Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Crude Awakening Explosion

This is one of many videos of the explosion of the Crude Awakening art installation at Burning Man 2007. The blast was preceded by a massive fireworks display. I felt an intense heat from it a 1/4 mile away. There was a mushroom cloud of smoke!

The explosion demolished a 100 foot high oil derrick, but left standing giant worshipers. Later a tree was placed amid the ruins of the derrick.

1 comment:

Jonathan said...

Bought two tickets at the $210.00 level by clicking on the link the minute it activated, 10am PST today, 1/16/08.

There was a hour wait until the actual purchase, so it looks like all 10,000 $210 tickets will sell out today.