Burning Man
For those of you that missed it, here it is again in color! This is a half hour of highlights from the 2008 Burning of the Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. We also incorporated interviews with multiple participants and Burning Man founder Larry Harvey.
More video from Burning Man 2008
Mad Max meets American Gladiators. In the desert. Enough Said.
The Playa experienced one of the longest dust storms its had in years. It's super fine, gets into airtight spaces, is so thick that you can barely see ten feet in front of you, and gets into your lungs with every breath. How are people coping with the dust?
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THE Duck's Maiden Voyage
THE Duck’s maiden voyage on the playa and weekend reign around Black Rock City has set a new standard of excellence with regards to art cars. It’s regal structure, flawless lines and impeccable design make it hard trust claims that THE Duck was cast from mortal hands. Truly a treasure to behold and experience. Long Live THE Duck! THE Duck’s maiden voyage on the playa and weekend reign around Black Rock City has set a new standard of excellence with regards to ar... more
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The Burn
For those of you that missed it, here it is again in color! This is a half hour of highlights from the 2008 Burning of the Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. We also incorporated interviews with multiple participants and Burning Man founder Larry Harvey. For those of you that missed it, here it is again in color! This is a half hour of highlights from the 2008 Burning of the Man in Blac... more
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Radio Free Burning Man 2008
What it was like at three AM at the three o'clock plaza at Burning Man 2008
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After Burn Special on Current!
TV Free Burning Man 2008. 1 1/2 hours. Uninterrupted. Commercial Free.
For full coverage of Burning Man 2008, tune in to Current TV:
Saturday, Sept 20 at 1 PM Pacific/ 4 PM Eastern
Sunday, Sept 21 at 7 PM Pacific/ 10 PM Eastern
First hour: Best of the pods from 2008
Last half hour: Rebroadcast of the Burn
(Set your DVRs - this one's a keeper!) TV Free Burning Man 2008. 1 1/2 hours. Uninterrupted. Commercial Free. ... more -
Response to Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land
This is a response written by Charles Shaw to the Wall Street Journal for there recent article on one reporters 'experience' at Burning Man. they would not print it...
Note- since there is a character limitation to this post i will be cutting it up from here into the comments sections...
Dear WSJ Editors..
Myself and my camp were mentioned by name in the below linked article on the
Burning Man Festival, and I'd like to submit this response letter.
http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB12205820924430 2597.html? mod=googlenews_ wsj
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Charles Shaw
Entheon Village
To Whom it may Concern...
This letter is in response to Travis Kavulla's "Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land," an ostensible
review of the Burning Man festival published September 5th, 2008.
Being a newcomer to the Festival, as well as the culture of Burning Man, it is not at all surprising that Mr. Kavulla, a conservative evangelical fellow from the Phillips Foundation, would see Burning Man in terms of affluence, conspicuous consumption, decadence, and hedonism, for Burning Man does indeed, unapologetically, contain all of those things. But had Mr. Kavulla probed just a little bit deeper than the surface of things--had he, for example, taken just a few more steps around Entheon Village and asked just a few questions--he would have seen and understood that there is so much more going on at Burning Man than "just a party."
Mr. Kavulla makes the powerful statement, "This was not a festival about deeper understanding or spiritual hokum" and characterized our camp, Entheon Village, as a "klatch of latter-day hippies and New Agers." We at
Entheon Village challenge that characterization. Our Village this year contained over 500 people and provided food, water, and power services to over 700. The logistics of accomplishing this rival anything done by the Army Corps of Engineers, yet our efforts are led by committed volunteers working who believe in the mission of Entheon Village. The centerpieces of our Village this year were the Container Project and the Pantheogenesis Temple. Both of these projects were explicitly designed as vehicles for creating sustainable communities and taking the Burner ethos off the Playa and applying it to real-life situations. We also, for the fourth straight year, offered the M.A.P.S. Lecture Series, showcasing some of the most cutting-edge government-sanctioned research into healing treatments using psychoactive substances.
With our Container Project, we took a series of 20' and 48' shipping containers and built them out into a permanent camp infrastructure with a kitchen, showers, toilets, and residences. During the other 49 weeks of the year that the Festival is not taking place, these containers were specifically designed for use in disaster relief efforts anywhere in the world, so that first responders and relief workers have a ready-made base camp from which to operate.
This project is a collaborative extension of the work that was begun by Burners Without Borders, a social-change movement that was born in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when a group of committed Burners left the 2005 Festival mid-stream and spent the next 6 months in Pearlington, Mississippi clearing debris and helping the townspeople rebuild their homes and their lives. These efforts parlayed in a nationwide network of Burners
Without Borders groups offering social services in situations where Government completely fails its citizens, as in the case of Katrina. In the Fall of 2007, Burners Without Borders sent a team to Peru after a devastating earthquake to help with relief efforts. And just this week, we at Entheon received a call from the Louisiana Governor's office asking for our kitchen to be sent down to Baton Rouge to help feed some 100,000 people displaced by the recent flooding.
(see below for rest of letter) This is a response written by Charles Shaw to the Wall Street Journal for there recent article on one reporters 'experience'... more -
At The Helm of Burning Man
Dennis Nishi of the Wall Street Journal speaks to The Man...no the other man...Larry Harvey for the Career Journal .
good quote from the article..." You have to have an open heart, an open mind, though not an empty head." Dennis Nishi of the Wall Street Journal speaks to The Man...no the other man...Larry Harvey for the Career Journal . ... more -
Burning Man Reunions
If you are already longing to relive your Burning Man experience, head to the nearest "decompression."
