
{"id":27482,"date":"2012-08-23T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27482"},"modified":"2012-08-23T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:00:47","slug":"dome-makes-journey-to-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/08\/23\/dome-makes-journey-to-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Dome makes journey to Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27483\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/08\/23\/dome-makes-journey-to-burning-man\/dome1a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dome1a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dome1a-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrboro resident John Quick deconstructs the geodesic dome he and a few friends constructed to transport out to Nevada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, where it will serve as a temporary venue of sorts. PHOTO BY JAMIE DEGRAW<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHeading out Hillsborough Road near McDougle School earlier this month, you may have noticed an odd structure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0a geodesic dome crafted entirely of raw metal tubing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0but almost as soon as the dome appeared, it was gone. <\/p>\n<p>The deconstructed, 47-foot dome has since made its way out to Black Rock Desert, Nev., where it will be restored to its full glory for Burning Man, an annual art event and temporary community that comes together as a sort of festival, running Aug. 27 through Sept. 3. <\/p>\n<p>This will be Carrboro resident John Quick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fourth trip out to the festival, and his second with a group of about 20 other locals. Quick and a couple of friends built the dome outside of a home on Hillsborough Road earlier this month as a test run, and last week they took it apart and packed it up. <\/p>\n<p>Those who have never been to Burning Man might wonder why one would construct such a structure, but Quick said there are structures all over the festival serving a variety of needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are lots of domes out there. There are lots of other crazy structures,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Quick and friends built a smaller, 32-foot dome that they covered with a parachute to use as a shade structure. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis year we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be using it as more of a venue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Quick said, complete with a bar and a stage. The festival requires that attendees participate in some way, with 10 principles outlining things like inclusion, self-expression and civic responsibility. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You feel obligated to do something for the people around you, or build something or create something, or present yourself in some fashion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n<p>While in Carrboro, the structure drew a lot of attention from curious passersby, Quick said, much like the smaller dome, which he set up outside his home on Old Pittsboro Road this past spring. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We met a lot of our neighbors due to it being there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Quick, a carpenter who has lived in Carrboro for three-and-a-half years, said he hopes to fabricate and build unique structures as his full-time profession one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading out Hillsborough Road near McDougle School earlier this month, you may have noticed an odd structure but almost as soon as the dome appeared, it was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27488,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions\/27488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}