Flame Effects

2006-06-14T11:29:00.000-07:00

Flaming Lotus Girls / Angel of the Apocalypse
A bird-like shape made from metal and drift wood. The head and wings use propane and liquid fuel for flame effects. The wings are as tall as 20'. The audience is allowed to control the propane effects on the inner wings.

2006-06-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

Matt Crooks / ManBot
35' (or maybe 25') tall flame shooting robot

2006-06-10T18:01:00.000-07:00

Dave King / U-Bangees
Group: Controlled Burn Reno
4 fire cannons using propane for 40' flames

2006-06-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Orion Fredericks / ThermoKraken - Angel of Destruction
Group: Therm
A 26' tall, 1000 lb performance piece that uses propane and alcohol. This one screams howls and pops.

2006-06-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

Skot Croshere / Breath of Fire
This is what happens when you combine a breathalyzer, microcontroller, and solenoid valve. Along with some shapely looking plywood, A2D converter and LCD. The drunker you are the bigger the flame. Nice parts write up included on site.

2006-06-04T14:56:00.000-07:00

Lucy Hoskings / Satans Calliope
Probably the most advanced piece of fire art ever made. A tuned (although you would never believe it when you hear it) pipe organ that breathes fire. The organ consists of 17 pulse jets, 14 truck horns, 14 organ pipes and two vertical flares. Propane is used to create the notes. All of this sits on a working electric golf cart. A midi keyboard is used by Lucy during performance. Unfortunately there is very little information about this project on-line.

2006-06-04T14:44:00.000-07:00

Nat Bletter / Exploding Bubbles
Soap Bubbles, propane, and helium. Threaded metal rods hold up the structure. The flame ring was covered in steel wool. Issues such as bubbles escaping without being ignited, and the pan of bubbles occasionally catching on fire would come up.
Video

2006-05-30T11:43:00.000-07:00

Orion Fredericks / Echevaria
Glass piece with vortex of water and fire running inside. Lit by a 300W halogen. The glass can be replaced with a stainless steel / copper structure which makes use of water and methanol.
Video

2006-05-30T11:27:00.000-07:00

Charlie Smith / Tunnel of Transformation

2006-05-30T11:18:00.000-07:00

Kasia Wojnarski / Tunnel of Transformation

2006-05-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann / The Passage
30' tall mother and 20' child pass a liquid flame between hands which eventually ends up in a long pool of fire in front of them. There are large concrete footsteps that lead up to the sculptures which also have a liquid fire element at night.

2006-05-30T10:40:00.000-07:00

Pyrostino / Frank the Firesaur
Art car with eight propane fire cannons includes "ability to pump out flaming bursts of syncronized percussion".

2006-05-25T10:36:00.000-07:00

Robert (Rigger) Kilpatrick / Bizarro Saguaro
Inspired by a cactus that caught fire from lightning in Tucson, AZ.

2006-05-25T09:51:00.000-07:00

Kal / Respirator
Group: SEEMEN
Cannibalized EKG hooked up to fire ring, pulses with heartbeat.
Video

2006-05-25T09:40:00.000-07:00

Lee Chubb / Firegrid
8x8 grid of ball valves with servo motors opening and closing based on pressure sensitive pad controlled by audience. Flame vortexes are produced to withstand wind with additional compressed air mounted horizontal to pilot.

2006-05-22T17:42:00.000-07:00

Flaming Lotus Girls / Hand of God
12' tall women's hand made of copper. Uses liquid fuel with metal salts to achieve multi-colored plumes of flame up to 100' tall.
Video

2006-05-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

Kiki / Firefall - Egeria
3 tiered firefall

2006-05-22T15:13:00.000-07:00

Danya Parkinson, Joe Bard / Pyrokinetics
Pendulum of Fire
Video

2006-05-22T12:53:00.000-07:00

Matt Blackwell, Ian Baker, Jonathan Shekter, and Morley John / Dance Dance Immolation
Based on the "video game Dance Dance Revolution, but with fire! Basically, you play DDR; when you do well, the computer shoots big propane blasts up into the air. When you do poorly, it shoots you in the face with flamethrowers."

2006-05-19T17:18:00.000-07:00

Christian Ristow / Subjugator
One of the few pieces of fire art that can lift 1500 lbs and shoot a 15' stream of fire.

2006-05-19T17:10:00.000-07:00

Therm / Darwin
This cutty burns propane and alcohol. The flame can be up to 3' tall and has a few different effects.

2006-05-19T16:44:00.000-07:00

Flaming Lotus Girls / 7-Sisters
15min documentary
7 fire sculptures named after the Pleiades. The central sculpture named Electra can fire 100' spinning flames.

2006-05-19T16:24:00.000-07:00

Nate Smith / Fire Vortex
As of Burningman 2004 this device has been renamed to the singularity machine. Fans are used to create a vortex of fire. Several revisions have been made since the first 2002 versions.

2006-05-18T10:46:00.000-07:00

SIMNUKE Team / SIMNUKE PROJECT
Flame effect emulating a nuclear mushroom cloud. Timed with 60th anniversary of original nuclear test at Trinity.
Video

2006-05-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

Jim Mason, Michael Christian, Alexander Rose / ICP
Impotence Compensation Project
300' kerosene launchers. Uses 30 gallons of kerosene per second.

2006-05-18T09:28:00.000-07:00

Neal Ormond / Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix
Video

2006-05-16T09:04:00.000-07:00

Kal Spelletich / Fire Shower
Group: SEEMEN

2006-05-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

Bob Hofmann / Pyrocussion
Fire based percussive sounds.
Video: Decom San Francisco 2005

2006-05-16T08:09:00.000-07:00

Eric Singer / Flaming Simon
Propane based life size Simon game.

2006-05-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

Scott Kildall / Pyrocycles
Eight bicyclists towing 10' tall trailers. Microcontroller based - riders can adjust flame height and frequency.
Video: Burningman 2003

2006-05-15T22:15:00.000-07:00

Mikey Sklar / "The High-Lighter"
Video: "The High-Lighter"
Description: Trampoline that release propane gas based on jump height. Microcontroller based. Ages 4 and up.

2006-05-15T21:34:00.000-07:00

Paul Holman / Thermite with Water and ICE
Group: Schmoo Group
Video: Thermite with Water and ICE
Fuel: ferrite + magnesium

2006-05-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

David Silverman / Flaming Tuba
Fabbed By: Shannon Brown
Group: Phoenix Projekt
Video: "Oops I did it again" (Brittany Spears cover)
Image: Burningman
Fuel: Propane