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And the best Best Art of Burning Man 2012 was…

We copped some flak for expressing our opinion that Burn Wall Street was the worst piece of art on the Playa this year. It’s a case where “radical self-expression” butts up against “radical inclusion”...

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Evolution Shift – a Futurist and Art Appreciator’s view of Burning Man

I enjoyed this recent post from David Houle, a Futurist with an Art Degree, who was blown away by what he saw at his first Burn. Who? I feel like, with his accomplished career, I should’ve heard of him...

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The Hand of Man Smashes Down Again

Good news! One of my all time favorite Burning Man art pieces, the Hand of Man, is alive and well and crushing cop cars for CNet. In Taos, New Mexico. Last weekend in Taos, N.M., I watched a young girl...

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Make Money While You Paint: Crowdsourcing for Artists

The Burning Man Project is throwing a free workshop for artists, to teach them about Crowdsourcing and Fundraising. It’s good to see them doing more to facilitate the underground economy of Burning Man...

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Burning Man Makes Further Inroads on Mainstream Consciousness

Bob Wiseman’s New Album Includes a Call for Change, Burner-Style by Whatsblem the Pro Bob Wiseman is a Canadian musician and filmmaker who is sometimes referred to as “the Canadian Tom Waits.” Don’t...

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Portal Power

Ignite.me has an interview with Harlan Emil Gruber, the artist behind the Portal spaces at Burning Man and other festivals. Harlan Emil Gruber truly is the futuristic version of a Renaissance man. The...

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Barbarians at the Back Gate: Bombing the Bowl at Burning Man

 by Whatsblem the Pro One of the oft-heard questions from people who are thinking about attending Burning Man for the first time is “where do you go to the bathroom out there?” It’s a good question....

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The Rise of the Creative Class: NadaDada Motel Does it Again

by Whatsblem the Pro Art by Killbuck There are a lot of ways to burn, and when you start talking about what makes someone a burner or not a burner, chances are good that you’re about to say something...

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Freedom’s Just Another Word for Being Really Hard to Find

by Whatsblem the Pro No less a light than R. Buckminster Fuller once said that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing...

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Temple Builders Revealed!

by Whatsblem the Pro The Temple of Whollyness – Rendering by Gregg Fleishman With David Best out of the picture for 2013, there’s been a lot of anticipation over who will build the Temple this year....

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Burning Man Fashion 2013: Manish Arora’s Indian Burn

by Whatsblem the Pro Photo: Ramesh Sharma A major five-day fashion show in India last week featured a much-ballyhooed grand finale: designer Manish Arora’s latest line, inspired by his visit to Burning...

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London comes to Burning Man

London. Black Rock. City. We brought you news of this way back in January, when Whatsblem the Pro conducted an in-depth interview with London BRC’s Alan McCann. Now the Daily Mail in the UK has picked...

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Comings and Goings of Burner Art

Out with the old, in with the new. The Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, a much loved addition to the Embarcadero waterfront over the last few years, has been taken down. On to pastures unknown. The Space...

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Temple Burns: Not Just for Burning Man any more

At Burners.Me, we’re very supportive of Burner culture diffusing out into the wider world. We try to live Burning Man every day, not just pretend to be someone else for one week a year. Burning Man...

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24 C.O.R.E. Projects Approved for Cargo Cult [update]

Burning Man has announced this year’s CORE sample: 24 projects, 16 from the US and 8 from other countries including Lithuania and the Netherlands. According to Visual News: The “Circle of Regional...

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Forgotten City Buried in Two Inches of Gravel

by Whatsblem the Pro Image: John Marsh and Kelly Curtis There’s just a hint of mayhem in the story behind what shouldn’t be a terribly noteworthy change of plans for the fourth annual Forgotten City...

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Can Gods Die?

by Whatsblem the Pro Photo: Sarah Taylor El Pulpo Mecanico, the steampunk art car in the form of an enormous cephalopod that first wowed us all at Burning Man 2011, is reportedly headed for the scrap...

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Home-made Glowsticks from Mountain Dew

Some “Burner than thou” types – who’ve probably never been to a rave in their life – frown with disdain upon glowsticks. “It’s MOOPs!”, they cry. So here’s a cunning loophole to beat the system:...

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RUN, IT IS RISEN! A Burning Man Easter Story

by Whatsblem the Pro On Good Friday, we reported that art car favorite El Pulpo Mecanico would be scrapped. Three days later on Easter Sunday, El Pulpo artist/designer Duane Flatmo commented on that...

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Airport Design Competition Winner Announced

by Whatsblem the Pro Image: EcoLogic Design Lab The winning entry in the 2013 Burning Man Airport Terminal and Pilot’s Lounge Design Competition has been announced; the design chosen by a panel of...

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