Thank You.
I would like to take the time to acknowledge the over 200 people who contributed to the completion of this beast. Please take the time to read all the names. Homouroboros would not have been possible without each and every one of you.
Thank you for all for your love and support.
-Peter
Aaron Pope for sharing your spinrosity at the monkey fundraiser.
Alex Bracht for epoxying those monkey fists into place.
Alex Mace for personally helping with almost every single component of the piece, and for your undying faith, love, dedication, and passion for bringing this piece to fruition, I am truly indebted to you brother.
Alexandra Watkins for thinking that we could raise money without telling anyone what we were doing with it, and generously letting us use her amazing loft/gallery to host it. Thank you so much Sandra. She’s not even a burner.
Alicia Danforth for your donation.
Amy Lamendella for cutting all that fur and getting those damn monkeys furred up.
Andrea Lundquist for manning the maddening front door at the monkey and cutting untangling and pulling miles of endless cables.
Andrew Hudson for your love and support and hard work out in the desert.
Anna Michael for your financial as well as personal hard work.
Anne-Marie Goco for getting the ball rolling, helping put that proposal together and facilitating the fundraising.... and okay thanks for all the Zola.
Annette chu for your financial, fundraising as well as spiritual generosity.
Babs Cali for you help in the less glamorous fiberglass phase of things.
Baran Divalier for sticking around til the bitter end Tuesday night in a whiteout in the rain to load that monster out.
Ben Paula for making sure we were properly fed for the build.
Bert and Chelle Brown for your donation.
Bettie June for your love and enthusiastic support of my art.
Bill Breithaupt for documenting from start to finish.
Blaze for your financial as well as spiritual support, oh yeah and all that brown paint stuff.
Bob Hudson for your financial backing.
Bonnie Hudson, my Mom, for FINALLY embracing my passion and coming out to burning man to understand me more.
Brad Murphy for sharing your musical talents to raise more funds.
Brad Peik for your long hauling of all that steel, your good cheer and financial generosity, and thanks for letting us crash at your place in Truckee on the way home.
Brass Tax for your donation.
Bree Hylkema for your furry guidance and personal belief.
Brian DeLaCruz for the amazing logo that helped inspire us all. At times I was afraid that that was all we would have.
Brian Hudson for your financial as well as moral support.
Brooke Geffs for your early financial support for something you knew nothing about.
Bruce Davis for the donation of money and time, especially helping us break that thing down out there in the desert. No one wants to stick around for that.
Bruce Greenspon for your donation.
Carloine Kish for your donation.
Carmela Stowe for your financial support.
Carrie Nardello for your financial and creative belief in me.
Catherine Becker for your donation.
Catherine Gacad for your generous contribution.
Cathy Makunga for your amazing tireless dedication and volunteering. I am truly amazed how you can give so freely of your time and boundless enthusiasm and love. Thank you.
Charlotte Tregoning for your donation.
Chris Dadzitis fer spinnin fer the snake and for soldering days worth of mysterious electronics together.
Chris Pappamichiel for your donation.
Christie Harbinski for your help with the proposal, technical advice hard work and lending your body to the serpentine endeavor.
CJ for gettin in there and getting covered in plaster way back in the early monkey days.
Corbett Griffith for making sure that this piece did not hurt, maim or kill anyone.
Cristen Robson fer furring up those chimps.
DaBomb for your wonderful interview and spiritual support for my art at Burncast (http://nospectators.com/index.php?page=burncast)
Dae Han for your amazing ability to keep me staffed with volunteers up to the unloading of the truck in alameda. You are truly amazing. I love you brother.
Dan Hudson, my dad, for all of your love and support my whole life, for the early R&D that made me think that this was possible, and for working through endless days and nights to make sure that the bike chargers and drum triggers made the magic happen. I love you dad.
Dan Johnson for your donation.
Dana Castro for pitching in on decorating for the monkey.
Danielle Dreis for your $$ generosity. I think you were the first actually. Thanks for your early faith in my top secret project.
Danny Goodman for you amazing attention to detail during the nasty fiberglass days, and for helping out at Turks. I’m so sorry that you didn’t make it out to the playa.
Darnel Tasker for working on a strangers even stranger piece. thanks for cleaning up my messy space as I talked on the phone.
