This is getting real...

With this year's rain, there was a substantial hatch of real fairy shrimp on the playa!

From our friends at BLM:

Meanwhile progress in an ongoing process in creating the totem sailors.

Here lies loosely structured documentation of inherent ineptitude hopeful yielding to eventual success.  

Two phyllopods forward, one phyllopod back...

Simplicity is not Simple

As I began to make the initial form and rods it became clear that simplicity is key.

After many failed attempts to at multi-pieced modular constructions, the best method appeared to be to simply put the things on  bamboo sticks, as originally planned.

The fairy shrimps know this. They stick to their plan.

They have survival and existence down to simple science.