Fluffy is accessible public transit masquerading as a wafting cloud to elicit and excite your dreams.
Fluffy the Floating Cloud bank was designed and fabricated in Vermont by almost 100 artists in 2022 as gifted accessible public transit at the annual Burning Man event and again in 2023. In 2024, it busted out for four performances in its hometown, before heading back west to Nevada for the big event.
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– The Fluffy Experience –
You’re way out in Deep Playa one fine day, wandering the art installations and the open spaces but aware of the baking heat and searing sun…when a cloud floats by. No ordinary cloud, there are joyful people floating on top of the cloud and revelers dancing beneath multi-colored umbrellas. It stops, and the cloud seems to dissolve into a mist. You approach, intrigued, to find people passing out cold beer while others enjoy a cool mist. You’re welcomed into the roving community.
Or it’s late night and you’re wandering the art installations and open spaces but aware of the chill in the air … when approaches a cloud lit with slowly changing colors to storm/lighting, fuzzy fog, fluffy clouds. And there is fire, lights, music, and dancing.
But wait, but wait…there’s a smaller cloud, with Burners gathered toasting marshmallows to create gooey, delicious Smores.
– Support Fluffy –
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– Fluffy 2023 –
Delighting the community come rain or dusty sunshine!
Vehicle Intent
Fluffy offers public transit in a gorgeous, dreamy,
a colorful, flaming, vehicle that is inclusive of mobility and sight challenged Burners.
Community Art
The look, feel, sound, cooling, or warmth of this mutant vehicle creates mobile art to the delight of our fellow Burners.
Refreshment
We slake the parched thirst in the scorch of the the day far from camp in Deep Playa, and serve up warm gooey marshmello treats by chilly night.
Ten Principles
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift-giving. Fluffy is Duane’s Whirld
very heartfelt manifestation of this loving principle.
– Fluffy 2022 –
Fluffy’s coming out party was delightfully dusty!
Fluffy Off Playa
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Lake Champlain, VT.
A couple of thousand folks took in the show hosted by Hula on Lake Champlain waterfront.
A Family Celebration!
Dance fun for all the family, before independence day fireworks.
Fluffy Glow!
Folks delighted in Fluffy’s glow!
Bulington Plex Fest.
Fluffy performed at the local Burlington Community Art Festival.
Show Stopper
Fluffy the floating cloud bank left crowds in awe
A Venue for All
Featuring a flamethrower, 14,000 LEDs and 70 welded cloud forms made by hand.
– Support Fluffy –
Contact the Fluffy Crew to book Fluffy!
Donate $$$ to support Fluffy
Visit and follow Fluffy on Instagram
– The Making of Fluffy! –
Fluffy began on a 40′ bus platform with the center section of the roof removed, creating an open-air dance floor. In the center of the main floor is a dance pole extending above to the propane flame poofer which blasts and warms revelers by night. Many colored umbrellas hang for shade during the day.
8′ sections of the roof remain fore and aft to create-open air interior spaces. In the front seat, the Fluffy Captain flies the apparition with a DJ behind, facing the dance floor.
The (formerly bus) door welcomes folks up the short stairs, while others are welcomed via the wheelchair lift at the side rear.
There are ladders from the open space fore and aft to platforms above which are filled with bean bags, blankets, pillows, and other soft, nesting materials. Create a cuddle puddle with friends old and new while floating above the celebrations, enjoying the sites. The bus is painted white and cloud forms are created by multiple layers of stretched canvas over frames that are translucent and backlit with programmable LED lighting. Angled, plastic mirrors surround the vehicle reflecting playa surface to observers enhancing the appearance of a floating cloud, and hiding the wheels.
We have programmed variations of light, music, sound, and fire to convey themes of a storm, calm, delight, and whimsy. The flame poofer bathes them in warmth on chilly nights.
– Our Fluffy Artists –
– Follow the making of fluffy! –
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We’re Going Back!
WE’RE GOING BACK TO BURNING MAN THIS YEAR. With our own new, big-ass flaming artcar. Hey there y’all, invitations just went out by email. Lemme know if not received. Ticketing is next week, so please even if you can’t join us this year, score precious tickets for your campmates …. and be that BRC Hero.…
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Fluffy the Dream Puff is real.
We found a Bus! It’s 40 feet and has a lift. It’s a 2008 bluebird conveniently located in Las Vegas. This is fantastic news as busses are in short supply and a 40 footer with a lift is rare as hen’s teeth, as some say. The odyssey of bringing this beautiful canvas to Vermont for…
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Meet Fluffy!
Lil Duane the filmmaker is documenting the build of Fluffy into a finished piece, but we’ll share snippets as we go. Here’s their introduction to the Vermont-based creative and fabrication crew, and the arrival of Fluffy at the fab facility. More to come in regular installments.
The making of Fluffy was an inspiring journey of artistic and operational magic of the dusty kind. To read, watch, and learn more …
Our design is so informed, and we’re committed to providing artistic and fabrication creativity that respects the spirit of the mutant vehicle movement.
— Duane Peterson, Chief Fluffy Steward!
– Fluffy Design –
Inclusive Design
Riding on a mutant vehicle at Burning Man is a remarkable and memorable event. Yet that experience is often unavailable to many folks who have mobility or sight challenges.
We’re creating this latest mutant vehicle from scratch, so imagined how to be more inclusive. We settled on a 40′ bus platform, turns out there’s plenty out there with
working wheelchair lifts. And we’ve seen Braille rails that convey welcoming messaging to sight-impaired folks, so we can apply that to the handrails around Fluffery’s open space.
We’ve reached out to Mobility Camp and R.I.D.E and others to inform our design and operations to create a welcoming and inclusive experience for ALL Burners.
Sustainability Design
Six of our campers work at certified BCorps, so applying our sustainability values to this mutant vehicle project is second nature.
Our camp purchases (real) carbon offsets to account for all the carbon pollution we generate. We’ll accurately measure Fluffy’s impacts, and exceed them beyond mitigation toward positive impact. Fluffys building materials are reused, recycled, or sustainably sourced wherever possible – and toxic products are absolutely minimized.
And of course, our camp and mutant vehicle are Leave No Trace. Fluffy will travel with containers to collect the recyclable materials from our gifting programs – to ensure those materials elude the landfill and to absolve our community members from having to carry around our stuff.
Our Art Car History
Otter Camp
Duane’s Whirld began as part of Otter Camp almost 20 years ago and has been a growing presence every year.
Bleachers Art Car
We camped with the Bleachers Art Car both of the years it appeared, participating in its operation, delighting countless Burners.
Time Cycle
We brought forth the Time Cycle, an outrageous machine with 20’ wheels in 200? It was a complicated, ambitious project.
El Pulpo Mechanico & Rabid Transit
We are close with Duane Flatmo, contributing to the massive impact of El Pulpo Mechanico and Rabid Transit.
Come Be Fluffy with Us!
It is partly cloudy with a chance of magic.