Being an artist at BURNING MAN!

[@kylehill]

Thea is the only person who might convince me to go to Burning Man

[@Bwachaauh]

I would love to go, but I would also have to bring an "I need to be alone now pod"

[@haplo6161]

Do it!

[@DenizenoftheAges]

I still wouldn't 😅 need my luxuries

[@thea_ulrich]

I’m playing a super long game here Kyle, but it’s going to work eventually!! 🔥

[@DenizenoftheAges]

@@thea_ulrich even if I had a facility and a super AI, you would be both very convincing and someone I would not want upset with me. Here's hoping Kyle values survival.

[@trikepilot101]

Commenting for the algo: As a Canadian, I can not imagine surviving in that kind of heat. Maybe we can do a Freezing Man in the snow somewhere.

[@michaelbushee3968]

There's something so powerful in that, expressing yourself on your own terms and no one else's. Keep on rocking, and bringing us along, because I can't wait to see what's next.

[@thea_ulrich]

Yes yes yes this! All of it 😃👊💪 will do, and thanks for joining the ride!

[@dylan_curious]

The way you describe Burning Man as a place of awe, creativity, and community really captured my imagination. Maybe I do need to put it on my bucket list...

[@EelcoPeterzen]

Yeah! Your Burning Man performance! Ever since your building video I've been eager to see this. Thank you for sharing it! Even though it's just parts of it, that was a beautiful show, and the stage looks breathtaking. It must be so liberating and exhilarating to do a show like that, completely by your own design. And your smile at the end says it all. Stay awesome, Thea. I hope you get to do many more such projects.

[@thea_ulrich]

Thanks so much! All this, yes! And yeah…the video got…a little held up 🤣 thanks for for patience and you are correct - it was a truly magnificent show & experience. Onwards & up, we’re only just beginning 🚀🔥🌱🦋

[@EelcoPeterzen]

@@thea_ulrich Hey, no worries. I just figured you held the video back because you wanted to have a good mix of content, while at the same time giving us a cliffhanger (moonhanger?) to keep us engaged. By the way, that journey up there 😅 I'm glad you pushed through it. It sometimes seems our hurdles become the biggest before our greatest performances. It makes me extra glad that everything went this well during your performance.

[@BuildaSkill]

Fantastic video and story. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheCorrectiveProtocol]

Love this Thea. 🙌🏽❤️😊🤸🏼‍♀️

[@user-ul3tl5xe2b]

Waited a whole 9 months for the video, since the announcement in the last video on the manufacturing process, but it was worth it. These were some great and inspiring impressions!

[@Sheithan]

Enormous props, Thea! It makes my heart melt when artists get to do what they love, on their own terms, and thrive doing so. Same congratulations goes to everyone that makes Burning Man possible, I'm 100% sure there were many Theas going up on their respective moon sculptures, regardless if it was a painting, a DJ set, or so on. Will definitely have to go there at least once in my life. Amazing job!

[@thea_ulrich]

Thank you so much!! And you are absolutely correct - so many artists creating in beautiful ways 💯🔥🙌 you’ll have an amazing time when you get there - lots of happy heart melting!

[@EjayMenchavez]

Only the wildest and most informative engineers I know!

[@imperlast2]

its like burning man was made for you

[@thea_ulrich]

Definitely my people! Again, it is so huge it is many things…but it really is a unique and special haven for large scale artists and performers - especially ones that don’t fit in neatly to the traditional art gallery world! 👽🌅

[@SnowWolf75]

I was there that year, and completely missed this. I am a recent fan of yours - thanks to Kyle Hill and Revenginieers - but i've been going to the playa (off and on) since 2013. As you mention in this video, I love the event for the community - love, creative, expression, art, and how it all blends together - and it's why I keep going back. While not a welder nor an aerialist, I have helped my camp put together some of our own small art structures (like a small clock tower / viewing platform we used to have), though I've always ready to wield a wrench or hammer, if needed. Keep on burning, and maybe one day we'll meet each other in the dust.

[@paulahaney9104]

You are blowing me away talented and how you are learning so many things🎉🎉🎉 talented you are

[@MrMoney331]

Congrats Thea!!! So freaking awesome. Never been to burning man but this video really paints it in a wonderful light!

[@thea_ulrich]

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it! Burning man is truly a special and unique place. Of course, nothing is perfect, but it remains a place that works very hard to be true to artists, true to it’s 10 principals, and to evolve

[@DenizenoftheAges]

I remember your moon-construction vid. So glad to see it worked out for you. ❤️‍🔥🙌

[@HansStrijker]

Okay, just started playing the video three seconds ago, but I already now it's going to be great so like button pressed! Burning man checkbox is still unchecked on my to-do list, hope to get there in the coming handful of years! 😀

[@thea_ulrich]

You're the best! And you will if you set it as a goal - it’ll find you!! 🔥🤘

[@HansStrijker]

Oh wow, I hope you and everyone there are safe Thea. Just heard on the radio (here in the Netherlands) there's a "stay-in-your-tent" ordinance in place due to bad weather! And one year.... Hopefully without storms...

