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Vegas Halloween Parade Cancelled by Burning Man Attache
For the last 5 years, tens of thousands of residents of Las Vegas have enjoyed the annual Halloween Parade. This has featured Burner art cars like Dancetronauts Strip Ship, and has been linked to a...
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Vogue Profiles Robot Heart
Hey, they don’t publish their DJ lineups. So this is fine. re-blogged from Vogue.com: Burners Candice Swanepoel and Rosie Huntington-Whitely. Image: @rosiehw Robot Heart, the Ultra-Exclusive East...
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The Truth About Da Vinci [Update]
Given how precious some members of BMOrg are about people sharing on social media, the choice of “Da Vinci’s Workshop” as next year’s theme is somewhat ironic. Why? Because Leonardo Da Vinci was...
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Re-Writing History for the Banksters
Art historian, PhD student Stephen Mack, has written an excellent de-construction of the Burning Man 2016 art theme at The Daily Dot. The Medicis had a unicorn horn in their art collection. Who knew!...
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Shaft, Unicorns, and Morning Gloryville
Shaft the Unicorn. Image: Vice We keep hearing from BMOrg’s spokespeople how the dusty desert rave is making the world a better place and transforming lives around the planet. It’s good to see some...
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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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Have a Transformational Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, Burners. Here’s a guest post from AleXander Hirka to amuse you Chanting “You will be transformed!” from his perch on the right arm of The Man Float, its founder and marketing...
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Doofnado [Update]
This past weekend Australia hosted the country’s oldest and best bush doof (outdoor dance party): Earthcore. Despite being nearly 10,000 miles away from the Playa, revellers at “Australia’s answer to...
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2015 Golden Rebar Awards: Pods Pervade the Playa
This year, pods dominate the Golden Rebar Awards – which may need their name changed to Golden Screw, after everyone’s favorite Playa McGyver FIGJAM (Fuck I’m Good, Just Ask Me) won the Structural...
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Analysis: 2014 Burning Man Project Financials [Updates]
Image: Burning Man Project BMOrg have finally released the financial information for the Burning Man Project for 2014, beating our estimate that we’d have to wait until 2016 by a whole 2 weeks. They...
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BURNILEAKS: Asking for Gifting, 2015 Edition
Last Christmas, in a story All We Want for Chri$tma$ is Your Money, we covered BMOrg’s poor timing in putting their hand out asking Burners to cough up more to fund their global gabfest. It’s a busy...
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What is Right With Burning Man? Part 1: A Theory in Frequency, Vibration and...
A guest post by Burner Ayahuasca If you had an opportunity to walk through a portal to a higher dimensional reality would you take it? Would you be open to experiencing a place of vibrant love,...
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What Is Right With Burning Man? Part 2: A Shaman’s Perspective
Part II of a guest post by Ayahuasca. Read Part 1 here. Happy New Year, Burners! The flame that Burns the man is lit in a magickal cauldron named El Diabla. Image: Dust to Ashes/Flickr This lens,...
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Burning Man 2015: By The Numbers Part 1
SR-71 Blackbird using Afterburner. Image: Wikimedia Commons BMOrg have just released the Afterburn Report for 2015. Some information that used to be provided, is now hidden. Here are some of the key...
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Burning Man 2015 By The Numbers Part 2 – Census Highlights
Along with the 2015 Afterburn report, BMOrg released the results of their 2015 Census. I’ve had a chance now to go through this in a bit more detail. Some highlights: There are a lot of dudes (60%)...
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Keeping it Weird
Australians. Can’t live with ’em, can’t send ’em any further away. One enterprising young bloke from “the ass end of the world” has used his time in America and his trip to Burning Man to achieve...
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Cities of the Future Could Look Like Burning Man – if BMOrg let them [Update]
Gizmodo yesterday had a fascinating story about the Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning contest to design a new layout for Black Rock City. Burning Man is an experiment, right? So why should...
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Sheriff Takes Family on Raven Trip to Burning Man
Who said Burning Man is not a rave? The Sheriff of Washoe County took his wife and kid on a joyride official police business trip to Burning Man in the company chopper. The name of the military grade,...
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BMOrg vs BLM: You Took Too Much
Sally Ho from the Associated Press reports that the Burning Man Project are disputing their $2.8 million bill from the Bureau of Land Management. From the Washington Post: Burning Man organizers are...
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How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man Last Year
A guest post from Kevin O’Neill. How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man By Kevin O’Neill I got kicked out of Burning Man last year. To this day, I can’t quite tell you what offense I committed heinous...
