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Decompression

PoiPriestess — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:57:00 +0000

I love butterflies! Here’s one that I absolutely loved making, though it took a really long time to do because of all the details. It lasted throughout the day really well though, which was fun.

Is it really over?

PoiPriestess — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:03:00 +0000

When people saw decompress on my head, they mistakenly thought it was in relation to Burning Man, which I did not attend this year. Subsequently, they asked, “How can you be decompressing from an event you didn’t even attend?” I thought that was funny.
And, while I didn’t go, up until a week before, I was planning to so I had much of the months of preparation and stress associated with that without any of the upside of the experience.

In this case, it was because I was finally done with all the major editing of the footage from the DVD. The rest, which took weeks, was final proofing and DVD production stuff. I was ready to decompress from a summer of putting my heart, soul, time and energy into creating the Temple of Poi 2006 Fire Dancing Expo DVD and I was grateful to get a respite from editing. No doubt about it — iMovie is a great tool. That said, I’m sure, in retrospect, Final Cut Pro would have made the job much easier.

Bloom

PoiPriestess — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:08:00 +0000

Some IllumiNaughty friends of mine are putting together The Havilah Garden which is a project that inspired me deeply. The garden will include a walk of fear leading to enclosed garden of hope and a tree of emergence and will include lush plant life on the playa. In an environment filled with dust and lacking in lushness, I’m truly inspired to experience something alive and I imagine this will be an amazing gift for so many on the playa.

It felt great to see this old family of mine after spending so much time building the Temple for so long. These are people who have witnessed my evolution from corporate entrenched systems engineer to running the Temple full time. Many of them questioned the shift and possibility of it being a viable financial alternative to a life behind a computer desk. I’m glad to say my hopes overcame my fears and I have Bloomed into a new me — one I imagine this project will reflect at Burning Man in 2006. I’m happy to give my support to these friends and this project.