Burning Man

hahaaaa

watching the burning man documentary i kept thinking man that is a LOT of electricity to cart out to a desert. like vegas for vegans.

lot of gas, trash, food, and water too. it is not even remotely "sustainable"

that aerial shot is dope tho

Hey, if they're dropping hippies into the playa from airplanes, I'm all for it.

...like vegas for vegans.

Bacon is the official food of Burning Man. (Tecate the official beer.)

omar otm.

Isn't that sex diary column a running fiction piece? It's like that every time.

..and accordingly, every time a bunch of people feel its realistic fiction style is either creepy or inauthentic. It's a classic troll.

haha yeah they all have the same author. ooooops

the "author" tasks a different "normal new yorker" each week with doing the cataloging iirc

o rly? the author is some relatively well-known "I'm so sex-positive my vagina fly atta you face" columnist, iirc

oh maybe i'm confusing it w/ a different column that had the same vibe? i dunno.

yeah I'm pretty sure it's satirical fiction

Uh, I doubt it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Kramer_Bussel

but I think Gr80 is correct -- this is an "as told to" kind of deal with different people featured every week. It's pretty clear if you look at the archives

I guess. It's always in first person, so hard to tell.

Jealousy triumphs over sexual liberation in the end.

the williamsburg one is nowhere near as bad as the burning man one

then again, I took a creative nonfiction class in college, so by that rubric... maybe I'll go with fictionalized and only partially self-aware

i love being right

do you ever yell "man, I love being a gr80"

no.

i def admire how they just light everything on fire, and most of the art is better off that way, sicc burn

can i just
http://i.imgur.com/RBHnV.jpg

YMCA reimagined as though the "M" was for "Mongol"

livin the dream these people

sicc on la playa

how much money gets spent on this motherfucker my god, and time

the burning of things in the middle of the desert is probably the biggest selling point for me personally #pyro

the burning of things in the middle of the desert is probably the biggest selling point for me personally #pyro

Try to get an invite for Desert Blast... According to their site (http://www.desertblast.net) it's returning in 2013!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ5y3pLos-g

blog post by ralph lawson that could be useful for any uk ppl who have ever considered going:

http://www.ralphlawson.co.uk/blog/2012/9/13/burning-man.html

Look who'll be there next year. Also:

http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2017c31d5691d970b-550wi

'money quote: "he's still not the highest one there"'

2:35 and 3:15
http://gawker.com/5947105/this-is-the-worst-thing-in-the-entire-universe

my friend who went to burning man said they pack everything out, not sure if i believe that

those last few pics look like something from a jodorowsky

I don't get why the wedding vid is in this thread but HOLY SHIT that's awful. I just watched it with my mouth hanging open. I'd die if I went to a reception where that was shown. I'm not good at stifling inappropriate laughter. I'd have to excuse myself.

Because the times Spencer noted have burning man pictures!

I couldn't bear to watch any more of it so didn't see those points.

Max and Spencer are the worst things in the entire universe.

beats the shit out of john lewis.

'macchiatos in the hood'

it just kept going and going

she should hook up with this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STH0BXSDV5s

WHY on earth is it so LONG!!!!???!!

as awful as the video is, I don't think I could be anything other than totally jazzed if my bride made it for me

I would be like, "jesus christ, I thought I was marrying a totally different person, not a musical theater actor" and leave home

The internet is so hateful. A hall of mirrors just laughing at itself.

kind of amused at people reacting badly to this versus the videos of wedding parties marching down the aisle to pop songs

like, making a heartfelt thing like this that's not a centerpiece of anything is a lot less cringeworthy than getting a few years down the road and realizing you looked like a jackass to the tune of the Black Eyed Peas

Those are bad too.