Brûleurs Event Weekend
Photo by Jamie Janx Johnston
This weekend was one crazy epic weekend of 5 events from Wednesday to Sunday, all put on by different subsets of people from Brûleurs de Montréal. Needless to say, there was a lot of crossover between the organizers and volunteers of these events, and I think everyone's pretty tired by now. I was involved in two events this weekend, and that was definitely pushing it for me!
On Saturday we had Block Party, a fundraiser for the epic art project Fire Tetris, the artistic brain child of Jody McIntyre, a local in our community.
This project is unbelievably cool, an over 20 foot metal sculpture of a game board that lets participants play Tetris, with all of the pieces made of fire. The sculpture is made of of dozens of welded metal boxes, each one connected to it's own propane pipe, and is controlled in the same way that pixels on a computer screen are. When the participant presses a specific button, it lights up the fire pixel to create the effect of the classic video game of Tetris.
Needless to say, a project of this magnitude requires an awful lot of money to produce. Although Jody received a grant from Burning Man this year, his team still needs to raise about $10,000 to complete this project. So, they threw an epic fundraiser to try and raise some of what they need.
Photo by Jamie Janx Johnston
And what's a Burner Event without an Archimedes Design Dome!
One of our community members Derek Jones decided that he liked the dome that Archimedes displayed at taBURNak so much, that he wanted to purchase it and keep it in our region. So, this beautiful multi-pink dome will be seen at Burner events all around the city from now on!
A beautiful addition to a wicked setup by the Fire Tetris crew!
Photo by Nicolas Laudo
The Fire Tetris kickstarter will be launching soon, so keep your eye on firetetris.com for awesome ways that you can contribute to this epic project to help these guys get it to Burning Man this year!
Photo by Jamie Janx Johnston
The second event I helped host this weekend was Music @ The Gazebo by Bruleurs De Montreal on Sunday afternoon. It ended up being a gloriously sunny day, almost balancing out how tired we all were from the night before.
Such a stunning view and such a gorgeous day to set up these lovely structures.
Seven good friends Dj'ed all afternoon. I love all their music, and can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon then to hang out in the sun and listen to them!
[Click Image to Play Video] Video by Noah Gitelman
14:00: Vau|to (Liquid Drum & Bass)
15:00: Andreya Wolf [FEMALE] (UK Funky House) 16:00: nouvo (House)
17:00: Sam Vipond (Tech House, Bass)
18:15: Forage [XY] VS Asha [XX] (Techno)
19:45: Half-truth* (Modern Classics)
Photo by Scott RP
Video by Noah Gitelman
Photo by Scott RP
Video by Noah Gitelman
It was a wonderful day hanging out in shaded domes after a hard night of rockin' it.
A full, but lovely weekend indeed. Although now I feel like I could sleep for a week...
But onwards and upwards! It's summer in Montreal now, and that means the city does not sleep!
