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How the Tupac hologram at Coachella worked
There have been rumors for a long time that Tupac survived his post-fight shooting on the Las Vegas strip, just like his passenger Suge Knight did. In fact Suge himself is pretty much confirming these...
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Lightning in a Bottle: Lucent Temple of Consciousness will have “best lineup...
Lightning in a Bottle is coming up on us soon, it runs from May 24-28 in Silverado, near Irvine in Southern California. It’s one of the best festivals in the world, with a combination of fantastic...
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Ghost Trancing on Sacred Lands
This weekend will see a lot of Burners trekking out to the Black Rock Desert, to celebrate the 2012 Super Moon eclipse at Symbiosis Gathering. The festival takes place at Pyramid Lake, on ancient...
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A floating Burning Man on the Sacramento Delta
Ephemerisle is a Burning Man inspired event on the Sacramento River, this year from June 6-10. A number of floating platforms are constructed, with art attached. Need to cool off, or take a leak? Just...
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The Shift from Burning Everything, to Building Everything: Building Man
It seems that the decadent destruction and wanton waste of the UChronia art piece was very inspirational to one Burner – it drove him to tears, and drove him from the Playa. Burner Scotty Soltronic was...
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LIB 2012 Report: Bigger and Better than Ever
Just recovering from an epic weekend in Southern California. The DoLab once again proved that they are King of All Festivals, with an excellent, extremely well organized event – the word on the grass...
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Free Form Festival, New Jersey June 14-18
We will be cruising over to the East Coast to see how they Burn over there. The Freeform Festival in Woodstown, New Jersey runs for 4 days. It sounds like Burning Man, with trash cans. It’s got...
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Burner Principles vs. the Native American 10 Commandments
We posted recently on the local Paiute tribe’s views about Burning Man and Symbiosis Gathering. We have also discussed some Burners’ cult-like worship of the 10 Principles that would make Moses look...
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Free Form: a new dawn rises
We’re here at the inaugural Free Form Festival, in Woodstown, New Jersey. It’s in Salem County, not to be confused with Salem Massachusetts of witch-burning fame. Closer to Philadelphia than New York,...
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Free Form Wrap-up
Free Form was a lot of fun, and felt a bit like the earlier days of Burning Man (I first went in 1998). There were some great art cars, especially the Lady Bugs from Overkill and Davina the Dragon....
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Shhhhh…don’t mention Juplaya!
The Reno Gazette Journal has published a story on 4th of Juplaya. Apparently the BLM were out there, searching for the organizers of the event. Errr, good luck with that buddy. The Playa is massive....
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Lightning in a Bottle 2012 – video recap
This video from Adam Taylor (AirFox) is a great introduction to LIB if you’ve never been, or great nostalgia if you have. Burning Man can sneer all they want, but this is an excellent and extremely...
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Black Rock City at Night, vs The Five Most Beautiful Photographs of Earth...
Black Rock City sure is pretty. Although this looks like a night image, it is actually thermal satellite imaging. Burning Man is full of lights, but not all of them are on all the time at every camp....
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Prayerformances: Rave Culture as the new manifestation of Ecstatic Trance...
Thanks to Burner Alan for posting a link to this talk on our Facebook page (please support this blog and Like us). It took me a while to get past the presenter’s bizarre, Sesame Street-style delivery....
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Getting Naked at Burning Man Too Hard? Try Summer Blaze
Burner Adel has asked us to promote Summer Blaze: The Orphans, an alternative to Burning Man being held at the “clothing optional” Lupin Lodge at Los Gatos. They can accomodate up to 1200 people, all...
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Burning Man Project to Fuel Community+Creativity in West Oakland
PRWeb reports that the Burning Man Project has announced something they are doing to show how Burning Man culture can transform a community. It highlights a difference between Burner thinking, and...
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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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PermaBurn: A Project Worth Saving
[We introduced you to PermaBurn earlier this year, a full-time alternative to Burning Man that is based more on principles of sustainability, like the Building Man event in Utah. Now we're pleased to...
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Digital Apex: a Dancetronaut Reaches Higher
[by Whatsblem the Pro] Digital Apex is a new Burning Man theme camp for 2013, based in Santa Cruz, California. They are currently planning to construct a massive replica of the Coliseum in Rome that...
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Burning Man for World Leaders
We know that the Burning Man founders have been spending time in the corridors of power, and the party’s iconography is being incorporated in political advertising campaigns backed by the Koch...
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