Clik here to view.
Silk Road Move Over, a New Bazaar Is In Town
WIRED magazine has a report on Agora, the new online drug bazaar “marketplace of anything”. It is based on Agorism, a philosophy that a free, stateless society can be achieved via disruptive market...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Population Control Through Sleight Of Hand
Sleight of hand is another term for magic. It is also sometimes used in relation to the world of accounting. Just like you can play tricks with your hands, people can also play tricks with words and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Police Presence Pleases the Playa
The cops loved the Early set at Distrikt. photo: Samantha Fielding For a good time, call Gooch. Photo: Samantha Fielding As reports trickle back from the Playa, we’re hearing the cops here were much...
View ArticleClik here to view.
White Morning Embrace
Tatiana Mikhailova has posted this beautiful moment from the burn. After burn of Embrace riding my bike in a middle of the desert I saw White Baby Grand Piano build by the Genius every note light up as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Diplo-Matic Situation Escalates
deephouseamsterdam picked up the story about booing at Robot Heart, saying: Being a multi-million dollar grossing DJ doesn’t necessarily mean that you will get the same amount of adoration everywhere...
View ArticleClik here to view.
San Francisco Parties Into The Next Weekend
Burning Man’s official Decompression is not until October 12, but for those who still have the beats of the Playa ringing in their ears and wish they were back there, there’s plenty of good stuff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunrise at Robot Heart
See for yourself what all the fuss is about in this video by Mark Day. Spot your friends! No Diplo or Skrillex in this video, just a few spacey looking Burners. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Brigadoon, the Louvre, Petra”
It seems Grover Norquist had an eye-opening Burning Man experience. He penned an op-ed for the Guardian about it: It is a larger version of … what? Woodstock? That was a bunch of teenagers coming to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Burning Man Becomes Battleground for Tech Elites: the Real Story
Thanks to Alex Mak for penning this guest post. Burning Man Becomes Battleground for Tech Elites; The Real Story by Alex Mak Monday Morning: 11am: Black Rock Desert, Nevada A hot breeze blew over the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OUTBREAK! Burners Warned of Virus Risk
They say bad luck comes in threes. This year Burning Man faced an unprecedented closure on Monday and Tuesday, followed by an unfortunately fatal art car accident on Thursday. It seemed like Burning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let It Go, Burners
Comedian Mark Day presents his take on Caravansary, to the “other” Let It Go. Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2014, art projects, city, festival, funny, music, playa love, videos
View ArticleClik here to view.
Douchebag Burner Advocates Class War [Update]
The people next to you have an RV. Does that make it OK to steal their shit? Obviously not, unless you’re an asshole. Which David Kiss clearly is. Not only to commit the acts he describes below, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Plug-n-Play Goes All the Way…to the Top of the Pyramid [Update]
“self reliance is the greatest art” – my teabag message as I’m finishing off this post. Earlier this year, Burning Man CEO and Founder Marian Goodell gave a talk at TEDx Tokyo, while social alchemist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
(Kiss) (ASS) It’s A Big Farce
It occurred to me that this sign-stealing incident, publicized by its author on various Burning Man facebook groups, happened after BMOrg announced before the Burn that because sign theft was so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Man and the Moon
CNet brings us a heart-warming story by Greeter Dan about the marriage at Burning Man of the guy who designed The Man this year. From CNet.com: Diamonds? Nah. Burning Man wedding ring holds a piece...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Secret of Getting A Burning Man Ticket
Happiness by the Universe Alvin Gaela was one of about 3000 people who showed up on the Facebook Group asking if anyone had a spare ticket, despite their express rule forbidding that. This was no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cello Joe Makes Space Sacred
Cello Joe has shared this moving performance with all of us Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, music, stories, videos
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Crawl Sucked Real Bad
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” — Christopher Hitchens . 2014 was Ticketfly’s first year running Will Call. They had to deal with an unprecedented gate closure due...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Shroom: Caravansary Edition
As well as the BRC Weekly and Black Rock Beacon, the Shroom was out on the Playa this year. Did you catch it? Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2014, caravansary, funny, shroom
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Ways to Improve Burning Man Next Year
Thanks to Burner Chris Downar at LessThan3 for sharing this story (despite the mention, Bassnectar was not at Burning Man this year) POSTED BY CHRIS DOWNAR UNDER EVENT, FEATURED Burning Man offers...
View Article