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25 Ways to Attend Burning Man Without Attending Burning Man
by Whatsblem the Pro DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS So, Burning Man is on your bucket list, or you’ve already been at least once, but you’re having a hard time getting it together to get that sweet ass...
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From Central Market to the White House: Taking Burner Values To The Top...
When Burning Man moved into the Central Market district, they made a lot of noise about how they were going to use the 10 Principles to transform the area. I’m still looking forward to the day I can...
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Civic Responsibility Hacks the White House
Burner Mike Zuckerman started the Temporary Autonomous Zone known as [freespace] in June this year, based on Burning Man’s Principles of Radical Inclusion, Gifting, Decommodification, Radical...
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None Dare Call Her Bettie: Previewing the Playa at the Nevada Museum of Art
by Whatsblem the Pro Bettie June (NOT BETTIE) — Photo: wdydwyd.ning.com/Tony Deifell The Black Rock Arts Foundation has announced that Beth “Bettie June” Scarborough, Burning Man’s Associate Director...
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The Otis Family: A Lesson in Radical Inclusion
by Whatsblem the Pro Johnny and Shuggie Otis in the KFOX studios c. 1956 As most people know if they’ve even heard of Burning Man, ‘radical inclusion‘ is a core value of burners across the cultural...
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Six Minutes of Pure Horror
by Whatsblem the Pro You goddamn kids, dancing on my lawn in your underpants! Why, in my day. . . We didn’t always have the Internet, you know, and the world was a lot less openly, deliciously...
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The Only Trace You Leave is Love
by Whatsblem the Pro Photo: Earth Guardians Blog / earthguardians.net There are a lot of concerns involved with the constant upward growth of the yearly Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of...
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Plant Trees for the Temple
I love trees. And so does everyone else in my family – see attached picture of brother. At Burning Man I wore a tank top that said “hustle trees” (randomly). So I was very pleased to hear that The...
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Throw Water at Sparkle Pony
by Whatsblem the Pro You’ll never get it up the steps! Tribes That May Be is a text adventure project by Jonathan ‘Gadget’ Freedman and Adrienne ‘Ashtar’ Haik that takes players to a virtual version...
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Post-Playa Depression: How to Come Down From Burning Man
by Whatsblem the Pro Do you feel lucky, burner? Well, do you? Photo: Rory Wales Coming back from Burning Man was hard for me this year. Home seemed drab and too quiet; it was depressing and I missed...
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Dance the Night Away? Or Make the World a Better Place?
Some Burnier-than-thous accuse us of having a negative attitude here at Burners.Me. Not true! We want to make the world a better place, and we want to make Burning Man a better place too. Sometimes, a...
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Late-Breaking Update: SF Decom 2013
$teven Ra$pa — PHOTO: Chronicle / Mike Kepka The Org’s own Steven Raspa has just released detailed information about this year’s Decompression in San Francisco! Burning Man Presents, for the benefit of...
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The Legend of Giant the Jack-Killer
by Whatsblem the Pro Chicken John Rinaldi — PHOTO: Chris Stewart People talk a lot about translating their Burning Man experiences to their lives outside Black Rock City, but given the breathtaking...
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Burning the Cyber Man
Remember Second Life? The virtual reality “game without a purpose” multiverse swept through the tech world like the latest Pokemon craze, about 10 years ago. The makers, Linden Lab, minted their own...
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Burning Man, 1962: Jean Tinguely Blazes the Trail
by Whatsblem the Pro Jean Tinguely at the control panel, 1962 — PHOTO: LIFE Magazine On a dry lake bed in the trackless desolation of the Nevada desert, an industrial arts crew assembles a collection...
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. . .Are Condemned to Repeat It
by Whatsblem the Pro A nice civilized chat — IMAGE: Mount & Blade Ah, the sugary cloy of kool-aid. We tend to get a lot of comments when we criticize the corporation that runs Burning Man, and our...
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Adult Supervision: BRAF Throws a Hoe-Down
by Whatsblem the Pro The internal workings of the Black Rock Arts Foundation are a little bit of a mystery to us here at Burners.me, and given that the BRAF’s Board of Directors includes most of the...
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Happy Halloween: Burning Man is America’s Largest Pagan Ritual
Which idol are you worshipping, kiddies? Whose rituals are you really performing on All Hallow’s Eve? Now The End Begins is a web site dedicated to welcoming in the End of Days. First we had Y2K, then...
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Burning Man: Love It or Leave It?
by Whatsblem the Pro “If you don’t like the way it’s run, go start your own event!” When people start talking about the negative aspects of Burning Man – whether they offer solutions or not – it’s a...
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Return of the Yak
I might not be at Burning Man next year. Yes yes, I know, the gnashing of teeth, the weeping of women, the wailing of virgins, et al. I’m sworn to secrecy on the details (for reasons nothing to do with...
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