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For many - and especially for Suzanne - the Playa only makes sense at night. That's when it fluoresces like a coral reef. Here's a multi-story bar-car / dance mobile, gliding down 5:30 street.

All kinds of vehicles roam the Playa at night, including a ferris wheel that rolled along by the power of three bicyclists circling within.

One of the many attractions luring the lumbering art cars like bisons to a waterhole was New Day's Eve, a camp that celebrated the dawn of each new day at midnight. After a ball decended against a NY skyline, the campers served champagne. Yay!

Meanwhile, tentacles grew on the Playa.

Campmate Nicola is a member of the Flaming Lotus Girls - a bunch of art chicks that weld. This year, their Playa project was an interpretation of the Pleiades called "The Seven Sisters." Each star was a unique spinning fountain of fire.

Of course, everyone loves a fire cannon requiring a 100-yard safety perimeter. And so, the Flaming Lotus Girls put one up in the center of the Seven Sisters installation.

 

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