joined on 12/29/05
last updated 11/14/08
July 11, 2007
Brandon conjures a sense of poise and grace,that inspires.His eye is as sharp as his blade,both burn with his inner, creative fire.He's also great to just sit around and shoot the shit with.
May 15, 2007
Brandon is a for real good man. I've enjoyed our PM's and I'm proud to call him friend.
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The Burning Man Network - Ten Principles
Statement of Principles
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
I wandered in the forest one day, many paths I did see, this one would not play, but did pause for me.
about me
Embracing a muse is delightful, exquisite heart aches and love spilling forth like a volcano making a new island. I've been to southern Sumatra, looked out at where Krakatoa was, and there grows anak krakatoa, child of Krakatoa. In a few hundred or few thousand years it will become big enough to start all over again.
I am a visionary professional photographer. I used to say "part time professional" since I have a day job that pays the mortgage. But a friend looked at my work and said I should drop the part time piece and add visionary. OK, I'm up for that. Truth is, though, sometimes I take snap shots, sometimes I get art, sometimes I get good photographs.
I've been working with photographic images off and on for many years, apprenticing for many hours with a 4x5 Linhof, a Hasselblad and a darkroom. Following a hiatus longer than I wanted, I've now found the digital camera and darkroom has opened a new and wonderful place to work and play in. I am available to do portraits, cover events, or do portfolio work of people or animals on location most weekends and some evenings in the Jefferson City and Columbia Missouri area.
<a href=" synature.smugmug.com">my digital corpus </a>
brandonsmithgallery.com is a text page index to my photo galleries on line.
youtube.com/redwoodtwig is my youtube channel
Touching base on myspace once in a while: www.myspace.com/redwoodtwig
Re: Need a place to camp!
(in Livin' and Lovin' in Columbia, MO)
If you go on a weekend when no one else is there, dog would not be an issue. This weekend, the 4th, is full up, but check out the website or give them a call about the weekend after, for example. The thing on dogs is mainly whether or not they a...
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Re: Need a place to camp!
(in Livin' and Lovin' in Columbia, MO)
Ozark Avalon is a campground when there's nothing else happening there, and there's a nice big swimming hole. while the basic policy on dogs is the same as everywhere else, if they truly stay close by it probably won't be a problem.
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A reporter from the Missourian, the student run daily newspaper at Mizzou, called me today. They had gotten a call from a lady about a story Toby did on me and my fencing class down in Jeff City two years ago. Toby had my number and passed it on and Megan called me to say the lady thought maybe one of my students was her long lost grandson. When I heard the name, I said that yes, he's been with me nearly five years now, he's in college. Now, what to do? Give out his phone number? Hmmm. ...
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no pictures, :-(
Workshop last weekend was great, Amanda was a great teacher and facilitator and it was a very positive and fulfilling experience. I sure hope to do more of it.
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