Recognizing that there is a limited number of vehicles licensed each year, is there a point at which replication and saturation of a mutant vehicle type leads to diminishing community interest and originality?

Burning Man is a bike and pedestrian community by design. Mutant vehicles have been incorporated into that design in a quantity that celebrates their uniqueness, while at the same time preserving the safety of Black Rock City for the majority of the community.

MV creators are in a privileged position to exhibit their creation and many wish to experience this motorized mobility and opportunity. Variety and surprise garners more community and DMV interest, than does simply replicating upon an already well executed idea of a Mutant Vehicle.

Steampunk (Funk) Zeppelin

sanjosevictorian.com/projects#zeppelin

Drum Wagons

www.acavallo.org/main/index.php

Epic Island

home.gci.net/~mcfunk/artcar.html

Barzilla

www.flickr.com/photos/117...2281931726/

Cupcake Cars

www.flickr.com/photos/wil...ts/1748740/

Aphrodite

davekeller.myphotoalbum.com/view...m.php

Shuttlecraft Galileo

www.trexxis.com/shuttle/shuttle.html

Purple Palace

www.purplepalace.org/

Puppy Guppy

www.campdogfish.com/

Wonder Wagon

smugdennis.smugmug.com/galler...2_ctYEE

Bloody Cow

farm2.static.flickr.com/1085/1...3d1.jpg

Snail Jr

www.flickr.com/photos/279...2608927841/

Loki

gallery.mac.com/yogamamas#100110

Hellion the Angry Art Car

img.photobucket.com/albums/v...nrise.jpg

It is no small accomplishment to imagine, design and construct an exceptional Mutant Vehicle and it usually takes a well organized crew of resourceful and talented individuals with a considerable commitment of funds. A highly regarded Mutant Vehicle is a frame up construction that combines engineering with artistic imagery and represent a substantial investment of time in creation.

Boo Boo Kitty

people.tribe.net/b99528f9-...a47/photos

Photoboof

photoboof.org/

The Great American Train

images.burningman.com/index.cgi

Spirit of Wonka

images.burningman.com/index.cgi

Cloud 9

tribes.tribe.net/cloud9/ph...95c09cd45b

Hal 2.7b

rldp.rockymountainmoggers.com/hal.html

Monstertruckgocart

www.flickr.com/photos/819...2506022110/

The Landspeeder

www.sogroovy.com/gallery/b...n_2005_026

The Chief

www.flickr.com/photos/275...2571835584/

Queen of the desert

www.flickr.com/photos/680...2483096673/

illuminati cart

www.flickr.com/photos/680...2483104771/

Rubber Ducky

images.burningman.com/gallery...6799.jpg

American Song

www.flickr.com/photos/26927941@N04/

The Time Machine

ca.youtube.com/watch

The Cadishack

www.flickr.com/photos/mel...2016799677/

Shipwreck tiki lounge

www.shipwrecktikilounge.com/burn....html

Consider the limited community contribution of Mutant Vehicles that lack a basic strong conceptual direction towards visual or participatory elements and project a dominant base vehicle as foremost a means of travel.

Successful small Mutant Vehicles are likely to make a big statement in a small package and they tend to convey an image from a distance and while in motion. Custom road conveyances on the other hand, primarily communicate artistic and engineering craftsmanship in details that are appreciated up close and while the creation is not moving.

BossHog

www.scrappigeon.com/BM/

Short John Silver

www.nmpproducts.com/blog/

burning carmadillo

s290.photobucket.com/albums/...madillo/

The Nautileo

www.flickr.com/photos/10111/1481641540/

Discomo

agency.curiouspictures.com/gene...como/

Solar Death Ray 3000 & the Caution Car

people.tribe.net/5969572e-...be3d08f572

Big Bunny

picasaweb.google.com/davidba...11796210

Kerman

www.heartmagic.com/zzhydrostatSwing.html

The Slow Learner

www.flickr.com/photos/280...2616373425/

Quadrapus

www.heartmagic.com/quadrapusNet/

Futon Dream Machine

groups.yahoo.com/group/Bur...anArtCars/

Hilux

www.simulationfx.com:16080/hilu....html

Sparky The Star Trek Shuttlecraft

homepage.mac.com/cmervis/P...bum34.html


Brainmobile
farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2...e_o.jpg

The Great Pumpkin

www.flickr.com/photos/489...2593731357/

FLOATING PAGODA PLEASURE PALACE

www.flickr.com/photos/10727345@N06/

the Ghost of The Lady Washington

home.teleport.com/~northwes...tmv08.html

What's your motivation? If convenience or personal conveyance is your primary goal, please rethink your desire to have a Mutant Vehicle on the playa. The only Mutant Vehicles to receive licenses will be radical works of art, or vehicles with a high participation factor. Yes, Black Rock City is huge, and can be a challenge to navigate. This is what bicycles are for!

