Ok, I’m going to burning man. I don’t know what to expect but I’m hoping to have a great art experience. Last two weeks, I was building a geodesic dome, with help from a Chris White and the fire flies! The dome is subject of another blog post but the good news is yesterday we assembled it and it looked stable and functional!!

The point of this post is our art project – Resurrection Altar!

What is Resurrection Altar?
Resurrection altar is a communal art project with a tad bit of environmental and geek consciousness. Over the span of seven days we will decorate the Altar with different Rangoli design, which folks are welcome to participate in making! At the Altar you can make your resurrection wish and tie a piece of plastic to the AltarCross! At the end of the burningman we will burn the AltarCross and make a plastic monster out of the Resurrection plastic bands. This monster will live until you resurrect, right?

Time for pictures. These are all the making of, pictures!

Fig 1. A 20x30inch Poster – our camp sign during the day!

Fig  2. Altar camp sign – This sign will illuminate at Night

Fig 3. Rangoli Design – The Jain Map of Universe. We will make a stencil out of this.

Fig 4. Rangoli Design – we will make a stencil out of this.

Fig 5. The AltarCross.

More pictures coming! Come help out with the preparations!!

On Aug 21-22, I’ll attempt to climb Mt. Rainier with Team Asha. Through the season the Team has really prepared hard to make this a successful and enjoyable climb! All the familiar faces and a very familiar cause! Please support the climbers and the cause!

The Cause?

I have climbed Rainier in 2006, 2009 with a different causes – ranging from personal to helping Mayaboli school.  I’m continuing the same causes this time but also helping a tiny bit in making other climbers succeed in their personal and benevolent goals!

I’m looking forward to amazing weather, a great team and fun times! I get to use my climber’s pass again this season!

Support

This December 2010 (Dec 14, 2010 – Jan 5, 2011) I’m planning to bike along the Indian peninsula, perhaps from Chennai to Goa. I’m starting this articles to keep track of all the planning required for this trip. The goal is to cover about 60 miles a day and also take a couple of days off for sight-seeing.

Fig 1. 1300 miles from Chennai to Goa

Update (Sep 24): So the itinerary is like 2100km in 21 days, which might not leave time for sight seeing. So the current thinking is to reduce the Chennai to Madurai leg. The must dos are –

• Temples in south India (Madurai)
• Night on a house boat in Kerala
• Two days in Goa

Resources

• A very good ride report from Mr.Pumpy.