The biggest burn in Burning Man history occurred on Saturday night at the Oil Derrick. Over 2000 gallons of fuel were used to create a massive fireball in the middle of the Black Rock Desert.
This art piece was called "Crude Awakening" and was by Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito, Black Rock FX, Pyrokinetics, Nate Smith, Mark Perez and MonkeyBoy.
More info available at: burningman.com/installations/07_art_fund.html#crude
More photos available at: flickr.com/photos/tags/crudeawakening/
Taken at Burning Man 2007
sfslim, Mulling it Over, and 42 other people added this photo to their favorites.
J_blu 70 months ago | reply
It was so awesome to behold---amazing capture!
LindseyAnne 70 months ago | reply
did you know that this was called 'crude awakening' ? :)
veo_ 70 months ago | reply
Haha, I didn't know what it was called all week. :)
mattlong 70 months ago | reply
Great pic! Thanks for capturing it. I was too mesmerized to snap any pix. ;)
veo_ 70 months ago | reply
Thank you. I was pretty mesmerized myself.. I knew the blast was coming so I lined my camera up with where I *thought* the blast would be and when it went off I just pulled the trigger.
I was extremely lucky to get the frame I did. :D
Paddy McDougall 70 months ago | reply
absolutely amazing shot
yeoldeblackhippie 70 months ago | reply
top of the world, ma! LOL! great pic !
Fanny Brown Rice 63 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called www.flickr.com/groups/649247@N24/, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
KABOOM! this is why I need to go to burning man.
Mr Marples 63 months ago | reply
WoW Just Great
chasen54 24 months ago | reply
I would like to use this for an article on my political site agoraprojectmagazine.com/ Please let me know if I may use this. Thanks!