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[baki-tiene-un-simp]

Hey, id it's not a burden could you please make hc for an pregnant S/O like how would the characters react to finding out their pregnant wirh theie child and how would rhey treat them during the entire process an labour and the aftermath(katsumi, retsu, baki, musashi, mumon )

Thank you for the content :)

Have a good night ;) :)

I have written a lot about "pregnant S/O" or related to it, for example here, here, here, here and here. Baki, Katsumi and Retsu appear in those sections, so I will leave them out. I hope you don't mind

Situation: His S/O is pregnant.

Characters: Mumon Katsuragi and Musashi Miyamoto.

Mumon Katsuragi.

Completely oblivious to babies, Mumon goes through life carelessly, never giving a thought to responsibility and what it means to be a parent. He's just so absorbed in his world that he doesn't pay attention to the real world.

However, he loves you and there is no doubt about it. Maybe he never imagined holding a baby, but he will surely stay by your side no matter what. If you want this baby, then he will want it too.

He smiles when you tell him about the pregnancy, "we're happy about this, right?" he hugs you when you talk excitedly about the life that will soon unfold within you.

I honestly don't think it's his field, he doesn't know much about babies, pregnancies or births. Perhaps he has heard about it on occasion, however, he didn't really bother to pay attention; But Mumon is the great genius who can master anything just by looking at it once, so he is with you on this one to learn and improve.

He starts hanging around you as soon as you tell him about the pregnancy, he read somewhere that pregnant people are delicate and must be treated with care. He will be watching you to make sure nothing bad happens.

Going through the pregnancy with Mumon is a calm and learning process, he wants them both to learn to cope with this together and to prepare as well as possible for what is to come.

He goes out to find delicious food for both of you, honestly he looks like a cat that goes hunting to get food for you, he returns with a hot meal that whets your appetite.

He is very attentive to your cravings and he does not want to pass up any, if he must run to the corner to get ramen and a chocolate bar or vanilla yogurt with meat skewers, well he will. He doesn't question your combinations, either.

He sits near you to ask you how you feel or if you are okay with everything that is happening, he listens to your answers and nods silently, he is secretly a little scared so he wants to come to you for peace of mind. He doesn't want to distress you by telling you that he is fearful or nervous about the future that he holds for them, so he will hold you in a comfortable hug and slowly soothe with your calm voice.

When you enter your fifth or sixth month of pregnancy, Mumon starts to think too much about the baby, as if he can't get it out of his head no matter how hard he tries, wherever he looks he will always catch something related to babies and he can't help it anymore get lost in his thoughts of what his son or daughter will be like.

When you go into labor he is mentally going over everything he has to do, get your hospital bag, take you to the hospital, check you in at reception and make sure you remember everything he has to do while you are giving birth. As soon as he is done with hospital business he runs to your side and holds your hand.

He hopes they let him come to you whether or not it's a natural birth, he wants to come with you and hold your hand so you know he's here with you.

He lets you squeeze his hand as much as necessary, he will be distressed if you cry or yell too loud, his face has a worried look on his face. He doesn't remember reading or hearing anything about how this would be so painful for you.

He tries to be helpful, he reassures you so you can push at the right times as he reminds you to take a deep breath, he combs your head with his free hand to comfort you.

He wants to hold it as soon as he is approached, after you of course, he is smiling so much for the little person in his arms.

The days after the birth of the baby Mumon is very attentive to both of them, he wants to facilitate something to help, change the baby when they cries at night, bathe them and feed them with a bottle. He is also preventing you from moving too much, ask him for anything, he will make sure to comply.

He hugs the baby a lot, constantly talks to them so that they recognize his voice and lays them on his chest during naps. He watches them sleep too, you know, new daddy fears that the baby isn't breathing.

Musashi Miyamoto.

He probably don't think much about babies, like he knows they exist, but he regularly ignores that fact and just go about his business.

You would expect this fact to be because he doesn't like children, yet he wants babies. Babies born to him and you, a legacy, an inheritance from what was the most famous great samurai of all time and, beginning to look like a Yujiro speech, a family.

When you tell him that you are expecting his baby, he looks at you with adoration, but he is not very vocal about it. You will notice that he is happy by his insistence to stay by your side perpetually. He follows you as if he were your shadow.

Spending the pregnancy with Musashi means diligently adhering to Japanese pregnancy-related customs and rites. What to do, what not to do, things to avoid, things to frequent, practices, food and even clothing will be affected throughout the pregnancy.

