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Machine Gun Burning Man
Salon has a story on the “Gun Culture’s Burning Man“, the Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot near Louisville, KY. The Knob Creek Shoot is best understood as American gun culture’s Burning Man. Like the annual...
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Burning Man at Sea [Update]
…so says the New York Times, speculating on Google’s massive floating barges made out of shipping containers. Google are famous for being Burning Man fans, and founder Larry Page said earlier this year...
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Bonding Through Body Odor
Magnetic has published an entertaining tongue-in-cheek guide, “EDM Culture: Ten Traditions That Bring Burners Together“. It’s amusing and insightful: 1. SUNRISES AND SUNSETS Burners don’t believe it,...
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Fire Jam: Aloha from Oahu
I’m in Honolulu, where I just went to a Burner event called Fire Jam at Kakaako Beach Park Amphitheater. Some great fire spinning and smooth beats, being sampled live. I met one of the Regional...
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Krampus: The Grinch That Saved Christmas
by Whatsblem the Pro St. Nicholas and the L.A. Krampus Troupe – IMAGE: Phil Glau/Al Ridenour We’ve told you about the Cacophony Society; we’ve told you about their role in creating Burning Man, flash...
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Digging Ra Paulette
by Whatsblem the Pro You think YOU’RE an underground artist? — PHOTO: Ra Paulette If you’ve spent much time at all sitting around camp fires and burn barrels chewing the fat with people who go to...
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Burning Man: Back to the Future
by Whatsblem the Pro Or you can just sit there forever in your Rules-Royce, sucker Whether the topic is children on the playa, cops on the playa, feathers on the playa, or just rules in general on the...
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Hack for Good for Christmas
Reallocate.org is a charity founded by Burners and staffed by Burners, but you don’t have to be into Burning Man to participate. Anyone who has skills that they would like to use to help charities...
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$40 Well Spent
This video made my day today, much more than waking up early like a kid on Christmas Day waiting for Santa to have come…hoping that a theme was finally going to be announced, 7 months before the gates...
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The SPIRIT of Burners.Me
We like to move forwards. Backwards, in reflection, sometimes helps; usually, not. Looking forwards, then…here is some Monday inspiration for you. Coming from, where it is we’re coming from. The...
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NADAgras at the Burner
Reno’s Morris Hotel is being turned into a Burner hotel – quite literally. They now answer the phone as “Morris Burner Hotel”, and the web site is morrisburnerhotel.com. From the Reno Gazette-Journal:...
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Being A Man – Burning Man Project Style
Video has been released of Larry Harvey’s speech last month at the Being A Man 2014 conference in Southbank, London. The warm up to his talk suggested it might be rather controversial, with Larry’s...
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Dr Devious’s Gypsy Circus and Sideshow Carnival
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be familiar with the refrain “if you don’t like it, start your own”. It’s a BMOrg “talking point” that their allies like to parrot when they come to...
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Burners Collaborate to Bridge SF’s Homeless/Tech Divide
Reallocate and [freespace] are two non-profits made up almost entirely of Burners, and we’re proud supporters of both of them. These are Burners with civic responsibility, gifting their time and energy...
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“Cirque du Feu”: Redding Fire Festival This Weekend
Burners are scattered all over the country, and all over the world. From the 2012 Census: Up north in Redding, veteran Burner and Dancetrohottie Adrionah has become the unofficial go-to person for...
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Scientists Endorse Animal Consciousness
Last week I wrote about Professor Dean Radin and the team at IONS (the Institute of Noetic Sciences), who are conducting experiments at Burning Man as part of their research into consciousness. Some...
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Building Community Through Co-operative Living
The Burning Man Project are throwing a free “donate what you want” event next month at their headquarters, to bring together Burners from a range of co-operative living situations to talk about their...
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Looking At Utopia With Stars In Our Eyes
If you’ve wondered why this blog appears to have gone quiet in the last week, it’s because I’m travelling on a trip that has taken me from the White House to Miami’s Winter Electronic Music Conference...
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Aurora Palo Alto: BM Tree Comes to City Hall
Aurora is a 3-story high art-ificial tree made up of more than 40,000 LED lights. It was created by Bay Area artist Charles Gadeken. After debuting at Burning Man in 2011, it has been re-constructed as...
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Escape Velocity: Back Story of Coachella Astronaut
You didn’t have to go to Coachella this year to hear about the #coachellaastronaut. It reminds me of the Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters, which is maybe lost as a reference on most of the born in the...
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