Dawn Roth for your insight into fake taxidermy.
Dean (Dino), Brad's friend from Australia who helped drive part of your piece to the playa and also provided first-class tequila for the workers during set-up.
Eric Gutoski for coming in and doing the most inglorious work of filling cracks and applying mold release (how boring was that?) and for the cooking supplies for the playa.
Eric Stahl for your constant enthusiasm and good cheer, plus hard work. You didn’t even have to do any work. Just making me laugh was enough.
Erica Fox Friedman for your financial as well as your hardworking work during some of the most physical demanding monkey fabrication.
Erin Becker for your financial as well as hard working spirit. I am enriched by your generosity of spirit and, well, I love your smile, and pizza dance.
Erin Decker for your donation.
Ernie Trevino for sharing your wonderful spinology at my fundraisers. Thanks for being such a positive force. You just make me smile. That’s enough right there.
Ernie White for his tireless hard work and youthful spirit. Thanks for the great tunes too.
Ethan Miller for displaying your talents and rocking the dance floor at the monkey.
Felix the Dog for laying down some wicked tracks at the snake, and for your wonderful generous spirit and belief in me.
Frank Beneduci for your generous contribution.
Fred Krefetz for your blind donation. Fred here actually came up with the original magnetic switching idea for sisyphish. we are still using the exact same low technology for homouroboros.
Fritz Schneider for your financial as well as personal support.
Gabriel Burczyk for his generosity.
Gayle Link for helping out a virtual stranger do some lame mold releasing. It was a pleasure to get to know you better. I am inspired by your constant enthusiasm and do-goodery.
Gayleen Hays for your donation.
Geo Homsy for breaking to me gently the actual wind resistance of 18 oversized monkeys. 10HP 240v 3-phase AC motor should do the trick.
Goldilox for your financial as well as your example of pulling yourself up and into a better place. You are an inspiration.
Guillermo Duran for being there since deeper to help keep meme covered in plaster.
Heather Defalco for your physical help, but especially your inundating the blogoshpere with MONKEY and SNAKE flyers.
Heather Johnson for keeping those monkey heads all nice and warm with fur.
Heather Rawlins for your donation.
Ian Chang for lubing up the pole, and throwing down some rockin beats.
Jake Foster for getting my website up and running to promote events and to take donations.... its uh www.hudzo.com in case you need to unload some cash. And also for working forever on the water effect that... worked in rehearsal.
James Bunkelman for your donation.
Janine Cooke for getting the dj lineup and for playing her heart out at both the monkey and snake parties. Thanks j9.
Jason Fischl for sharing some dough.
Jason Vasily for securing the warehouse space to build this behemoth.
JD Beaufils for your donation.
Jeff White for just about everything. If you don’t know Jeff, you should. He has an amazing knowledge base and a heart bigger than the sun. thank you so much for sharing your wealth of talents with me Jeff. You are a superstar.
Jeffrey Brandstetter for the early advice, enthusiasm and legal counsel.
Jennifer Clines for keeping your head down and working your ass off for a complete stranger.
Jennifer Francis Steinle for the early$$$ and the kind inspiring words at our first fundraiser.
Jennifer Ward – nowhere to start or end. She reignited the flame. Jenn was the one on the playa last year that told me that I was not the same old Pete that she knew. That struck a chord. She made me look inside to find the inspiration and motivation that has carried me through the year. There is nothing better than straight forward honest criticism. That is the greatest gift a true friend can give. It’s hard to take, but Jenn put it in a way that made me take a good hard look at myself. Jennifer would show up unannounced with food and drink, and work her heart out, because she had faith in me. That in turn gave me the determination to make sure that I did not let anyone down. Jennifer, I am so proud to call you a friend and am so grateful for your belief in me.
Jenny Shu for playing the snake and for making some snakes. What’s it with you and snakes?.
Jessica Crouch for bringing me down after my playa vision/ freak out last year. That was the spark of my creative vision. Thanks for the warmth and love.
Jill Schnaps for your donation.
Jim Baer for showing up alone on many Saturdays to fix the plaster.
Jim Shissler for your wonderful support for the snake fundraiser and for having the House of Lotus rock it out on Thursday night at the piece, and for makin snakes.
