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Why Be A Shirtcocker…when you can be a Titicaca?
Thanks to Burner Scott Cohen for letting us know about this video created by his camp last year. Who says Burning Man is just a bunch of crusty old hippies (except us, obviously…) “If you write down a...
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Burning Man for Ants
This video has been doing the rounds this week, definitely one of the better time lapse videos of Burning Man I’ve seen. They use some camera trickery to make everyone look like ants… Filed under:...
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Burning Man Naked People! We Likes Dykes on Bikes!
We have to thank this awesome blog, http://nakedcyclist.tumblr.com/,for linking to our story “Burning Man Sucks – 10 Reasons to Stay Home“. In return, please enjoy a sampling of their finest…see the...
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Georgia’s Burning!
The Alchemy 2012 Burn Report by Whatsblem the Pro Alchemy, the Georgia Regional Burn, has just released their 2012 Burn Report. Tolstoy it ain’t, but to anyone interested in the logistics that go...
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The Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Burning Man and the Théâtre de Compost
Allie’s Alley at 900 W. 5th Street in Reno, Nevada is an odd hybrid of a place: thrift store in front, theater in the rear. Burner-owned and operated, Allie’s has lately become the new home of local...
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A _________ of Burners?
Thanks to Burner Enki from Vienna, Austria for posing this question on Facebook: What do you call a [collective noun] of Burners? PlayaSkool, Fertility 2.0 Some ideas so far: cacophony misdemeanor...
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Borg Brother Wants to Profile You
So, linking tickets to IDs was too hard, because that would restrict farmers gifting. However, if you want to buy tickets for Burning Man, you need to create a “Burner Profile“. Which means, if they...
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Help us Alpha Test New Site
Burning Man have changed their privacy policy, and are asking Burners to create Burner Profiles in order to apply for tickets. The data is owned by the multi-entity hydra which is the various Burning...
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Burning Man Makes Further Inroads on Mainstream Consciousness
Bob Wiseman’s New Album Includes a Call for Change, Burner-Style by Whatsblem the Pro Bob Wiseman is a Canadian musician and filmmaker who is sometimes referred to as “the Canadian Tom Waits.” Don’t...
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Superstorm Sandy vs the Burners
Vice has a story on the efforts of the Burner community to help out on the East Coast after Superstorm Sandy, using skills refined at Burning Man, and in relief efforts in Haiti and post-Katrina New...
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Burnitecture
Burning Man is a builder’s wet dream. A temporary city, with no real construction restrictions – except Leave No Trace. Right now I’m in my RV travelling to the Superbowl in New Orleans with the...
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Portal Power
Ignite.me has an interview with Harlan Emil Gruber, the artist behind the Portal spaces at Burning Man and other festivals. Harlan Emil Gruber truly is the futuristic version of a Renaissance man. The...
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Further Revelations on the Burning Man Ticketing Scheme for 2013
by Whatsblem the Pro Burning Man Public Relations Manager Megan Miller wants to give all you volunteers some inside scoop for obtaining tickets. The upshot is that the Direct Distributed Tickets...
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Father and Son Bonding like Gentlemen
GQ once stood for “Gentlemen’s Quarterly”. Now it is a monthly, closely associated with metrosexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with that (although prissy hair-waxing male mani-pedi types might...
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Peace, Love, and Unicorns
Who’s got it better than us? NOBODY! Well, some right now could make a claim for Baltimore…yeah right – have you ever seen The Wire? If not you must, it’s considered to be the greatest TV show ever...
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Who the Fuck Are All Us Burners, Anyway?
It’s a good question. Someone you’d think who might know, is the BMOrg. I mean, we give them $22 million+ a year, and they’ve been profiling us in ever increasing ways for over a decade. It went from...
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Register by Tomorrow for Tickets
Burning Man has made some changes to their ticketing system, in an attempt to overcome the chaos caused by last year’s ticket lottery. It’s not quite as easy to get a ticket to Burning Man as it is to...
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Got My Tickets…Did You?
The gates are open for the 40,000 Individual Sale tickets – as long as you pre-registered before noon last Sunday. I got in the queue at 12:00:12 – and it took about 8 minutes for my turn to come up....
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Burner Profiles Controversy Politely Heats Up
It seems that even within the ranks, there are some strong reservations regarding the new Burner Profiles, a mandatory (if you want to buy tickets) scheme that gathers data about you and stores it. ....
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