Progress!

Learn about Brainy Bar's placement and 2022 plans here

Brainy Bar by day I am very excited to announce that Brainy Bar has received placement at Burning Man 2022! We will be placed on 3:00 in the Glimmer Plaza (check out the 2022 city layout here) – it’s a whole new kind of placement for us, but we’re up for the challenge and looking forward to another exciting adventure on the playa. Service Please We will of course continue to operate the Brainy…

Brainy Bar is coming back to the Black Rock Desert!

Brainy Bar by day The best laid plans of mice and Brainy Barbarians…. we had such high hopes for 2020, but the world threw us all a whole bunch of curveballs. We are feeling confident and excited that Burning Man’s going to happen this year and the Brainy Bar is planning to be there. We’re still planning on running the Brainy Bar (with options for drinkers as well as non-drinkers) at different…

Explorer’s Club Poster

Explorer’s Club – a 36 inch by 48 inch art poster. It was made as part of the lounge space decor art for the Brainy Bar at Burning Man in 2019.

Our 2019 plans call for one of our most ambitious front-of-house builds yet. We will not only be expanding the space significantly, but giving it a victorian steampunk theme. Subsequently, that means retiring our future art theme posters and coming up…

We are extremely excited to report that Brainy Bar has been placed! You can find us at Burning Man 2019 on Bacchus at approximately 4:45. This spot mid-way down the block puts us fairly close to the Esplanade, just off the new plaza at 4:30 and Bacchus. Check out the city map below, and check out this post on the official Burning Man site for more info about the city and street names in 2019.

Yesterday marked an important milestone for us – it was generator day! That’s one of those playa preparation days that rarely gets talked about online and has probably never been a trending topic anywhere… but it is no less important.

Very large camps may rent big generators to cover their needs. More state-of-the-art camps may have gone solar. And much smaller camps may not have power at…

I made these labels a couple years ago, to go on the bottles of my  Limoncello Of Doom (my own personal thing, not a part of camp service or gifting). Pani and I had been fans of the lemon liqueur for years. After a chance encounter with a random stranger at Burning Manin 2011 I was inspired to make my own. For that first year’s batch, I used glass bottles and laser etched a label directly onto…

Building The Evaporator in 2018

The Finished Evaporator

I wear a few hats with my theme camp(called the Brainy Bar)at Burning Man. I lead the camp, I’m the build lead, and also am often either the art lead or co-lead. That gives me an opportunity to work on all kinds of projects, including this gray water evaporator. This post takes you through building the evaporator in 2018

What Is A Theme Camp?

First things first,…

Our 2018 Rubber Stamps were some of my favorite designs yet. This year, we had access to a laser cutter in our studio, so I could spend more time fine tuning the designs and getting the best results possible. Maker spaces are a great place to start, but it can be tough to get time on popular tools (and the laser cutter was the most popular tool in the workshop).

Origin Story

Back in 2012,…

We’re Not Savages

We’re Not Savages – a 36 inch by 48 inch art poster. It was made as part of the lounge space decor art for the Brainy Bar at Burning Man in 2016. 

Our plan was to reuse Alien Seed, Fertility 7.0, Dia De Los Quemadures, Retrocausality, Infinite Connections, The Magnificent Simulacra, Aquatica, and Cacotopiaposters from 2015 to decorate the Brainy Bar lounge space. We got a lot of positive…

Welcome to the Brainy Bar – a watering hole for big thinkers! Thank you for joining us, and please bear with as we get everything sorted out. Over the years we have had a number of different web site designs, created with a variety of different programs and hosted through various methods.

Now is the part where we should probably mention something clever about 2019 being quite a year for meta…

Reasonably Good Chance Of Survival - 2011

Reasonably Good Chance Of Survival – a poster Trilo created with Pani (along with Public Service Announcement). We were looking for a way to bring our cats with us to the desert. In spirit, of course, the Black Rock Desert is no place for our furry friends. It was part of the Steampunk Airship Outpost theme camp art for Eridu Society at Burning Man in 2011.