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Why I Love Zombie Movies
by Whatsblem the Pro The Other White Meat — Image: Whatsblem the Pro Zombies. The shambling, hungry dead. The initially-tiny cult phenomenon that was George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has been...
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In Case of Scum
One of the most prolific DJ’s out there on the Playa has been Dutch techno master Jesse “The Scumfrog” Houk. Here’s his set from Robot Heart at Burning Man Fertility 2.0 2012. Where I come from we call...
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BurniLeaks: Anonymous Reveals Police Art Car
Police and Thieves, in the Streets. The streets of Black Rock City. Is this why local authorities need to hike their take? One of them got an art car, and now all of them need one? From Anonymous: Dear...
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The Poor Man’s Burning Man: Part One
by Whatsblem the Pro People have some pretty crazy ideas regarding what Burning Man is all about. Even hardcore burners have a difficult time agreeing just what it is we’re all doing out there, unless...
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HOWTO: Make Your Own Smoke Bombs at Home!
by Whatsblem the Pro While it’s an amazingly bad idea to fool around with making your own fireworks in general if you don’t happen to have a knowledgeable qualified pyrotechnician on hand, there are...
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The Largest Ever Art Car
Burners.Me are sponsoring a few projects this year, and one of them is Tiki Island, brought to us from the Playa Surfers crew. I like the idea simply because I was recently in Tahiti – why not have a...
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My Kid Shirtcocked Your Honor Student
by Whatsblem the Pro BRC: The happiest place on Earth? We’ve written about children at Burning Man before, and asked our readers to vote in a poll at the end of that article. The debate and discussion...
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Collaborative Coding in [freespace]: Burnerhack
If you’ve ever used Burnermap, you’ll know what a useful tool it is. In theory, anyway – it’s surprisingly difficult to find people at Burning Man even if you know their location, while at the same...
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Google Burners Call For Free Experimentation Zones
The link between Google and Burning Man is long and rich. They famously used the Burning Man logo on the Google home page, and in fact the concept of the Google logo changing evolved out of the Burning...
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Ranting and Raving
Our recent piece stirring the horny nest hot-button issue of kids at the Burn prompted an amusing comment from Burner St Addis of Paul. Leave it to burnersxxx to get to the real issue here — are babes...
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Pioneer Days – Burning Man in 1990
Shout out to Laughing Squid for breaking this story, which we caught over at SFist. Here we have some original Super 8 footage of the Man being burned in 1990. We’ve written about the history of...
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THE POOR MAN’S BURNING MAN 2: The Glamorous Life of a Model
by Whatsblem the Pro Houston, we have a Whatsblem. [Whatsblem the Pro is embedded in the International Arts Megacrew for the building of THE CONTROL TOWER, a sixty-foot “cargo cult” version of an FAA...
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WIRED: Open Source is Like Burning Man
Is there something in the air? It seems that the theme for this Spring is tech moguls dropping Burning Man references. Burning Man, the Maker world, and the tech world are about to converge for a...
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It Began in Afrika
Burning Man is starting to spread around the world, with Regional burns growing in other States of the US and other countries around the globe. We recently profiled the Aussie Burn, there’s a Kiwi...
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From a Distance it looks like PacMan
Burning Man must look trippy to the aliens. I’ve often thought that, anyway. If you’ve ever wondered along those lines, or even if you haven’t, you’ll probably appreciate this bizarre perspective on...
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Dance, My Friends
You may have heard of the curious case of Burner Kim.com, the most wanted man on the Internet (according to WIRED magazine). The flamboyant German hacker and founder of MegaUpload and now Mega got...
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Burn This! Norway Creates World’s Largest Bonfire
Norway is so close to the North Pole that in summer, the sun doesn’t set. Even in parts of the country further South, like the capital Oslo, 22+ hours of sunshine a day are the norm in summer, with...
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Agents of Chaos, Assemble!
by Whatsblem the Pro You are not authorized to read this book The Cacophony Society is a venerable but obscure institution that can lay claim to being the very origins of Burning Man, art cars,...
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Upsie Daisies! The Latest Adventures of Beau Le Phant
Shout out to Camp Upsie Dasium, who’ve produced this wacky Burning Man 2012 art car video for our entertainment. Seems like Beau had a good time. Apparently, Beau is shuffling every day. YMMV…if you’ve...
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Get Your VIP Tickets for Bunring Man Here
No folks, that’s not a spelling mistake. Bunringman.org is a relatively new player on the scene, offering VIP tickets to their favorite event. “if you don’t like the News go out and make some of your...
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