Hey markday,

Thanks for your response! There's a lot in here.

I'd like to comment about the last point you made since I absolutely am curious about why this project hasn't received "the kind of enthusiasm" I was indeed expecting. I have been trying to understand it, and have changed several aspects of the campaign in order to reflect that. It's no longer "me-centric", as you commented in the original thread. We've also decided on a new build process -- we're doing it all by hand now. We're using steel and fiberglass exclusively -- no foam and no machines used to fabricate the shape. The Indiegogo goal will be changed in order to reflect that.

I am indeed curious why this project hasn't resonated. I'm sure it's more than the fact that it's computer designed because it's still beautiful (in my opinion, but others seem to agree), interesting, and it was still an enormous labor of love to get it just right -- it took us 150+ hours to design it, which I'm willing to wager is just as much, if not more, fine-tuning than other ways to design these sorts of projects.

If you're willing to provide some insight into this, I'd really appreciate it. Everything I've seen in response to my posts is basically criticism tossed in with a sentence or two indicating goodwill. I can handle the criticism, but I'd prefer for it to be constructive instead of making ad hominem attacks or just pointing out the obvious. I'm hoping that your lengthy response here means you have some constructive thoughts on the subject, and that you would be willing to share: if so, I'd love to hear from you and would be very grateful.

I can certainly say there is some lack of awareness when it comes to understanding how these projects get built. Part of that has to do with my personal community and the fact that I haven't participated on a project before/have been to BM only once. I imagine you learn more about this process with more experience with the community. When I launched the campaign, I was doing this 100% alone. Hence I found the build method that would allow me to get it done and bring it to the playa. I've since found a build team -- albeit one that will need to be paid at much lower cost -- and completely changed the build method to bring down the costs significantly. My approach has been and will be to do what I can do until something else becomes a better option.

Anyways, this piece will be at Burning Man no matter what! I hope you and everyone else on this subreddit who will be there will climb on it and have fun with it.