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Japan Relief

2011-03-30T17:04:29Z

Thunderstick:

Please note this is a draft - 3/30/2011

The Troubled Waters / Tohoku Kanto Earthquake-Tsunami Relief Effort

On March 11, 2011 Japan was hit by the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. This offshore quake triggered a tsunami that wiped away entire villages on the Northern shore of Japan north of Tokyo. To add to the devastation, the earthquake damaged infrastructure supporting the Fukishima nuclear reactor facility putting a large zone at risk of nuclear contamination. The Japanese refer to these events as the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake-Tsunami, or more broadly - the March 11 disaster.

The people of the Tohoku region of northern Japan are in desperate need of the most basic elements of survival. As of March 21st 2011, Japanese government sources reported to the media that more than 1.3 million Japanese were without access to food or clean drinking water and more than 500,000 thousand citizens were left without homes. The disruption to the infrastructure has left many without food, water, shelter, fuel or communications. Current reports exceed 10,000 dead and another 11,000 missing with hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes.

Given the extent of the damage, official responses have been and will continue to be directed to the largest concentrations of population or along major lines of communication.

Our mission is to locate a village in Iwate Prefecture outside of the government’s ability to assist or rebuild and establish a base camp from which we can provide hope and save lives in the form of warm food, clean water, electricity, temporary shelter as needed to that village and surrounding villages. In addition we will set up a social area where people can relax, charge cell phones, enjoy a warm meal, play a board game, and otherwise provide relief from the burden of this disaster.

The mission was conceived by Keith Miller, PhD, a director of international schools who has lived in Japan for over 15 years. Dr. Miller contacted his longtime friend and former military colleague, Alfred Werner, a technology entrepreneur, to put together a plan and a team to provide relief to Japan.

We will have our first ‘feet on the ground’ as of April 2. This first team will coordinate final purchase of supplies and vehicles outside the stricken area, to be met by the second team arriving April 9 to drive into Iwate and setup base camp. Over the following months volunteers will be arriving to staff the base camp, prepare meals, deliver water, and build shelter. These volunteers come largely from the Philadelphia PA Burning Man community, who have expressed a strong desire to help in any way possible.

To achieve our goals, we anticipate the following purchases:
Water truck, or large truck to deliver potable water; motorcycle for offroad access, personal vehicle donated for team use. Two 7500 Watt generators and fuel cans/drums. Field kitchen including propane rice cookers griddles and stoves, sinks, pots/pans, reusable eating ware for 250 people. Building and demolition tools and supplies including chainsaws, wrecking bars, portable power tools, screws, lumber, etc. Air travel for volunteers.

We estimate initial setup costs at approximately $40,000 US dollars. Running the kitchen to provide 3 hot meals a day for 250 people at $1 per day will cost $22,500 per month and our ability to raise money will determine how long we can continue our efforts.

We will be creating a website with additional details and a paypal contribution button in the next few days.

Disorient

2011-03-30T16:56:33Z

Thunderstick:

Welcome to [[Image:Disorient_dot_logo_full.png|400px]] 

Next Disorient Event: 
Disorient presents: GLAMTECH 2011 
Saturday, April 2, 2011 | 10:00PM - 5:00AM 
[http://disorient.ticketleap.com/glamtech2011/t/dw Get tickets now!] 
[http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183657268338650 Get more info, receive updates, RSVP & invite your friends on Facebook] 
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==Disorient going to Northern Japan to provide disaster relief!==
A group of Disorient Burners are headed to Northern Japan in response to the Tohoku Kanto Earthquake/Tsunami to provide clean water, hot food, and comfort to some of the many displaced people in the area. Please read our [[Japan_Relief]] page for more information.

==Disorient is a camp at Burning Man==
Disorient has been a [[camp]] at [http://www.burningman.com Burning Man] since 2001. In 2010, Disorient is on the Esplanade. Our interactive installation the [[Art Car Wash|Art Car Wash]] will buff your bumpers with a grooving daytime disco. Come play, learn and grow with us. 

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The [[Art Car Wash]] is a sexy daytime disco and interactive zone for art cars, art car drivers, and anyone who enjoys getting their bumpers buffed. All mutant vehicles (and non-vehicles...) are invited to chill out at the Art Car Wash and get buffed, blown, and waxed to the sounds of groovalicious daytime [[Playa_Schedule#Burning_Man_2010|DJ sets]]. Interactive docking stations allow all playa participants to join in the fun. Now with more misters, hand mitts, bubbles and other buffy fuzzy things! So head on over, and roll on in... 

'''Disorient is also about [[sound]] and performance'''. In addition to our [[music|residents]] [[Playa_Schedule|we invite DJs]] to play on our [[sound|sound system]]. During the week of Burning Man, we set-up a live music stage and invite [[live music|bands]] to perform. 

