonderful articles about our Temple!

Temple at dawn

These are the people who gave up their summer to cut wood into piles, to bathe in a rich mix of dust and wood glue and to sand like they’ve never sanded before. They made small piles into big piles and back again, sometimes twice before dinner. This is the little crew from Texas that grew into a big crew from All Over the Place. This is the crew that roared.

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All Photos © 2009 Ira Weinschel

Many of us gathered on the top floor of the Temple to watch the Man burn on Saturday night & I tried to get quick portraits of as many crew members as I could. Unfortunately, quite a few of the crew were elsewhere so this collection is regrettably incomplete.

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All Photos © 2009 Ira Weinschel

These photos were all taken after the Temple was opened to the public. Except for a few photos from burn night, this is probably the last batch of photos I’ll post of the Temple itself. Two of these shots are repeats from a previous post but I wanted to include them here to complete “the set”.

Still to come: crew photos!

All Photos © 2009 Ira Weinschel

I’ve finally gone thru all the photos and pulled out a few more shots from the construction phase. These were mostly taken in the last 5 days before we opened the Temple to the public, although there are a few older shots that I neglected to post in earlier updates.

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All Photos © 2009 Ira Weinschel

Inspired by some of Ryan Hayes’ work, I decided to try a few 360 degree panoramic shots during the Temple build. The shots for this first one were taken our second day on the playa with my tripod set up over the surveyor’s flag marking the center of the Temple. They really illustrate how empty the playa was when we first got there! Work on the “man base” had just begun and I think most of the DPW volunteers were still staying in Gerlach at night.