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Digital Apex: a Dancetronaut Reaches Higher
[by Whatsblem the Pro] Digital Apex is a new Burning Man theme camp for 2013, based in Santa Cruz, California. They are currently planning to construct a massive replica of the Coliseum in Rome that...
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Opulent Temple 10 Year Anniversary – BM 2012
Thanks to San Francisco electronic music master Syd Gris for sharing this one with us. Great video. OT will be missed in 2013. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2012, opulent temple, stories, videos
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Oh Look! We Forgot to Count this $1.3 million
Just when we thought we could say goodbye once and for all to 2012 and all it’s ticket shenanigans, we get another classic case of number-fudging from BMOrg. You know how attendance was down on last...
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Merry Christmas: Tickets are $650. And you can scalp them.
The Jackedrabbit has spoken once more, bringing glad tidings of tickets. Were Burners naughty or nice? Did they get what they wanted for Christmas from the BMOrg – ie. tickets linked to IDs and no more...
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Help Heal Broken Burners
A surprising number of Burners get injured each year and need medical attention. Humboldt Hospital (no stoners, not that one) in Winnemucca, NV is looking for temporary medical staff to help out at...
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The Future of Burning Man – Millenial Ideates
Whether it’s pronounced “Idea-ate” or “I-de-ate” or “I-di-ot”, it seems like this camp, new to Burning Man in 2012 and predominantly made up of people who’d never even been to Burning Man before, is...
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Dispatch From the Front [by Whatsblem the Pro]
DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT 12/23/2012 by Whatsblem the Pro First ignited by Paul Addis‘ early burn of 2007 after the stage was set by John Law’s departure from Burning Man and subsequent lawsuit, the...
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Millenials Fight Back!
I have to say hats off to Nick Molnar, a guy who I’ve never had a problem with, and who has now impressed the hell out of me with this rapidly deployed post in response to the recent IDEATE...
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Gerry Anderson is GO!
Gerry Anderson, the creator of the puppet sci-fi TV show THUNDERBIRDS, died Wednesday at the age of 83. He went peacefully, in his sleep. A German mining disaster inspired Anderson to create a TV show...
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Wonderhussy: Attack of the Superprudes
Sometimes the smallest thing will set off a chain reaction that leads to an epiphany. Sarah Jane Woodall, a fellow blogger (blogette? blogina? blogogyne?) and my favorite wonderhussy, got a private...
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“They Listened”…? 2013 Ticket Breakdown Announced
The Jackedrabbit has announced the new ticket policy for Cargo Cult: “We’re excited to announce the sales plan for tickets to Burning Man 2013. Burning Man is making 58,000 tickets available, 3,000 of...
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Listening Without Hearing or Counting
In light of yesterday’s post about the new ticket price tears tiers , we thought it would be interesting to compare BMOrg’s new policies with the result of our own poll. We asked Burners “how should...
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London BRC: Alan McCann’s Brain is Showing
London BRC is an ambitious project that aims to bring London’s most iconic structures to the playa in a symbolic representation of the human brain. When I first heard about it I thought it might be a...
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Journey to the Flames (HD)
Journey to the Flames have released their 1080p video from 2012. If you have a spare 47 minutes, enjoy! Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2012, stories, videos
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Burning Man Sucks! 10 Reasons to Stay Home
[We've been copping a bit of flak recently in some online comments, for being crusty old vets who are overly negative on Burning Man, compared to the dewy-eyed Virgins and wannabes. Not true - at...
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Slouching Towards Burning Man
Red Wedge, an online art magazine, has a lengthy story on Burning Man that is worth a read. The conclusion: The society we live in tends not to let little islands of happiness exist. It corrupts them....
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Barbarians at the Back Gate: Bombing the Bowl at Burning Man
by Whatsblem the Pro One of the oft-heard questions from people who are thinking about attending Burning Man for the first time is “where do you go to the bathroom out there?” It’s a good...
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The Way of the Future is the Way of the Past
Burning Man, 1998 The first time I went to Burning Man, I was curious to see the idea of an entire community being created spontaneously, in the middle of nowhere. It seemed like this was an...
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Burning Man for World Leaders
We know that the Burning Man founders have been spending time in the corridors of power, and the party’s iconography is being incorporated in political advertising campaigns backed by the Koch...
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Burning Man: the Documentary
A few weeks ago we brought you news of The King, the Chimp, and the Playa – a Burning Man documentary aired on Russia TV. Not too sure what happened, but the original half hour documentary has now been...
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