==Disorient is an art collective==

Disorient is an open creative platform powered by love. We create [[art projects]] and [[art installations]] with hardware including [[Astral Carpet Lounge|wood]], scaffolding, palette rack, [[containers]], [[Watershed|recycled materials]], [[Body_Painting_Cell|your body]], [[geodesic domes]], [http://www.akairways.com inflatable structures], [[video]], repurposed objects, black lights and [[dex|vehicles]]. We develop software for our installations (DMX sequencing, MAX, Java, C, etc.). Our guiding principles are outlined in the [[Disorient Model]] and in the [[Political Economy of Disorient|Political Economy of Disorient]]. 

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Our contribution to the vernacular includes [[pornj|Pornj]] and [[GlamTech|GlamTech]].

==Disorient events==

When we are not on the Playa, we organize [[Events|events]] to raise funds for our camp and support Burning Man. 
 
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In 2009 we organized our first parties outside the US in Brazil and Argentina. As of July 2010, Disorient has 1000 members and 50,000 posts on our online forum, [http://puddle.disorient.info/ The Puddle]; even more in social networks and in deep cover. They're about 50% US East Coast, mostly NYC and Philadelphia, 20% West Coast/Central US and 30% outside the US, including members in the UK, Russia, Israel, Canada, Hong Kong, Sweden, France, Argentina, Japan, Lithuania, Brazil, Australia and Germany. Although throwing down for years, 2010 also saw our first official Disorient events in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. 

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Japan Relief

2011-03-30T16:50:19Z

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Early Arrival

2007-07-19T16:10:11Z

Thunderstick: /* 2007 Week-End Arrival List (Saturday and Sunday) */

for campers registered with Disorient only 

==Week-End Arrival (2007 process)==
People who absolutely need to arrive over the weekend, (Saturday and Sunday, August 25th and 26th) to work on their camp set-ups. 

Here's some information concerning WEEKEND-ARRIVAL, so you can plan accordingly: 

- Your camp will be given passes for a certain number of people. 
- Your camp will be 100% responsible for distributing those passes to the proper people. 
- Once that number is reached, no other people from your camp will be allowed entry until Monday, August 27th, at 12:01AM, when the gate officially opens. 
- The responsibility will be on the theme-camps and villages to make sure that the proper people receive their passes and show up at the gate with the passes in hand. 
- The number of people will be much more limited than in past years. 

==2007 Week-End Arrival List (Saturday and Sunday)==
Deadline: July 19, 2007 
Add (log-in and click ''edit'' on the top navigation bar) your name to this list if you want to be allowed to enter BRC the week-end before the event starts (from Saturday 12:01 AM to Monday 12:01 AM). 

Ross Bochnek (RoBo) 
Nina Sobell (Neen) 
Michael Enslow (Big Dawg) 
James Becker (Jester Jaimi/Virgil) 
Ed Vessel (Friar Tuck) 
Junko Otsuki 
Jamie Slater 
Raya Dukhan 
Ky Nguyen 
Nicole Hermes (Niki) 
Lisa Michelle Pollak 
Susan Buck (Soooz) 
Jan Van Pak 
Laura Carmenker (LClicious) 
Kristin E. Wynn 
Kumanan Jayadevan (JK) 
Alexandre Tannous 
Ehud (Udi) Pladott (Rumble) 
Ilya Ravich 
Svetlana Ozhegova (Svetis) 
Archer Hutchinson 
Carrie Hart (Playa Barbie) 
John Hart (Mal-Qui) 
Amy Ehninger (Mirrorball) 
Mads Rune Christensen 
Gabrielle Penabaz (Saint Eve) 
Patrick O'Connor (Rasp Thorne) 
Tristen Waters 
Corrie Mcdonald 
Andrew Watkins 
Elijah Vanaver 
Evan Graj 
George Mueller 
Scott Draves 
William Oberlin 
Alfred Werner 
 

==2006 Early Arrival List 2 (Saturday and Sunday)==
closed as of August 9th, 2006 
* Kate Madden (k8) 
* Stacy Sanders 
* William Oberlin (lobster rocket) 
* Ross Bochnek (RoBo) 
* Nina Sobell 
* Carrie Barich (playa barbie) 
* John Hart (mal) 
* maryann hulsman (orange) 
* Jonathon Zander (yoni - dead letter) 
* Evan Bishop (dead letter) 
* Brian Smith (dead letter) 
* Victoria Moore (dead letter) 
* Lauren Pedersen (dead letter) 
* Charlie Evans 
* Ted Werth 
* Jessica Dalton (Sefirah) 
* Michael Byrnes 
* Sarah Hoppe 
* John Malkovich 
* Ky Nguyen 
* Jaimi Becker (Jester Jaimi) 
* Fay Serafica 
* Vlad Ilin 
* Lauren Kelleher 
* Jeanne Angel

LNT Efforts

2007-05-30T08:57:29Z

Thunderstick:

LNT (Leave No Trace) PLAN 
''by Disorient's MOOP Czar'' 
 
MUST DO: 
1. Remove all excess packaging before you bring it to BRC. 
 
