A very strange scene, totally filmic (reminds me of Derek Jarman)

love the blink. maybe it's the noise of the wind, eh?

This is cool. What IS that thing?

Haha! This is great! Is this from Burning Man?

Yeah definitely has a burning man quality to it.

Amazing and puzzling, like a scene out of a movie.

Thanks for the great reaction, everyone... I can never loose with these Burning Man dust shots it seems. :) Greg, it's both the dust and the camera that produced the noise...and the wind too, gianello!

I realize most of you probably can't even tell what this thing is, so I'll explain a little bit. Basically, it's a three seated, mobile, feet-propelled ferris wheel type thing. It's hard to see because of all the *noise*, but someone is getting seated down at the bottom. There's three chairs suspended in a triangle with pedals and attached to chains to propel them around the inside of a geared circle at the middle of the larger circle.

So what happens is a huge amount of g-forces on the riders as the chairs rotate ferris-wheel-style with intense flings as you rotate over the top on the swinging chairs. They rotate inside of this larger circle which begins to roll slowly across the desert as a result of the geared rings that connect the large circle to the chair set-up.

It's totally wild, and a lot more intense than a ferris wheel, more like the Twister. Can you see a star on the side? It lights up at night so from across the desert you can see a star rolling around... this time it just happened to almost come down on top of me through the dust storm out of nowhere! I put the camera away and hopped on one of those empty seats for my first ride...ooooohhhaaa! www.burningman.com =)

great buring man shot and like most great burning man shots there is a girl with a bathing suit on...this noise, the natural kind is wonderous!