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Burning Man’s Gift Economy and its Effect on Mainstream Society
Festpop has an article by Karli Jaenike about how Burning Man is changing the world. I’m re-blogging it here so we can then discuss it. Emphasis ours. re-blogged from FestPop It’s no secret that most...
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2014 Ruprecht Studios Stop Motion
Peter Ruprecht has released his 2014 stop-motion video, made from more than 15,000 images. See if you can spot yourself, or your friends… Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, photos, stories,...
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Backstage Flare-Up at SF Decom [Update]
Fire dancers are not all warm and fuzzy. It sounds like some shit went down backstage at last weekend’s officially sanctioned Decompression party in San Francisco – an assault, or nearly one. The...
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Impossible Light
A documentary about the Bay Lights is premiering later this month in the NYC area. Created by Burning Man Director – and Disorient founder – Leo Villareal, the $8 million Bay Lights Project is the...
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40 days after Burning Man
burnersxxx:And no trace was left! Hope she picked up the MOOP… Originally posted on santafemous: On a recent, unusually warm fall day the playa beckoned. Reports I have read on the Leave No Trace...
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Science at Burning Man: Say What?
burnersxxx:“Burning Man: where exceptionally capable people prepare themselves for the zombie apocalypse” …maybe that’s what the Chinook’s there for Originally posted on Quantum Frontiers: Burning Man…...
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Deep History of Drugs
Benjamin Breen at The Appendix has written this fascinating overview of the scientific discovery of illicit drugs. It’s concise, rather than comprehensive, but it makes for a good Sunday read. It skips...
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Geeks On Ice [Update]
Slashdot brings us a story about An Algorithm To End The Lines For Ice At Burning Man: Any gathering of 65,000 people in the desert is going to require some major infrastructure to maintain health and...
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Poker Like A Rockstar
Just when you thought the Burning Man virus couldn’t infect any more mainstream vertical markets, we get World Series of Poker/World Poker Tour champion Antonio Esfandiari (aka @magicantonio) writing...
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Junk ‘n Funk In The Trunk
Ace Junkyard, “an unlikely epicenter of San Francisco’s industrial, mechanical, kinetic, maker and artist community” which has played a big, behind-the-scenes role in supporting Burner art projects, is...
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Behind The Scenes At A Sound Camp
MC2 Audio has a story about what goes into the sound at Ooligan Alley. It’s heavy on technical details, which will be interesting to some readers. A team from the UK brought out a serious system,...
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Sander’s Video: The Remix [Updates]
International mega-star DJ Sander van Doorn went to Burning Man for the first time this year, and had a life-changing experience. He released a video of it, which seemed very much like a promo video....
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New System For Arts Grants Announced
Earlier this year BMOrg announced that its Black Rock Arts Foundation non-profit subsidiary, would be absorbed into its Burning Man Project non-profit master organization, to become a new department...
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2014 Trey Ratcliff Photos
Photographer Trey Ratcliff, from Queenstown, New Zealand, has created a slideshow of his photos from Caravansary. Trey describes how he made the video at his Stuck in Customs blog. He is one of the...
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Turkey Answers, But Silence On Commodification Scalper Tickets [Poll Added]
BMOrg have published a blog post “How Turnkey Camps Get Placed”. They persist with trying to re-frame the issue with semantics – we prefer Commodification Camps to this Turkey camps idea that BMOrg are...
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BMOrg Continues to Cover for Commodification Camps
Will Chase has added to the chorus of Commodification Camp justifications we’ve been hearing from BMOrg, with a post saying “what’s all the fuss about? Nothing to see here, move along”: Virgins and...
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BMOrg Speaks to Address Community Concerns
Will Chase, BMOrg’s Minister of Propaganda, has made a statement in response to the community’s concerns about Commodification Camps. He wants us to know that he’s listening. And he told his bosses the...
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BURNILEAKS: How Commodification Camps Got Tickets [Update]
Thanks a million to Anonymous Burner for sharing this timely evidence. BMOrg doesn’t want to explain how Commodification Camps got so many tickets to an event that was sold out in February, so it’s...
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Satire De La Playa
Simon de la Playa has produced an amusing series of images commenting on Burning Man. Here are some highlights: Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2014, 2015, art, art projects, arts, bmorg, funny, satire
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AirBnB CEO on the Sharing Economy
McKinsey and Company is an ultra-high end management consulting firm. They help set the direction for the Fortune 500, and their advice in the past has included Burning Man as an example of “how to...
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