Joe Rosato for his tireless hard working ethic and extreme enthusiasm. Sorry for yelling at you on the playa Joe. I’m a jerk sometimes.
JoeJoe (the clown) Martin, this guy, man. He was so jazzed and helpful from the word go. Anything I came up with he said “we can do that” and he did. This guy is an amazing genius, and I am so grateful that he had not only the technical know-how, but the raw enthusiasm that this project needed. Thank joe for the monkeyvision, uv strobes (they work really), and the remote rain and jungle sounds that worked two nights. Through no fault of Joes some of the electronics didn’t work. Dust+delicate electronics = NOT FAIR. It worked in rehearsal.
John Noble for your donation.
Josh Keppel for helping out on the playa. Did you get any footage?.
Julia Y. Hu for coming in early and working on those damned monkeys.
Julie Costanzo for your faith and work towards getting us some dough. I am inspired by your faith in me.
Kara Baysinger for you practically anonymous donation and your faith in my top secret project.
Kasey Jones for your donation.
Kay (artery) for making our checkout so painless.
Ken Phelps for your financial as well as your example of what can be done with hard work. I am always happy to see your smile.
Ken Sly for the amazing drawings of the tree and all of your technical expertise. Thanks for taking a very flaky concept and turning it into very comprehensive plans that were fabricated into reality.
Kenna Takahashi for your donation.
Kim Bewley for your incredibly infectious positive force that gave me great strength an confidence, oh yeah, thanks for the money too. I love you Kim.
Kristina Kada-Madden for the wonderful homouroboros pendants. If you don’t have one, I am getting more to raise funds. Please let me know who wants one ($50?) is that fair?.
Kulbir Lehri for your donation.
LadyBee for always going to bat for me and having faith in my ridiculous ideas. Thank you to BURNING MAN to give me the faith, inspiration, venue and resources to bring out the absolute best in people. Without burning man I would still be swinging a hammer at the opera. From the moment I was first dragged onto the playa, I knew my life was changed forever. I felt like a child again, the possibilities were endless. It made me remember who I wanted to be. Don’t not know, go.
Laird Archer for playing both the MONKEY and SNAKE parties and for organizing the SNAKE thanks for all your time Laird.
Laura Kimpton for your contagious enthusiasm and generosity.
Lawrence Rhodes for hipping me to the electric motor possibilities.
Lawrence Sutton for your donation.
Lee Coombs for always believing in me and pushing me to my limits and for making the SNAKE party way way off the hooook, oh yeah and for naming your album after me whish inspired me to make that silly monkey snake zoetrope. You are an inspiration man.
Lee Williams for helping out at Turks with all the bike pods, branches and for the awesome belt buckles.
Lew Rubens for your generosity and advice to a fellow ADD victim. Thanks Lew. I’m sorry I missed you out there.
Linda Bauman for keeping me grounded and for your long time support and love.
Louis Coughenour for helping out at Turks and for doing the motor, gear, sprocket and chain research.
Maggie Monroe for your ridiculous positivity and dedication, from making monkeys to helping Turk to the amazing cantina on the playa, I am simply very indebted to you for your undying enthusiasm and tenacity.
Mahnaze for your amazing tenacity and dedication. I am always happy to be in your presence. you are one of the hardest working people I know. I am constantly infected by your abounding positivity.
Marc and Christina Oliver for your financial support from afar.
Marcia Gagliardi for putting the word out for my fundraisers.
Marianne Clare my third and sixth grade teacher that let me be me. You always told me that I could be or do anything. And you were right. Thank you for setting me on my own unique path.
Marianne Wilman for some dough and for also pushing me to my limits. You were the one who talked m into going to NY film school and I came back with a different sense of purpose. Thank you for giving me faith in myself.
Mark Berry for some cash and comic relief.
Mark Harrison for getting all those t-shirts made in about an hour.
Mark Lueveno for getting that tree trunk made for all those monkeys climb up.
Mark Oltz for the ribs, help and wonderful photographs.
Mark Rahmani for always being everywhere! Thanks for the great pics from the parties. And thanks for documenting the shenanigans of the monkey snake www.mvgals.com .
