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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 ArticleSatan – 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...
View Article2014: Year of the Silk Road
This year’s theme is “Caravansary“. It’s meant to evoke traditions of the Middle East, silk pillows and teeming marketplaces in caravan oases on the great Silk Road of Asia Minor. The original Silk...
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,...
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