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heading to the DNC - http://moroadtrip.us
The Last Great American ROadtrip http://moroadtrip.us
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Belushi 'On the MoBus' 2
the last great american roadtrip. http://moroadtrip.us
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rave at burning man 2008
the last great american roadtrip at burning man 2008 http://moroadtrip.us
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palen on the playa II - burning man 2008
burning man 2008. palen as the best man. best time of my life. http://moroadtrip.us
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palen on the playa - burning man 2008
palen as the best man at the wedding in burningman 2008.
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Burning Man Simulation
Maybe you just had to be there, but if you couldn't make it, this is a rough approximation of the experience, as captured in an email that is making the rounds...
Burning Man Simulation
Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any
direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to
come over and
party. When everyone leaves, follow them back to their homes, drink all
their booze, and break things.
Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.
Stack all your fans in one corner of your living room. Put on your most
fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a full vacuum
cleaner bag in front of them.
Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a crowded, noisy club.
Go to sleep. Wake up 2 hours later in a 110+ degree tent.
Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.
Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away. Drain
all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 4 days. Hide all the
toilet paper.
Pay an escort of your affectionate preference to not bathe for five
days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky
neon wig; dance closely naked with you, then say they have a lover back
home at the end of the night.
Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternate lying in the
walk-in freezer and sitting in the oven.
Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/emotion
altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend.
Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body.
Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect,
most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
Spend weeks preparing and freezing tasty, nutritious food and then
forget it in your trunk for a few days of 110 degree heat. Eat it
anyway - and like it.
Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or until you think you
are going to scream. Scream. Realize you'll love the music for the rest
of your life.
Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the
block for 5 hours.
Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.
Mail $273 to the Reno casino of your choice. (price of average BM
ticket in 2008)
Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more disturbing but
beautiful paintings. Climb inside it.
Spend thousands of dollars creating a deeply personal art work. Hide it
in a funhouse on the edge of the city. Blow it up.
Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire. Play a short loop of
drum'n'bass until the embers are cold.
Have a 3 a.m., soul-baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a
crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating. Maybe you just had to be there, but if you couldn't make it, this is a rough approximation of the experience, as captured in an e... more -
Keep the sand out of your schlitz
A public service announcement from Chevy Chase to Jolly Green and the rest of the TV Free Burning Man Crew. Don't burn your balls! HA! A public service announcement from Chevy Chase to Jolly Green and the rest of the TV Free Burning Man Crew. Don't burn your ball... more
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TV Free 08: Behind the Scenes (TV Free's elevated view of the Burn)
TBM gives us the play by play on a dull night in the desert.
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Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land
Not exactly sure Travis of the Wall Street Journal really 'gets' it but hey its not for everyone to get is it! "Burning Man is not for the timid"!!!!
Interesting read either way...would have loved to follow him around and document his reactions to things for awhile...
so Travis wdydwyd? ....and did he just spectate? and stay concerned on money the whole time? any large vacation that lasts a week away from home is going to run you a hunk of dough.
and mind you my last comment comes from someone who is not Affluent ! Strange.. yes! Affluent..no! Not exactly sure Travis of the Wall Street Journal really 'gets' it but hey its not for everyone to get is it! "Burning... more -
Fundraiser for the fire at the Temple of the American Dream - Phoenix Rising
Hello and Greetings,
As many of you know by now someone set fire to the Detroit Dream Projects –Temple of the American Dream on September 2. The Temple is still standing but has sustained some damage.
We are obviously very disappointed by this unfortunate situation, but like the Phoenix from the Ashes we will regenerate and rebuild. Did you know our logo is the Phoenix rising over the city of Detroit?
And that is what we plan to do this coming Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the Temple site located at 17363 Redford Street, Detroit Michigan, next to the Motor City Blight Busters Head Quarters from 12 noon til after dark so we can get some fire performing in hopefully!
We will be hosting an informal workday and potluck fundraiser that day to help assist us in repairing the damage to the back post of the structure. Won’t you come out?!
Your presence and support would be very appreciated! If you can come out to help or just enjoy the day with us at the site we would be very happy to have the company! If you are able to make a financial donation I will be accepting donations at the site that day or you may visit our website at http://www.detroitdreamproject.com/ to make a donation that way!
Any help will be put to good use!
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me or any member of SPARC through the website http://www.detroitdreamproject.com/)
Thank you on behalf of SPARC and the Detroit Dream Project!
Danielle Kaltz
(~doxie)
to view images of the damage
http://www.capzles.com/8f9f71f4-124b-489f-8a4f-6afa52ca...
Please feel free to forward to this email to any person or organizations you think would be helpful! Hello and Greetings, ... more -
Some News about the Temple of the American Dream in Detroit
Hello Burning Man Community,
The members of SPARC of Michigan want to inform you that Tuesday of this week (September 2nd) sadly someone set fire to the Temple of the American Dream.
Thankfully the structure is still standing but has sustained some damage.
Around 9pm that evening a guy was in the park and it appears he may have thrown an accelerant on the back post and set it on fire.
Some locals from the neighborhood saw what happened and quickly hosed the Temple down and from what I am told let this guy know in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome back in the area!
We are all very appreciative and in debt to these Good Samaritans!
At this time we are determining what action needs to be taken to repair the damage and may need some assistance i.e. some good old fashioned community elbow grease and general support once a plan of action has been made.
Please stay tuned for further details and let me or any member of SPARC know if you are able and willing to help in any way!
Thank you very much for your support,
Doxie on behalf of SPARC
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Burning Man Redemption
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey comments on the premature burning of the man.
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TV Free 08: Behind the Scenes (my week: redux)
in short form: amazing
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