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The Positivity In Popularity
A guest post from reader Shifty Fox. Good ol’ Black Rock City. Home sweet home, am I right? I stand in awe at how much it has grown over the years. These days it’s rare to find someone who hasn’t heard...
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Basic Burning Man Bitch
The Bold Italic has a hilarious look at the “Basic Bitches of the Bay“. Although San Francisco in and of itself is a vibrant and unique city that fosters eccentricity, you will still see those who fall...
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Dubai Aims To Take Ibiza’s Party Island Crown
Dream Island will be one of the four Al Marjan Islands in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Image: Arabian Business One way to look at Ibiza is a bunch of really big clubs. So all you need to do to reproduce it is...
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Star Wars In The Desert
Image: Mixmag A Star Wars themed rave in the desert? Sounds like a good idea to me. Fest300 brings us the exciting news: YES! A STAR-WARS INSPIRED EDM FEST IN TUNISIA At last...a festival with...
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What to Pack for Burning Man: A Comprehensive List
burnersxxx:Is it too early to think about packing for Burning Man? Never! Originally posted on Tremendous Times: If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I’m more than a little excited about...
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Burning Man: The Musical
Some New York veteran Burners are raising funds on Kickstarter to create Burning Man: The Musical. Inspired by Book of Mormon, it will feature songs like “My Sparkle Pony” and “The Only Black Man In...
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Weapon of Mass Instruction
Here’s a great idea for an art car that could be used in the real world to spread the mission of The Burning Man Project. I think it would be more effective than panel discussions preaching to the...
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Radical Experimentation
The Burning Man Project’s Social Alchemist, Bear Kittay, has just given a TEDx talk in Stockholm, Sweden. He talks about harnessing creative energies to address social inequity. Burning Man’s Bear...
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Things That Only Happen in San Francisco
Broke-Ass Stuart brings us a couple of amusing takes on San Francisco city life. Things are a little different over here in Marin! This one contains an interesting pro-tip at the end for Burners who...
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2015 Temple Design Revealed
It’s the Temple of Promise. In the midst of a carnival of chumps, suckers, and rubes. Nestled within the 100-foot high Temple structure will be a very Bohemian grove of trees. Looks like it should...
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Well Deserved
WellDeserved.Me, the latest San Francisco startup, has found a way to monetize the unmonetizable. Sign up now for the beta. This video made me think of AirBnB listings at Burning Man. It’s sort of...
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Who’s The Best Burning Man Talker?
In 2011, BMOrg announced their change to a non-profit on a mission to save the world. Since then, we sure have seen a lot of panel discussions and jetsetting from Larry & Co. I guess what they’re...
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Strange Festival
The latest installment in the commodification and appropriation of our culture: Acura’s commercial for their 2016 MDX. This one is longer but without sound: Diddy did it first: In 2006 Lexus created...
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Google Employee Creating Burning Man Musical
A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of Burning Man: The Musical – a new Kickstarter project. It seems the idea is ramping up fast, with a big profile from the Reno Gazette-Journal. The man behind...
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BMOrg Tips Hat to Caravancicle Camp Director
Voices of Burning Man has a story from Communications Director Megan Miller, the latest BMOrg employee jetting around the world to attend a festival: Envision, in Uvite, Costa Rica. Her report is very...
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The First Unpowered Flight to Burning Man
Burner Kurtis Carter wanted to skip the entry traffic so much, he jumped off a mountain 70 miles away and flew through the air for more than 6 hours. Sure beats sitting in the Will Crawl line! Filed...
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BMOrg, Humboldt Hospital Cut Contract Early
In the wake of the departure of Joseph Pred, long-time head of Burning Man’s Emergency Services Department, BMOrg have severed the half-million dollar a year contract with Humboldt General Hospital to...
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Bass Versus Burn
Students Viet Tran (L) and Seth Robertson with their invention, a sound extinguisher, at the Fairfax Campus. Photo by Alexis Glenn/Creative Services/George Mason University Two students at George Mason...
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Starbucks, Indiana, and the Ten Principles
Recently, pick-me-up powerhouse Starbucks made the news when CEO Howard Schultz announced that the company had been inspired by Burning Man to make the world a better place. Instead of just serving you...
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2014 Afterburn Report: The Death of Transparency
We’ve been duped, Burners. For 4 years now, we’ve been sold on a “pie in the sky” vision. Burning Man would no longer be about exploiting volunteer labor and the financial and artistic contributions of...
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