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Quick Update from The Man
The latest Jacked Rabbit has some interesting little morsels of information for us Burners to ponder. Specifically: 1. The “transition to a non-profit” is in the “final stages”, and it actually means...
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Art Car for Sale: Island Oasia
Want your own Art Car? This beauty could be yours for a mere $3400 ($4400 with trailer). 80,000 miles on the clock. It’s been playa tested! We had a great year with our Alien Oasis. Has a stereo,...
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Chaos in Manhattan: Reverend Billy Free!
Photo by Kim Fraczek New York performance artist Reverend Billy Talen is an institution at Burning Man. He also takes his show on the road, throwing Cacophony Society-style protests all around the US...
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Sesame Street Cred
A couple of weeks ago, there was an event in New York called The Founders Speak. We’re still waiting to see footage of that gig, which featured Burning Man’s “founders” Larry Harvey, John Perry Barlow...
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All Your Cr0wdFundingz Belongz to Us
I enjoy Caveat Magister’s writing, he claims that he does not speak for Burning Man and yet they keep putting his words right up there on their official web site, blog.burningman.com . His latest rant?...
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Gift Me Your Project!
Before Burning Man starts telling Burners how to raise funds, they should clean their own act up internally. Burning Man’s transition to a non-profit has sure been raising some eyebrows at Burners.Me...
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We Are Only Human
Aaron Freeder made this mini-documentary about Burning Man this year. I like the cover of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”: Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2013, playa love, stories, videos
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Happy Holidays and Happy Burning
Dear Burners. Thank you for reading this blog. I started it in February last year, in the midst of BMOrg’s ticket lottery scandal. It seemed like the Burner community wasn’t being fed the truth, and so...
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And the Oscar Goes to…Burning Man
That’s right campers, Burning Man could be in contention for an Oscar. More specifically, two of the songs from the movie Spark: A Burning Man Story are in the list of 75 contenders to be nominated for...
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The Old Bait-n-Switch
Scribe got the scoop of the year this year, with the news that Burning Man is charging $150,000 for Vogue photo shoots, and profiting from DVD and soundtrack sales from their movie Spark: A Burning Man...
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The Patron Saint of Burning Man: Wagner
That’s Dick Wagner, composer…not Dick Wagner, Pershing County judge. A blog called “Wagner Tripping” has proposed that the German musician be declared the Patron Saint of Burning Man. It seems there...
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Meet The Glamcocks
A new 55-minute documentary about The Glamcocks, who claim to be the gayest “camp” of all the Queer Burners – quite a statement! The movie features Australian tranny drag performer Courtney Act of...
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Cars of Cargo Cult
Barnorama has published a nice selection of the Art Cars of Burning Man 2013. It’s by no means definitive (no Mayan Warrior!), but there’s some great examples on display. See their whole collection...
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Probable Paws
This year saw an unprecedented show of force at Burning Man by “The Man”. Federal and local cops teamed up. Sniffer dogs were brought in from the US/Mexico border, people were intercepted as far away...
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Naked Goddesses
Here’s a totally gratuitous nude interview conducted at Burning Man 2013, courtesy of “My Naked Truth TV” and Gypsy Taub. Do these goddesses have anything meaningful and profound to say? You be the...
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Burning Man Project Now Selling Merchandise
…well, kind of. Being Burning Man, of course, it can’t be straightforward; they have to invent some cockamamie scheme and pretend that they’re not selling merchandise. Technically if you make a...
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Ice Ice Baby [Updates]
Maybe BMOrg thought that selling gifting scarves for $150 wouldn’t raise any eyebrows in the Burner community. Comments to our recent post Burning Man Project Now Selling Merchandise suggest otherwise....
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Playa Chicken Madness
Just came across this video of Burning Man 2012, from Scenester TV. It’s got something in here for all the haters: Playa chickens, Segways, Playa chickens on Segways, tribal headdresses, glitter,...
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Tales From the Shitty
Our former Guest Writer, Whatsblem the Pro, who is now independent from this blog, has published a scoop on his new outlet burnernews.com …congratulations Whatsblem on the scoop! We wish you only happy...
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Ticket Provider Changes
Maybe someone at Mashable is further up the mailing list chain in the mighty Jacked Rabbit database than we are. Anyway, from about 15 minutes ago, here’s a morsel of ticket news that has leaked out...
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