In Musashi's time, men weren't involved in the development of pregnancy because it wasn't their bodies that were involved, so Musashi tried to keep himself in check around treating you.

For Musashi, pregnancy means "perfecting", according to his time, so he considers that everything that affects you can end up influencing the baby. He will be determined to keep you in peace and avoid any unpleasantness, he believes that it is necessary that you can concentrate only on the baby growing inside you.

He is insistent on your diet, "Japanese children made of Japanese food that comes from Japanese land" is paramount, according to their traditions. Prepare to be properly nourished with food that has only come from the soil of Japan. In fact, this practice tends to spread much more, to the point that women had to return to their parents' house to receive proper treatment, however, Musashi is distrustful that you travel on your own very far from his sights on where are you safe.

Spend the first months merely resting, what you do is an important job that cannot be disturbed by absolutely anything, the samurai can and will become violent if someone causes you discomfort of any kind.

He goes out every morning to look for food, vegetables and meat, fish and rice. He only gets what is just and necessary for the day, tomorrow he will repeat the same process.

In the fifth month of pregnancy, you must go to a temple to pray for the well-being and the health of your baby, you should have gone with your mother or grandmother if you wanted to follow the tradition to the letter, but he will be the one to accompany you. They will also buy an obi to tie around your belly, as it is to protect the uterus from the cold, keep the baby stable and prevent it from growing excessively, although I also mention something about helping to create maternal identity.

He stares at you while you sleep, he thinks he should watch you to make sure nothing bad happens to you or the baby. He will spend the whole night looking at your face, checking that you are breathing and that your temperature is correct.

The birth will be difficult, Musashi goes on to say something about the medication or even the epidural breaking the bond that you have to form with the baby during the birth and that this will make it weak. It will be tedious to explain that there is nothing wrong with using painkillers and that the baby will not be affected.

He makes you eat a lot and regularly hydrates you, it is what will give you strength to endure childbirth. He believes that it is harmful for you to yell or move too much, so he treats your pain by massaging your back and belly area.

All of this would be if you favor a home birth or adhere to Musashi's beliefs, if, on the contrary, you want to give birth in a hospital, then he will be a little more controlled. He is a very traditional man who cannot really stick to modernity.

The samurai watch the little being that came out of you with his big eyes and chases them everywhere if they doesn't have them in his arms. The nurses have been scared more than once when they realize that Musashi is behind them looking at his baby. He watches them even when they are sleeping in their crib, he thinks it might be dangerous if he doesn't watch them.

The ten days after delivery are for you to relax and bond with the baby, they are days of obligatory stillness in which you must recover as much as you can. Needless to say, he'll be hanging around to make sure everything is okay and you're feeling okay.

He is particularly calm with the baby, very gentle and attentive, the baby cannot move or make noise without Musashi hearing it. He constantly watches over them to ensure their well-being at all times.

Versión en español.

Mumon Katsuragi.

Completamente ajeno a los bebés, Mumon va por la vida despreocupadamente, jamás pensó en la responsabilidad y lo que significa ser padre. Simplemente está tan absorto en su mundo que no presta atención al mundo real.

Sin embargo, te ama y no hay duda de ello. Quizá jamás se imaginó sosteniendo a un bebé, pero seguro se quedara a tu lado pase lo que pase. Si quieres este bebé, pues él lo querrá también.

Sonríe cuando le cuentas sobre el embarazo, "¿estamos felices por esto, no?" te abraza cuando hablas emocionadamente sobre la vida que pronto se desarrollara dentro de ti.

Sinceramente no creo que sea su campo, no sabe mucho sobre bebés, embarazos o partos. Quizá ha escuchado sobre ello en alguna ocasión, sin embargo, no se molestó en poner atención realmente; Pero Mumon es el gran genio que puede dominar cualquier cosa con solo mirarla una vez, por lo que esta contigo en este para aprender y mejorar.

Empieza a rondar a tú al rededor desde que le dices sobre el embarazo, leyó por ahí que las personas gestantes son delicadas y deben ser tratadas con cuidado. Estará observándote para asegurarse de que nada malo suceda.

Pasar el embarazo con Mumon es un proceso de aprendizaje y calma, él quiere que ambos aprendan a sobrellevar esto juntos y prepararse lo mejor posible para lo que viene.

