fire arts festival was wicked cool

It took me forever to finally get around to uploading the photos, and now I'm finally getting around to blogging about it...

We went across the bay to Oakland to see the festival, put on by The Crucible. I love public transportation here - we just hopped the bus up to the BART, and then took the BART under the bay to Oakland. The stop was literally a block from the event.



The Fire Arts Festival was an entire city block transformed into a fire theatre. There were enormous interactive fire installations, and fire sculptures, and fire machines. There was "Dance, Dance Immolation" - where you get into an enormous fire suit and do DDR but if you get the moves wrong you get engulfed in flames. I did not try this. The team from SRL was there with some color-changing fire robots and mechanical fire stuff I can't even describe. The whole festival was essentially my two favorite things; metal sculpture and big fire. (Oh yeah, and there was this big production in the middle that was a play called the Fire Odyssey, which is better left not even talking about. There is not enough beer in the world...)

The whole thing is better said in pictures, anyways.