I am trying to make movies of many slow moving dynamic phenomena, and Black Rock City is one of them. TERRA KINO

For Burning man 2005 and beyond, I want to erect a large "rock and roll truss" tower, as tall as practical (>100'), and mount some of these terrakino time-lapse networked capture-units on it.

We are trapped in our sense of time, in some ways like we are trapped in the visual spectrum. We feel the heat of the infrared, but it is the colors that we live in. In the same way, things that are moving very slowly or very fast escape our attention.

To show only those things that move slowly, or that is, grow, I want to use two sensors, (CMOS or CCD) and alternate frames between them, with one downloading while the other is capturing.

Each would be stopped down so that they would have a 1 minute exposure time, and so no time would not be captured, i.e. there would never be a closed shutter. Only something that remained still for 1 minute would be clearly resolved, and everything that moved would have it's full path represented by a smear.

The one minute exposure time would yield a 16 minute video of 20 days. From playa tabla rasa to no trace left.

We are all familiar with the long exposures of tail lights streaming out as red ribbons above the concrete, or waterfalls as a blur of white fog splitting their hillsides. This full capture technique, like that one, and unlike normal timelapse, where people and moving objects jump around and pixilate in and out, would have all smooth and continuous motions. It would be a movie of the city only, surrounded by the blur of its creators. The city as a cocoon spun by our industrious hive.