Semana Santa en Granada......from my past fieldwork

.Cofradía "Los Gitanos", El Cristo del Consuelo, La Virgen de las Estrellas (María Santísima del Sacromonte), Flamenco (El Camarón de la Isla), y Toreros ("El Fandi")

Burning Man "DearTemple of Transition" 2011, by Ian MacKenzie

[not my photo. Not sure whose it is].

Dear Temple of Transition - A Burning Man Short Film from Ian MacKenzie on Vimeo.

A little nostalgia- I haven't been back to Burning Man since 2012. Not much traveling....

The actual music inside the Temple was Indonesian Gamelan music. The system worked like a player piano except it was the parts of a gamelan orchestra located all over the walls of the temple. The instruments of  the orchestra are all of the xylophone and gong families (metallophones). They were triggered by some kind of electronic script.

The emotional intensity of the Temple doesn't convey well on video- but MacKenzie managed to convey it very well with this short film- so I thought I would post it here.

 

Abraxas Dragon from Burning Man- in Washington D.C.

I have not done as much traveling as I would have liked due to many different events over the past few years. Here is a little blast from the past.

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El Rocio con Granada

"En La Tierra o la Luna,
Como Granda Ninguna...."

Los Jinetes de Costa Este Rocio (The Horsemen-and ladies- of Costa Este Rocio)

                                                                                   

To El Rocio Costa Este: Aiken, South Carolina

I'll have a lot to say about this adventure because it's a long overdue follow up to my dissertation work: El Rocio: A Study in Music and Ritual in Andalusia, Spain" (2007). It's also a related to my "Music in Exile" explorations, as well as to my Burning Man regional studies. There is now a Rocio here in the U.S., just as there is a Burning Man, now in Spain- albeit for different reasons.

 Thursday, June 1, 2017

Once you get to North Carolina  there are some very well maintained midsection along the road.... 

 The first place I stopped for the night, in Aiken, was very nice and very affordable- just $25 for full hook-up. But on the other hand, it may also have been where one of my Alcoa hubcaps and set of bolt covers were stolen.

  Hard to imagine this is 2017!

My Technology Project I: The Aurora Bright Bike and BMX. Still in the making....

Aurora Smart Technologies has 4 Patents now (under my name). If you are interested, we are looking for investors!

Here is our website: www.aurorabrightbikes.com

and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOwM1OeHF5KgyoD50rMMl9w