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Notes On Two Wheels: Stupid Laws, Stoned Burners & Public Transportation
As I mentioned autonomous vehicles (self driving cars) in a previous post, I felt it was only fair to discuss one of the other issues that ties San Francisco, New York & Black Rock City together:...
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Easy Way To Get Tickets
Panicking because you missed out on STEP and OMG? Keen to go and check out the debut of the new, ultra-loud Dance Music Zone? Looking to hear the crackling of the flames at the Man base without pesky...
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New Permit Allows For More Tickets To Be Released
It looks like BMOrg gains an extra $420,000 in ticket sales, instead of having to pay that much extra in to the BLM in the increase to the Infrastructure part of their budget. A huge thanks to A...
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Berning Man: Notes On For-Profit Cultural Remoras
For everyone who lives outside of San Francisco, this post should come with little surprise. However, in speaking to many of my friends in “The City,” I was reminded that they don’t have to deal with a...
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Photographer Gifts Playa Portraits
Wear your best pinks. New York based graphic artist Peter Ruprecht is gifting his art on the Playa. Join the Facebook event if you’re interested in participating. Enough people have been asking me to...
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Pinchbeck: “Why I’m Not Going To Burning Man This Year”
Daniel Pinchbeck has just shared this essay on Facebook. If you like his writing, please become his patron. Why I am not going to Burning Man this year by Daniel Pinchbeck I have gone to Burning Man...
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Caffeine: Shut Up & Pour
Can you imagine if you had a caffeine vaporizer in high school or while driving that shitty delivery job so many of us had. The delivery system step is an overlooked point of interest for most people...
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Burning Man Could Be Moving To Utah [Update]
So says the CEO, in a recent hour-long interview on the Positive Head podcast. From VICE: “The biggest danger facing Burning Man right now is that the State of Nevada has levied an entertainment tax,”...
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Natasha Leggero on Burning Man
Comedienne Natasha Leggero works a Burning Man bit into her routine, just in time for her new Comedy Central live show. “I’ve never been, and I hate it” Natasha Leggero: Live at Bimbo’s premieres on...
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RIP Spoono
One of the DPW crew and a founder of Black Rock Solar and Burners Without Borders, Scott Stephenson aka “Spoono” passed away on the Playa last night. He had been up in Gerlach and on the Playa since...
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BREAKING: Bugpocalypse Declared Over
By now you have probably heard about the bug plague infestation brief and insignificant appearance. The latest update from the Playa: “Bugs? What bugs?” The bugs are gone. Ok, not every last stinking...
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There’s A New Sheriff In Town [Updates]
Image: Frank Giustino For the last 4 years, the departing Pershing County Sheriff Machado has tried to find retired cops to work Black Rock City. This led to an amazingly low number of arrests last...
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Burning Man, Bugs, and the CIA
Alex Jones’ show InfoWars is one of the most successful alternative media platforms in the world. You can catch it Monday-Friday at 9am-noon PST. They are known for a diligent focus on the truth, being...
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[Spoiler Alert] Burning Man 2015 Construction Photos
Hey all! Dave “Rabbitt” LeClair here! Setup at Black Rock City always excites the hell out of me, so I thought I’d share these Instagram photos from the hard workers out in the desert already! I...
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2C-I & 2C-B: Research Chemicals Before It Was Cool
The 2C family of drugs is one of Shulgin’s famous progeny. He synthesized over 250 psychoactive chemicals, nearly all of them never having been consumed by humans before. As DanceSafe reminds us,...
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2015 Music Lineups
Did you download the free Rockstar Librarian Music Guide? This year, it seems a little light – listings from major camps like White Ocean and Robot Heart are not there at all. If you were...
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Shooting Burning Man
Are there too many cameras on the Playa? Should we be free to create spectacles for each other, without fear of spectators capturing the moment to share with other spectators? The Voices of Burning Man...
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A Permanent Utopia?
In NYMag, Nellie Bowles reports that BMOrg have their sights set on a permanent community, and once again will be bussing investors from First Camp out to the nearby Fly Ranch property. Burning Man’s...
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Traffic Man 2015: Entry Pain For Thousands
Traffic this year appears to have been among the worst ever. From Voices of Burning Man: We are experiencing significant traffic delays due to slow vehicles on Highway 447. Estimated delays are up to 8...
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Stewart Brand And The New Communalists
The Conversation has an interesting piece by Simon Willmetts, a professor of American Studies at the University of Hull. He traces Burning Man’s origins to Stewart Brand, who thought up the idea of the...
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