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“TED meet Burning Man meet SXSW”– Tony Hsieh’s Playboy Vision
Zappo’s founder Tony Hsieh sold his company to Amazon for more than a billion dollars. This wasn’t his first success – he also came up with LinkExchange (and their social networking subsidiary event,...
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BundyFest! After-party With Guns
One of the biggest news stories of the year has been the Nevada stand-off between rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM. The Bundy family have been grazing cattle on the land for almost 140 years (although...
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Silicon Valley and Burning Man Make Peace
Watching Episode 5 of Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge’s new show Silicon Valley. It’s brilliant. We already covered how Tesla founder (and Iron Man inspirer) Burner Elon Musk said that Judge was...
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Building The Community We Envision
The Burning Man Project are attaching themselves to other successful, Burner run non-profits like Reallocate.org and [freespace]. They’re hosting a free panel in San Mateo, to show examples of how...
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Satan – Why Be a King, When You Can Be a God?
P.Diddy came to Burning Man this year, and rocked it. He threatened to come back with a real n___ga sound system. We shall see…personally, I doubt it.In the mean time, here’s Rabbit, aka Dr Dre’s tea...
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2014: Year of the Silk Road
American Museum of National History’s Camel Caravan creation This year’s theme is “Caravansary“. It’s meant to evoke traditions of the Middle East, silk pillows and teeming marketplaces in caravan...
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Israeli 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...
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Canada 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...
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Support 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...
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The 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,...
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Midburn: 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...
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31 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...
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Oregon 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...
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Dancetronauts 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...
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Guns, 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...
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“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,...
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Let’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...
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Intel 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...
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Living 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!...
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A 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...
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