I wish everyone would stop using this freaking flashplayer, I'm certain that I can not be the only person for which flashplayer NEVER works for?

The truth is, John poured his heart and soul and a ton of his OWN money into this project. I don't think any of you critics have ANY idea how hard it was to get it even to this point, in time for Burning Man. Try researching and procuring thermite, purchasing the materials and having the sign made, and then hauling 3000lbs of steel 400 miles out to the desert without your own crane to load/unload/assemble it, and then haul it all away again, all with hardly any crew to help. Try contacting your local fire dept. to try to obtain the necessary permits for testing the thermite and using their test range.

John is very careful and very concerned about safety, and in the end he could not be certain that no one would be injured or that the sign would not be left in a state that would make it even more difficult to remove.

To the person who said "load it up on the trailer, haul it off somewhere else and do it," (to paraphrase), pardon me but... you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. This is not some light plastic little sign that a couple guys can just move around willy nilly at a whim. It weighs 1.5 TONS! John had to bribe a crane operator just to get it into position where it was. Not only that, but he was working under a pyrotechnics license that only permitted the burn under certain conditions, and it was not up to him to do it when/wherever he wanted to, even if he had been able to!

You armchair critics might want to check yourself and all your assumptions. Maybe try offering your money and your man/womanpower to make it go the way you'd like it to, next time.

This was a monumental effort for one guy to pull off as quickly as he did, let alone a crew with lots of time and money. Now the sign lives on to be used at other events, and maybe to eventually be destroyed as intended, once the proper preparations and testing have been done.

John deserves nothing but praise for his efforts, whether they went exactly the way he or anyone else wished.

Congratulations, John!

It says "teaser" clip. Is the cutting of the steel yet to come?

If anyone cares to check out my blog, http://911truthburn.blogspot.com
there's a whole account of the why and how this art event went the way it did. My original intent was to mimic the diagonal cutter techniques used in WTC 1, 2 and 7. This proved to be way too costly and I didn't have enough time to put this scale of demonstration together. I was hoping to spark some interest in official testing entities to do this type of test. They after all are the ones with the time and budget. Why haven't they done this type of destructive testing on identical WTC support columns, you may ask? I had to design the cutter charges myself and figure out how to remotely ignite them within a very narrow framework. And build the thing
This art project, after all, was designed to bring more visibility to 911 truth issues and give Richard Gage another chance to speak in a highly visible, dramatic setting, which he did excellently. That video is being worked on now. Safety was a high priority at the event. Numerous times our safety perimeter was crossed by bikers either drugged or boozed. The behavior of molten thermite in a previous test, led me to conclude that the support header for the sign, may have severed partially, posing a very dangerous condition. The attachment bolts at the header may also have fused with the main vertical supports making removal from the desert extremely difficult. This and the fact that support services at Burning Man were severely strained because of the earlier arson at the Man, I feel we made a wise and safe decision to burn a hunk of steel below the sign in 3 containers symbolizing the 3 WTC buildings.
To my knowledge this was the largest thermite burn at Burning Man. To me, it looked pretty impressive. We have iron samples that will be sent to Steven Jones for a comparison analysis with WTC samples of thermite residue. The sign lives on to serve other 911 truth missions. I plan to keep working on thermate and sol-gel experiments with steel similar in bulk to WTC steel. I'm not a demolition contractor. None who were contacted would help in this art experiment. This is new to me yet I had a 100% success ratio with remotely igniting difficult to light thermite in a fairly neat shaped device. I am pleased.
Please be patient and wait for the finished video. It's a good story. And thanks to Yarrow for his support both here and at Burning Man. He is right on with his comments. This was a highly stressful, expensive, time-compressed project that I mostly shouldered on my own. I know it was worth it.

We also used this art demo as a jump off point to talk to many many people about building 7 and the destructiveness of thermite.