View Article2015 Which Famous Assholes Are Going To Burning Man?
Last year Joe Kokura over at BrokeAssStuart published an amusing list of potential celebrity Burners. Well, he’s updated it with a 2015 version: WHICH FAMOUS A**HOLES ARE GOING TO BURNING MAN THIS...
View ArticleEasy 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticlePhotographer Gifts Playa Portraits
Wear your best pinks. New York based graphic artist Peter Ruprecht and some multi-award winning Toronto video producers are gifting his art on the Playa. Join the Facebook event if you’re interested in...
View ArticlePinchbeck: “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...
View ArticleNatasha 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...
View ArticleRIP Spoono [Update]
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...
View ArticleBurning 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...
View Article2015 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...
View ArticleShooting 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleTraffic 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...
View ArticleStewart 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...
View ArticlePeople Freaking Out Over FBI Surveillance of Burning Man
Earlier in the year, VICE news published a story When the DEA Went to Burning Man, Shit Got Redacted about the DEA’s activities at Burning Man, based on a heavily redacted FOIA response. When we...
View Article2015 Celebrity Sightings
Some Burners will go “who cares”…but if you type “Burning Man” into Google and set time to “past 24 hours” under Search Tools, you will see that this is the main story being discussed on the Internet...
View Article2015 Crime Scorecard: Arrests Increased 600% [Update]
New Sheriff Jerry Allen was reportedly going to crack down on crime at Burning Man this year. When the story hit the media, he quickly back-pedalled, saying “I have no intention of being heavy-handed”...
View ArticleBurning Man Critics Miss The Point
A guest post from Daniel Souweine. What do you think, Burners? It’s been a week since Labor Day, so if you live in the Bay Area, that means your Burner friends are still giving extra long hugs, there...
View ArticleSuing For Your Supper [Update]
Thanks very much to Burner ShaggyDog for this guest post about some of the legal issues surrounding the recent Quiznos parody. The BMOrg has put out quite a bit of bluster regarding a certain ad for a...
View ArticleThe Man Behind The Music
Spin magazine has an interview with Opulent Temple founder Syd Gris. Some highlights: The organizers behind Burning Man deny any affiliations of being a “music festival,” but, for all intents and...
View ArticleEl Sherpo: Latina Labor Abuses At Plug-n-Plays
(NB: the Burner pictured is a full participant, not a sherpa in any way) A guest post by Buena Chica. This first appeared in the last edition of this year’s Black Rock Beacon. Everyone has their...
View ArticleRadical Self Expression, Meet “No DickHeads”
Baron de Merxhausen just posted this on the Burning SEED Australia Facebook group. It’s interesting to see the Regionals struggling to get to grips with the Tin Principles That Are Just Guidelines, and...
View ArticleWhere Did The SHIFTPOD Come From?
A guest post from Christian, leader of SHIFT Camp, and inventor of the SHIFT Pod. There were three hundred of these on the Playa this year, and so far reports back from Burners have been overwhelmingly...
View Article2015 (Almost) Final MOOP Map Released [Update]
This year, the BLM approved Burning Man’s “Leave No Trace” status a full week before the MOOP inspection could be completed. This seems a little strange – as does “we passed with a visibly wide margin”...
View ArticleSwingers With $54,000, Welcome to Billionaire’s Row
Thanks to Anonymous Burner for tipping us off to this. This seems like a new record for hotel room prices at a Commodification Camp, taking JT’s crown from last year. Since this is a swinger’s club,...
View ArticleBurner Steals Mansion
Is this an example of Burning Man values spreading around the world – the wrong way? From the SF Chronicle The vagabond artist and alleged thief at the center of one of San Francisco’s strangest real...
View ArticleHarm Reduction: Handy Guide
Tripsit.Me has put together this guide to drug combinations. Red means “not a good idea to mix them”. Note we do not endorse any illegal narcotics and this is not medical advice....
View Article2015 Stop-Motion Animation [Update]
Thanks to Peter Ruprecht of Ruprecht Studios for putting together another amazing stop-motion animation. Music by The Scumfrog. Peter created this from more than 22,000 still photographs that he took...
View ArticleBurner Love: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
A guest post from Joycebird. You can check out some of her other writing at The Art of Transgression Burner Love: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb by Joycebird Burning Man is...
View ArticleOSINTWars: American Intelligence Media vs Insurge Intelligence
I have spoken many times about the ground-breaking work of Dr Nafeez Ahmed, who in 2015 released this 2-part story about the Deep State involvement in the evolution of the Web and search engines: Part...
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