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Burning Man: The Musical
Some New York veteran Burners are raising funds on Kickstarter to create Burning Man: The Musical. Inspired by Book of Mormon, it will feature songs like “My Sparkle Pony” and “The Only Black Man In...
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Who’s The Best Burning Man Talker?
In 2011, BMOrg announced their change to a non-profit on a mission to save the world. Since then, we sure have seen a lot of panel discussions and jetsetting from Larry & Co. I guess what they’re...
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Google Employee Creating Burning Man Musical
A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of Burning Man: The Musical – a new Kickstarter project. It seems the idea is ramping up fast, with a big profile from the Reno Gazette-Journal. The man behind...
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BMOrg Tips Hat to Caravancicle Camp Director
Voices of Burning Man has a story from Communications Director Megan Miller, the latest BMOrg employee jetting around the world to attend a festival: Envision, in Uvite, Costa Rica. Her report is very...
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Burning Man Spin-Off Makes Solid Debut
Further Future, a festival in the Nevada desert put on by the crew behind the Robot Heart art car, happened last weekend about 40 minutes outside of Las Vegas. It takes a lot of time, effort, money,...
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Don’t Hate the Plug-n-Player, Hate the Game
A guest post from our reader Kestrel about last weekend’s Further Future Festival. ROBOT HEART’S SPIN-OFF DUST-UP: A Report From the Further Future -aka- “Don’t hate the plug n’ player…hate the...
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Radical 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,...
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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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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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Party Like It’s Star Wars [Update]
Image: Sharara, via Facebook Star Wars. Desert camping. Talks on topics aligned with Leave No Trace and Self Reliance. A nod to the Davos World Economic Forum. Sharara, Arabic for “spark”, has it all…...
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Welcome to Burner Burns
Image: Rescendent CC BY_SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons It’s getting harder and harder for everyone to make it out to the annual Black Rock City burn. Most camps got a reduced allocation in this year’s...
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Cities of the Future Could Look Like Burning Man – if BMOrg let them
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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Million Dollar Tickets – Coming Soon
BMOrg’s embrace of all things Medici may have inspired some other festivals to follow suit. Re-blogged from Music Vice Icleland’s Secret Solstice has made a $1 million dollar ticket package...
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Back to the Further Future
Image: Peter Ruprecht Kestrel returns with a year 2 review of Robot Heart’s tech and music conference. Last year I took a chance on Robot Heart’s festival debut. Now, one year later, that heart remains...
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“Dear White People, Standing Rock Is Not Burning Man”
It seems that the idea of “using The Ten Principles of Burning Man to make the world a better place” is not yet embraced by everyone else in the world. There has been a barrage of press this week...
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“Davos Is Burning Man With Clothes”– Sergey Brin
Google Co-Founder and Billionaire Burner Sergey Brin, rumored to be one of the Anonymous donors backing Burning Man’s year round philosophy center/nude bathing retreat Flysalen, has chosen the World...
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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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Can Millenial Progressive Elites Spark Utopian Socialist Change?
How does Burning Man change the world? How does this centrally managed counter-culture exist in a world where politics shouldn’t be spoken of, in a 30 minute speech about politics? The comments are...
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EXCLUSIVE: ShelterCoin Founder Christian Weber
We have been a fan of the “inspired by Burning Man” SHIFTPODs since day one, and we have covered them before: SHIFTPODs: The New Generation of Burnitecture Where Did The SHIFTPOD Come From? SHELTERCOIN...
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Burning Man Sound Camp “CYMATICA” Breaks Record for Longest Continuous...
MIAMI, JANUARY 31 – Cymatica Incorporated, a Florida non profit corporation and a Burning Man sound camp, shattered the record this past Monday morning for the longest running continuous set of DJs...
View ArticleIsraeli Burning Man Sold Out
“Midburn” is a play on the Hebrew word for desert. It’s the first Burning Man regional in the Middle East. The rave takes place in the trance-central Negev from June 3-7 2014, and is being put on by a...
View ArticleCanada Draws Battle Lines for Burner Culture [Updates]
Is there anyone out there who thinks Burning Man doesn’t care about lawsuits any more, because it is a charity and cares more about spreading Burner culture than it does about profit? If so, sadly, you...
View ArticleSupport Mid Burn Art [Updates]
Israel’s Midburn needs help getting art out to the desert. I guess the Israelis couldn’t figure out how to make enough money from a sold out event, to actually get the art to it! Tickets cost 490...
View ArticleThe Hottest and the Weirdest: LIB 2014
Jemayel Khawaja brings us, via VICE,a great review of LIB 2014. He thinks the hottest people from Burning Man were there – wow. This year it was moved halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles,...
View ArticleMidburn: Beyond Sold Out
Last weekend, Israeli Burners threw a party billed as “the first Burning Man Regional Event in the Middle East”. Prior to the event, it seemed to be sold out at 2000 tickets, but there wasn’t enough...
View Article31 Reasons to Check Out Africa’s Burning Man
We finally got BMOrg’s official Afrika Burn coverage yesterday – the event took place in April. Although it’s the second largest Burner event in the world, it’s evidently not as big of a priority to...
View ArticleOregon Town Looks To Burning Man For Inspiration
Earlier this year we reported on some anti-Burner sentiment developing in Northern Nevada (The Natives Are Restless). Reno was quick to respond, with a front-page love letter to Burning Man the next...
