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Peace, Love, Unicorns, Rainbows (aka: PLUR)
Thanks to Laughing Squid for posting this. Their rules are “don’t be a dick”, which is funny because I’m in New York City right now. The rules here are more like “be who you are meant to be”, more than...
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Burning Man on TMZ and PNN
It’s the place to be seen for celebrities these days Also, Burners.Me made it to Peace News Now. Burning Man coverage starts at 1:50 Filed under: General Tagged: 2013, city, complaints, cops, event,...
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Dance the Night Away? Or Make the World a Better Place?
Some Burnier-than-thous accuse us of having a negative attitude here at Burners.Me. Not true! We want to make the world a better place, and we want to make Burning Man a better place too. Sometimes, a...
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Adult Supervision: BRAF Throws a Hoe-Down
by Whatsblem the Pro The internal workings of the Black Rock Arts Foundation are a little bit of a mystery to us here at Burners.me, and given that the BRAF’s Board of Directors includes most of the...
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Golden Rebar Awards
Philippe Glade is the author of old-fashioned paper book “Black Rock City, NV – the Ephemeral Architecture of Burning Man“. On his site, thisisblackrockcity.blogspot.com , he hands out “Golden Rebar”...
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Not so Vogue?
French Vogue, 2012 Earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Guardian brought us a 5-page story about Burning Man, written by Burner Scribe. We covered the story in The Spark of Controversy . We also...
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Cars of Cargo Cult
Barnorama has published a nice selection of the Art Cars of Burning Man 2013. It’s by no means definitive (no Mayan Warrior!), but there’s some great examples on display. See their whole collection...
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Playa Chicken Madness
Just came across this video of Burning Man 2012, from Scenester TV. It’s got something in here for all the haters: Playa chickens, Segways, Playa chickens on Segways, tribal headdresses, glitter,...
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Burning Man Costume Designers Debut at Fashion Week
“Fashion Week is nothing after using a porta potty in the desert for a week” DNA Info brings us this story about two young Burners whose clothing collection has made it all the way to New York for...
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Looking At Utopia With Stars In Our Eyes
If you’ve wondered why this blog appears to have gone quiet in the last week, it’s because I’m travelling on a trip that has taken me from the White House to Miami’s Winter Electronic Music Conference...
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The Stand of No Stand
As we enter the 5th month of the year, BMOrg are managing to be strangely silent, while at the same time being all over the news. The “Burning Man Organizer Throws Bundy Fest” story has been picked up...
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Get Your Playa Wear Here
For San Francisco Burners, there are a couple of sales coming up this weekend featuring Playa-ready outfits. If you’ve never been to a Burning Man trunk show before, I highly recommend it. There’s a...
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Private Concierge Service [Updates]
Once again, an idea originally introduced to this community as an amusing farce, has now become an established money-making service. The Burning Man concierge is here. From BurningmanVIP.net: Burning...
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Playa Update: Some Cars Coming In, Trash is the New Fashion
Watching the UStream feed, it looks like the gate may be open again for people who have been waiting there all day. There are vehicles are coming in. If we get an official announcement we will let you...
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Silk Road Move Over, a New Bazaar Is In Town
WIRED magazine has a report on Agora, the new online drug bazaar “marketplace of anything”. It is based on Agorism, a philosophy that a free, stateless society can be achieved via disruptive market...
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It’s the Art, Stupid
It seems that, behind every weary merchant visiting the oasis with a caravan of treasures to gift, is a team of Sherpas to wipe their ass. According to the New York Times, the rich people of Burning...
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Get Your Burning Man Merchandise
Image: Nathan Proudlove/Flickr (Creative Commons) [Update 12/7/14 10:35am] This post has been restored because some are trying to tie it into the online smear campaign against me. It’s back here now...
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Burning Man Influencing The World [Update]
We are everywhere! Here we have the latest fashion from the 2015 Grammy Awards. Clearly Burner-inspired… Image: icdyk.com Joy Villa, a model/actress and recording artist, took her cue from Burning...
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Basic Burning Man Bitch
The Bold Italic has a hilarious look at the “Basic Bitches of the Bay“. Although San Francisco in and of itself is a vibrant and unique city that fosters eccentricity, you will still see those who fall...
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Playa Wear Trunk Shows Coming Up
If you’re in San Francisco, whether you’re going to Burning Man or not you might want to check these shows out. Always a fun crowd, and you’re supporting your fellow Burner fashion artists. Lorelei...
View ArticleFeathers won’t Fly
In the past, “leather and feather” has been a very popular look amongst all the cool kiddies on the Playa. Last year, LA Weekly published a great guide to Burning Man style, and “Neo Tribal” was named...
View ArticleInstant Facial Protection: the NuBrella
Following on from the Inflatable Tent and the Inflatable Bike Helmet, now we have another invention that seems brilliant for protecting Burners from sandstorms, second hand DMT smoke, Segway piloting,...
View ArticleIt’s Tranny Time!
