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Wakacje na obcej planecie...
Festiwal Burning Man w USA May 21, 2005 by Joanna Zebro |
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excerpt, with approximate English translation
of interview with Janet Hansen:
"...Dusk. Milions of lights and surrounding pulsing music creates a
unique, surrealistic atmosphere. Overwhelming colors can cause dizziness.
I haven't seen anything like this in my life - even in Las Vegas - everything
glows. Club music is everywhere, but one can also hear tribal drums, hard
rock and oversweet pop sounds. People wear night costumes. The more neon
lights and glowing wires, the better. 35 year old Janet stands out from
the crowd. She wears silver, self-made, cosmic suit surrounded by numerous
blinking rainbow wires. The individual from different planet. Janet designs
and makes such suits for living. "My clients are mainly artists"-
she explains playing with colorful wires.
Janet has a PhD in biomechanics, but after a few years of working in the
aerospace industry as an engineer she understood that she would like to
do something different. She first made blinking (glowing) costumes around
6 years ago, and three years later making such suits became her sole way
of earning money. "I found my niche. It demands both artistic soul
and an engineer's knowledge, because each of my costumes has a complicated
network of wires and colorful lights," she says.
Despite the fact that her costumes are expensive - after all they are little
artworks - she has numerous clients. The busiest time for her is just before
Burning Man.
(...) For example Janet is active in the San Diego Burning Man group where
she organizes workshops on the art of creating blinking costumes. For her,
Burning Man means 'holiday on an alien planet,' the rest after exhausting
months of desiging and sewing."
[link to full article in Polish]
http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/turystyka/1,65385,2721737.html
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