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Saving The World With Apps
This year Open Garden’s Firechat smartphone app debuted at Burning Man. Although it was just another of dozens of uses for smartphones at the festival, it seems its peer-to-peer networking may become...
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South Bhak – Burning Man and South Park S18 Connection *Again*
Bhak Jolilcouer may have a point. He saw a lot of parallels between last week’s South Park Season 18 premiere, Go Fund Yourself, and his situation with a trademark that was in the public domain in...
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Get Your Timeshare Slot In The Sultan
If this is a troll, it’s the most elaborate one I’ve ever seen. It’s either real, or an ironic “seeding of the market” like the AirBnB listings. They can put the brochures in the Souk and test the...
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“Top Model-douche at the World’s Weirdest Fashion Cluster f*ck”
Benjamin Guest has written a post at the DJ List, reviewing Burning Man. Click here for the full original story, here are some of our favorite highlights: Burning Man 2014: Skrillex, Snark and...
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2014 MOOP Final Scorecard
The annual site inspection is crucial to Burning Man’s future. We must prove, year after year, that our activity can leave a minimal impact on the Black Rock Desert’s ecosystem. If we fail, we will not...
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Social Alchemist Seeks Sherpa for Startup Shenanigans
This year, just before Burning Man, the New York Times published an expose on rich people trying to one-up each other at Burning Man with luxury camps and paid employees. They featured an interview...
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The Tin Principles: An Alternate Viewpoint
I just came across this classic comment from Tron, from February this year. They are commenting on the post “A Few Ground Rules For Talking About the 10 Principles” at burningman.com. 1. RADICAL...
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“I’m Up For A Sherpa Myself”
CBS News did a video story on “Silicon Valley Elite Accused of Ruining Burning Man”. Larry insists that they’re not, that people have been saying “Burning Man is ruined” since the beginning, and in...
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El Pulp-Doh!
The Lost Coast Outpost has some very exciting news about everyone’s favorite art car, El Pulpo Mecanico: Local artist, kineticist and LoCOcoaster scribbler Duane Flatmo has been on something of a...
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Burning Man Introduces Censorship [Updates]
Did you know Burning Man has implemented a censorship policy? Me neither…until I fell victim to it this weekend. Does BMOrg really want to get feedback from the community, and listen to our concerns?...
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Botanical Drug Fest
The Standard (UK) reports of an interesting festival going on until October 20 in London’s Royal Botanical Gardens. Re-blogged from the London Evening Standard: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are...
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Sexy Girls Dancing
Need I say more? Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, music, stories, videos
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Nice Drone Footage of Caravansary
Who wants to feel homesick? I think this drone video by Eric Cheng is my favorite so far. Check out Cary Frame’s Monowheel at 2:56, the Lamplighters at 3:41 , dust devils coming from the Embrace burn...
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Commodification Camp Concerns
Last night a couple of dozen interested Burners participated in the “Turnkey/Plug-n-Play Forum” discussion. It was organized by Travis Puglisi, who makes a (modest) living working on camps and art...
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Viva La Revolución!
Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change has produced a 10 minute mini-documentary called “The Revolution That Is Burning Man?” It’s more about interviews with Burners about politics and government, than sexy...
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How To Be Ultra-Spiritual
Take the first step towards changing the world by going to raves. Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2014, funny, videos
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The Fallen Cosmos
A new crowd-funded arts experiment is being launched in San Francisco early next year. It’s been created by Burners, and has nothing to do with BMOrg. The infamous character Chicken John is the...
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The Great BMOrg Cash-Out of 2010-2017, $35-47 Million: an Updated Estimate
A guest post from our reader A Balanced Perspective, updating his post earlier this year. The BMOrg Cash Out of 2010-2017, $35-$47 Million, an Updated Estimate by A Balanced Perspective I penned The...
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Glowsuit Adventures
Cool video here from Edward Yakerson. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, music, stories, videos
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“Like Rome Before The Fall” [Update]
The Balinese-style Ohm Kar, from Laguna Beach, debuted at Caravansary. photo: Herald Sun The Herald Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper in my old hometown of Melbourne, Australia. It’s the Aussie...
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