Mat Crimmins for your amazing love and support and $ but most of all for modeling your hands for the monkey feet. "Who’s hands are those? They’re creepy." I know, that’s why I wanted them.
Matthew Fassberg for coordinating the amazing ee solar crew to make sure that those monkeys had enough juice.
Matthew Wood for just showing up unannounced, at exactly the right time. Also thanks for helping with the fur, I just had a hard time figuring that one out.
Meighen Speiser for your donation.
Melissa Stevens for your donation.
Meme Meme Meme (Manuel Bayardo)..... you were the diver, and you had the willingness to come back and do it again. Thank you for sacrificing your body for 21 different poses (well 18 poses, 21 tries) you are an amazing friend with an amazing body. Thank you for baring it all in the name of art.
Merdol Erkal, too bad we both had our hands full so we couldn’t se each other too much, congratulations on your new restaurant and thank you for the generous donation.
Michael Angus for getting all those bikes and monkey masks all wired up and ready to go.
Michael Hudson Brother man. Thanks for hitting the ground running and getting all those bike chargers up and running. It was great to have you out there in the desert with me.
Michael Louis for your donation and support.
Michael Rolph for your donation.
Mike Gallanter for sharing your trucks and for hitting it hard out in the heat.
Mike Helbig for helping set up sisyphish for the big spin and for your awesome moral support and positive attitude.
Mike, Rosie and Palmer at Douglas & Sturgess for always helping me out with my mass needs of plaster, fiberglass, epoxy resin, goos and all my mold making needs.
Minott Wessinger for your generous contribution.
Miss Kitty for making those monkey faces and hand/feet things. And for loading that truck at night in a whiteout in the fucking rain. That sucked.
Monique Verrier for your support and coordination from across the Atlantic.
Nancy Barrett for your generous contribution to a complete stranger with a secret agenda.
Nat Merriss for coming by and getting stuck with all the grunt work.
Nick Vida, Scott Klienrock ,Zora Tucker and Mark Geller from the amazing Snow Koan solar camp for their tireless and enthusiastic work on the solar, charge control, inverters and batteries.
Nicki Bendesky for designing and fabricating the delightful steel leaves. And for your generous love and support.
Otto Imken for more of that thankless mold prepping.
Otto Schutt for being the first to hear and never once doubt. Thank you for believing in this vision and pushing me to complete it. “you take care of the monkeys, I’ll take care of the money. "I don’t want to see another death by zoetrope" I am in awe of your force of will to help make this happen.
Pablo Benavidez for keeping our crew fed and happy. I am grateful for your good cheer and great cooking.
Panther for coordinating all the heavy equipment on the playa.
Patricia Chavez for helping out at Turks and here in fiberglass land. Thanks for your positive energy.
Patricia Ryan for coming out on the last day to strike that mess and then to stick around Tuesday night in the middle of a whiteout in the rain to load that truck. You're a trooper.
Paul Fischer for doing the heavy lifting. Man can that guy work.
Paul Sauer for your generous contribution and positive energy.
Paul Walker for coming and doing the early messy sloppy thankless mold work. Sorry you couldn’t be there.
Peter Acworth for your generous discount on the porn palace rentals and bar proceeds, so we could put more money right to those monkeys.
Peter Samuels for some great headshots for my website.
Petra Duffoo for some very helpful financial advice.
Phil Spitler for helping make those monkeys swing right.
Pilar Woodman for wonderful photos and a super positive attitude that is just infectious.
Pleasure Sean for the extremely hard work of breaking down after a very long week. Very few stayed for this, and I am grateful for the few troopers who helped. It wasn’t fun. Thanks Sean.
Rachel Rajput for selling more swag at the monkey, and for being such a crazy, zany helpful soul plus more $$ thanks Rachel.
Rachelle Fisher for helping with more mold making.
Renea Roberts for giving me such positive love and reinforcement from afar. I will always cherish and acknowledge your unwavering cradle of love. I’m so sorry you missed it.
Renee Crawshaw for helping setup and takedown at the fundraisers, and helping me with all of the writing I had to do from my proposal to my website. Thanks Renee. You’re awesome!
Rob Kunkle for some great head shots.
Rosalind Romney for your donation.
Rosemary Todd-Sanchez for your donation.
