Burning Man

geography, guys.

I hope at the end of a burning log gathering they actually all watch a single log burn

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.

don't really get why you'd do this when you could, i dunno, just go off camping in the desert with your friends

yeah rilly the same thing basically

http://i.imgur.com/fcUAa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OkHGn.jpg

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.

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.

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.

also, :

http://www.ifc.com/malcolm-in-the-middle/videos/malcolm-in-the-middle-burning-man

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, September 4, 2012 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I went to what I think was described as "Burning Man East" back in 1999. It boiled down to an overnight beach bonfire here. There were probably about 40 people in attendance. The next campsite over was a group of boy scouts. It was a decent bonfire with some good people. There weren't any cool art projects or anything though and it was too cold that night for any awesome nudity.

I wouldn't go to anything the size of what Burning Man is today, but just based on the people I know who have gone, I'd feel at ease with at least some of the crowd. I wish I had headed out there a couple times in the 1990s instead of doing Phish tour.

i think this thing's less interesting to tucsonans because we already have +100 degree summers and hippies and entire blocks devoted to warehouses filled with weird sculptures.

messiahwannabe mostly OTM I think even if I have no interest in ever going again. too many people/too much raving.

BURNING MAN ALASKA 2012 - or is that just wicker man

An ex-gf of mine went this year. Over the past few years, these have turned into her people. Which is fine, I guess. More power to them all. But you wouldn't catch me within a hundred miles of this shit.

a friend of mine has worked for BM for over a decade now and it's been interesting to hear her behind-the-scenes take on the organization and the event itself and how things have grown and changed. long story short - when the men were in charge things were wild, dangerous, unplanned, etc. as the event grew in size and the women in the organization took over, things have become much more regulated, restricted, well-organized, etc. which was probably required by the event's scaling-up. even so I basically have no interest in an event that involves this many people, no matter what it is.

Burning Man, LLC?

Black Rock City LLC

also, *everyone* is totally in the mood to get laid.

This sounds amazing until you realize there's a possibility you'd be the odd one out. Then it sounds like the most treacherous thing ever.

xp It's the LLC that really matters.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/organization/index.html

also, *everyone* is totally in the mood to get laid.

Burning Sensation Man

lol

it does have a gross MTV-spring-break-for-nerds sorta vibe to it

I never got laid there fwiw (well, apart from the couple years I went with my gf)

spring break on bad acid

SF is never better than it is the week all the burners are gone.

"Burning Person"

SF is never better than it is the week all the burners are gone.

so true. plentiful parking! parks and museums and movie theaters and shows! bars/restaurants free of jerks!

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/the-best-craigslist-missed-connections-from-burning-man/262004/

You may of been my true-love-prince! - w4m - 24

I, was wearing purple polka-dotted crotchless panties, yellow fuzzy tap dancing shoes and rainbow knee-high socks with swirly peace signs. On my tits, I had disco pasties. I have sicc multi-colored dreads.

You, had a green goatee, and no pants. A cow patterned blazer, No shirt. Sicc tatts.

I saw you hula'n on the multi-colored flying dragon art-car as I was riding my TIGHT cruzer thru da sicc playa dust.

We made eye-contact and never saw each again! Hope the universe brings us together. Namaste.

P.s. my name is Raven.

da sicc playa dust

"We made eye-contact and never saw each again! Hope the universe brings us together. Namaste."

Hope I can remain in a marajuana haz efor life yo

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.

No fooling, this, in a bare wide powdery desert in 289752895 degree heat, sounds liek the worst fucking hell I could imagine. I cannot fathom this being an enjoyable idea. It sounds like some hunter s thompsonesque nightmare to me.

maybe because his coverage of the mint motorcycle race was in the nevada desert and burning man is in the nevada desert?

Well, obviously.

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.

This sounds amazing until you realize there's a possibility you'd be the odd one out. Then it sounds like the most treacherous thing ever.

i was the odd one out more than once, didn't keep me from having fun there! it was just kinda in the air (cue obvious smelly genitals joke). it's a good party. it's intense. it's unlike anything else i've ever done. there were plenty of intensely crappy parts ("bare wide powdery desert in 289752895 degree heat" is a real thing you have to deal with) that were outweighed by the intensely fun parts. maybe a bit like an acid trip?

once again: i feel like so far on here, pretty much everyone who's had something bad to say about it has never actually been.

You may of been my true-love-prince! - w4m - 24

I, was wearing purple polka-dotted crotchless panties, yellow fuzzy tap dancing shoes and rainbow knee-high socks with swirly peace signs. On my tits, I had disco pasties. I have sicc multi-colored dreads.

You, had a green goatee, and no pants. A cow patterned blazer, No shirt. Sicc tatts.

I saw you hula'n on the multi-colored flying dragon art-car as I was riding my TIGHT cruzer thru da sicc playa dust.

We made eye-contact and never saw each again! Hope the universe brings us together. Namaste.

P.s. my name is Raven.

i could be wrong but this strikes me as possibly a joke? possibly by an actual burning man participant - i'll give you some of the details are pretty spot on, people do kinda dress like that there, but the "TIGHT cruzer thru da sicc playa dust, namaste" just sounds like parody.

whether it's real or not, I enjoyed it

i grudgingly admit it was funny

have they really increased their ticket prices $100 over two years? in a recession?

okay technically not 'in a recession' i need coffee

considering it sells out every year and the local authorities raise their rates/fees every year why would that be unsurprising

er surprising

"You were there reeking of patchouili and human stink. I rubbed mud on my belly and did an interpretive ritualdance. Hopeing we can try to eat plants we find in the forest one day"

that should be one

"We were both tripping balls and you were filled with white light. Call me"

"You had James Brown tattooed on your anus>"

My current place of employment allowed some of my more favored co-workers to go to Burning Man for the week, paid...and then also gave them this week off to recover.

I really need a new job.

left out the funniest part of that missed connection which is the last line:

p.p.s we saw each other at burning man.

were do you woerk

Hmmmmm. If someone else was footing the bill and giving me an additional week off during which to recover I might very well be singing a different tune and already thinking about where to order my purple crotchless panties from for next year's event.

My current place of employment allowed some of my more favored co-workers to go to Burning Man for the week, paid...and then also gave them this week off to recover.

I really need a new job.

― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, September 7, 2012 2:04 PM (2 hours ago)

this sounds fucked up

you should petition them for recognition of your own chosen festival of holistic meaningfulness + setting fire to things

going to burning man with my co workers seems likea circel of hell

One of my coworkers went a couple years ago with his brother. Their other brother had died the prior year from a freak accident, and it was kind of a bonding thing. The brother had a mutant vehicle repair shop with welding tools.

Hearing a pretty straightlaced 50-something guy talk about Burning Man was cool