More to come in a little while, but this was the scene at dawn this morning as the pounders began work. By the end of the day, more than nine miles of fence will be finished.
John Curley (that's me) has been Burning since the relatively late date of 2004, and in 2008 I spent the better part of a month on the playa, documenting the building and burning of Black Rock City in words and pictures. I loved it, and I've been doing it ever since.
I was a newspaper person in a previous life, and I spent many years at the San Francisco Chronicle. At the time I left, in 2007, I was the deputy managing editor in charge of Page One and the news sections of the paper. Since then, I've turned a passion for photography into a second career. I shoot for editorial, commercial and private clients. I've also taught a little bit, including two years at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and a year at San Francisco State University.
I live on the San Mateo coast, just south of San Francisco in California.
Sure can’t miss the distinctive profile of Mr. Blue in the center foreground! Hell yeah DPW!
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ShakeWeight for Burners. :)
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DPW… Putting John Henry to shame!
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I know everyone of you by your hard sweaty pounding stance.
Much Respect!
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DPW deserve more comments than this post attracted. Well done, you freakish bastards.
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each bang resonates in my soon to be dusty brain!!…Playa Luv… )'(
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Thank you so much for your incredibly hard work and dedication.
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We know you badass bitches are done, what was the time over distance number this year?
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Thanks for your hard work. If it weren’t for the fence lord knows where I may have ended up wandering last year.
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Thank you DPW!!!!!!! See you soon!!!
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DPW you rock the powder outta the desert….!
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Just thinking about all that work getting done makes my nipples hard!
DPW, you rock my desert!
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Thank you 60,000 times over
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