A small but visible percentage of Black Rock City’s population participates by becoming part of the Mutant Vehicle (MV) community. With over 50,000 people and 500 MVs, the motorized few are in a position to affect the experiences of many.

Canoe of the Playa

www.home.earthlink.net/~thebozo/

American Dessert

www.solacegraphics.com/americ...ert.jpg

The Snail
SS Alpha-Fox

www.firegardens.com/

Satans Calliope

www.satanscalliope.com/

Bollywood Bad Speakerz

kit0.net/Projects/MutantVehicle

Camo Van

s62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/rsavicky/

Acavallo

www.acavallo.org/main/index.php#About

Land Yacht

s275.photobucket.com/albums/...20Yacht/

The Blue Boat

www.volks-web.com/BM2008/rick_boat.jpg

Blissful Saturday BBQ at the park

albums.phanfare.com/2064813/...=30542460

Lord Humongous wheelchair

racegreathouselabs.com/

PFG Scout Rocket

devan.sensoryengineering.net/Rocket.html

Animal Control #9

people.tribe.net/fd3b9604-...bdc/photos

Starlight Interceptor

www.igotu.com/starlight/

Dark Strider

fire.trickconcepts.com/mutantvehicle.htm

Pepper Mouser's Motorized Living Room

images.burningman.com/index.cgi

the manifest destiny

i194.photobucket.com/albums/...copy.jpg

Son of Drarktor

www.flickr.com/photos/dra...5422637085/

In service to the Burning Man community since 1997, your 2008 Department of Mutant Vehicle volunteer “Hotties” are working as a team to review the unique and radical Mutant Vehicle (MV) creations for approved operation on the playa. Licensing a Mutant Vehicle is a multi-step process with Fluffer, Pitboss, Photographer, Hotties and Tech all working together so that a select group of Black Rock City’s population can amaze the community with visual and interactive motive creations

Manifest Destiny

picasaweb.google.com/adam.lu...tDestiny

Jellyfish Bar Car

naturalturn.fotki.com/bm/2007...854.html

Captains Courageous

davidsimonperry.com/van/

Interstellar Pleasure Barge

interstellarpleasurebarge.jarrin.net/Burning_Man_2007.html

The “Fluffer” volunteer is the first Hottie most applicants will meet. With an emphasis on customer service, the Fluffer will greet and direct incoming applicants to the right resource, answer questions and queue up the creators for the “Pitboss” table, where the review gets underway with the paper work side of the process.

The invitation is reviewed by the “Pitboss” who pulls the vehicles application and places it in the “Photographer” Hottie’s queue box and the applicant is asked to take a seat in the DMV waiting area until the Hottie Photographer pulls their application, calls out for the applicant, and accompanies the creator to the MV in order for images of the Mutant Vehicle to be taken and recorded in the DMV / Black Rock Ranger computer database.

The Hottie Photographer returns the application to the Pitboss table and places it in the Hottie "review team" queue box and the applicant is asked to again take a seat in the DMV waiting area until they are called. The volunteers ask that you please be considerate of us and stay in the DMV waiting area until called. We greatly appreciate your cooperation by staying in the cool shade verses the alternative of Hotties going out in the sun to find you and your machine.

In a short time a team of reviewing Hotties will pull your application from the queue box, call out for you and perform a visual inspection of the Mutant Vehicle for:

(1) Adherence to the original MV application design (2) Review of the Applicant’s safety considerations
(3) Mutant Vehicle meets current licensing guidelines (4) Lighting is provided for night time operation
(5) Inspection of Flame Effects


Splat’s Diner

www.flickr.com/photos/spl...e/60513408/

Mutant Chair

www.flickr.com/photos/285...2660371114/

The Walking Beast

www.moltensteelman.mechanicalspider.com/

Dragon Room

img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...Room.jpg

The DMV doesn't fashion poorly executed Mutant Vehicles that make a minimal contribution. Consider the limited community contribution of Mutant Vehicles that lack a basic strong conceptual direction towards visual or participatory elements and project a dominant base vehicle as foremost a means of travel.

If you aspire to give the community the very minimum in return for your own maximum ability to drive at the event, then the blame for lousy mutant vehicles lies squarely with you and not the DMV


Blissbug

s300.photobucket.com/albums/...nBishop/

Candy

www.cinematrix.com/BMan/Can...tDone.jpg

Carnivillain Lights

www.theblight.net/misc/artc...senger.jpg

E-Quad

wsayer.smugmug.com/gallery/...662_GsadC

Eyore

www.flickr.com/photos/27425400@N04/

Freeride: The Cosmic Cab

www.domesticblissinc.com/galle...in.php

The Golden Behind

flickr.com/photos/fciro...603432584902/