Él sale a buscar comida deliciosa para ambos, sinceramente parece un gato que sale a cazar para conseguir comida para ti, regresa con una comida caliente que te abre el apetito.

Él está muy atento a tus antojos y no quiere dejar pasar ninguno, si debe correr a la esquina para conseguir ramen y una barra de chocolate o yogur de vainilla con brochetas de carne, pues lo hará. No cuestiona tus combinaciones, tampoco.

Él se sienta cerca de ti para preguntarte como te siente o si te encuentras bien con todo lo que está pasando, escucha tus respuestas y asiente en silencio, secretamente está un poco asustado por lo que quiere acudir a ti por tranquilidad. No quiere angustiarte al decirte que está temeroso o nervioso por el futuro que les depara, así que, se aferrara a ti en un cómodo abrazo y se tranquilizara poco a poco con tu voz calmada.

Cuando entras en el quinto o sexto mes de embarazo Mumon empieza a pensar demasiado en el bebé, como si no pudiera sacárselo de la cabeza por más que lo intente, mire a donde mire siempre captara alguna cosa relacionada con los bebés y ya no puede evitar perderse en sus pensamientos de como será su hijo o hija.

Cuando te pones de parto él está repasando mentalmente todo lo que debe hacer, tomar el bolso para el hospital, llevarte al hospital, registrarte en recepción y asegurarse de recordar todo lo que tenga que hacer mientras tú estás dando a luz. Tan pronto como termina con los asuntos del hospital corre a tu lado y sostiene tu mano.

Espera que le dejan acompañarte aunque sea o no un parto natural, quiere acompañarte y sostener tu mano para que sepas que está aquí contigo.

Él deja que aprietes su mano tanto como sea necesario, estará angustiado si lloras o gritas muy fuerte, su cara tiene una mueca de preocupación. No recuerda haber leído o escuchado nada sobre que esto sería tan doloroso para ti.

Trata de ser de ayuda, te tranquiliza para que puedas pujar en los momentos exactos mientras te recuerda que respires profundo, peina tu cabeza con su mano libre para consolarte.

Quiere sostenerlo tan pronto como se lo acercan, después de ti por supuesto, está sonriendo mucho por la pequeña personita que está entre sus brazos.

Los días después del nacimiento del bebé Mumon está muy atento a los dos, quiere facilitar cualquier cosa con tal de ayudar, cambiar al bebé cuando llora de noche, bañarlo y darle de comer con un biberón. También estar evitando que te muevas demasiado, pídele lo que sea, él se asegurara de cumplirlo.

Abraza mucho al bebé, constantemente le habla para que reconozca su voz y lo recuesta sobre su pecho durante la siesta. También lo mira mientras duerme, ya sabes, miedos de papá primerizo de que el bebé no esté respirando.

Musashi Miyamoto.

Probablemente no piensa demasiado en bebés, como si supiera de su existencia, pero que regularmente ignore ese hecho y solo se concentre en sus asuntos.

Esperarías que este hecho sea porque no le gustan los niños, sin embargo, quiere bebés. Bebés nacidos de él y de ti, un legado, una herencia de lo que fue el gran samurái más famoso de todos los tiempos y, empieza a parecerse a un discurso de Yujiro, una familia.

Cuando le cuentas que estás esperando un bebé suyo te mira con adoración, más no es muy vocal con ello. Notarás que esta feliz por su insistencia de quedarse perpetuamente a tu lado. Te sigue como si fuera tu sombra.

Pasar el embarazo con Musashi significa apegarse diligentemente a costumbres y ritos japoneses relacionados con el embarazo. Que hacer, que no hacer, cosas a evitar, cosas a frecuentar, prácticas, alimentación y hasta la vestimenta se vera afectada durante todo el embarazo.

En la época de Musashi, los hombres no se veían involucrados en el desarrollo del embarazo porque no eran sus cuerpos los que participaban, por lo que Musashi tratara de mantenerse a raya en torno a tratarte.

Para Musashi el embarazo significa "perfeccionar", de acuerdo a su época, por lo que considera que todo lo que te afecte puede terminar influenciando al bebé. Estará empeñado en mantenerte en paz y evitarte cualquier disgusto, cree que es necesario que puedas concentrarte solamente en que el bebé crezca dentro de ti.

