magicglasses party

[alasdairm]

hi there

 

my friends and i threw another party this weekend as part of our burning man project.

 

460 people turned up and the atmosphere in the place was incredible. the music was also unbelievably good. you can see the first pictures here:

 

http://www.giraffelegs.com/fundraiser/index.htm

 

in honour of roberts burns night, i wore a kilt that my friend made for me.

 

namaste

 

alasdair

[alasdairm]

more cool pics:

 

http://www.magicglasses.org/pictures/party2003/claudia/

 

alasdair

[TomD]

wow the second lot of pics look amazing. looks like my kind of party - doesn't look to be any stress or anything! what was the music?

is that the same party in the two sets of pics - cos there seems to be a guy who wears the same, er... well... umm... girl's top.

digital camera?

[alasdairm]

hey - the music was trance and psytrance. pictures are from the same party...

 

alasdair

[SarahPVC]

Looks great - i really must come over to America soon!

[alasdairm]

finally found a picture of myself, from the party, that i like:

 

 

that's me and my wonderful girlfriend.

 

alasdair

Edited January 30, 2003 by alasdairm

[TomD]

psytrance... what, like infected mushroom/hallucinogen kind of stuff?

sounds/looks good party. sorry if this has been asked before, but what's the deal with the "magic" glasses?

[alasdairm]

yep - i like those guys. i particularly like: Talamasca, SUN Project, Cosmosis, X-Dream and Growling Mad Scientist

 

regarding magicglasses - check out the website: http://www.magicglasses.com

 

alasdair

[TomD]

cool cheers ali i checked the web site, but still a bit confused.... do you hand out 3d specs to folk at burning man and parties? for....?

[alasdairm]

hey tom

 

i got too baked just now and i can't type any more. i'll answer this in a little more detail tomorrow

 

alasdair

[alasdairm]

hey TomD

 

so the full magicglasses story started during an acid trip on hampstead heath in london in 1991. it's a long story which will have to wait until another time.

 

regarding the burning man camp, basically we go to the desert and build a 40-foot long tunnel and a 40-foot diameter dome. you can see them both here:

 

http://www.magicglasses.com/pictures/burningman/bm2001/cwdata/camp.html

 

(they both look much better at night)

 

the dome is our dance tent and we have a soundsystem and play music from about 7.00pm until sunrise every night. it's lit up with blacklight from inside and it glows.

 

the tunnel is full of about 5000 xmas tree lights and we invite people to walk through it wearing magicglasses - which we provide. it's pretty trippy on drugs or sober:

 

http://www.magicglasses.com/pictures/burningman/bm2000/cwdata/AUT_5151_JPG.html

 

it makes people smile a lot which is pretty much the reason for doing it. words don't do burning man much justice and pictures are little better but there are lots of pictures at the magicglasses website which give a flavour of the event...

 

all the best

 

alasdair

[TomD]

alasdair,

 

wow that sounds pretty cool. it all makes sense now... kind of!