There were some awesome catches, and it was crazy fun to watch. Kept us preoccupied while waiting to get back inside.
There's a way to maintain communication with your folks even w/ no service at the festival.
This isn't an advertisement, but rather an attempt to help us maintain communication with our people even when there's no service at the festival. I downloaded this app for emergency management stuff, but it works no matter what when cell service is down. The app "bitchat" is on my Android, and my wife downloaded it on her iPhone. It creates a "mesh" network that uses your phone's Bluetooth to communicate even when cell service is down from being overloaded.
I turned off our Wi-Fi and put our phones on airplane mode, and we were still able to send messages back and forth. Point being, if we get enough people with this app at the festival, shoddy cell service won't mean anything. You'll be able to communicate with anyone from clear across the festival (as long as there's enough people between you and them for the message to keep passing along).
The messages are all encrypted, so only the person you're sending them to will see them. You and all your friends should download before the festival, then open the app to find each other. Send messages to identify who is who, and hit the "favorite" button on your folks. This will ensure you can find them at the festival (because everyone's screen name will pop up when you open the app there).
Even if we just get a few hundred people doing this, all of us could still stay in touch (via messaging) by essentially helping each other out!
I'm going to include the ones I've already found that are similar. That way, folks stumbling on this post will have something to look at — and hopefully suggestions can be given outside of these. Thank you!
* Spring (2014)
* Synchronic (2019)
* Something in the Dirt (2022)
* Coherence (2013)
* The One I Love (2014)
* I Origins (2014)
* The Discovery (2017)
* The Lighthouse (2019)
* The Witch (2015)
* The Ritual (2017)
* Kill List (2011)
* Primer (2004)
* Upstream Color (2013)
* Annihilation (2018)
* Under the Skin (2013)
* The Vast of Night (2019)
* The Invitation (2015)
* They Look Like People (2015)
* Sound of My Voice (2011)
* The Signal (2014)
* The Bestowal (2019)
* Brightwood (2022)
For over a year, I've stopped looking into taking Ayahuasca because I worried I might discuss certain things I don't want others to know during my experience. But it dawned on me today: why would there be any talking? Have I been concerned for no reason? I've been looking at it like a potential "truth serum," but I'm feeling like my concerns may have all been ridiculous.
Here are more photos from the abandoned trading post.