People at Burning Man are fascinated by this enormous, shiny orb
- This year's Burning Man theme was I-Robot, and two Danish designers caught people's attention with a 100-foot tall orb on a mast.
- "The ORB" raised $34,300 on indiegogo to get it to the Nevada desert festival.
- Some people think it's a disco-ball, some a planet, but it's definitely become the crowd favourite at the infamous festival.
People at Burning Man festival in Nevada, which finishes on Monday, are transfixed by this 100-foot high orb on a mast.
It has an 84-foot diameter and stands an impressive 100 feet tall, towering above the dusty venue:
Some people at the festival, running from 25 August to September 1, think the shiny sphere is a mini-planet, and creators Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange from Denmark wrote that it's actually a 1/500,000 scale model of earth.
Before the festival the designers shared this virtual rendering of the orb on their indiegogo page:
They wanted to raise $50,000 to get the orb to Burning Man. In the end they got $34,300, which was enough.
This is what the finished product looked like:
Designer Lange posted the erected artwork on his Instagram:
But some are content with it being a huge disco-ball for party goers:
"The ORB is a tribute to mother earth & human expression - designed to easily inflate and deflate," said Lange.
This year's theme was I-Robot.