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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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Rockstar Librarian 2018 – A Great Way To Help With Communal Effort,...
If it was up to BMorg, Burning Man would have no music and would be 100% transformational blowjob workshops. Fortunately we have about 1000 stages, 10,000+ DJs, and RockStar Librarian to help us ignore...
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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 ArticleThe Natives Are Restless
“Proposed arts and fire event stirs controversy”, reads the front page headline in the Lovelock Review-Miner. This story served to awaken and aflame locals, before a city council meeting to consider...
View ArticleCool Hunting Interviews Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal is one of the founders of the Disorient major theme camp. He is also the first Burning Man artist to have an exhibition of their works at a major museum – in 2010, at the San Jose Museum...
View ArticleTemple Debacle Highlights Hypocrisy
So far, 2014 doesn’t seem like it’s been a great year for BMOrg. They started the year pretty promisingly, with the announcement that after 2013’s heavy-handed police presence, they’d reached a...
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...
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