Russ Souza for the bending and the bending and the welding of the tree trunk.
Sabrine Rodems for all the wine at the big spin, and the $$ and our warmth and support.
Santiago Rodriguez for casting asses when my asscasting muscles failed. He was fucking covered in plaster from the monkey party. Oh yeah, thanks for the money too.
Sara Hedstrom for your donation.
Sarah Becker for coming into a complete strangers basement and working your ass off cutting miles of styrofoam as I was on the phone frantically trying to find another aluminum fabricator (Turk saved the day, as usual).
Sarah Gill for watching the door at both monkey and snake.
Scott Jewett for your donation.
Scott Larson for your donation.
Sean Monaghan for designing and casting the amazing aluminum monkey masks.
Shanan Carney for your generous contributions and wonderful positive energy.
Shawn Cunningham for your continuous generosity, monkeyvision assembly and friendship. You’re the one who dragged me out here in the first place.
Sheila Mooney for your donation.
Silver Lucy for your lanky arm made just for snake molds. Thanks you for your love and constant support and thank you for talking me down from my playa freak out last year. Yes I am crazy, but that’s good.
Sir Fixalot for helping us break down all day on Monday.
Snatch for your skillful fork reachery.
Stacia Carr for furring up a bunch of monkeys.
Stacey Callejo thanks for the $ and your time man.
Stacy Cherin for being part of the a team from deeper to now. You sure know how to plaster a guy. I like your hard edges.
Stacy Einsidler for helping in the early plaster days.
Stefanie Gesiorski for helping with the furriousity.
Stephan Ford for spinnin at the monkey. So sorry you couldn’t make it out there. You were missed...
Stephen Smith for your donation.
Sterling Storm for your donation.
Steve Kepple for being there every step of the way. I am so grateful to have you as a friend Steve. Your good cheer, work ethic and tenacity are amazing. You were always there when I needed a hand and I can’t thank you enough for all of your time and energy. Oh, yeah, the pictures don’t suck either.
Steven Henry for your donation.
Steven Valdez for taking on the turntable project even thought you already had way too much work load. Thanks for saving my ass.
Susan Byrne for coming by with food whilst you helped making monkeys.
Suz McGill for the $ and coming and kicking ass and painting all those branches in one fucking day!! Wow!!
Tamo for the financial as well as furtastic consultation and master patternmaking for the monkeys.
Tara Jean you don’t have to do anything, just show up and raise the mood, but I would love to thanks you for your help in plastering Meme for Deeper and Homouroboros. You’re the master plasterer. Sorry you couldn’t be out there to witness the frenzy.
Tawni for coming by and helping a stranger with a strange plan.
Theresa Harrington, my sister, for actually coming out to the playa without the kids and helping me and showing me a part of you that I have long overlooked. Thank you so much Tess for sharing this important part of my life with me, and then sharing that with the world.
Tiffany Stewart for your donation.
Tim Handley for the generous contribution. Come see me soon time.
Todd Cohen for documenting and general tomfoolery. You don’t have to work Paco. Just hang out and make me laugh. You rock.
Tom Ehline for welding that whole trunk together.
TURK - nowhere to start and nowhere to end. This guy is almost single-handedly responsible for this thing making it to the playa. And he didn’t even go!! Turk, you are an inspiration. I am so indebted to you for your amazing generosity of time talent and tools. Turks answer to everything is we can do it. Let’s get going. He has a full time job, yet he was able to make everything but the trunk and turntable with an amazing group of volunteers. Three cheers for Turk!! I love you brother. You are THE can-do guy.
Via Jay for laying down the soundtrack to get this MONKEY started.
Wellboy for the 200’ of trenching.
William Korthof for making sure that the monkeys had enough power to swing all night long. This guy got us two 120v AC inverters in series to get us 240v 30 amp AC power. So we could power it with a 3 phase controller to a 10 HP motor to get those babies whipping at 14 rpms!!! no way!!!! His whole team was out there constantly making sure everything was working. And it did. Thanks Will!
Wolfie spun the tunes for the snake party and put out the word to the LA burners that I could use some dough. Thanks Wolfie.
Yana Jacobs for your personal and financial support.
Zach Coffin for your crane mastery.