View ArticleDancetronauts Rock Electric Daisy Carnival
Thatdrop brings us a report on Burner favorites Dancetronauts appearance at last weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas. And it sounds like they got an A+ : The Dancetronauts brought the...
View ArticleGuns, Booze, and Bitcoin
The Washington Post, recently acquired by Billionaire Burner Jeff Bezos, brings us a story by Ben Terris about Porcupine Festival, or “Porcfest”, dubbed “The Libertarian Burning Man”. If you think all...
View Article“Mass Bliss”: Brooklyn Gets Inspired by Burning Man
DNAInfo New York has a story about two yoga teachers who are offering a preview of their Burning Man-inspired festival of mindfulness. The Mass Bliss mini-festivals will be set up next weekend,...
View ArticleLet’s Take This Show On The Road
The Man Burns is a play set at Burning Man, to be performed outside Burning Man. The playwright is David Vernon, who grew up in a showbiz family: his dad was the voice of Frosty the Snowman. It’s quite...
View ArticleIntel Inside SiMan
Just came across this story. It’s from September 2011, so after Burning Man announced their non-profit vision, but just before I started this blog. Exhibitor Online has a piece on how Burning Man was...
View ArticleLiving With Your Burner Room-mate
Joe Gelman at the Bold Italic has written “How To Survive Living With Your Burner Room-mate”, a wonderful story about what it’s like to be living with a Burner – when you’re not one. Love the picture!...
View ArticleA Permanent Temple in Paradise
Debra Klein has written a great feature at the Daily Beast about David Best’s new Temple at the Paradise Ridge Winery in Sonoma- a permanent structure made of steel, now installed between “TRUTH” and...
View ArticlePlay Some More
A few weeks back we told you about The Man Burns, a new play set at Burning Man. The author, David Vernon, has given us an update on his vision: At first it was just a play—a serious play with …...
View ArticleA Burn for Everyone Else
With all the talk of the “rich people invasion” and “celebrity invasion” and “class war”…it’s nice to see there are still alternatives for Burners who believe it’s what we all contribute that makes a...
View ArticleWhat Dreams May Come – Part I
When superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold announced the 2014 lineup at White Ocean, I was over the moon – even though I’m not at Burning Man this year. We declared it “victory for ravers”. It seems...
View ArticleSan Francisco Breathes Sigh of Relief: NYT
The New York Times feels its readers need to be informed about how San Francisco is for a week without Burners. Mellower and more peaceful, it seems. SAN FRANCISCO — As the annual Burning Man festival...
View ArticleFresh Bakin Update: the Reno After Party Situation
Fresh Bakin has an update on the After Parties in Reno. Check out Mark Farina at the GSR, and Brass Tax 4pm Monday by the pool Re-blogged from Freshbakin.com: 31 AUG 2014 WELCOME BACK BURNERS: THE...
View ArticleA Twisted Victorian Nod To Burning Man
BlackBook has a great story about veteran Burners the Lucent Dossier Experience. re-blogged from Blackbook: I think I stumbled onto something big. Except I’m two years late. And it’s so esoteric...
View ArticleBurning Man Spawns New Age Festivals
The New York Times has a story by Julia Allison on The Progeny of Burning Man. There are other ways to get a transformational experience than going to Black Rock City, and not every EDM festival is...
View ArticleEmbattled Burners Ask Community for Support
[Update 10/1/14]: please help with the modest amount they are raising to mount a defense. Napalm Dragon, who is being sued by BMOrg who never registered their trademark in Canada, has asked for help on...
View ArticleThe Fallen Cosmos
A new crowd-funded arts experiment is being launched in San Francisco early next year. It’s been created by Burners, and has nothing to do with BMOrg. The infamous character Chicken John is the...
View ArticleWharton Business School Uses Burning Man as Case Study
Not sure if it’s worth going into six figures of student loan debt, if this is the kind of education you’re going to get. They think “The Man” is a camp! How can a non-profit festival based on Gifting...
View ArticleLucent Dossier New Track – free Download
Lucent Dossier Experience are about to release their first album. You can download their track Kundalini here. YourEdm says: Indie festival lovers and future bass hippies from all walks of life know...
View ArticleWhat Comes Next?
Burning Man is dead, proclaims the San Francisco Chronicle. Grover Norquist and some hackers killed it. So, what comes next? Apparently, low tech partying with carrier pigeons in Bakersfield… Burning...
View ArticleDubai Aims To Take Ibiza’s Party Island Crown
One way to look at Ibiza is a bunch of really big clubs. So all you need to do to reproduce it is build some even bigger clubs…right? This appears to be the viewpoint of the rulers of the oil-rich …...
View ArticleStar Wars In The Desert [Update]
A Star Wars themed rave in the desert? Sounds like a good idea to me. Fest300 brings us the exciting news: YES! A STAR-WARS INSPIRED EDM FEST IN TUNISIA At last...a festival with lightsabers and lasers...
View ArticleFloating Man – Breakaway Civilization in the Zone of Separation
Thanks for Burner Tiki Tiki for bringing this to my attention. Liberland sounds amazing, would love to visit one day. Motto: “to live and let live” Anthem: “Free and Fair” March: “Victory March to...
View ArticleBack Once Again With The Renegade Master
Best of luck to everyone attending the official Burning Man Commodification Man event this year. Look out for monkeypox! Hopefully everyone in the Orgy Dome is max-boosted and fully butt-masked at all...
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