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Peace, Love, and Unicorns
Who’s got it better than us? NOBODY! Well, some right now could make a claim for Baltimore…yeah right – have you ever seen The Wire? If not you must, it’s considered to be the greatest TV show ever...
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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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BurniLeaks: Anonymous Reveals Police Art Car
Police and Thieves, in the Streets. The streets of Black Rock City. Is this why local authorities need to hike their take? One of them got an art car, and now all of them need one? From Anonymous: Dear...
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The Largest Ever Art Car
Burners.Me are sponsoring a few projects this year, and one of them is Tiki Island, brought to us from the Playa Surfers crew. I like the idea simply because I was recently in Tahiti – why not have a...
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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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Upsie Daisies! The Latest Adventures of Beau Le Phant
Shout out to Camp Upsie Dasium, who’ve produced this wacky Burning Man 2012 art car video for our entertainment. Seems like Beau had a good time. Apparently, Beau is shuffling every day. YMMV…if you’ve...
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Burn All Year! Burning Man Regionals Update
by Whatsblem the Pro For a lot of people, Burning Man is a once-a-year thing. They spend more or less time getting ready for and/or recovering from their trip to the desert, but it’s still essentially...
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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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Get Involved!
Burner Jon Bozeman has created this useful Facebook site to collect together all the projects looking for crowdfunding for Cargo Cult. If your project is still looking for money, this would be a great...
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The Fishy Smell of Corporate Excess
Whatsblem the Pro recently published a very interesting discussion with Official Burning Man blogger (Burning Man Official Blogger? Burning Man Blog Official?) Caveat Magister. One aspect of the...
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The Octorapture Draws Nigh
by Whatsblem the Pro When Duane Flatmo, the artist behind EL PULPO MECANICO, made public the plans to scrap his great beast of a mechanical flame-juggling octopus on Good Friday of this year,...
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Getting Busy on the Bus to the Dust
The Department of Mobility is now DOA. Yes, that’s right – if you’re in a wheelchair, or otherwise mobility impaired, you have a new home. The Dimension of Accessibility. Rat Lady has stepped up to...
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Time to Expand Our Consciousness
SPUN OUT BY THE SCOOP! Are we actually all mutually, collectively experiencing the deja vu that I spoke of a couple of days ago? Remember when last year, Burners.Me brought you the news that the permit...
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Burning Man GIVEAWAY – Win a Goggle & Respirator Set from JADED MINX |...
Are you ready for the dust? Can you handle the blow? Even if you think you’ve got it covered, these goggle and respirator sets look pretty Burning Man-friendly. Maybe Burning Man will get all upset...
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Latest 2013 Music Line-up
A lot more of the line-ups have come in now, although as always with Burning Man there are still plenty of “TBD’s” and “Special Guests”. I am stoked that my two favorite DJ’s in the world are going to...
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Disneyfication, Anyone?
This is a guest post from Burner Jill Marlene, picking up on some of our previous posts about the ever-growing divide between Burning Man (the Organization) and the artists who create the 1000+ theme...
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Kentucky Fried Camp’s Packed U-Haul Stolen in the East Bay
by Whatsblem the Pro The missing truck bears this design, #107 in U-Haul’s “Venture Across America” series Kentucky Fried Camp, a group of mostly Kentuckians and San Franciscans originally from...
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SAY YOU LOVE SANTA: A Cautionary Tale
Image: AFP by Whatsblem the Pro We all know there was more of a police presence than ever at Burning Man 2013, along with several alarming law enforcement innovations, like the partnering of officers...
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Appreciate the Miracles: Radical Inclusion is not Anti-Elite
Over at the official Burning Man blog, John “Halcyon” Styn has shared a post about radical inclusion. I haven’t always been a fan of his style in the past, Burning Man is not the Care Bears after all,...
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Late-Breaking Update: SF Decom 2013
$teven Ra$pa — PHOTO: Chronicle / Mike Kepka The Org’s own Steven Raspa has just released detailed information about this year’s Decompression in San Francisco! Burning Man Presents, for the benefit of...
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