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How housing experiments at Burning Man could help refugees
burnersxxx:Seems like this sort of thing does more to help the world than panel discussions…maybe BMP should invest in some Yurts for refugees. Hey, give ‘em a bike while we’re at it, why not?...
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Art Versus Money
At the end of last month, BMOrg breathlessly announced all kinds of exciting news. They said: (shhhh, just between you and us …) we’re working on a really really BIG project that will serve to tell the...
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Blazed and Confused: the Simpsons Aftermath
The Simpsons broke burningman.com, just from its East Coast showing. It’s been down for at least 3 hours now: kind of surprising that BMOrg didn’t have someone working Sunday night in anticipation...
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BMOrg’s Next Response [Update]
They’re listening. They’ve been listening for months. Their response? Continuing to send their volunteers out online to cop the heat from the Burner community. Now it’s the turn of Caveat Magister....
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Protesting the Protestors
Over at burningman.com, Caveat Magister’s attempts to laugh off the Burner community’s Commodification Camp concerns - Why Am I Making Fun of Burners and 12 Shocking Revelations About Ultra-Rich Plug...
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A New Online Art Grant System Is Live
image: Jim Bauer/Flickr (Creative Commons) A new online system for Art Grants has quietly gone live. It’s buried deep in the blackrockarts site. The deadline is December 1 and you have to pay a fee...
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Burning Man – Reno 911 Style
Before The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, or South Park, the crazy characters of Reno 911 headed to Burning Man in their first series (2003). Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2014, funny, reno, reno 911,...
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Dear Burning Man…
A guest post from our reader Sandstorm. The email he’s responding to is shared at the end of this post. Like many members of the Burning Man community I’ve spent the past 2+ months feeling justifiably...
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A Carnival of Smoke and Mirrors
The new theme has been announced. As per the rumor we leaked on November 16, it’s circus-related: This year’s theme is about mirrors and masks, mazes and merger. It will be a kind of magic show that...
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Commodifying Decommodification
A guest post from our reader Pantsless Santa. It’s an eye-opener! The desire of these people to laugh at the very principles they created, and told us we had to live by, seems to know no bounds. image:...
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Donation Tickets: Here To Stay
A number of readers have brought to our attention BMOrg’s latest job posting. They are looking for someone to “manage” their tickets, despite paying about half a million dollars a year to an external...
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2013 Charity Results Released [Update]
Last weekend, Burning Man Arts – the new organization that is a merger between two of the non-profits in BMOrg’s empire, Black Rock Arts Foundation and the Burning Man Project – threw its Eighth...
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a Turkey Camp
Some members of the Lost Hotel sent us this video as an example of how interactive they were, handing out coffees and smoothies. Other Burners contacted us to point out that almost everyone in the...
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Boycott Commodification – or Just Give Us Your Money [Updates]
Thanks to our eagle-eyed readers who spotted this post at The Burning Blog Voices of Burning Man. It seems they posted it, and as soon as there was a critical comment, yanked it again. Not before one...
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Gurning Man Festival Declared a Success
re-blogged from wundergroundmusic: A festival which debuted this year has been declared a success by attendees and promoters alike. The Gurning Man festival, an event which sees a twenty metre tall...
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History is Happening: Let’s Bring This To Burning Man
Juice Media channels Die Antwoord in the latest Rap News. It’s brilliant. Forget “class warfare” and petty hooliganism. Fuck Fight Club: we can’t solve the world’s problems with the same kind of...
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Burning Man
BMOrg continue on their mission to get every mainstream business publication to look at them for guidance on how to run companies, with Harley Dubois giving an interview to Entrepreneur magazine....
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BMOrg Hath Spoken
image: Roadside Pictures/Flickr (Creative Commons) Finally, more than a quarter of a year after the last week-long Burning Man event ended, BMOrg has given some official answers to the many concerns...
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Charity Versus Tax-Free
image: Bearman/Flickr (Creative Commons) In the comments to our BMOrg Hath Spoken article, Burner Cooter raised an interesting point. This is a slight tangent but the deal with the non profit status is...
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“Failure!”– Tananbaum Gets Called Out by BM Director
Image: Beverly & Pack/Flickr (Creative Commons) A couple of days ago, BMOrg finally posted their response to the many concerns raised by our community after this year’s event. You can read our...
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