A photo from the archives.  June 15, 2008, cleaning up art supplies at my son’s old school, Crestmont School.

Close up of the giant metal woman sculpture, found on its side behind American Steel, on 20th Street between Poplar and Mandella Parkway.  This sculpture appeared earlier in the Art Shadow post.  Picture taken August 18, 2009.

I saw the sculpture being loaded on a flatbed truck just this last Tuesday (August 25), presumably on its way to Black Rock City.

Some other pictures taken the same day at the same location appeared on Myrtle Street Review.

Shadow cast by a large metal sculpture of a woman, back in April, 2009. The shadow is cast on the side of the American Steel building.

You may have seen this sculpture on the playa at Burning Man, or at the Fire Arts Festival.

Viewed from afar, from Poplar St behind American Steel.

These night shots show my friend Eddie Adams playing with an illuminated parasol.  This was at a fabulous campout with a bunch of friends this last weekend.

The parasol was made by Michael Ang.  Eddie has her own blog.

The light is shining through the paper the parasol is made of.

I think these are especially awesome because they’re a better execution of my own LED spray cans I built for the 2006 Burning Man project, “The Ephemeral Graffiti Wall.”  I built this project with my friends Jonathan Mayer and Erik Gilling.

The Ephemeral Graffiti Wall was a 40 foot long plywood wall painted with glow-in-the-dark paint.  One “painted” on the glow-paint using the LED in the spray can.  The pictures below show the spray cans I made for the wall, some of my original notes for the spray can design, and a picture of what “painting” on the wall looked like.  My friend Girts even riffed on the spray can, using a microcontroller to make a light printer.

Aissa Logerot’s lucite spray cans are gorgeous.  They also incorporate a feature I wanted in my own spray cans: a shake-to-charge mechanism.  I opted against this feature due to cost and time constraints, instead using 4 AA batteries and a marble for shaking effect.

I’m pleased to report that after 1 week on the playa and 3 years later, several of these “spray cans” remain operational, still with their original batteries.

Jonathan has a collection of photos on Flickr showing the wall from conception through execution and final destruction.