Twisted Tankers and the Big Rig Jig

Telstar Logistics was unable to attend Burning Man this year, alas -- the launch of our new startup kept us pretty busy around the office.  Oh well.  Since we couldn't experience the spectacle first-hand, we've instead had to content ourselves with looking at photos of the art arrayed across Black Rock this year -- and even then, somewhat belatedly.  The photo above, taken by Veteran Associate Cynthia Wood, caught our eye immediately.

We dug around to find out more.  It seems this giant piece of sculpture is called Big Rig Jig, and it was built by  Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ross, who constructed the piece from a pair of salvaged trucks and and tanker trailers.  As Wired News explained:

Mike Ross, a New York sculpture artist, and a rotating crew of four to 16 friends, many also from New York, built the piece in an Oakland, California, work space called American Steel, also used for many other large-scale Burning Man projects.

Ross had conceived the project before hearing of Burning Man's "Green Man" theme this year. He and his crew repurposed decommissioned trucks they found while driving around the San Francisco Bay Area. "We drove the trucks right into the warehouse and started chopping them to pieces," Ross says.

Bravo!  Bravo!

LINKS:
Big Rig Jig (Artist's website)

Big Rig Jig on Flickr (More than 1400 photos, and counting)

Doing the Big Rig Jig on the Playa (Wired News article)

Big Rig Jig at Burning Man 2007 (Laughing Squid blog post)

Photos by CynnerSF (top). Almost Jaded (center), and Lush.i.ous (bottom)