September 2011
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PHOTOS - Dot's latest photos of Comfort & Joy...
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Burning Man 2011 GeoEye Satellite Image
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Check out GeoEye‘s annual high resolution picture of Burning Man from the sky, taken on Thursday, September 1st, 2011. The image is remarkably sharp, but it’s over 12MB in size so it’ll take a few seconds for it to load. See if you can find your camp!
The Google Earth team has turned into a KML image overlay.
Exploring the potential for alternative worlds at... →
Burning Man is something every futurist and transhumanist should be aware of. Black Rock City is a model that could serve for the development of entirely novel alternative communities and societies. Indeed, the Burner term for the real world is “default society,” and after a few days at Burning Man one can’t help but gain a growing appreciation for what that actually means.
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WatchBurning Man 2011 Rites Of Passage on Vimeo (by David C. Hill)
Video Exploring Burning Man and the Black Rock Desert. It was truly fantastic experience.
Turn off your phones, techies. Welcome to Burning... →
This year, a group of Chillagers, led by a designer from Zynga, the social-network games developer behind Farmville, spent months building a car modelled after a giant USB stick, surrounded by barstools. They called it the Universal Sereal Bus, “a serendipitous breakfast destination”, and travelled around the playa serving riders breakfast cereal and electronic music. “Working in Silicon Valley...
Clean Up Your Act, Burning Man; Show Us The Money... →
Burning Man finances are fishy. This has been the source of my discomfort with BM for many years, and I’m not alone. A “red flag” was raised for me many years ago when I had an assignment to cover BM for a major publication and was told by BM that I had to sign a long disclaimer and was not to ask about money. I refused to sign, as any real journalist would. More recently, two publications...
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WatchDear Temple of Transition (by Ian MacKenzie)
*Watch full-screen with sound up!* Dear Temple of Transition: I love you. You are the most beautiful human-shaped structure I have ever seen. It was an honour to serve you as a Temple Guardian. And when it came time for you to go, I couldn’t watch you burn. Instead, I watched it in the eyes of others and I know what you meant to them. Thank...
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Watchkellyegan:
Los Angeles Fire Brigade’s final performance on Burn Night 2011.
I’ve never felt more alive or happy than during this perfromance. The audience’s reaction, the setting, the final culmination of months of hard work. All of it fueled us that night. The result was a great show and an epic burn that made my heart acheeeeeee.
Watch it! I come in when the staffs light up. Second girl...
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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in... →
This year’s Burning Man theme was “Rites of Passage” and it turns out that the Burning Man organization is undergoing its own rite of passage. The “Borg,” as it is often referred to by Burners, was the topic of Jessica Bruder’s piece in the NY Times, “The Changing Face of the Burning Man Festival,” that ran on Burning Man’s opening day. It turns out that the Burning Man organization will be...
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WatchBurning Man 2011: Rites of Passage - Burn Night Timelapse (by Grant Kaye)
After the last rays of the sun paint the top of Old Razorback, night falls, and the timelapse shows the Man burning. Watch for the red flare just before the burn fireworks start. After the burn, I switched lenses to show a wider view of Black Rock City and this shot went until just before 4am when my batteries ran out.
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Burning Man Festival Attracts Upscale RVers
[Elon] Musk, through his assistant, confirms he hired an RV service but declines to give details or say how much he is paying.
For those who bristle at making the long pilgrimage to the desert by car, there is flytoburningman.com. Run by Centurion Flight Services, it picks up travelers in the San Francisco area and deposits them on a makeshift air strip here. The cost to avoid dusty roads: $825...
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Reuters: As Burning Man leaves desert, growing...
As the anti-establishment arts festival and survival project disappears piece by piece from the white sands of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, participants and organizers say Burning Man — which just had its largest week in its 25-year history — is going through some growing pains as plans to expand its size and scope moving forward over the next year.
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Adam Lambert’s ‘Spirit’ Gets Revitalized at...
On Tuesday morning Adam Lambert confirmed recent rumors that he attended this year’s “Burning Man” art festival in Nevada. Although he was busy working on several new songs during the earlier part of last week, he eventually made it to the festival, which ended on Monday. Adam tweeted: “Hi folks! Burning Man was wild!!! My spirit needed that!!”
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Are Burning Man's Photography Restrictions Overly... →
Burning Man is unlike anything else on the planet, and the people and art seen there are unique and compelling — just look at some of the shots from the one man studio Human Light Suit. However, the level of nudity and people getting involved in activities they don’t want their boss seeing, combined with the widespread nature of digital cameras, has led to the last few years seeing...
BURNING MAN: A Vision of How People Should Live,...
How many city planners get to see their ideas take shape all around them? The short list includes Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who bulldozed much of Paris in the mid-19th century, and Robert Moses, who remade New York during the 20th. And Rod Garrett, who, beginning in 1997, laid out Burning Man, the annual festival of self-expression in the parched northern Nevada desert.
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Burning Man crowd size exceeds limit set by BLM |... →
A peak crowd of 53,735 was reported late Saturday afternoon, which was nearly 4,000 people more than the maximum limit set by the agency and roughly a 9 percent increase over last year, said BLM spokeswoman Lisa Ross.
A phone call to Burning Man spokeswoman Marian Goodell was not immediately returned.
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Wall Street Journal: At Burning Man,... →
Elon Musk, chief executive of electric-car maker Tesla Motors and co-founder of eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, is among those eschewing the tent life. He is paying for an elaborate compound consisting of eight recreational vehicles and trailers stocked with food, linens, groceries and other essentials for himself and his friends and family, say employees of the outfitter, Classic Adventures...