Es insistente en tu alimentación, “niños japoneses hechos de comida japonesa que vienen de tierra japonesa” es primordial, según sus tradiciones. Prepárate para nutrirte correctamente con alimentos que solo hayan salido del suelo de Japón. De hecho, esta práctica suele extenderse mucho más, hasta el punto de que las mujeres debían volver a la casa de sus padres para recibir un trato adecuado, sin embargo, a Musashi le provoca desconfianza que viajes por tu cuenta muy lejos de su mira en donde estas a salvo.

Pasar los primeros meses meramente descansado, lo que haces es un trabajo importante que no puede ser perturbado por absolutamente nada, el samurái puede y se pondrá violento si alguien llega a provocarte malestar de cualquier tipo.

Sale cada mañana para buscar comida, verduras y carnes, pescados y arroz. Solo consigue lo justo y necesario para el día, mañana repetirá el mismo proceso.

Al quinto mes de embarazo deberás asistir a un templo para rezar por el bienestar y la salud de tu bebé, deberías haber ido con tu madre o abuela si quería seguir la tradición al pie de la letra, pero él será quien te acompañe. También comprarán un obi para atarlo a tu vientre, según es para proteger al útero del frío, mantener al bebé estable y evitar que crezca excesivamente, aunque también menciono algo sobre ayudar a crear identidad materna.

Él se queda mirándote mientras duerme, cree que debe vigilarte para asegurarse de que nada mal te pase a ti o al bebé. Pasará toda la noche mirando tu rostro, comprobando que respires y que tu temperatura sea la adecuada.

El parto será difícil, Musashi sigue diciendo algo de que la medicación o hasta la epidural rompen el lazo que debes formar con el bebé durante el parto y que eso lo hará débil. Será tediosa explicarle que no hay nada de malo en usar calmantes y que el bebé no se verá afectado.

Te hace comer bastante e hidratándote periódicamente, es lo que te dará fuerza para soportar el parto. Cree que es perjudicial que grites o te muevas demasiado, por lo que se ocupa de tu dolor masajeando la zona de la espalda y el vientre

Todo eso sería si te inclinas por un parto en casa o apegado a las creencias de Musashi, si por el contrario quieres dar a luz en un hospital, pues estará un poco más controlado. Es un hombre muy tradicional que no se puede apegar realmente a la modernidad.

El samurái observa al pequeño ser que salió de ti con sus grandes ojos y lo persigue por todas partes si no lo tiene en los brazos. Las enfermeras se han asustado más de una vez cuando se dan cuenta de que Musashi esta tras ella mirando a su bebé. Lo observa hasta cuando está durmiendo en su cuna, cree que puede ser peligroso que no lo vigile.

Los diez días después del parto son para que te relajes y crees vínculos con el bebé, son días de quietud obligatoria en los que debes recuperarte todo lo que puedas. Esta de más decir que él estará rondando para asegurarse de que todo esté bien y que tú te sientas bien.

Es particularmente tranquilo con el bebé, muy suave y atento, el bebé no puede mover o hacer ruido sin que Musashi lo escuche. Él lo vigila constantemente para asegurar su bienestar siempre.

[whatisgoingonpaul]

So I’m thinking about Star again, I mumbled about her backstory before and my ideas. Well buckle up here we go again.

I still establish she was a runaway from home and made a life for herself, new name new everything.

I heard someone refer to her as the possible tinkerbell of the story and now it actually kinda makes sense.

Jealousy. I mean the guys barley pay her any attention think about it, whenever we see them all together she always stands separate, no one is preventing her from coming over rhey just seam sort of dismissive. Indifferent that she is there (see the lost boys not really caring all that much over tink she sort of does her own thing and they’ll wave her off if she gets to annoying. She’s the closest to Peter) in this case micheal however I still maintain that Max is the Peter and David is more of a slighty (the Fox one the second in command). Maybe she and David had a thing once upon a time but they just sort of fell out?

She lures-

That seems to be her main thing. She is the one to bring Micheal to the boys after all, she hops on the back of the bike and you can see the pride on David’s face and then the whole googly eyes at micheal. This can be brought back to Tink too, as she was also a guide , showing others to places etc. I like Star being a lure and I explored this a bit in my fic but... think about it. Smokin’ chick out there alone walking the boardwalk at night all done up and pretty eyed imagine the scumbags she’d attract ... more so meals for the boys.

