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...
View ArticleBasic 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...
View ArticleDubai 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...
View ArticleStar 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleBurning 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...
View ArticleWeapon 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...
View ArticleRadical 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...
View ArticleThings 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...
View Article2015 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...
View ArticleWell 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...
View ArticleWho’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...
View ArticleStrange 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleBMOrg 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBMOrg, 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...
View ArticleBass 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...
View ArticleStarbucks, 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...
View Article2014 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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