Nexus Pyrosphere flame effect diagrams 1 through 3
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Fire Art
PyroSphere Progress Report: 3/3/10 Programming and Plumbing
The PyroSphere crew has been hard at work for the last few days. Steve Cronberg, the head programmer has been making major changes and adding major functionality to the code, while Erin Banwell, Vaughn Parsons, David Ampersand, and Nathan Crane have been plumbing up 9 valves onto a section of the finished sphere.
Plumbing:
The sphere is [...]
Nexus Hoodies=PyroSphere Fundraising
Are you dying to get your grubby little mits on one of these premium, straight off the press, made to order Nexus hoodies, and contribute to the PyroSphere simultaneously? Last year we successfully raised enough dough to offset nearly half of the propane bill! Lets do it again!
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PyroSphere Progress Report: 2/7/10 sphere construction
Then we had lunch.
Here’s a video of the press in action.
Now we just need to do that 559 more times…….
……to be continued.
Fire Tornado (2006)
The Fire Tornado is a mechanical device that creates a vortex of fire. We’ve seen it get to 20 ft tall! The Fire Tornado was created, designed and constructed by Erin Banwell in the summer of 2006.
Below is the music video to Erin Banwell’s track “Explode!”, off his album “Life is Like a River…” featuring [...]
Nexus 2008 Burning Man Fire Art
The 2008 Nexus Fire installation by Erin Banwell, Josh Silverstein, Al Traves.
The Fire cauldron was the center piece of the 2008 Nexus fire installation:
A 7 ft diameter, half sphere pool of water with fire bubbling up out of the murky depths.
It became a gathering spot.
Heat seekers came….
Conversationalists came……..
Some people showed up with a bag [...]
Nexus 2009 BM Fire Art
The 2009 Nexus Fire Art installation at Burning Man consisted of 5 seperate flame effects. Four of these were equipped with 3/4 inch solenoid valves and 125 gallon accumulator tanks, and were capable of producing 15 to 20 ft bursts of flame. The fifth flame effect, “Big Boy” (video below), was equipped with a 2 [...]
Nexus Pyrosphere
Coming to a Burning Man 2010 near you… the crew is working hard on the next epic flame throwing mean machine. Check out the beginning and be part of the action!
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thats efin beatiful steve.i cant wait to see that in fire, or is it on fire...fire on it? FIRE!!!
I definitely have made more progress than what's just on that video, but it is beginning to look like I ...
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