Manipulative?-

She has problems. A lot. I don’t think her problem was living with the boys or how they treated her, she never seamed mistreated, they weren’t horribly rude or hitting her. Just indifferent. I think she needs that attention (again tink) she CRAVES it , that’s why she’s not super against being a lure.. gets her attention that the boys are to busy giving to each other then to pass a glance to her. She’s bored. She could leave any damn time she wants ans she doesn’t, maybe a tie to max? However I think about the line in the comic David says as he’s dying... again... how she will use you to get what she wants and then leave(I never would have left you micheal - gay ass-) she gets something out of it out of being there. When Micheal comes, he doesn’t instantly look away from her... it’s not sucked away into the boys he still looks at her... I think that was to much , to the point she withholds information to a teenager having a panic attack just to get him in bed. Yikes.

Star is interesting to me and I really cannot unsee the tinker bell connection , if you don’t give her enough attention she’ll fucking die and she is petty enough to get everyone killed

Conclusion :

Oh, here she comes

Watch out boy she'll chew you up

Oh, here she comes

She's a man eater

Baby get some therapy getting others killed isn’t what’s gonna help you. (Keep in mind she also wasn’t anti vamp or illuded to that. Just that she could not kill herself...)

[trippinglynet]

The Media and Immediacy | Larry Harvey (1998)

An Interview with Larry Harvey.

[Ed Note: Darryl Van Rhey is the pen name of Larry Harvey, although it was also occasionally used by Stuart Mangrum].

Darryl Van Rhey: Many who have come to Burning Man have voiced complaints about the media. Some say the presence of cameras and reporters intrudes upon immediate experience. What is your response?

Larry Harvey: I meet a lot of reporters, which is part of my job, and so the media does not appear to me to be a faceless monolith. I think that perception sometimes warps people's reasoning. You might say I've had a more immediate experience of the media, and I've met very few journalists who are ogres.

We did encounter one television crew back in 1995 that was remarkably clueless. They plastered a general release statement - perhaps the world's largest - on our gate trailer, then proceeded to rush around yelling. 'Camera coming through! Camera coming through!' at people. We declared a media alert on our radio station and it generated a community response. People fashioned wooden cameras and began to follow them around. Someone finally wrote 'Eat The Rich' on their Winnebago and they left - but that was before we learned to deal with this proactively.

DVR: What exactly have you learned?

LH: I've learned that journalists are paid to be curious - and that is where their problems begin. You see, they're always on a deadline. They're asked to go out and find a story, but there is never enough time to tell it. I sometimes tell reporters what Henry James said about periodicals. He said that magazines are like a railroad that must always run on time. There are never enough paying passengers, and yet the rules state that each train car must be filled - so they stuff the seats with mannequins. That way no one notices the train's half empty as it rushes down the track.

DVR: That's one of those professional ironies, isn't it? One may enter a profession out of love of that activity, but then, of course, you're working for others who may not care about it in that ideal sense. That's why they hired someone else to do it.

LH: Yeah, means and ends get separated. Journalists as a class of people are interested and interesting, but they are seldom able to fulfill themselves. They're expected to turn out product on a deadline - which can murder curiosity. Last year we tailored an approach to people in the media designed to solve this problem.

DVR: What did you do?

LH: They would call Marian, our Communications Manager, and say, 'We need a press kit and we want to talk to Larry.' She'd tell them that we had no press kit, but if they wanted to talk to anybody, they should first go to our website. Now, of course, our website is extraordinary. It has a ton of information, more angles than you could ever compress into a kit. Moreover, it is interactive and the gateway to thousands of other sites that participants have created themselves. It is a thoroughgoing X-ray of our whole community.

They'd come back, now loaded with context, and say, 'This sounds great! So, we're coming on Sunday and we want to talk to Larry...' and then she would tell them, 'If you want to talk to Larry you have to come early, on Wednesday or Thursday, and stay for the entire event.' Now they had to come, camp, live and survive among us. They had no choice but to immerse themselves in the story. This is radical inclusion - very Burning Man.

DVR: You're saying that the media itself enjoyed an immediate experience.

LH: They sure did, and the results were extraordinary. You know, a lot of what passes for journalistic objectivity is actually professional alienation. We allowed them access to deep background. We gave them time to think and a few ideas, but we didn't tell them what to say so much as we allowed them to express themselves. That's what we're radically about. Have you seen any of the TV shows?

DVR: You were well served.

