The Do LaB’s longtime friends and collaborators Shrine and TukTuk (who built the wonderful trash teahouse at LIB this year) are the masterminds behind Basura Sagrada, the team building the 2008 Temple at Burning Man, and the name for the temple itself.

This Thursday at DNA Lounge in San Frnacisco they will be hosting a fundraiser for this immense undertaking. If you are in that city, you should be at this great event.

For tickets, please visit www.dnalounge.com

For more information about the Basura Sagrada temple project, visit www.basurasagrada.org

in real life, this was one of the most unbelievable views i’d ever seen.

Lightning in a Bottle is in a week, and i have no time to write anything else, but check out this issue of the Artist Network. it’s all about stories so that’ll absolutely keep you entertained in the meantime. i will get back to having time to be more insightful after may 28th.

thank you to y2, brian shaw, albertico, and arin ingraham. it’s always an honor and pleasure to get to create inspiration with you.

shot and produced by the kicakss siouxzen kang, and featuring an unreleased glitch mob track! if this doesn’t make you wanna go, you’re probably not someone who likes FUN!

an immobile little flash dookiy embedded in the site:

up close it looked like this:

at the time we thought it was quite the snazz.

LIB07:

we figured this kind of media thingie shouldn’t be trapped on our site, so we created a “portable” popup player that you could launch on our site, and then take along with you on your web travels:

the other cool thing about this portable online player is that it linked back to the LIB site, allowing peolpe to return with one click at any time.

and that was fine and dandy until…

LIB08:

we made the music player embeddable! now not only does it move (it still comes in popup form, that you can grab on the site), but it also rolls over, fetches, and sits wherever you tell it to:

oh yeah, and it also let’s people passs it on too . (tho if you happen to be seeing this in a feedreader, you prolly won’t see it. to see–or rather, hear what i’m talking about click HERE.)

(thanks to brian shaw and y2 for making this fancy thing happen! our widget don’t mess!)

As if Hollywood’s not a circus enough as it is, ABC and NBC are both getting in on the action. Roll out the big top, guys, the circus is coming to town.

NBC has announced its plan to air Celebrity Circus, based on an Endemol format that’s been a huge hit in Portugal and Argentina, as part of its All-American Summer lineup.

Celebrity Circus, a competition-based reality show that will have “real” circus performers judging celebs on Cirque du Soleil-style circus stunts, promises to be “just as loud and noisy” as NBC’s winter slam-dunk, American Gladiators.

ABC is hoping that a new Circus of the Stars will catch on the way Dancing with the Stars has, and is in an intense bidding war for the show. Going for Dancing with the Stars-style drama rather than Gladiators-style boisterousness, ABC hopes Circus of the Stars will satisfy both the big top bug and reality fever.

which is funny for many reasons, but what i want to know is why the “quotes” around the word “real” before circus performers? is realittytvmagazine under the impression that real cricus performers don’t exist, that ABC will only hire “fake” ones, or that if you’re a circus performer you aren’t actually real?

anyway, in other “real” circus news…. we just announced the lineup for LIB08 today:

ps. the music player on lightninginabottle.org is live now too. go check out some “real” music.

so in case you are wondering what’s gonna go down at LIB, its…..

see you in the forest….