My first year at Burningman, I was entranced by the hundreds of
poi spinners performing every night.
By my third, I was getting a little tired of them.
The standard vocabulary of poi movies is limited, and after seeing a few dozen people spin fire, you won't often see anything technically surprising anymore.
Exotic fire spinning implements can extend the novelty a fair bit, but that too has its limits.
I think it was at Firefly (a small New England Burningman spinoff) that I learned the next l...
Published on June 24, 2010 04:47