Building Community Through Co-operative Living
The Burning Man Project are throwing a free “donate what you want” event next month at their headquarters, to bring together Burners from a range of co-operative living situations to talk about their...
View ArticleLooking At Utopia With Stars In Our Eyes
If you’ve wondered why this blog appears to have gone quiet in the last week, it’s because I’m travelling on a trip that has taken me from the White House to Miami’s Winter Electronic Music Conference...
View ArticleMisting Vagina and Penis Slide: Celeb Invasion Continues
Burning Man has become THE place for celebs to show their cool factor. Last year we had first time visits from P.Diddy, Susan Sarandon, and General Wesley Clark…amongst others. Actress Rosario Dawson...
View ArticleCartoon: BRC # 3
Cartoon by ChristopherFiled under: Cartoons Tagged: 2014, cartoons, funny
View ArticleElon Musk: “Burning Man IS Silicon Valley”
Mike Judge is one of this country’s comic greats. As well as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, he made the classic movie Idiocracy. Now he’s back with a terrific new show on HBO, a sardonic...
View Article2013 Arrest Data Revealed
The blog Federal Times has published an article on Burning Man’s crime-creation record. The news looks pretty good: 6 arrests, out of nearly 70,000 people gathered in a city for a week. Every year at...
View ArticleCartoon: BRC # 7
Cartoon by ChristopherFiled under: Cartoons Tagged: 2014, cartoons, funny
View ArticleAurora Palo Alto: BM Tree Comes to City Hall
Aurora is a 3-story high art-ificial tree made up of more than 40,000 LED lights. It was created by Bay Area artist Charles Gadeken. After debuting at Burning Man in 2011, it has been re-constructed as...
View ArticleCartoon: BRC # 8
Cartoon by ChristopherFiled under: Cartoons Tagged: 2014, cartoons, funny
View ArticleGift Me To Your Leader #bmglc14
Last weekend BMOrg hosted their Global Leadership Conference. We didn’t attend, but feel like we were there: thanks to an unprecedented social media blitz from BMOrg, spearheaded by their new blogger...
View ArticleCartoon: BRC # 9
Cartoon by ChristopherFiled under: Cartoons Tagged: 2014, cartoons, funny
View ArticleTickets: Next Wave, Next Week
Got your ticket to Burning Man? This year, it seems that most Burners I know don’t have tickets yet, but no-one is too stressed out. 60,000 tickets are already spoken for, including the 3000 Chump...
View ArticleThis Is Your Brain On Drugs
In 1995, artist Bryan Lewis Saunders decided he would paint a self-portrait every single day for the rest of his life. He’s up to about 10,000 so far – and more than 50 of them are based on different...
View ArticleA Film About Unicorns
SmashLeFunk presents this quick film. Although it says it’s about unicorns, there are surprisingly few of them in the video. Famous art car Charlie the Unicorn is the main star. I love the old dude in...
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