Still Performing but No Fulltime Technomad Yet

I have not traveled in the LV for a year now. why? I've been working on my new venture that I am hoping will fund both my travels and my philosophical and political/cultural writings. I'll give a hint of where I am heading in my next post.

Burning Man Temple of Juno, 2012

Temple of Juno
Burning Man 2012

Lamplighters 3 Burning Man 2010

The Bloom Series

THE BLOOM: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals from Akira Chan Arts on Vimeo.


I have been keeping track of this website and the founder of the project Jeet-Kei Leung for a couple of years. The series is visionary but then again the subject matter is visionary. Jeet-Kei doees a great job of bringing to the rest of the world how transformational festivals are much more than music and art festivals and how they are slowly making positive changes in American culture.

Alchemy 2013

Emergent themes that I am exploring through my participation in the "Transformational" festival culture. 

NOTE: This not at all an academic article. It's just the seed thinking for a number of possible articles not to mention some semi-metaphysical musings and rambling thrown in.

Theme #1: Creativity in relation to organization and labor.

Creativity is, inherently within its unfolding processes, self-organizing.  The organizing aspects are integral and emerge from within the creative process itself.  Cultures are primarily self-sustaining not through the emergence of organizational social structures, nor by designated divisions of "work" and labor, but by the creative process that brings both organization and labor into being.  With the manifestation of organization and labor, sustainability is made feasible as an inevitable by-product of the creative process.  

Faces in Motion: Rootwire 2013

For me, there is a lot to think about here. These transformational festivals are, I think, creating something important within American popular culture. But it might be more accurate to say that they have been creating something important within American popular culture over the past 40 something years really. Through music, ritual, art, and self organized sub-communities, these festivals have been generating lifestyles, aesthetics, and values...quietly under the national radar. Culture, but rooted in what? 

Euphoria 2013; The Advantages of Smaller

was my first Burning Man  regional. It was so small compared to Burning  Man itself, but I was surprised at how much I got out of it in terms of my thinking and in meeting interesting people. The size was actually an advantage even if the event was far less "spectacular".