Pick-Up Sticks at Burning Man?

Artist Steven Goodman writes me to let me know he is proposing to develop his own version of Giant Pick-Up Sticks for the 2005 Burning Man celebration.

He plans to make them out of 16-ft' long, painted closet rods. He figures he can do the whole thing for "$784.82 (not including beer)." A wooden version is a bit heavier than I'd recommend - considering the potential impact of falling sticks upon the playful heads of frolicking Pick-uppers. Me, I prefer the cardboard tubes that they wrap carpet around. Steven tells me, however, that it is very windy on the desert, and such weight is necessary for stability and artistic punch.

For further examples of potentially playful Burning Man bemusement, see this list of all the proposals currently submitted.