next to dude with ravepants and cowboy hat
― runaway (Matt P), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh that guy.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the "bi-racial" one. They're both supposed to be rabbits, right?
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait, they're wearing each other's parts from two separate bunny costumes.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I get it.
That one was pretty close to being i don't care if you're black, white, purple
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://assets.hookit.com/rfs/headshots/0d683264-d379-4011-8e6c-031e039ff9c6.jpg?size=200http://assets.hookit.com/rfs/headshots/0d683264-d379-4011-8e6c-031e039ff9c6.jpg?size=200http://assets.hookit.com/rfs/headshots/0d683264-d379-4011-8e6c-031e039ff9c6.jpg?size=200http://assets.hookit.com/rfs/headshots/0d683264-d379-4011-8e6c-031e039ff9c6.jpg?size=200
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_QtZZLPRSChs/Ru6YvGR2RXI/AAAAAAAAAXo/T2pyuYviU3k/DSC07263.JPG
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
man really does not look like fun anymore
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vQFg_hTsoWI/TUytMMxvnrI/AAAAAAAAMPM/nHWptvVGOq4/174759_194728550540080_7018467_n.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Danielle White isn't sure what she's going to do with her fire-spitting unicorn now
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
And the obligatory...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhsePT97aIs
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
is that a lol about something specific or did u just look out the window while daydreaming and think 'lol burning man'
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 31 August 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
like has someone accidentally self-immolated at burning man whilst attempting to firebreathe in syncopation with a skrillex track
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 31 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
No, it's just going on now and it's just lol in my opinion. I can think of very few places I'd less want to be at less.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure that sentence made sense but you know what I mean.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/libertarian-burning-man/
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 31 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ustream.tv/burningman
― ○ (gr8080), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
really looking forward to the inevitable drowning-in-a-sea-of-shit deaths of all those seasteading assholes, I must say
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
You know, every couple of years I think back to this thread and how someone like Geeta recommends it and I think, hmm maybe... And then:http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/burning-man-2012/100363/
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 3 September 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, some of those photos are really beautiful and almost make me want to go. Almost but not quite.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 3 September 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Mountain Spirit (left) and Shooting Star, their Playa names, dance in the desert during Burning Man 2012, on September 1, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
The Samurais dance at sunrise in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, on August 31, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Eric Yttri plays a flaming tuba in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, on August 30, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Hallie McConlogue stays cool, partially submerged in a fishbowl helmet, during Burning Man 2012, on August 31, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Art car "The Sperminator" cruises the Playa, on August 31, 2012.
Two men bare-knuckle fight in the Thunder Dome during Burning Man 2012, on August 31, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
A man with the Playa name "Shaft" rides his bicycle in the Unicorn Stampede, on August 29, 2012.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I am just not that into watching thousands of people exhibit their fantasies to one another.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Mountain Spirit (left) and Shooting Star, their Playa names
http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/sick/throw-up.gif
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
I am being mean. If this is what floats their boats then more power to them. I will, however, reserve the right to rme a little because c'mon now.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
haha I just realized that they meant the actual word "playa" and not the in-vogue mispronunciation of "player"
or... DID THEY?????????
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ask Kitten, she would know.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I am terrified to look at these pictures because I may know ppl in them
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
lol iirc playa is what they call the area on which the event is held so it means their names while in that space. It's a lot funnier when read the other way though.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
They all appear to be vagrants or else trustfund babies.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
one of my roommates is into this but this year she just went to a "burning log" which i guess is a local splinter for people who don't have $400 or whatever to spend on going to a party
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
playa is a geological/geographic term guys
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
which is why i said it was the area on which the event is held
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
xp to Shakey Mo
As DJP so aptly pointed out, it's a double bonus word. Except it is not known whether the playa-on-words was intentional.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Shakey, what part of "oh right, they meant the real actual word" made you think I didn't know what a playa is?
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
geography, guys.
― ○ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
I hope at the end of a burning log gathering they actually all watch a single log burn
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
haha that's exactly what I was thinking! I mean because it just sounds a little sad. They should just call it a campfire party or something new altogether.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
don't really get why you'd do this when you could, i dunno, just go off camping in the desert with your friends
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah rilly the same thing basically
http://i.imgur.com/fcUAa.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/OkHGn.jpg
― ○ (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
ha, otm.
being a west coaster I have many friends who are there right now but I totally understand the eye rolling. I have never been, and am not really into the whole culture of "transgression" via recycled Re/Search motifs. but there sure is some cool shit to see out there on the playa.
when people roll back into town after this the cars are covered in this telltale superfine alkaline dust, it never quite goes away.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
God yeah that stuff is like, idk, talcum powder. we had friends who would come camping with us a few weeks after Burning Man every year, and their tents looked like ancient relics, lol.
I've never been but def is kind of a West Coast 'shrug, lol art hippies' thing. I love all the creativity though! Like, some of the cars people rig up are amazing.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
ok full disclosure, i haven't been in over a decade (too late to be all cooler-than-thou about it, there were already 20000+ people a year by the time i made it, certainly not too early to have people going "well it *used* to be good" etc etc) but in my era, and from what i've heard from san fran types who still go, or still have friends who go - it's still a good time. a pretty crazy party. hell, the party of the year! mardi gras for the city of artists hippies fags and hackers that is san francisco, and anyone else around the world who thinks that sounds like a party worth traveling 3000 miles to.
i mean, sure, there's a certain amount of TAZtalk and blathering about organic societies and what not, in part because it's actually, to an extent, true. but most people are just getting naked, taking all the drugs they've been saving up all year for this one holiday weekend at once, and unleashing their various art projects on the world. many of which are flammable. it is difficult fun. you're in the desert. nothing is on sale, even water. ok, coffe, coffee is on sale. but that's it. it's mainly byod. and there are more geeks, goths, ravers, & industrial types than hippies, and there are more hard-to-pigeonhole eccentrics than there are all of the above combined. all this "dirty hippies, bleh!" is blah blah blah from the mouths of people too uptight to go.
one of the biggest DUDs of all time. I should note that I haven't been, but every thing I've ever heard about it makes me cringe.
People I know and like really love this and swear by it and always try to tell me how amazing an event it is, but they're all new-age hippies retards, so I'm gonna say dud, even though I personally know absolutely nothing about it and am too lazy/too hip to bother learning.
This is one of the few times where I can't stop myself from judging something by the people who like it; the people I know and have known who go to Burning Man are among the most loathsome, flaky, obnoxious, insulated, sheltered, spoiled, and flat-out stupid people I've met (I'm talking almost exclusively about northeasterners, if there's a significant difference). It isn't possible for me to separate out my utter contempt for them from my impression of Burning Man, even if it should be. If I miss out on a big zoomy zeitgeist-a-go-go as a result, I'll live with that.
"dude, we can buy some really great soap and maybe some bracelets" <-doesn't have to say he's never been
i can honestly say i'm totally glad these people didn't go. this is exactly the kind of lame excuses my friend made to talk us out of going one year. then me and my bud moved to s.f., we went cause everyone said it was awesome, and they were right.
http://galleries.burningman.com/photos/Portaplaya/Portaplaya.44929?mediatype=photo#pastheader
when you're there, and in the mood to have fun, this is the kind of stuff you notice, wandering around the desert high as a kite. also, *everyone* is totally in the mood to get laid.
so, classic. i'll accept "dud" from someone who's actually been, and agree to disagree; certainly it's a far from perfect event. but the rest of you? pssht. you deserve to never go.
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link