Danke, mein freunds, for your faith in the Ein Hammer project and your pledges thus far. The excitement is hitting a fever pitch as we count down to our departure to begin installation in Black Rock City on Monday, August 23rd. Now that we're past the half-way point on this Kickstarter fundraising goal with only a few days left, may I ask you to please forward this web page to every Burner you know? Pretty please with strudel on top?

The Burning Man organization encourages artists to write or produce a brief audio art tour. At the very bottom of this page you'll find the one I did for Ein Hammer in my most ridiculous German accent. I hope you get a chuckle out of it.

The project is coming along swimmingly! We're approximately 90% complete and it's very satisfying seeing Ze Wërkers move on to building back-up components "just in case".

Our own TekSage is "skinning" the hammerhead with high-polish aluminum sheeting that will gleam in the sunlight like a mirror for about 13 seconds until the playa dust gets on it. :-( Welding is complete on the hammer shank and we're finishing the final electronic tests. We're now entering what I affectionately call "Tag 'n' Bag Phase", where we get components that are finished out of our sight and try like hell to dwindle down our massive to-do lists. Aurora did some great designs on our silly signage and Professor Munz whipped it out on the computer controlled CNC router in a way that makes me never want to pick up a jigsaw again. We had a filming night to shoot a video "blue screen" of crew members in 1927 period worker costumes for Dave Cherry to insert into his animations of the underground world that will be viewed from the video skylights buried in the ground. It was a hilarious night that erupted into a spontaneous party at the end with much comradeship and the birth of a real feeling of connection and family for us all.

Heeeeeeeere we go!

With gratitude,

-Mister Jellyfish.