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Help us Alpha Test New Site
Burning Man have changed their privacy policy, and are asking Burners to create Burner Profiles in order to apply for tickets. The data is owned by the multi-entity hydra which is the various Burning...
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Burning Man Makes Further Inroads on Mainstream Consciousness
Bob Wiseman’s New Album Includes a Call for Change, Burner-Style by Whatsblem the Pro Bob Wiseman is a Canadian musician and filmmaker who is sometimes referred to as “the Canadian Tom Waits.” Don’t...
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Superstorm Sandy vs the Burners
Vice has a story on the efforts of the Burner community to help out on the East Coast after Superstorm Sandy, using skills refined at Burning Man, and in relief efforts in Haiti and post-Katrina New...
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Father and Son Bonding like Gentlemen
GQ once stood for “Gentlemen’s Quarterly”. Now it is a monthly, closely associated with metrosexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with that (although prissy hair-waxing male mani-pedi types might...
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Cargo Cult and the Post-Industrial Economy
Does Burning Man have influence over world affairs? Hard to say, but I find it interesting that the “Cargo Cult” meme is now finding its way into the mainstream media. Max Keiser is a financial...
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Burners in Brooklyn: Artists Bringing Art Cars to the Wider World
The Brooklyn Paper has published a story on veteran Burner and visionary artist, Yarrow Mazzetti. I first met Yarrow in 2010 when I camped with the Overkill crew, he’s a great guy and builds some of...
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Comings and Goings of Burner Art
Out with the old, in with the new. The Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, a much loved addition to the Embarcadero waterfront over the last few years, has been taken down. On to pastures unknown. The Space...
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Cosmo Says You’re in a Cult for Losers
by Whatsblem the Pro Cosmo: Too irrelevant to make fun of since the ’70s (Image: Harvard Lampoon) Anna Breslaw, writing about sorority life for Cosmopolitan: “Greek life lost me when, as a freshman, I...
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What is the Most Absurd Thing You Could Do? [Daft Punk? vs BAR Mag]
Thus starts one of the latest posts blowing up the blogosphere, from Burn After Reading magazine. If you ask me, the most absurd thing you could do is this: …which doesn’t make it bad. Even if tricks...
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“Failed to Even Make a Facial”: Pershing County Claims Huge Defeat Over...
Burning Man is suing Pershing County for trying to increase levies on the event. Despite recent legislation passed by the Assembly in Nevada, the lawsuit continues. Pershing County hit back with a...
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In Case of Scum
One of the most prolific DJ’s out there on the Playa has been Dutch techno master Jesse “The Scumfrog” Houk. Here’s his set from Robot Heart at Burning Man Fertility 2.0 2012. Where I come from we call...
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THE POOR MAN’S BURNING MAN 2: The Glamorous Life of a Model
by Whatsblem the Pro Houston, we have a Whatsblem. [Whatsblem the Pro is embedded in the International Arts Megacrew for the building of THE CONTROL TOWER, a sixty-foot “cargo cult” version of an FAA...
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WIRED: Open Source is Like Burning Man
Is there something in the air? It seems that the theme for this Spring is tech moguls dropping Burning Man references. Burning Man, the Maker world, and the tech world are about to converge for a...
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Dance, My Friends
You may have heard of the curious case of Burner Kim.com, the most wanted man on the Internet (according to WIRED magazine). The flamboyant German hacker and founder of MegaUpload and now Mega got...
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Agents of Chaos, Assemble!
by Whatsblem the Pro You are not authorized to read this book The Cacophony Society is a venerable but obscure institution that can lay claim to being the very origins of Burning Man, art cars,...
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Sauce for Goose and Gander
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey has been over in London for the Bilderberg Le Web Conference. Here’s an interview from TechCrunch with Larry and Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry...
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The Spark of Controversy
You might have heard a lot of the hype about the new documentary about Burning Man, Spark. It’s screening tonight in Reno at 7:30, then playing to 1400 people in Washington DC, heading to New York...
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You Can’t Quit Me, I’m Fire!
by Whatsblem the Pro In fact, you’re ALL fired. Merry Christmas! Is it a coincidence? A deliberate reorganization? A quiet rebellion? Recent days have seen a spate of high-level firings, resignations,...
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Burning Man Inspires world’s first All Terrain Solar Transport
Geek.com has an article on the solar powered art car which debuted at Maker Faire. You might recognize the legs from previous Burning Mans… It may look terrifying, but Scott Parenteau’s solar- and...
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Conspiracy Theories, meet Burning Man
[Haters? Don't bother reading. This is one of those Burners.Me posts that you're not going to like. You'll probably even want to comment about it and call me names. Wonder why I'm always negative, or...
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