Actually, that comment is from a friend of mine who goes to Burning Man every year (translation: he' s serious)
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
a) like with anything else some of it is crap and some of it is really coolb) everything gets set on fire so if you didn't like some of the art that's ok, it'll all be up in flames at the end
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
DUN NUH-NUH-NUH NUH-NUH-NUH NUH NUH NUH-NUH!
― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
Granted, I think part of me dies any time someone says they "feel like an artist." That's me. But the rest is actually supposed to make it sound good?
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
Is it called "Bill Graham Presents©: Mountain Dew eXtreme™'s Burning Man 2003" yet?
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
i should become a professor or something
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
The people I know who go aren't hippies, they are artists/designers/musicians/etc.
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.thespoon.com/costco/
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
If you're looking for scary scraggly creepy people on lots of drugs there, you will find them. If you're looking for amazing unusual fascinating people, you will also find them. There is a lot of really bad art, and more than a bit of incredibly good art. And the idea of spending 2% or so of my year in a culture that's pretty much entirely based on creativity and kindness really appeals to me.
Also, Gygax, it's a little hard for something to go all commecial when you're not allowed to use money there...
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
I mean, if the haters stay home, so much the better (it's not like "no no, you just have to GO there, then you'll SEE"--if you're predisposed to hate it, you will anyway), but it's kind of disconcerting to see the knives coming out.
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
Not that I'd ever go, but if I did I'd have to make myself a Christopher Lee costume.
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― chester (synkro), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
Last year, Tom Schild (current PPLO President) ventured to the Wrong Side of the Trax at the invitation of Yuta Lee (PPLO Ambassador to the Dave Train).
This year, our fearless leader Tom is unable to face the playa but vows to return next year. In his place, a crew of 11 DC emissaries will be representing the PPLO on the playa. I believe we are the largest DC contingent in any camp.
Ambassador Lee arrives in Black Rock City today for preliminary infrastructure development. Phil Psilos (General Mayhem) will be in charge of military operations for recreational terrorism. In the absence of our President, I will assume duties as Field Commander-in-Chief. (I'm currently on TDY in the Bay Area).
We are the PPLO – The Party People Liberation Organization. We are recreational terrorists dedicated to decriminalizing the underground and preserving our constitutional right to express our individuality, dance, create house music, celebrate life, groove to whatever makes us groove, be freaks and, above all, assemble in the name of love and peace!!!!
PPLO PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEI Pledge Allegiance to the cause of preserving our music and culture, and to the PPLO that protects it, at Nation or underground, all night long, with partying and dancing for all...
Namaste,Ky ("Key")
Field Commander-in-ChiefPPLO (Party People Liberation Organization)Wrong Side of the Trax (Dave Train)3:30 Serious Authority, Black Rock City
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
Hahahahahaha... yeah, generalizations about people from entire regions or countries are great. Nothing else does as good a job of bringing the ignorant flotsam of society to the surface. But I'm sure you didn't REALLY mean anything by that, did you Tep? ;)
― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link
GERLACH, NV—The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday.
http://www.theonion.com/current_top_story.html
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:20 (twenty years ago) link
"The event likes to bill itself as radical self-sustainability, but really it's an orgy of consumption," said Jack Haye, a computer modeler at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael. Haye was exhibiting one of his sculptures at Burning Man.
"There is way too much utilization of new materials that are wasted. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars -- or millions -- are spent in Costco in August getting ready for this?"
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
^^^^ He IS 79 and played keys in Blue Cheer before they went power trio
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:22 (six months ago) link
Found an old web site for the Tales Of San Francisco Cacophony book, and the link list is a who's who of early pre-playa BM
http://talesofsfcacophony.com
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:36 (six months ago) link
I'm neither a burner nor an electrician, but for some reason, Facebook just gave me Burning Man Generators and Electrical Systems as a recommended group.https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627137627565692/?ref=share&mibextid=Na33Lf
― peace, man, Sunday, 24 September 2023 10:49 (six months ago) link
The comments in that group read like NextDoor Burning Man
Irina Krapivaworst neighbors ever!!! invest in your generator! it was 90 dc at the end of our camp and we were across from you!this is stupid to drive electric vehicle and then use old generator with tons of exhaust and super loud to charge your truck and the suck energy from it. You got feedback from other neighbors as well, hope you reconsider for next time and I hope you won't be my neighbors.Sandra Jurado@Irina Krapiva As first-time burners, we definitely learned a lot and have lots to reconsider for next time. We are hoping to share what we learned so other first-timers will have a smoother (and quieter) experience than we did.- Your Sincerely Apologetic Loud-Ass NeighborsNick Radell@Irina Krapiva speaking as an old school type of player, I can only point out that one unattended moment with the offending genny and a sugar cube, will cure all problems for everyone.Irina Krapiva@Nick Radell at some moment I was seriously considering sugar cubes 😜 but this year was pain enough to cause even more.Thanks God other neighbors also complained about loud generator and guys turned it off for a few hours. The first night they run it all day and night as well, which was insane. Later they switched to day hours 🤨 (5-6 hours every single day!) which was still too much.If I were at their place I would move out of that area to a place with less people and run generator as much as they want.It was obviously not very pleasant for them as well to get dirty looks from all sides.Ernie Workman@Nick Radell Sugar isn't soluble in gasoline. It's a myth that it causes serious engine damage. Especially for non fuel-injected engines, it would at most clog a fuel filter or land in the float bowl, which would be an easy fix. I appreciate the sentiment though, attempting to destroy someone's means of leaving the playa instead of simply chatting with your neighbors is sure in the spirit of Burning Man.China Wilson@Nick Radell vandalism definitely the way to resolve problems🙄
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 September 2023 11:30 (six months ago) link
I met someone on Friday night who went there this year for the first time and had a great time.Heard a podcast a couple of days earlier that talked about the rich glomming onto a successful festival over teh years and it largely being them who had had trouble this year and had the wrong attitude to the thing anyway.Also talked about the expectation that people went to Burning man for the bands which I hadn't been aware of the festival enough not to think.
― Stevo, Sunday, 24 September 2023 11:53 (six months ago) link
I gotta mention too that there’s some seriously impressive portable solar rigs in that Facebook group.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 September 2023 12:50 (six months ago) link
Your points are literally unhinged subjective biases (the music and art sucks boo!)
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:58 (two months ago) link
Lol
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
glad to be of some use around here
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:59 (two months ago) link