[@TheSirGoreaxe]

I would love to go to burning man. Just to run around and help build all of the amazing works that everyone brings. Heh, I could build a mobile shop like Laura Kampf and ride around lending a hand. Then get to enjoy the all the amazing work and the atmosphere that is Burning Man.

[@aMEWzed]

That was awesome & beautiful. My oldest son went from burn to burn all around Austin Tx. He & his friends wanted to participate in Burning Man but he passed away in 2014, a few years before his crew went. Thanks for sharing this story.

[@maxximumb]

Awesome place and a bunch of fantastic people. Your show was beautiful.

[@thea_ulrich]

Some incredibly special humans, to be sure 💯💯 thank you 🥰🙏

[@adrianbrown3085]

I'm so glad we got to see the moon in action. I remember watching the creation video for it awhile ago. Glad to see the hard work pay off.🤙

[@SpaceEngineerErich]

You are as inspiring as you are beautiful. 😊 Congratulations! Your work is amazing!!

[@bobbymaverick7221]

Thea ,burning man yes please.its a date 🎉

[@MattHuey]

Really cool sculpture!!💯🔥🙌 show was also so cool!! Hope you pump more videos out!👍 God Bless!😊 Also gotta love U-Haul..been there!😬

[@Ifandorbut]

Thea, Great to see you soaring to such great heights. Kudos and congrats. Never doubt.

[@AlatheD]

That's awesome, Thea! It looks like it was very rewarding. 💙

[@chefsmoke894]

That's such an amazing performance, sculpture, and everything!! I've always wondered about Burning Man!

[@heartfeltmotivationquotes]

70,000 people in the middle of the desert doing crazy thing like art & other stuff feels like a festival is be feeling festive

[@h2o1969]

This is really awesome.

[@Pile_of_carbon]

I've heard the term Burning Man several times, but never quite got what it was. Holy crap, that place looks like pure insanity in all the best ways possible!

[@thea_ulrich]

I’m glad to have been able to give you a little peek! Your description is 💯💯 accurate 🔥

[@capnskustomworks]

How awesome!!! Looks like it was a really awesome performance, I’m glad ye made it there safely! (Amusingly enough, I was wearing my Empire town sign tshirt earlier! Haha!!!)

[@Schlups]

You embody art. Insanely well done.

[@thea_ulrich]

Love that, thank you 💯🥰

[@NevTheDeranged]

Epic af!

[@padders1068]

Thea, your are awesome, thanks for sharing! ❤

[@thea_ulrich]

You are so welcome, thanks for joining! 💪🦋

[@CrudeButEfficient]

Amazing - both you, the performance and the event!

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

What a wonderful and inspiring video! I imagine Burning Man is one of the perfect "Environments" for you!

[@gravityfuzz]

Nice collection of playa imagery. Your sculpture is sweet. Any night time shots of the moon and you? Is there a video of your entire aerial performance?

[@Ancusohm]

Wow! This looks so coo. Awesome performance!

[@marthagordon6407]

I will be there, next year 🎉

[@Messihippi]

Thea, you have a friend called Lyra who hoops and engineers, and you haven’t done a collab with her yet? Have I just seen into the future or what? Superb job on your performance!👏🏽👏🏽 If there were anyone more suited to Burning Man I couldn’t imagine them. Looking forward to your further adventures in art and tech!

[@MeriaDuck]

Fantastic!

[@thea_ulrich]

Many thanks!

[@archmagexiv]

Amazing job Thea!💜

[@thea_ulrich]

Thank you! Cheers! ✨

[@JubeiKibagamiFez]

Your feet must be crazy strong to hang upside down like that... I'm jealous.

[@scottmacs]

That looks spectacular!

[@thea_ulrich]

It was! Thank you 😍

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

Good job getting to the Playa even though it seemed the world was conspiring against you. I remember some time is the 80's a friend mentioned Burning Man for the first time, and he was saying that this was something he had to do. Don't think he has ever got there, but if I ask I'm sure it's still on his bucket list. What I find a bit irritating is that from what I've heard people tend to be very bad at cleaning up after themselves. Apparently the day after it ends the whole place looks like a disaster area, and very few of the tens of thousands (numbers claimed varies between something like 20 to 75 thousand) of visitors actually care to try to clean up the area. It's one thing to help set things up. That's something a lot of people are happy to do. But packing up they tend to be a lot less interested in. I'm impressed by the people organizing this chaos, and having the fortitude to ride it out and even do it again the next year.

[@superilu]

damn, Thea, this is awesome. well done!

[@thea_ulrich]

Thank you so much! 🔥💪🌅⚡️🦋

[@sbcinema]

great performance both in construction and in the air 🌜👍

[@rrrosecarbinela]

You're a goddess. Thanks for letting us share in the experience.

[@thea_ulrich]

You are so welcome and thank you for sharing with me!! 🥰🦋🔥

[@GAMINGOBRIEN69]

5:40 burning man? More like burning woman 105 holy cow!!

