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Bonnaroo (2008)

Bonnaroo - The mother of all music fests. Woodstock for the new millenium. Over 100,000 people camping out in a 700 acre field in Manchester, TN for three days in complete anarchy.

We cheated serious injury (and death) for another year.

We also reunited Camp Rubber Chicken (we met with our neighbors from last year's trip).

    GPS
    I got lost for over 8 hours on the first night of Bonnaroo 2006 (couldn't find my campsite in the middle of a cold rainy night). Never mind the fact that I was a three-year veteran. I also got lost for a few ours the year prior. I vowed never to let this happen again. That's all I would need for inspiration to buy a GPS. I then figured out a way to automatically stamp any photos that I take with my digital camera with the location I took the photo. That's all I needed to make it a no-brainer. I didn't even come close to getting lost since (even finding my way in the pitch black crowd after to exactly where we were sitting for shows after a bathroom break). I also turned it on for the entire weekend (whenever I could remember). Our location on earth (within 6 feet of accuracy) was stamped every single second. The tracklog shows that we walked over 12 miles in those few days (again, whenever I remembered to turn it on.)
    What a long strange trip it was.
    I have posted all of the GPS data (waypoints, tracklog, photo geocoding, etc.) collected over the weekend here:
  • Google Earth (KMZ)
    It may take a while to load up, so be patient. Try doing a "play tour" on any of the paths and you can watch from our point of view.

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The ticket to get in the thing. Notice that it's actually in the shape of (cut around, i.e. not rectangle) the character. Also, his grill is that laser/foil hologram stuff like on credit cards. Betcha the counterfeiters were having a time with this one!
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The ticket to get in the thing. Notice that it's actually in the shape of (cut around, i.e. not rectangle) the character. Also, his grill is that laser/foil hologram stuff like on credit cards. Betcha the counterfeiters were having a time with this one!

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  • The ticket to get in the thing. Notice that it's actually in the shape of (cut around, i.e. not rectangle) the character. Also, his grill is that laser/foil hologram stuff like on credit cards. Betcha the counterfeiters were having a time with this one!
  • The Camp Rubber Chicken group made their rendevous. Here, we're waiting in the back-gate line - and our mascots representin'
  • Enough kids' toys in this tree?
  • Americana. A jackass (donkey), barn, and outhouse all on the same tiny chunk of land.
  • Silent Disco is one of my simple favorites. Everybody "at the disco" has a pair of headphones on and dance away as if they were any other club. The beauty is for those that actually aren't participating - we can't hear what they're dancing along with and it looks like a bunch of people having seizures. The dancers are lost in the moment with their headphones on, the spectators just watch in total oblvion to what they are dancing. Brilliant.
  • The Silent Disco is an annual favorite.<br />
Here's the deal: everybody in "the disco" is listening to headphones and dancing to what they hear.<br />
Those voyeurs of us on "the outside" can't hear the music that's playing, so basically you end up with those in "da' club" totally jamming while those of us without headphones perceive it as a group seizure.
  • New this year, the Shadow Stage became one of my favorites. The logo says, "Come and play!" <br />
Turns out that it is an acting version of random improv/karaoke. <br />
Whenever you want, jump on stage and interact with the other people and props currently in play. The whole time, an off-stage "director" just points his flashlight randomly.<br />
Here you see kids fighting adults with swords while two gay guys just start making out in the background. Exhibitionism run amok.
  • Hot summer nights at the Centeroo Fountain
  • "What sign?"
  • Life-sized version of a Lite-Brite
  • Hotties on haystacks
  • Untitled photo
  • Centeroo and the Ferris wheel
  • "Shutup and let mommy and daddy listen to the band!"
  • Listening to !!!
  • "Mommy, I'm trippin'!"
  • Casey, Karly, and Deborah dancing to !!!
  • At the main stage getting ready for The Raconteurs
  • Toddler chicken fight champions
  • "I know I left my wallet in here somewhere."
  • Cheap Juicy Bags

    on January 14, 2011

    The fire of pain traces for my soul a luminous path across her sorrow

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