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April 25, 2010 - Phoenix AZ
- It is hard to believe that I started doing the April Fool's
web sites six (6) years ago. Since the premier of
SPOTS
there are now a total of Twenty-Three (23) sites that have come
out of my imagination. I have come a long way with my
creativity, color balance, image creation/manipulation and web
site design since
SPOTS.
2010 will be my
11th Playa Year - I cannot imagine my life without Burning Man and the
year-round community that we have here in Arizona and the
communities all over the globe that I have had the honor of
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Over the past
six years I have learned that most people are just unaware that
it is April Fool's ala 04/01 and that anything you might read on
that day may be subject to a bit more scrutiny. People read &
react without really reading. You might ask, do I think I am
still fooling people? Have they not caught on to the Scotto
April Fool's legacy?
The answer of course is that even with 23
web sites over 6 years, people are still gullible. There was
actually one additional web site, if you count the fire incident
that was requested to be taken down because it went over the
proverbial joke line...Fire,
Death & Friends
according to some, just not funny.... |
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The line of funny to absurd - over the
line to obnoxious does not exist at the moment of creation or
imagination, that being before anyone other than the creator has
seen it. Once others have the opportunity to view and filter
what they have seen and comment on it, does it actually cross
the border into Obscene and just plain wrong. I love this
comment from 2007 when the
Fire, Death &
Friends web site was premiered. |
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To whom it may concern:
I don't know if you are responsible for the April Fool's Day
"hoax" in which the death of three people, the personal injury
of 19 others, and the arrest of another was cited, so I must
maintain an objective approach here. I will only say that, if
you are this person, please seek psychiatric help. Today. NOW.
This person is sick and in immediate need of treatment and
confinement, and under no circumstance should have access to a
mass communication device of any kind, ever again. |
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In the end I get a kick out of
the Burning Man Parody thing, coming up with the domain names
and the creative outlet that is web design. I hope you have
enjoyed the 2010 sites as much as I did in creating them. Yes,
you can count on another round of April Fool's web sites, ala
Scotto in 2011. |
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'Burning Man will change
your life...You just do not know how yet' |
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'Everything you take to Burning
Man including yourself will never be the same' |
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