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JT Finally Speaks
Caravancicle: the big dome, with a wall along the front; Lost Hotel: the C shape facing the corner It only took 3 1/2 months – and, quite probably, me spending an hour yesterday talking to a reporter...
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BMOrg Asks For A Gift AGAIN
Not every charity has a $30 million budget. Image: Vincent Albanese/Flickr (Creative Commons) As if we don’t have anything better to do with our money at Christmas time. Anyone else get one of these?...
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Licensed to Sell
I just got off the phone with David Freiberg at the BLM’s Black Rock Field Office, who said he’s a fan of this site. He is going to track down the 2014 list of vendors who were granted a Special...
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2014 Golden Rebar Awards
Every year, This Is Black Rock City presents the “Golden Rebar Awards” to camps that show innovative architecture. This year, there were some truly spectacular winners. Philippe Glade says: This year,...
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Does Commodification Matter?
If you think Burning Man is just a big party in the desert, then no – it doesn’t matter. Who cares? Just go and have fun. Avoid articles critical of BMOrg’s management, just pretend everything is...
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BURNILEAKS: Commodification Camp Employment Email
If you’ve had enough of all the Commodification Camp controversy, don’t bother reading this post. For those who still care… Thanks to Anonymous Burner for leaking this email that was sent to workers...
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Burning Man 2015 Tickets Information
See all the details here – http://tickets.burningman.org/ 4,000 Pre-Sale tickets will be sold for $800 each, $150 more than last year’s “art benefactor” tickets. 20,000 Directed Group Sale tickets are...
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Seeding the Future
A guest post by reader Nick Heyming, who has been inspired by Burns to create something phenomenal. Burner Holiday In the spirit of the holidays, here’s a story to make you remember what gifting and...
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Decommodification, Decentralization and Direct Democracy
EndAllDisease has a lot of very interesting content, including this article about how Bitcoin is going to revolutionize all forms of electronic interaction. It is a societal change potentially as big...
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Gerlach School Community Garden
This Kickstarter seems like a good way for Burners to support our local community. Some of us might take fresh food for granted, but in Gerlach it’s 100 miles to the nearest school. All they want is...
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Awaken: A Story of Dreams
A new video documentary of Burning Man. Spot your friends! We covered Project Dreambox earlier: St Art Ups Posing As Playa Art You can read more about their Dreamus venture in Ever Widening Circles:...
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Fight, Fuck, or Philosophize
Another Burning Man documentary. “The only things that are going to save us are the arts”…there are some interesting statements and ideas expressed here, but unfortunately they are not really explained...
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Dream Big, Or Go Home
So far the most exciting announcement about Burning Man 2015 is not the $800 VIP tickets, or the “chumps and suckers” circus theme…it’s Big Imagination, who are going to bring a 747 Jumbo Jet as their...
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#NOTETOSELF: JOIN THE PROJECT
burnersxxx:A great idea from XStaticWorld. Originally posted on XSTATICWORLD: Last year at Burning Man, USA I asked 25 strangers to write a letter to themselves in the real world or “default world” as...
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Re-Cycling Bike MOOP
Last year we brought you news of a program to do something useful that alsoaddresses the problem of hundreds thousands of Burner bikes that get dumped on the Playa each year. Well, good news, Burners:...
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Burn BC Admits Defeat In Battle For Public Domain
Image: Roger Luijten/Flickr (Creative Commons) The epic fight between Burners in Canada and the corporate conglomerate of Decommodifcation LLC, the Burning Man Project, and Black Rock City LLC...
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2014 Hyperlapse from Uberlapse
A new timelapse video of Caravansary. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, stories, videos
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The Burner Behind the Holodeck
It’s no longer just Google, Elon Musk, politicians and the military that are looking to Burning Man for creative inspiration. It’s also Microsoft, too. The HoloLens, their latest immersive virtual...
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24 Hours At Burning Man: 2014 Edition
Mark Day does it again… Burning Man 2014 = the movie …. shot, edited & etc by Mark Day Featuring the Alien Siege Machine, the Kraken and East Bay Burners photobooth photography by Michael Fox...
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Mike Judge on Burning Man, Tech Culture
This segment from CNN Money is worth the 3 minutes or so of your time. Mike Judge created the satirical show Silicon Valley, as well as Beavis and Butthead and Idiocracy. He says that people in Silicon...
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