2. Set up separate containers for the following: 
• disgusting non-recycleable, non burnable trash 
• beer cans and aluminium --these can all be brought to recycle camp (can these be crushed?) 
• Plastic. Water jugs should be flattened once empty. 
• Paper products and burnable stuff. 
• Glass 
 
3. HIDE YOUR TRASH AND RECYCLING either under your RV if your in one or maybe under a secured tarp or wherever people who are just traveling thru camp won't throw shit into them. This will reduce the amount of trash you have to take out in the end and more importantly reduce the amount of time you spend seperating recycling from nasty ass trash. 
 
4. Take a few extra bags of trash out with you when you leave. As the huge wonderful camp that we are, we are going to accumulate a bunch of garbage that isn't ours. I'm going to ask everyone to take out more trash than they brought in. 
 
5. Bring twice as many trash bags as you think you will need. A minimum of 20 heavy duty garbage bags per sub camp. If you have extras at the end, DPW will love you for leaving them with them on the way out. 
 
6. No disposable plastic cups. Bring large plastic tumblers, write your name on them and use those. 
 
7. Don't throw any plastic or glass into the burn barrels. Inhaling burning plastic makes you feel weird, and not in a good way and glass in the barrels pisses of the DPW. 
 
8. Don't dump your grey water. . i.e. if you do your dishes, don't pour the water out onto the ground afterwards. Let it evaporate in a grey water pool. 
 
9. Pick it up as you go. 
 
10. Check with me a few hours before you leave. 
 
MIGHT DO: 
1. Avoid glass. No glass beer bottles please. We can bring all cans to recycle camp. Glass takes up more room in the fridge and cooler, you can't shotgun them and it is a bitch to deal with if they break. 
Can we crush the cans?
 
2. Consider drying out prerishable refuse to burn. This includes anything you might compost. Hang it in a mesh bag, let it dry and then burn it. 
 
3. Help me with daily runs to recycle camp. I'll love you for it. 
 
4. Burn your burnables. My sister, who is an ecology major says this is bad to do, but I think on such a small scale it can't hurt to much. You decide to recycle or burn it. 
 
5. Help with a midweek trash run. You'll love yourself for it. If you want people to carry your trash keep it in medium sized bags, light enough to be lifted by the weakest most tired person you have ever met. If its leaky or gooey, double bag it or the friend won't goo up his car just cuz you're in disorient. If you string your bags together, use an easily removable knot (makes it much easier to discretely toss a bag or two in the gas station parking lot garbage).

LNT Efforts

2007-05-30T08:56:15Z

Thunderstick:

LNT (Leave No Trace) PLAN 
''by Disorient's MOOP Czar'' 
 
MUST DO: 
1. Remove all excess packaging before you bring it to BRC. 
 
2. Set up separate containers for the following: 
• disgusting non-recycleable, non burnable trash 
• beer cans and aluminium --these can all be brought to recycle camp (can these be crushed?) 
• Plastic. Water jugs should be flattened once empty. 
• Paper products and burnable stuff. 
• Glass 
 
3. HIDE YOUR TRASH AND RECYCLING either under your RV if your in one or maybe under a secured tarp or wherever people who are just traveling thru camp won't throw shit into them. This will reduce the amount of trash you have to take out in the end and more importantly reduce the amount of time you spend seperating recycling from nasty ass trash. 
 
4. Take a few extra bags of trash out with you when you leave. As the huge wonderful camp that we are, we are going to accumulate a bunch of garbage that isn't ours. I'm going to ask everyone to take out more trash than they brought in. 
 
5. Bring twice as many trash bags as you think you will need. A minimum of 20 heavy duty garbage bags per sub camp. If you have extras at the end, DPW will love you for leaving them with them on the way out. 
 
6. No disposable plastic cups. Bring large plastic tumblers, write your name on them and use those. 
 
7. Don't throw any plastic or glass into the burn barrels. Inhaling burning plastic makes you feel weird, and not in a good way and glass in the barrels pisses of the DPW. 
 
8. Don't dump your grey water. . i.e. if you do your dishes, don't pour the water out onto the ground afterwards. Let it evaporate in a grey water pool. 
 
9. Pick it up as you go. 
 
10. Check with me a few hours before you leave. 
 
MIGHT DO: 
1. Avoid glass. No glass beer bottles please. We can bring all cans to recycle camp. Glass takes up more room in the fridge and cooler, you can't shotgun them and it is a bitch to deal with if they break. 
Can we crush the cans?
 
2. Consider drying out prerishable refuse to burn. This includes anything you might compost. Hang it in a mesh bag, let it dry and then burn it. 
 
3. Help me with daily runs to recycle camp. I'll love you for it. 
 
4. Burn your burnables. My sister, who is an ecology major says this is bad to do, but I think on such a small scale it can't hurt to much. You decide to recycle or burn it. 
 
5. Help with a midweek trash run. You'll love yourself for it. If you want people to carry your trash keep it in medium sized bags. If its leaky or gooey, double bag it or the friend won't goo up his car just cuz you're in disorient. If you string your bags together, use an easily removable knot (makes it much easier to discretely toss a bag or two in the gas station parking lot garbage).