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Is Cultural Appropriation a Fallacy?
burnersxxx:Great article from Santafemous. “How do we make peace with the past? We are all borrowing from one another, could that be cause to celebrate and enjoy our common ground?” Originally posted...
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Burning Man Director Flaunts Flouting of Safety Rules
In theory, we live in a democratic society, based on a system of justice. There are rules, and if you break them you can be punished. If enough people don’t like the rules – or the rulers – they can be...
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Halcyon: What I Learned Defending Plug-n-Play
Kudos to Halcyon for coming to our site to defend any criticisms of his article Don’t Hate Plug-n-Play. He’s penned a follow up, sharing what he learned from being “destroyed” on Burners.Me. He makes...
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Ice To A/C: Solar Power Air Conditioner
Rad. Homemade AC Air Cooling unit produces very cold air. 42F air (in an 80F room). items needed: ice chest (hard-sided or styrofoam), pvc pipe, small fan and ice. (small solar panel is optional)....
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From Communal Effort to Communism
re-blogging this piece that freestyle wrote in 2012 over at Mutant Ship. Seems just as relevant today. Entitlement: I knew after 2012 that Burning Man had Jumped The Shark by freestyle (Originally...
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Machine Men With Machine Hearts
Scotland is facing a vote tomorrow to leave the United Kingdom, and regain its own national sovereignty for the first time in 317 years. This is one of the most inspiring and passionate speeches...
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Economic Costs of Burning Man in SF
Fortune magazine has shared some data from local San Francisco merchants who use Square. It looks like Burning Man had a substantial negative impact on businesses in SOMA, the Mission, the Marina, Noe...
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2014 Census Results
The preliminary results are in from the 2014 BlackRock City census. Some key highlights: 61% Virgins or Noobz 39% Veterans – up from 29%, reflecting the population surge of the last couple of years...
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DPWBRC: Action Required
When DPW asks me to do something, I usually do it. In this case, it appears to stand for the Department of Psychokinetic Works. I don’t quite know what’s going on here, but I like it. Are you a hippie?...
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Sander van Doorn Shoots Promo Vid at BM
Great video. I guess this is our new future. Anyone can use Burning Man footage to promote themselves, their web sites, their DJing, Google glass, whatever. Why not? Filed under: Music Tagged: 2014,...
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Google’s Skybox Satellites Shoot GIFs Of Burning Man Being Built [Update]
burnersxxx: Google uses Burning Man YET AGAIN to test and promote new commercial products. This time, high resolution space spying technology. [Update 9/18/14 10:33am] Burner Doug cleverly observed...
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A Twisted Victorian Nod To Burning Man
BlackBook has a great story about veteran Burners the Lucent Dossier Experience. re-blogged from Blackbook: I think I stumbled onto something big. Except I’m two years late. And it’s so esoteric...
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BURNILEAKS: Bullying the Burners
The post-Burning Man headaches for BMOrg continue to mount. If you believe in karma or physics, then you understand that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you threaten legal...
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What A Mess! P-n-P and MOOP Scandals Collide in Sad Day for BRC [Update]
“Yellow” bikes are considered stolen if they’ve been decorated. The MOOP data is coming out. And it’s so far, not so good. MOOP was out of control this year. There are reports of piles of bikes being...
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VICE: 11 Types of Assholes Who Attend Music Festivals
Click here for all 11 at Vice, we picked our Top 5: re-blogged from vice.com THE 11 TYPES OF ASSHOLES WHO ATTEND MUSIC FESTIVALS OBJECTIVELY CORRECT LISTS By Dan Ozzi Festivals are, without...
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Dreams of Dust
Nice smooth tune as the soundtrack. Well done to Lars Wijers who made it for us. Who else has 2014 videos ready yet? Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, art, city, stories, videos
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Riding Inside A Dust Devil At Burning Man
Burning Man Project Director Chip Conley’s Fest300 has released another Burning Man promo video. This one is 3:05 long, the 0:05 is for Fest300 advertising. So is this now the Commodification...
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Life Lessons From Burning Man
Maya Zuckerman, “cultural hacker”, has shared 13 Life Lessons from 13 Years at Burning Man. From Huffington Post: The dust has finally settled after my thirteenth year at TTITD, “That Thing In the...
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Burning Man Electrician Tragic Death
ABC News has this story about Burner Ryan Brown, described as “an electrician at the Burning Man counter-culture festival [who] had been fired after a domestic dispute with his wife”. His Facebook page...
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A Needle To Take Out The Splinter
Sanan from Peru has shared his perspective on Burning. Burning Man, Behind the Mask. ~ Sanan Via Sananon Sep 14, 2014 In a society gone mad, where artificial, superficial and phoney rule, no wonder...
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