XOXO and Lipstick Kisses to you all!

FLG

Burning Man is long past; we're all dust free and IN THE RED (despite all of your kind donations and support that helped get Tympani Lambada built and to the Playa, for which we are truly, truly grateful). Yet we're still up to our lipsticked lips in debt! "Big Art is not cheap," to quote our fearless leader, Margaret.

Therefore, the world-renowned fire art sculpture mavens, the Flaming Lotus Girls, announce an evening of art and revelry:

IN THE RED - Flaming Lotus Girls Gallery Show

Saturday, December 3rd @ SOMArts Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 6:00PM - 2:00 AM. Free to attend. Donations encouraged.

You need more art. You want the Flaming Lotus Girls spread across your wall, 24/7. Yes you do. And so do your friends. Come to our photography show, buy our signed archival prints and have a damn fine evening of dancing with Ambient Mafia and the Space Cowboys DJs.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=294190043938514

IN THE RED features: a gallery show with large limited edition signed archival prints on metal and standard framed prints, Flaming Lotus Girls' ART, Space Cowboys DJs and the Ambient Mafia, as well as FLG 2012 calendar autographs, lipstick kisses (for realz with real lips!), plus schwag-galore.

Music by Space Cowboys DJs: Deckard, 8ball, Erik Hz

Ambient Mafia: Olde Nasty (Butterzone/Ambient Mafia), DJ Unagi (WoM/Ambient Mafia, Redstickman (FnF/Ambient Mafia), Mo Corleone (Want It!/Ambient Mafia)

Sound generously Provided by Want It! (https://www.facebook.com/CampWantIt )

As always, much love and grateful lipstick kisses!

Flaming Lotus Girls

Well, we wanted to keep it a surprise, but everyone is soooo excited and posting to their FB and such, so I just couldn't stop myself.

Here's a look at the 1st two arches assembled on the Playa. Reports are the 3rd arch is up and standing as well... It's gonna be grand.

See you in the dust, or on the flipside... If you can't make it we promise to take tons of pix, so you can be there virtually.

Love and lipstick kisses from your exhausted but ecstatic FLG,

Sooz

Hello All You Lovely Folks!

Apologies on a bit of delay with recent updates; we're all working at a tremendous pace to finish this incredible sculpture for the Playa, and it's taking shape to be something grander and more phenomenal than our wildest dreams!

Here are a few pix to spark your imagination and show what we've been up to lately:

Alexander arch rises!

Tweener coping madness!

Truss welding!

Plasma cutting!

Saccule strategizing!

Massive amounts of grinding day and night!

Methanol fountain takes shape!

And, Button casting (so you can make fire, but of course)!

Thanks again for all your support - this would not be possible without your generosity and well wishes. We'll see you on the Playa. It's gonna be wonderous!!

xoxoxoxo

All the FLG!

We were immeasurably honored (and quite thrilled) to have met our Kickstarter fundraising goal ~ and then some ~ last week. Your generosity and support of our project has been downright incredible!

On top of the ongoing efforts to actually get our sculpture built, we've been busy little kitties, working on finalizing the fulfillment part of this process. If you've become a backer of our project, please expect to receive a 'survey' from us very soon which we will need to have you fill out so that we can get you your goodies (i.e. we'll need a mailing address, etc...). The sooner we get that information from you, the better. We appreciate your patience as we do our very best-est to get things to you in a timely fashion.

But most of all, we want to say "THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!" for your munificence and magnanimity towards helping to turn Tympani Lambada into a reality.

XOXO, The FLG Kitties

P.S. Thought you'd also like to see our beloved Buffy inside the Cochlear Fountain, aka "The Buffy Tube." It's gonna be great!

P.P.S. And, if you missed our deadline, there's still a chance to make a donation via our website: http://www.flaminglotus.com/donate/donate

P.P.P.S. And, for those of you who will be in the Bay Area this coming weekend (Saturday, 7/30), we are holding a 'pedal to the metal' all-out FUNdraiser event at NIMBY in Oakland, "Livin' la Vida Lambada". Please swing on by if you're in this neck o' the woods!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218318684855696

A productive weekend proceeded on many areas of Tympani. Here are folks working on the arches: measuring, cutting, grinding and welding...

Sleek and stainless, the center of Tympani's cochlea fountain spirals into life!

They're fitting together like they were made to (we like it)... and pretty soon they'll be taking over the shop!!

It slices thru plate like butter, and frees our space pigeons for flight...

Lights, sexy curves, and diffusion! OOOhhh lala, it's gonna be pretty...

The arches will sleek thru the air dressed in this shimmery sheath!

Things are cooking at the shop: much grinding, welding, fitting and excitement this 4th of July as the tall arch, Rosalyn, guide pipe is assembled.

Our lovely new CNC machine is fired up and sparking this holiday weekend and cranking out space pigeons like crazy... Each one to be then lovingly deburred, and beveled in preparation for welding. Don't we love the sound of multiple angle grinders singing!!! Happy 4th...

The first arch section completed stands on its own. We've started to nail down the process: bend, cut, weld. Rinse, repeat (x ???)... I don't think anyone wants to talk actual numbers, but there's a whole lot of it ahead this summer! And we wouldn't be getting anywhere without your awesome support! So thanks again, and we'll keep you posted...

We made some great progress over the weekend culminating with a the first full scale section of one of the arches (R5, for those in the know) built! Big ups to Anthony, Steve and Jessica for making it happen. Lots more to go, but momentum (and Tympani Lambada) is building!