Blog | Chilopod 2022

Chilopod Fundraising Request

Please support us in bringing our newly enlivened Chilopod back to Burning Man for the first time since 2018!

Chilopod Fundraising Dance Party

DJ Deer and DJ Luv-le have the beats to keep you dancing all night. VJ Asy's video projections will have you mezmerized.

Chilopod Rebuild Begins

Last Sunday, a crew assembled at the Berkeley nest to rearrange Chilopod's parts in the warehouse and make room for erecting the spine.

Chilopod Moves Into Her New Nest

Hello Friends, Last Sunday was a big day. After nearly four years in storage, Chilopod returned to Berkeley and moved into her new nest!...

Chilopod Receives Honorarium For 2022!

Hello Chilopod family! We have some exciting news to share with you. Chilopod has been offered an honorarium of $15,000 to return to...

Build Update and Highlighting Team Members: Ish

Hello from Berkeley! With the burn a little over a month away, we're hard at work in the warehouse. As of now, we're done oiling,...

Chilopod Update

Hi, friends! It's been a while since we've last talked, and boy, do we have things to share. So, let's dive right in! Desert Arts Preview...

Chiloparty Wrap and Announcing Build Days!

Do you know of that feeling when you put a lot of effort, sweat, tears, and blood into something, just to have it be pulled off 110%...

Fundraising Update and Dance Party Planning

Happy Thursday, Chilofans! It's a cloudy day in the Bay Area, which seems poignant with the recent passing of Larry. There's a great deal...

Fundraising Update and Highlighting Chilopod Members: Lady Tee

Hey, Chilofans! It's a beautiful Thursday morning here in Berkeley, and we're basking in the afterglow of our first fundraising brunch...

Highlighting Chilopod Members: Lawrence Grown

Hi there! This is the Chilopod gang, from Berkeley, CA. We decided to create a series highlighting some of the top notch people working...

Another Day at the Warehouse + First Big Fun(d)raiser

Another Sunday in the books, and another successful meeting as well. We received some new folks to the team (yay!), and welcomed back...

First day at the warehouse

Hey there, Chilopod fans! The process has begun! We had our first meeting at the warehouse in Berkeley this past Sunday. We dove right...

Burning Man 2017

I had hoped that I could start to build my project team while on playa 2017. But a set of circumstances made that difficult. Daytime heat...

Sketchbooking

I had made some preliminary concept sketches over the past 10 months, but I felt that I needed to learn SketchUp in order to design my...