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Here’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...
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Truth 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...
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FoxCarn 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...
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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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[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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Burners Ascending to Prominence in the Art World
Art Basel in Miami is coming up in a couple of weeks (Dec 3-6). Many Burners love to attend this event, and more and more Burner artists are exhibiting their work there. In 2015, there will be 267...
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Life Cube Gonna Burn in Vegas
2014 Life Cube in Vegas. Image: Aluminarium Scott Cohen asked us to share this. It’s official. The Life Cube Project will be coming back to Las Vegas. The metal and glass Life Cube will be coming from...
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Follow the Money [Updates]
If you thought this year’s theme of “Da Vinci’s Workshop” and the corresponding shift of Propaganda Minister Will Chase over to the Maker Movement meant that 2016 was going to be all about 3d printing,...
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Art Budget Shenanigans [Update]
A Burning Man artist has responded to my request for feedback in yesterday’s post Follow the Money, with a most interesting tale. From Anonymous Burner: BMHQ Artists meeting, May 2015 This picture...
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Support Plug-n-Play – it’s not what you think!
Legendary Burners Parts (Plug4) and Bacchus (Disorient, or as it is known this year, D16Orient) have teamed up to bring vinyl and old school beats back to the Inner Playa. Parts at Plug4 has teamed up...
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Building the Revolutionary Community (Again)
“Take a moment to drop in, and imagine the world that you want to co-create.” That’s the Burning Man 2.0 message, sent to me today by Social Alchemist Bear Kittay. He’s just given a talk – combined...
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Best Alarm Clock Ever
SK8 camp are coming back to the Playa for the 6th year, bringing free skateboarding for everyone. Support their Kickstarter, let’s bring more stoke. Look out for them at 7 & Esplanade, Dustfish...
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Burning Man Punked Itself
It seems the upside down, headless Man – first spotted by yours truly on our Facebook page in the wee hours of Monday morning… … was not intentional. But it was news-worthy, for USA Today at least....
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Let’s Do This!
Filed under: Art Tagged: 2016, brainwashing, burn the man, burn the witch, celebration, celtic, crimson rose, deadhead, death and rebirth, druids, effigy, fire magick, julius caesar, mind control,...
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The Greatest Cultural Movement of Our Time
A year ago psychedelic luminary Daniel Pinchbeck published a widely discussed article “Why I Am Not Going To Burning Man This Year”. He bashed the event’s destructive waste and hypocrisy about...
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The Big Picture
Image: This is Lancashire Black Rock City was designed by Rod Garrett, a member of the Beat Generation. His apprentice Andrew Johnstone from American Steel took over Rod’s role when he passed away,...
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The Anti-Burning Man
The New York Times has a story about the Bombay Beach Bienalle at the Salton Sea in California. They just had the first one, seems like it was a hit. Art, opera, and weirdness: sign me up. The Times...
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2018 Theme Announced
In 2013 we had aliens. In 2014 it was camels. In 2015, clowns. 2016 was Medici. In 2017 we had temples. I guess Larry and Stuart were trying to figure out how more people could have a transformational...
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White Dragon Noodle Bar Brings Blade Runner to I, Robot
A guest post from Burner Cedric. Check out their fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday, August 17: https://www.facebook.com/events/237054556942919/ The White Dragon Noodle Bar, led by a group of...
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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...
View ArticleDesert Spirits Get Naked
The Guardian brings us an amazing shot, taken at Burning Man 2013. Usually, photographer Spencer Tunick’s subjects are naked en masse. Last year, for the clothing-optional festival Burning Man, he...
View ArticleAn Architect In Support of An Artist
The Temple of Descendants is no more. Here is the project organizer Ross Asseslstine, talking about the engineering and architecture that goes into the Temple design, less than a month ago. Ironically,...
View ArticleSouk On This!
Burning Man have launched “souk.burningman.com”, written by Larry Harvey. If this is a glimpse of where they are going artistically with their new web site, then I like it. They’ve also started a...
View Article2014 Art Grant Winners Announced
The man burns in less than 90 days. To help us get excited, BMOrg have finally announced the 2014 Honorarium Art Grant winners. The delay this year may be related to the Temple shenanigans. In the...
View ArticleEmbrace Embrace
Embrace is going ahead – and looking for a home after Burning Man. Unlike the Temple design they were initially pitching for, now they are building art that can survive to be enjoyed by others outside...
View ArticleBELIEVE In Reno
Laura Kimpton and Jeff Schomberg’s massive word sculptures are a popular fixture at Burning Man. Now, Reno residents and visitors can enjoy last year’s “BELIEVE”, which has moved from the Playa to the...
View ArticleCatch Up On Some Light Reading
Reno’s KTVN 2 news brings us a story about the Library of Babel, which is taking shape at The Generator in Sparks, NV. It will be 50 feet across and 45 feet tall, with silk screening based on Muslim...
View ArticleTemples, Temples, Everywhere…
Inhabitat is one of my favorite Internet sites. They’ve just featured Burning Man – specifically, the Hayam Sun Temple designed by British architecture student Josh Haywood. This might give David...
