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Lakes of Fire 2010::June 24th-27th::The Willow Ranch

Friends, Freaks, Family and Smiling People:

Get all excited!

Great Lakes Experimental Arts, Inc. is super-stoked to announce that from Thursday, June 24th, through Sunday, June 27th, the mighty Willow Ranch in rural southwest Michigan will again become home to your official Great Lakes Burning Man Regional Event: Lakes of Fire. 2010’s theme is A Spaced Oddity . . . . . of course. So come prepared to make contact!

Tickets to Lakes of Fire will be available in April, and will cost about the same as last year’s tickets. Stay tuned! http://www.lakesoffire.org/tickets/

To volunteer to help make Lakes of Fire 2010 a reality, follow this link! http://www.lakesoffire.org/volunteer-ipate/

Hosted at the Willow Ranch Arts and Events Center in rural Lacota, Michigan, USA, Lakes of Fire is a collaborative celebration of art, fire, music, and friendship. Lakes of Fire 2010: A Spaced Oddity will be for you, and by you. Like last year, you’ll enjoy outdoor camping, both in theme camps and in open camping settings; music, a glorious effigy, large and small scale art both fiery and otherwise, a carnival atmosphere, and all of the creative energy and wild spirit that you and hundreds of your closest friends from around the Great Lakes (and around the world) can bring! Envision the Great Lakes version of Black Rock City. Lakes of Fire will be smaller than Burning Man, more accessible, and with rolling hills, forests, and fields instead of open playa. You won’t get dust storms or temperature swings. But you’ll surely enjoy the mosquitoes, rain, and toxicodendrons-radicans.

Your theme camps, art installations, and workshops are again welcome and in fact, necessary. You can sign up here! http://www.lakesoffire.org/theme-camps/.

If you’re driving, Lakes of Fire’s location is roughly two hours from Chicago, four hours from Detroit, Milwaukee, or Indianapolis, six hours from Cleveland or Columbus, and seven hours from Toronto. Our rules, regulations, and binding principles are simple, and can be found here:

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/principles.html

If you can live within these guiding principles, you’re beyond welcome to enact the second Lakes of Fire.

Details are still emerging. Tickets will be available in April. We hope you can join us for this celebration of art, fire, and friendship!

Love,

Great Lakes Experimental Arts, Inc.
http://www.lakesoffire.org

LAKES OF FIRE: VOLUNTEER-IPATION MATRIX IS UP!

The Volunteer-ipation Matrix is now up and running for those who would like to volunteer to help make Lakes of Fire 2.0 a reality! Go here

Lakes of Fire 2010 – Ticket Design Contest!

Greetings, LoFers!

Need ANOTHER indication that Lakes of Fire is just around the corner, albeit a somewhat lengthy one? We need YOUR help! Before event tickets can go on sale they’ll need to be printed…Before THAT can happen, they need to be DESIGNED- And THAT’S where YOU come in! We’re looking for the Ultimate Kickass Design for the Lakes OF Fire 2010 tickets and we’re going to award TWO tickets to the event to the person who submits the winning design!

TICKET DESIGN COMPETITION – DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

****The NAME of the event, “Lakes OF Fire 2010″.

****The DATES: June 24-27, 2010.

*****Room on the backside for the disclaimer and standard boilerplate. You REALLY don’t have to design ANYTHING for the back except for “extra credit”, but if you do, bear in mind that we have a paragraph of information that needs to be legible back there.

****Keep It Simple- Busy, colorful tickets like those for The Big Event make beautiful keepsakes, BUT they are expensive to produce. Each color requires its own color separation, and very fine lines are harder to reproduce at small scale. Ideally your design will have a little bit of wiggle room at the borders to allow for possible changes in the printing process. We’ll work with you and the printer to make sure it looks Capital-A Awesome, and assist with the technical aspects where necessary.

****Scalable to an approximate print size of 2 inches by 10 inches.
*****If you REALLY want to incorporate this year’s effigy into your ticket design, email for details….We’re trying to keep it a surprise!

****Present your design in a common electronic format if at all possible!

DEADLINE:
****We need your design on or before Midnight eastern standard time January 4, 2010.

SELECTION PROCESS:
****A volunteer team made up of members of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes Experimental Arts (the sponsoring org behind Lakes of Fire), and 3 volunteer Team Leads that help bring Lakes of Fire to life will be the Selectors of the Best Most Awesomest Winning Ticket Design. They will review all submissions between January 4 – 11, 2010. We plan to come to consensus on the winner no later than January 12, 2010.

BUT WAIT…..THERE’S MORE!!!!

Great Lakes Experimental Arts Inc. is ALSO looking for a Lakes Of Fire logo to be used on….well, EVERYTHING! It needs to be SIMPLE, BOLD, and BEAUTIFUL as well as being ADAPTABLE so that it can be used on letterheads, T-Shirts, flags, tattoos or shaved into your pet’s fur. Something ICONIC, that can be adapted to reflect the individuality of the different entities that will be making their own versions of it- Think about how Black Rock City’s DPW have adapted The Man to more adequately represent their unique contribution. The Keep It Simple part from the above offer holds true for
this as well- A black-and-white graphic that looks good at all different scales is a challenge to produce but it’s what would be ideal. The chosen design will be used year-round, in every aspect of our organization. Wow.

Requirements & suggestions
****Logo is to be done in 2 PMS (Pantone Matching System) spot colors of your choosing.
****If possible please provide a Vector File of the logo.
****f not available please provide a large, high resolution Photoshop layered file that can be separated to the different colors. Remember this will be blown up for t-shirts & banners, etc.
****If you are working in Photoshop or similar program, please do not work in Duotone color mode. Work in CMYK and assign the colors to the different pieces of the logo. Provide the pantone numbers for those
colors and we can separate them later.
****We want to stay away from screens (textured or patterned areas) if possible as this will be reproduced on t-shirts, which print with a low line screen. Solid colors are preferred.

DEADLINE:
****On or before Midnight eastern standard time February 4, 2010

WHAT YOU’LL GET:
****Hold onto your hat…….. FOUR tickets to Lakes OF Fire 2010, AND a slice of (relative) immortality!

WHAT DO I DO NOW?
****Get To Work! If you need technical assistance with your design, contact me at sscurl@aol.com. When you have your entry completed you can send it to me as an attachment or if necessary mail it to me at:

Attn: Steve Curl
Planet Steve Art
3627 West B Avenue
Plainwell MI 49080

Be sure to include your name and contact information with your submission. You may submit more than one design.

Now go get designy with it!

-Planeto
Board Member, Great Lakes Experimental Arts, Inc.
Art Geek, Lakes of Fire

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