[@Sparkplug666]

Man this looks like so much fun and I wish I wasn't so stuck in my day to day routine and could just go to the desert and enjoy life without a care in the world. Sadly that isn't in the cards for me right now but I'm happy that so many people can do this kind of stuff.

[@thea_ulrich]

Something to plan for in your future?! 💪👊 you got this

[@defenestrated23]

That sounds exactly why you should go to that thing in the desert! It definitely takes a lot of planning - I'm still working on plans myself.

[@brianjnemec]

Great work!

[@thea_ulrich]

Thanks so much! 🌅

[@Bro_wat]

Thea: performs incredible acrobats on a crescent moon structure she built Me: trips falls and dies on a slightly off stair step

[@caseykoons]

Awe.

[@marekjakimowicz]

Nice

[@lauraperez8725]

Can I get some more information about how to participate in events

[@DmitrySholokhov]

You're inspiring ^_^

[@thea_ulrich]

Thank you so much! 🥰🙏

[@ericcarabetta1161]

It amazes me the amount of stuff people are willing to schlep out into the middle of the desert.

[@jmcasler1512]

Hope to see you perform this year!

[@thea_ulrich]

I’m actually taking a year off this year! I spent my Burning Man resources going to India though so I can hardly complain. Enjoy your adventures in the dust! 🌅✨🙌

[@jmcasler1512]

@@thea_ulrich aww, shucks. Thanks! This is my big art project year, expecting to be tired. Maybe you’ll see it next year :)

[@LungsOutJem]

This was last year's Burning Man, right? Not this year's massive travesty?

[@Alan_Hans__]

Burning Man looks amazing. It's a shame that it's in the US, I'm in Aus and I'm a major introvert.

[@ilannguaqjonathansen8208]

I don't care what you say, Burning Man IS a festival

[@thea_ulrich]

Haha it is definitely like, a cousin at least. I would say it depends on the person’s mentality & how they show up for it. People can, and do, just go to burning man to party in a cool (and intense) location. But there’s a lot more depths from insanely epic art, to community building, to shows, etc. that can be explored and make it a deeper experience if you choose to participate

[@sausage5849]

Your performance would've gone good with commentary from Roy and HG (Only Australians will know what I mean :-) )

[@burningmanmike]

Vertical integration art.

[@AidanRatnage]

Did the Sonic Sphere not obstruct your audience's view?

[@thea_ulrich]

Great question! There was a huge net stretched on the inside of the sphere, so people could lie down or sit looking up & be fully surrounded by the surround sound music as well

[@Bwachaauh]

Why are you so much cooler than me?

[@thea_ulrich]

Russian circus coaches at a young age, and being super stubborn 😝😉

[@markfrancis1210]

Hi Thea, you look great with long blonde braids, you have great style, I hope you had a fantastic time at Burning Man, have you ever been to Wasteland weekend?, it's like Burning Man but more Mad Max style, you have a great day

[@Nebutzermane69]

the fact that burning man has become such a playground for rich people and has completely lost its spirit and meaning … it's just sad.

[@kaisersozeh7845]

Don't put yourself down as a 'not engineer' when you weld, and fabricate, like a monster. What's the day job?

[@thea_ulrich]

Haha thanks for the compliment! 💪🤘Honestly, sometimes I actually chose to remind people that I don’t have a formal engineering degree, because I hope that can remind/inspire other people that building things and inventing things can be accessible to them too 💪🛠️💞

[@thea_ulrich]

My day job: I work as an Experience Designer & Director for live events & shows, mixed reality experiences, and digital experiences (games, products, etc). Basically, in my own work I’m making cool things that I play on, and in my other life I’m making cool things for other people to experience :) Right now I am doing the experiential product design for a new Web3 immersive platform that will launch next year - it’s a blast. I can’t say more than that right now, but it’s going to be a big launch in 2024!

[@kaisersozeh7845]

@@thea_ulrich nice to see 'making,' fabrication, from a sculptural, broader arts perspective. A la - sculpture meets hire wire dance..."This museum is not obsolete" is a great follow in similar vein, if more techy, engineering meet "arts" tack. Its Sam Battle, who does "Look mum no computer" He will go mad and set up a telephone exchange or something, you're a bit more refined...

[@kaisersozeh7845]

@@thea_ulrich So, you design events, 3D pallettes of aesthetic immersion, big spaces with narrative ambience, experiences shared by a whole room? Congrats on having the two coolest jobs in existence.

[@Chuckq1]

Is there a poor man's burning man . Them tickets are too expensive for a poor artist.

[@Hellseeker1]

Yeah it's pretty wild, not my crowd. Mr. Fentanyl addict Floyd gets a Eulogy my case in point. Hope you had fun though, your a good kid.

[@danielcox4182]

You're not a good kid unfortunately. Please refrain from insulting a dead man you never met by mocking addiction. I ask you who is the victim of fentanyl addiction? (Hint: it's not you)

[@GAMINGOBRIEN69]

7:37 "while being huge, but, it felt so intamate" 🫢💀