View ArticleBig Art That Will Blow Your Mind
Fest300 have published a story on some of this year’s larger art installations. We’ve covered some of these already: Embrace Embrace Temples, Temples, Everywhere Temple Deal Falls Through 2014 Art...
View ArticleSoma Showcases Burner Culture on the Embarcadero
SFist tells us about a new Big Art installation on Pier 14. Soma was made by the Flaming Lotus Girls, and debuted at Burning Man in 2009. Bizarrely, Pier 14 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero is just to...
View ArticlePosties Go Postal!
A Nevada postie travelled back from the future to chastise us for promoting this young up-start: Just reading an article you have here on Nick Farr’s Playa Postal Union. This confuses me! He says it’s...
View ArticleCollected Wisdom of Burners
Paul Duane had an interesting project at Cargo Cult. He asked Burners to distill their wisdom down into 3 key points then photographed them. Here are some of the results. From PaulDuane.Net, hope we...
View ArticleBMOrg Announces ASS Project
And they really need your help. This time, they’re not asking for a donation. Just, if you’re gonna get free schwag at Burning Man, accept it in the form of gifts from Burners only: don’t take any of...
View ArticleDigital Face Painting
Slashgear brings us a story of pushing the technology envelope: Projecting computer graphics onto buildings or rooms to make them digitally come alive isn’t new, but how about if your canvas is a...
View ArticleSt Art Ups Posing as Playa Art [Update]
Burner Anarchist Jim has brought this to our attention: An interesting tidbit that might be worth a blog post… the Honorarium art piece Dreambox, is a front for a startup called Dreamus. They’ve got a...
View ArticleCrank Out Some Dope Beats
“Beats. Phat beats. Dope beats. Dirty beats. Clean beats. Killer beats. Mad beats. Everyone loves beats. Then there’s the drop. Folks just love the drop…I suppose some may love the drop more than the...
View ArticleEmbrace Environmental Sustainability
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/52028165 The burn starts at 6:45. That blue stuff looks gnarly – glue? Interesting that they burned it in the day time. Looking at the stream now, it is whiteout...
View Article2014 Photos
Thanks to all the photographic artists who helped to capture the images of Burning Man 2014 to share with the community. If you have a photo collection you’d like to be listed here, please add it to...
View Article7 Notable Designs
Interior Design has some highlights from 2014. Words from http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/detail/36380-7-design-highlights-at-burning-man-2014 Burning Man is a giant canvas…It’s easy to see...
View ArticleImpossible Light
A documentary about the Bay Lights is premiering later this month in the NYC area. Created by Burning Man Director – and Disorient founder – Leo Villareal, the $8 million Bay Lights Project is the...
View ArticleJunk ‘n Funk In The Trunk
Ace Junkyard, “an unlikely epicenter of San Francisco’s industrial, mechanical, kinetic, maker and artist community” which has played a big, behind-the-scenes role in supporting Burner art projects, is...
View ArticleArt Versus Money
At the end of last month, BMOrg breathlessly announced all kinds of exciting news. They said: (shhhh, just between you and us …) we’re working on a really really BIG project that will serve to tell the...
View ArticleA New Online Art Grant System Is Live
A new online system for Art Grants has quietly gone live. It’s buried deep in the blackrockarts site. The deadline is December 1 and you have to pay a fee to submit your Letter of Intent. It’s a little...
View Article2014 Early Access Photos
Hi all! I’m Dave LeClair but you can call me by my playa name, Rabbitt! I’ve been burning for five years and I take thousands of photos when I go, mostly while perched atop my bicycle. Hopefully I can...
View ArticleThe Church Trap
This is a documentary produced, directed, shot and edited by John Senften @ Experience Media about Church Trap, one of the more clever art installations I’ve seen on the Playa. Church Trap is a...
View ArticleToday’s Problems Through Yesterday’s Eyes
Re-blogged from boredpanda.com: Satirical Illustrations Of Today’s Problems Drawn In The Style Of The 50s John Holcroft is a well-known British illustrator who has worked for BBC, Reader’s Digest, The...
View ArticleBurning Man Influencing The World [Update]
We are everywhere! Here we have the latest fashion from the 2015 Grammy Awards. Clearly Burner-inspired… Joy Villa, a model/actress and recording artist, took her cue from Burning Man’s trash fence....
View ArticleTED Talk – Why Art Thrives at Burning Man
Many Burners would tell you that hallucinogenic drugs play a big part in why art “thrives” in Black Rock City. Others might point to Silicon Valley having too much money. Decide for yourself…
View ArticlePlaya Art Before Burning Man
Thank to Burner Dispatch for bringing this to my attention. California Sunday has some “never seen before” photos by Richard Misrach – “one of the most influential photographers of his generation” – of...
View ArticleBurning Shadows 2019
My art has inspired more art! As an artist, that’s a great feeling. Clearsight Productions has done a fantastic job in telling the Burning Man story in countercultural context with this excellent new...
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