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Step 14Desert Disco Equipment
A closer look reveals many more details in addition to the ingenious green boots.
The rest of this woman's equipment includes an LED keychain flashlight, wrap-around sunglasses, and a wineskin full of drinking water. Around her neck she has a pair of swimming goggles and a dust mask in case there's a dust storm whiteout.
She is laying on her cloak of fake fur pile fabric. It's a simple rectangle just the right size to be worn conveniently over the shoulders without dragging on the ground. It can be worn tightly or loosely depending on how much warmth is needed. If necessary it can provide warmth to several people.
The LED flashlight is needed at night to see where one is going and what one is eating/drinking, but also to reveal one's location to bicycles and vehicles so they won't hit you.
The disco dome over her is a geodesic dome made from electrical conduit pipe. The ends are flattened, drilled, and bolted together to make the triangular cells of the dome.The fabric triangles tied to the frame cast a distinctive pattern of light and dark on the floor. The gaps between fabric panels are intentional to encourage cooling airflow.
The floor is carpeted with discarded carpet scraps. She chose this surface to sleep on because it is perfectly suited to the desert environment. Arabs and other desert dwellers invented pile fabric for a floor covering in dusty environment. The dust settles down among the vertical standing fibers of pile, giving you a pleasant dust-free top surface to sit or recline on.
When you travel among the Arabs you frequently see them hanging their carpets over a railing or clothesline and beating the dust out. There is little such rug-beating at burning man due to the short duration of the event.
Under her instant cave-disco fuzzy boot covers she's wearing leather boots or shoes. The alkali dust of the Playa is hard on feet. It's not too hot to walk on barefoot, but after a few days you'll get bleeding cracks around the edge of your heel. That's painful. Many camps provide tubs of vinegar-water for people to dip their feet in.
The rest of this woman's equipment includes an LED keychain flashlight, wrap-around sunglasses, and a wineskin full of drinking water. Around her neck she has a pair of swimming goggles and a dust mask in case there's a dust storm whiteout.
She is laying on her cloak of fake fur pile fabric. It's a simple rectangle just the right size to be worn conveniently over the shoulders without dragging on the ground. It can be worn tightly or loosely depending on how much warmth is needed. If necessary it can provide warmth to several people.
The LED flashlight is needed at night to see where one is going and what one is eating/drinking, but also to reveal one's location to bicycles and vehicles so they won't hit you.
The disco dome over her is a geodesic dome made from electrical conduit pipe. The ends are flattened, drilled, and bolted together to make the triangular cells of the dome.The fabric triangles tied to the frame cast a distinctive pattern of light and dark on the floor. The gaps between fabric panels are intentional to encourage cooling airflow.
The floor is carpeted with discarded carpet scraps. She chose this surface to sleep on because it is perfectly suited to the desert environment. Arabs and other desert dwellers invented pile fabric for a floor covering in dusty environment. The dust settles down among the vertical standing fibers of pile, giving you a pleasant dust-free top surface to sit or recline on.
When you travel among the Arabs you frequently see them hanging their carpets over a railing or clothesline and beating the dust out. There is little such rug-beating at burning man due to the short duration of the event.
Under her instant cave-disco fuzzy boot covers she's wearing leather boots or shoes. The alkali dust of the Playa is hard on feet. It's not too hot to walk on barefoot, but after a few days you'll get bleeding cracks around the edge of your heel. That's painful. Many camps provide tubs of vinegar-water for people to dip their feet in.
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Or both. Besides, everyone uses the inhalers now