$5000 for a Ride on an Art Car?
In the past, some Art Cars have turned to Kickstarter and IndieGogo campaigns to raise money for their Burn. An obvious perk is “ride on the car”; a larger one would be “use the whole car for a night...
View ArticleHere’s How To Make Your Own Dreamscope A.I. Images
The famous movie Blade Runner is based on Philip K Dick’s story Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Recently Google, makers of Android and robots, have been blowing up the Interwebz with their...
View ArticleBurning Man Kicks Off Outside Lands Hackathon
Last weekend as part of the build up to the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, they threw a Hackathon at Weebly’s playful office in the Financial District. The idea was...
View ArticleBurning Man Pays For More Cops
The Reno Gazette Journal reports that Burning Man will be spending an additional $105,000 this year so that Washoe County can have more police officers on the road, looking to arrest protect Burners....
View ArticleIs This The New New Thing?
Larry’s expression when Kucinich asks “what about your humanity?” I have just stumbled across youtube.com/burningman. Sure, there have always been plenty of YouTube videos about Burning Man – earning...
View ArticleBurning Man Creates Dance Music Zone [Updates]
BMOrg have created a new area for art cars with Level 3 sound systems called the Dance Music Zone (DMZ). A mile from The Man, between 10:30-11:15 & K. They will be setting up portapotties at each...
View ArticleBurning Man Scene Pulled From Freaks and Geeks Vacation Reunion
Re-blogged from Cinema Blend: Late last year, Vacation co-director John Francis Daley revealed to the world that he would be using his directorial debut to reunite with his former Freaks and Geeks...
View ArticleTruth Is Beauty Gets Permanent Home in San Leandro
Image: Kulturologia.ru Marco Cochrane’s Truth is Beauty sculpture is going to San Leandro, part of a drive to turn the East Bay into a tech mecca. It’s causing some controversy, due to the implied...
View ArticleMutant Vehicle Sound Policy and DJ Lineups: The Update
“Stereo! That spells trouble – another all night rave!” The new and improved (?) Mutant Vehicle Sound Policy – starring the Dance Music Zone – has been posted at ePlaya (thanks JV). Loud Art Cars can...
View ArticleThe Techno Ghetto – the History of Dance Music at Burning Man
Recent announcements from the Org make it seem like Burning Man is trying to deal with Electronic Dance Music like it’s a new problem. In fact, this is not the case. Burning Man has been taking place...
View ArticleDextroamphetamine: Tent Stakes, Adderall & Mental Steroids
The most disturbing thing I’ve seen both in an Ivy League library & the Esplanade happened to be a red Solo cup. Not so much the cup, but what was in it. In both cases someone had poured Vodka...
View ArticleHey Plug & Plays, Bring Self-Driving Cars To The Playa!
by Terry Gotham Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard about autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars. It’s moved so far out of the Google/Silicon Valley bubble that late night talk shows are...
View ArticleTransforming Castle Truck Becomes 3-Story Tiny House
The tiny house movement is gathering speed worldwide, and starting to build on the Playa too. In 2011 the Tiny House Blog published a post featuring The Tiny Houses of Black Rock City and they followed...
View ArticleThe Ten Year Anniversary of Burners Without Borders
Thanks to Jex from BMIR for writing this guest post. It adds to earlier stories we have published regarding Burners Without Borders: Burners Storm The Jersey Shore Superstorm Sandy Vs The Burners...
View ArticleBREAKING: Seidlitz Sidelined! BLM Temporarily Reassigns Burning Man Supervisor
Gene Seidlitz runs the Winnemucca Field Office for the Bureau of Land Management. He has overseen Burning Man successfully for many years. This year, in the wake of Chocotacogate and the ditching of...
View ArticleU-Haul Introduces Burning Man Kit [Updates]
Burning Man will not allow any trucks with commercial logos, says U-Haul. Luckily, they have come up with a Burning Man kit they can sell you to cover all the decals – including Ford and General...
View ArticleShift-Pods: The New Generation of Burnitecture
Years of Burning and dealing with yurts, tents, RVs, and everything in between, have led to Shift Camp developing this new solution for Playa Accommodation. They are offering them as a Gift to anyone...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into Burning Man
This should get you pumped to go back Home. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2011, 2015, stories, video
View ArticleFoxCarn And The Betel Store
FoxCarn & the Betel Store is the China and Taiwan regional project for Burning Man 2015. The project will feature “worker” participants drawn from Burning Man attendees, who will make Apple...
View Article2015 Which Famous Assholes Are Going To Burning Man?
Last year Joe Kokura over at BrokeAssStuart published an amusing list of potential celebrity Burners. Well, he’s updated it with a 2015 version: WHICH FAMOUS A**HOLES ARE GOING TO BURNING MAN THIS...
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