LH: Sure we were, but so were they! They wrote more incisively. They delved beneath appearances. By every intelligent standard, they created better stories. I'd grown so weary of the Burning-Man-as-Woodstock myth. This year they noticed our diversity, and as actual citizens of our city they realized that our talk about community betokens something real. Not only is this more accurate, but it describes a more intriguing phenomenon. No amount of spin could have produced this. These stories were crafted with more care than is normal. In a very real sense, the news crews were participants this year.

Besides, you know, I grow a little tired of hearing how people with cameras aren't participants. Does that mean that only exhibitionists are participating? Don't get me wrong. As you well know, some of my dearest friends are exhibitionists. But can't someone with a camera be creative too? Every year when the event is over, participants clamor for images. It's only natural. We get hundreds of requests. How do you suppose these pictures get produced?

DVR: But doesn't all this beg my original question? Granted, people want pictures and certainly you got good press. Maybe, by allowing reporters to express themselves in their work, they better expressed what Burning Man actually is. But why should you want more press? Given your agenda for community, some would say you're better off without the media.

LH: Not politically. Does anyone imagine we'd survive without the press? The truth will set you free, but only if you can publicize it. The presence of the press at our event has shielded us from persecution. It isn't always a nice world, you know.

DVR: Well, that's certainly a pragmatic argument.

LH: It is, but I really don't mean to evade your question. You seem to be suggesting that mere contact with the media will somehow corrupt us and I think this comes back to the notion of the media as monolith. Who and what are the media?

First of all, it's anyone who carries a camera. Beyond that, it is the press, television, movies, radio, and now the Internet. These are merely mediums of communication. People carry on as if television sets were entities of evil or as if reporters and producers of programming were members of some sinister conspiracy, but why blame them? Our real problem is that these communication tools are used for certain economic purposes. TV is the worst offender. It isolates people and turns them into passive consumers, and that makes it hard to imagine using the media to actively communicate with one another. But we have met the media. It's made up of people, reporters who are looking for a story, something that will attract attention. That's their agenda and what's wrong with it? Burning Man is a growing community and communities learn through story telling. We've got a big story, so we've gained a voice. Immediacy can be very contagious.

DVR: You're not worried then about becoming too popular?

LH: By too popular I suppose you mean will we become pop culture, become commodified, turned into some sort of product that's hawked on TV? That's really the fear, isn't it? It amounts to a kind of superstitious dread.

Listen, we're a populist movement. We need to communicate with people. How do you suppose half the people who come to the festival hear about it? We do very little paid advertising. Pieces in the press or shows on TV are merely magnified word-of-mouth. Who is saying these messages are a substitute for immediate experience? It used to be feared that we'd become too big.

Again, you see, there's this tendency to equate anything on a large scale with mass society, but I think we've laid that ghost to rest. Last year, in 1997, we had our largest attendance and our greatest publicity, but the event was more participatory and interactive than ever before. Obviously, we're communicating with people. Everyone complains about the media, but no one does anything about it. Why look at this so passively? We should have more faith in ourselves. It's time to believe that we can change the world.

DVR: Do you have any plans for dealing with the media in the future?

LH: We'll continue what we've started. You know, we've always charged the press. There are no free press passes. They pay for tickets like everyone else. They're treated as participants. Next year we'll do more to get them to come early, and we'll try harder to introduce them to people. This year we connected TBS to a couple. They filmed their child's birthday party and the kids and parents burned a giant wooden cake. I thought that was great.

We'll also stress basic etiquette more, but that works both ways. If you don't want to be featured, just tell them up front. They're people, you know. We might also ask camera crews to come in costume. That way they'll blend in with the scene - gain more acceptance, get better stories and have more fun. We might make an exception for on-camera announcers, but for them I fancy we could make a costume - maybe just the front half of a suit. These guys never seem to turn around, so who's to know the difference?

DVR: Do you have any last thoughts on this subject?

LH: Just one. I have a personal reason for allowing camera crews to come.

DVR: Fame?

LH: Well, that's a whole other interview. No, I meant that as an organizer I have very little time to see what really happens. As an engineer of other people's experience, I need to imagine things I haven't actually participated in. I depend on these images.

DVR: One of those professional ironies, huh?

LH: I'm working on it.

Larry Harvey is the founder and director of Burning Man.

Darryl Van Rhey is a freelance writer residing in San Francisco.