Looks like the drag queens and shemales will be romping around the Playa in full force this year. ROMP OF THE PLAYA HOOKERS: TRANNIES FOR TRADE “Calling all drag queens! Come join us in your finest...
View ArticleHow-To’s to customize your Burn
Over at the Instructables site, Burner Joshf has put together a collection of some fantastic tips and tricks for virgins and veterans alike. Tips include how to make a fire skirt, angel wings (hint:...
View ArticleThe 2440-LED Light Suit
Look out for this Burner on the Playa – pretty much the opposite of a darktard.
View ArticleWhere to Shop For Your Burning Man Costume | 7×7
San Francisco’s local 7 x 7 magazine has published a guide to where to shop for your outfits. It’s by no means complete – check out the Trunk Shows like Prepare for the Playa, Etsy, and the Tibetan...
View ArticleSurviving the Dust At Burning Man | Geeked Info
Geeked Info has some useful tips for dealing with dust. I’m with the author – after a few Burns, you learn to prefer the bandanna to the Home Depot dust masks. If it’s super dusty, you can pull it up …...
View ArticleModern Luxury: “RIP Burning Man (1986-2011)”
I remember what a shock to the Burner Eco-System it was when Town and Country magazine did a piece on Burning Man’s Krug-swilling society set. My how time flies! Now, not even a mere year later,...
View ArticleTopsy turvy world: Neon bank logos, OK; Angel suit, NO ?
Some Burners can’t understand why I would criticize the giant Bank of America advertisement Burn Wall Street. Well, while all that has been going on, other Burners are also giving it hard to Ka, the...
View ArticleMove Your Body to the Beat
The most popular post we’ve written, by far, was the Music of Burning Man 2012. So I think it’s safe to say, Burners like music.It can be a long way from Deep Playa without an art car, so why not …...
View ArticleA _________ of Burners?
Thanks to Burner Enki from Vienna, Austria for posing this question on Facebook: What do you call a [collective noun] of Burners? Some ideas so far: cacophony misdemeanor felony conflagration drove...
View ArticleHelp 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...
View ArticleBurnal Equinox 2013 is Coming!
by Whatsblem the Pro Burnal Equinox is coming up once again on Saturday, March 2nd, halfway between Burning Man 2012 and Burning Man 2013. There will be multiple celebrations of the Equinox in...
View ArticleBurning Man Fashion 2013: Manish Arora’s Indian Burn
by Whatsblem the Pro A major five-day fashion show in India last week featured a much-ballyhooed grand finale: designer Manish Arora’s latest line, inspired by his visit to Burning Man. From the Times...
View ArticleCosmo Says You’re in a Cult for Losers
by Whatsblem the Pro Anna Breslaw, writing about sorority life for Cosmopolitan: “Greek life lost me when, as a freshman, I heard a rumor about sorority pledges having to sort Froot Loops for their...
View ArticleGoogle Burners Call For Free Experimentation Zones
The link between Google and Burning Man is long and rich. They famously used the Burning Man logo on the Google home page, and in fact the concept of the Google logo changing evolved out of the Burning...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat to Wear, What to Wear?
Wondering about all the fabulous outfits you’re going to need, for a week in the desert heat, a week in the cool desert nights, and a week in the freezing desert early mornings? That’s really three...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleNone Dare Call Her Bettie: Previewing the Playa at the Nevada Museum of Art
by Whatsblem the Pro The Black Rock Arts Foundation has announced that Beth “Bettie June” Scarborough, Burning Man’s Associate Director of Art Management (read: she runs the ARTery and is on the...
View ArticleBurning 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...
View ArticleSix Minutes of Pure Horror
by Whatsblem the Pro You goddamn kids, dancing on my lawn in your underpants! Why, in my day. . . We didn’t always have the Internet, you know, and the world was a lot less openly, deliciously...
View ArticleSHOP LOCAL: Twin City Surplus Has Burner Needs Covered
by Whatsblem the Pro Every year, a mighty throng of burners congregating from all over the world passes through the Gateway to Burning Man: Reno, Nevada. In their wake they leave some fifteen to...
View Article7-Ton Coyote With Out of This World Organ Coming
[Update 8/19/13 this piece has been covered by the SF Chronicle] The Sonoma News reports on a rad, giant new sculpture of a coyote by artist Bryan Tedrick – a neighbor of mine out in sunny Glen Ellen...
View ArticleBurning Man Problems
Just found this amusing site on Tumblr, dedicated to the Playa problems all Burners face. Here are some highlights:
View ArticleSkysquid’s Tips
Thanks to Burner Skysquid, firstly for hosting and facilitating so many amazing Burning Man art projects like those from Peter Hudson and Marco Cochrane in his Treasure Island warehouses; and also for...
View ArticleDisneyfication, 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...
View ArticleAppreciate 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,...
View ArticleFeather Ban Lifted?
So says a store called “Screaming Mimis” in New York, where Wall Street Executives have been slapping down their Black Amexes for $1500 purchases of kilts, goggles, head-dresses and vintage-looking...
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