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Social Alchemist Seeks Sherpa for Startup Shenanigans
This year, just before Burning Man, the New York Times published an expose on rich people trying to one-up each other at Burning Man with luxury camps and paid employees. They featured an interview...
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“I’m Up For A Sherpa Myself”
CBS News did a video story on “Silicon Valley Elite Accused of Ruining Burning Man”. Larry insists that they’re not, that people have been saying “Burning Man is ruined” since the beginning, and in...
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“Like Rome Before The Fall” [Update]
The Balinese-style Ohm Kar, from Laguna Beach, debuted at Caravansary. photo: Herald Sun The Herald Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper in my old hometown of Melbourne, Australia. It’s the Aussie...
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Burning Man’s Gift Economy and its Effect on Mainstream Society
Festpop has an article by Karli Jaenike about how Burning Man is changing the world. I’m re-blogging it here so we can then discuss it. Emphasis ours. re-blogged from FestPop It’s no secret that most...
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Poker Like A Rockstar
Just when you thought the Burning Man virus couldn’t infect any more mainstream vertical markets, we get World Series of Poker/World Poker Tour champion Antonio Esfandiari (aka @magicantonio) writing...
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Wharton Business School Uses Burning Man as Case Study
Not sure if it’s worth going into six figures of student loan debt, if this is the kind of education you’re going to get. They think “The Man” is a camp! How can a non-profit festival based on Gifting...
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Blazed and Confused: the Simpsons Aftermath
The Simpsons broke burningman.com, just from its East Coast showing. It’s been down for at least 3 hours now: kind of surprising that BMOrg didn’t have someone working Sunday night in anticipation...
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Charity Versus Tax-Free
image: Bearman/Flickr (Creative Commons) In the comments to our BMOrg Hath Spoken article, Burner Cooter raised an interesting point. This is a slight tangent but the deal with the non profit status is...
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Burning Man Hacked!
image from WIRED The news of hackers exploiting a “back door” in BMOrg’s new ticketing system broke last week on Reddit. We covered it last Wednesday in Ticket Hell. Now, the story has been picked up...
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Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way To Burning Man
Image: Simon Davison/Flickr (Creative Commons) “Usually people are hacking to steal things…these people were hacking just to get a chance to spend $400 to get a ticket” 89.3 KPCC radio did an interview...
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What Comes Next?
Image: Livin-Lively/Flickr (Creative Commons) Burning Man is dead, proclaims the San Francisco Chronicle. Grover Norquist and some hackers killed it. So, what comes next? Apparently, low tech partying...
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From Canvas Cubes to Containers
Business Insider has yet another “the rich are taking over Burning Man” story, this time focusing on a company that will deliver a ready-made “Container Camp” for you on the Playa. Who needs Radical...
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It’s Hip To Be Square
Another interview from Grover Norquist, in what looks like a summertime ski lift. The Grove is now a “Burning Man aficionado” after attending once by private plane and staying up til 2:30am on a...
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People Freaking Out Over FBI Surveillance of Burning Man
Image: Beverly & Pack/Flickr (Creative Commons) Earlier in the year, VICE news published a story When the DEA Went to Burning Man, Shit Got Redacted about the DEA’s activities at Burning Man, based...
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2015 Celebrity Sightings
Some Burners will go “who cares”…but if you type “Burning Man” into Google and set time to “past 24 hours” under Search Tools, you will see that this is the main story being discussed on the Internet...
View ArticleDesert Spirits Get Naked
The Guardian brings us an amazing shot, taken at Burning Man 2013. Usually, photographer Spencer Tunick’s subjects are naked en masse. Last year, for the clothing-optional festival Burning Man, he...
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 ArticleBurning Man Project Exports Culture to…San Mateo
As we just mentioned in our earlier Amber Lyon post, if you’re looking to the official Burning Man site for news, good luck to you. They’re running on Burning Man time, not Twitter time. They told you...
View ArticleJim Carrey, the Queen of Diamonds and the Maharishi
Funnyman and Hollywood A-lister Jim Carrey has named Burning Man in a recent Commencement Address to MUM: The Maharishi University of Management (who honored him with a doctorate) The context is after...
View ArticleMidburn: 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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