Che' Pressnall

Fort Meade High School

Class of 1988

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Che' Pressnall - Class of 1988 - Fort Meade High School

First Name	Che'
Last Name	Pressnall
Graduation Year	Class of 1988
City	N/A
State/Province	CA
Country	United States
Occupation	Fabricator of large Scale Public Art
Married	No
Favorite School Memory	Playing Spades & Snorting Pixie Sticks in the Lunch Room
About Me	My friend Dan and his wife Karen asked me to come and teach welding classes for their art project (been doing projects with Dan for years) in Oakland... http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/08/crude-awakening.html So I started coming out every other week or so and teaching folks how to weld. About a month and a half later Dan asked me if I would help him manage the project because it is too much for one person to do, so I threw myself into this with my usual gusto and got the team focused and dialed... 5 weeks later, it becomes apparent that Dan needs to go out to the Playa to build with the tower crew and set up the figures... So I stay behind for the next two weeks load 8 Semi-trucks with 100 tons of steel sculptures, 45,000 lbs. of wood, two generators, and walk in refrigerator/freezer, and entire restaurant's' kitchen equipment, enough food to feed 250 people for three weeks, a crane, three Cushmans (those little police cars the traffic cops drive around), 150 peoples camping gear, 8 x 300 gallon water tanks (there is no water in the desert), three crates full of lighting gear, and a trailer (for myself)... I finally get to the Playa just when they are setting the tower on the ground... These videos will give you an idea of the size and scope of the project I did at this years Burning Man: Here are sculptures and the tower in the daytime... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ACo6VWD-k Here are the sculptures on fire at night... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBRcapvP3yA Danya and Joey ( the Pyrokenetics guys I went to Robodock with) and a look at the warehouse.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eja4dmDkJ_Q The Playa is prone to occasional duststorms, here's one from the top of the tower... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMQxgCgusJE A perspective from inside the tower... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYM9k8lJA8 The figures with our Telsa coil... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aae2S2NxBLw A nice shot of the fireball and the tower falling... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3mWMdv978 Here's the whole piece, Fireworks and all... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGx0PhDGlU So then I spend two weeks in the desert cleaning up all the Figures and our camp. I send 8 Semi trucks back, get the thumbs up from the Burning Man Org. to leave because I managed to get everything off the Playa and the entire site cleaned down to its normally pristine state with two days to spare, Drive back to Oakland, sleep for 6 hours and then... I fly to this Fire Arts and robotics festival in Amsterdam called Robodock... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdmpKs6OkuU And was the head of security for SRL... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBy5gAICARY who make many large robots bent on destroying each other including a V1 rocket... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvdOeVqH7m4 alot of my friends from the Bay area were there including the Flaming Lotus Girls and their "Serpent Mother" project... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Xw_j44cyE The guys I went to Robodock with only have a few short clips in other videos, but here is one of the Fire Pendulum in action at Burning Man so ya get an Idea of what it d...(read more)