Hey Lady, yay! A response to my post! Wheee! Ahem, k. Well, i don't know if I have found my niche yet out there. That's what i am trying to do. I work at one of the pizza booths out there and have for about five years now. But I too am creative and feel I have more to give in that way that could benefit myself and the fair better. I really want to work for the fair proper because i think my energy will go to better use building this thing called Fair as opposed to selling for profit. On the other hand, I get to be a bit of a gateway for people with no other way to be out there after hours, which, of course, is when the fair really happens. For some folks, they find their niche being in the Eug and just building organic connections, some folks just go and do what they want and it builds from there. Some folks are second-tier fair family, have been going since they were in fabric diapers and it is simply their world and they find their path. I find there are many mysteries to the artistic work that goes on out there and need help getting into that aspect of the fair. But, hey, if you want in and you are responsible, I can introduce to a job that only asks four hours a day-leaving lots of time to really enjoy the fair and, of course, stay afterdark and really rock it. I very well may take this path again and would love to work with some rad folx! I already have a few people interested. I may write a letter to the ocf office just asking how to get involved on an artistic level, if I hear anything useful, I'll let you know! Take care!

video has changed a lot over just the last ten years at the fair as cameras have become cheaper and smaller, plus youtube being what it is... video is becoming very hard to police at the fair. Many video cameras look like still cameras these days... and security can't necessarily tell what's what any more. So I don't know what my point is here except maybe the ocf might want to begin rethinking their video policy in lieu of technological advances.

Is that where the Wherebarn is?

I LOVE that space and always wondered if it had a name- no one could tell me- thanks! Mmm, editing, mmm dailies. Thank you to the folks who have offered helpful tidbits and opened doorways. Truly, Paxton, Richard, Archbish and Wrench, thank you. Your advice and experience is why I posted this thing, I knew someone would have some knowledge to share and some paths to suggest without creating further blocks to participation. Without amplifying too much, Sir Duck, since we may well be working in the same theme camp on Playa this year, I do want to say that if you think the fair wasn't built on hoping and dreaming and "magical thinking", I'm not sure we've been to the same fair. It's all well and good to hold a hammer and be ready to work your ass off, but you'll just end up punching a hole in someone's head without the dreams and inspiration to initiate what you are building. It takes kick ass people with a good work ethic AND dreams to build something that has lasted as long as OCF has. And as a general sentiment, I vote yes on having the ability to wipe your own ass. That phrase came out of a group of us who rock our jobs at Fair having to constantly wipe the asses of the folks who go out and expect to be taken care of, expect that they do not have to carry their own weight. (These may be some of the very same folks who helped cause the evaporation of the OCF camp at BM.) I am not one of those folks. But sometimes it does take asking for help to get to where you are going, and asking for help does not make one a crappy volunteer, socially inept or not worthy of a "fair" shake ("is this thing on?") at participation. There-so.

See y'all at Fair or perhaps the Spring Fling!