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Marco’s R-Evolution
Marco Cochrane‘s amazing sculptures are built by hand, a combination of clay molding and spot welding. Bliss Dance is so strong that you could walk on her torso, and yet all the weight is concentrated...
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Being A Man – Burning Man Project Style
Video has been released of Larry Harvey’s speech last month at the Being A Man 2014 conference in Southbank, London. The warm up to his talk suggested it might be rather controversial, with Larry’s...
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Dr Devious’s Gypsy Circus and Sideshow Carnival
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be familiar with the refrain “if you don’t like it, start your own”. It’s a BMOrg “talking point” that their allies like to parrot when they come to...
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Decommodification, Incorporated
The Burning Man Project made a long-awaited big announcement this week: It’s been a long time coming: we’re excited to announce that Burning Man achieved an historic milestone in January with the...
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“Paris Hilton Tag Teaming the Avici Dwarfs”– OT Returns
Opulent Temple has been one of the most popular sound camps for a decade. They have brought some of the biggest names in electronic music out to the playa, and have showcased artists of many different...
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2014 Festival Guide
Festival Fire has produced a free, 90-page guide to this year’s festivals. It comes with free music too. Get it here. Thanks to Burner Danny for sharing this interactive guide to Psy-Trance festivals...
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How To Make Money Selling Drugs
If you’ve been to Burning Man, you’ve probably seen someone under the influence of illegal drugs. Perhaps you even partook yourself. It’s kind of hard to avoid, even with cops and Feds out there...
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Clarification of Decommodification
Burning Man’s recent announcement of a “successful transition” to a non-profit, implied that this transition has now been completed. The Reno Gazette Journal said “completed“, SFist said “fully...
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Ultimate Desert Shelters
These look amazing. Designed for refugees, but it seems like they could work for Burners too. I can just see some blinky lights all over a caravansary of these! From GreenProphet.com More than 40...
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Chronicle: Burning Man Now “Mainstream”
The San Francisco Chronicle has written about Burning Man’s non-profit transition. They’re a bit late to the punch, and skip over the fundamental details, but they’re praiseworthy nonetheless, and...
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Burners Collaborate to Bridge SF’s Homeless/Tech Divide
Reallocate and [freespace] are two non-profits made up almost entirely of Burners, and we’re proud supporters of both of them. These are Burners with civic responsibility, gifting their time and energy...
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As The Dust Settles
As The Dust Settles is a new documentary about Burning Man. Through a mosaic of five filmmakers’ personal perspectives, this participatory documentary shot at Burning Man reveals an intimate glimpse of...
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California Gleaming: World’s Biggest Light Art to Stay
A year ago, Burning Man Project director, Disorient founder and blinky light impresario Leo Villareal revealed the largest commission in the history of electronic art: $8 million to install 25,000 LED...
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XOR This: Burning Man Used to Scientifically Prove Magic
Yesterday I visited the Institute of Noetic Sciences at their splendid Earthrise campus in Petaluma, California. If you’ve ever read (or seen) The Da Vinci Code, you have heard of IONS. The Institute...
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Healing Late-Capitalist Cultural Trauma
The new Burning Man web site sounds like it will do a much better job of communicating exactly what it is that we Burners are doing to help the world, by spreading the Ten Principles, when we buy...
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24 Hours at Burning Man: Part II
In 2012 Mark Day went to Burning Man for only 24 hours and filmed the journey, squashing the experience down into 23 minutes. Last year was Project number two, and he went back for 5 days. He’s...
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“Cirque du Feu”: Redding Fire Festival This Weekend
Burners are scattered all over the country, and all over the world. From the 2012 Census: Up north in Redding, veteran Burner and Dancetrohottie Adrionah has become the unofficial go-to person for...
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New at Burners.Me: Cartoons!
Just like Burning Man, we’re taking it to another level on the Web this year. We’re pleased to welcome Christopher as our resident cartoonist, helping spread joy to the world of Burners We asked him...
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Simple Map for Burners
cartoon by Christopher . . . . . . . . bonus: a San Francisco blog called “Bernalwood” just created a guide along these lines to the micro-precincts of Bernal Heights. Burning Man old timer Chicken...
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Scientists Endorse Animal Consciousness
Last week I wrote about Professor Dean Radin and the team at IONS (the Institute of Noetic Sciences), who are conducting experiments at Burning Man as part of their research into consciousness. Some...
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