Burning Man
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- zaq0
OMG ticket sales is open now. Anyone is going this year?
- robotron3k2
Where is scarabin?
- He was attacked by this giant rooster
...and never really did recover.
https://www.youtube.…utopian - yeah he has disappeared .. finally saw the light?autoflavour
- A witch hunter got him.i_monk
- gearing up for wasteland weekend :)scarabin
- He was attacked by this giant rooster
- robotron3k0
I remember my 2nd burning man, in 2006. Had around 40k attendees. I had friends in the cleanup crew. Part of her job was to drag large magnets donated by Stanford across the floor if the dessert to pick up screws, nails, metal left by the chambers. After cleanup, they then announced to the crews that people abandoned 13k sofas on the playa back then!!! cant even imagine the 10s of thousands of sofas along with the same amount if new bicycles left strewn across Northern Nevada now in 2018, after just 1 week of use. (Let's not mention individual carbon emission that is blown through the roof!) now the rich hippies pissed at the drug searches/busts going on along on the single highway entering the dessert. I wonder when the Government will deny them permission to hold it based on yearly environmental catastrophe that's been created...
- *campers (not chambers)robotron3k
- They have purchase some land. I can't remember where. The BLM may not have to worry about BLM anymore soon.capn_ron
- found it. it's called Fly Ranch in north eastern nevada. looks like pretty cool land.capn_ron
- Interesting didnt know about this! sounds lush and majestic! But let burners in there with discos, yoga bars and sex tents it will be a dessert in no time.robotron3k
- Don't get me wrong Burning Man is still badass, but everything goes through a lifecycle. The real question is, how fun is Bman when you're sober???robotron3k
- I have talked with lots of sober goers. They say it is more fun because you have more "real" interactions not clouded by drugs.capn_ron
- fly ranch isnt much land... a site for fly geyser which you'd have to smooze someone at gerlach hotel and pay some money to get out and shootdeathboy
- now they're offering tours device free and some camera options... strikes me as business diversificationdeathboy
- severian-8
I see the retard parade is back.
- sea_sea0
- good cam this year.sea_sea
- pretty cool. will it all fill up with tents and rvs?hotroddy
- or do they keep this area free of tents?hotroddy
- they mainly focus on the open playa this part is where most of the big art is, commissioned pieces and personal projects. etcsea_sea
- earlier they were moving it around it reaches far this year. so . you see camps too. i believe in about 30 minutes 5pm pst they are showing some drone footage.sea_sea
- lol... https://www.theonion…sea_sea
- drone is happening nowhotroddy
- better than mad maxhotroddy
- :D listen to the city radio and watch the stream it's pretty funny http://www.bmir.org/…sea_sea
- Wow, the camera work is amazing, this ain't burning man anymore though, this is reality tv show. No more anonymity!!!robotron3k
- I went in 99, so seeing it so vividly now instead of experiencing it is a bit sad I have to say, but it kinda does looks like a white hajj...robotron3k
- it makes not being there a bit less painful. but i agree i wouldn't want to be photographed without my consent.sea_sea
- robo, my first year was 99. i think we had this convo before. it was the first year you couldn't shoot guns and randomly drive.capn_ron
- Haha, right. Do you remember the watermelon trebuchet on the playa, that thing could hurl... the Space Cowboy era was by far the best time!robotron3k
- I do. It was also the last year of live animals. There were two camels out there. They were so damn soft. They got kicked off the playa a few days in.capn_ron
- Get ready capn ron! This is 1999 Bman, that's me 30 sec in! Camels are there too, put your headphones on https://youtu.be/8bW…robotron3k
- oh man! lots of memories. I have photos of a lot of that artwork. I also jumped on that trampoline near the beginning. good work!capn_ron
- chukkaphob5
- I was watching it live last night and it's def different from years ago, but its downright more amazing in other ways...robotron3k
- elaborate ?...Krassy
- When you watch the night time live feed you can see hundreds of light art pieces in phenomenal scale, I think you cant even see all the art there is so much.robotron3k
- The whole event is now a completely night time event, its s light playground in the dessertrobotron3k
- ^ desertnbq
- <3pockets
- severian4
It's Chuck E. Cheese for adults.
- Krassy2
LOL!
- DaveO0
Any reports / photo round ups out yet?
- pockets0
qbn 2019 burning man...who's in
- Projectile0
- Google now owns 51%Projectile
- yeah but date...hans_glib
- lolfadein11
- Heherobotron3k
- april fools.. bitches!bliznutty
- aren't 90% of the attendees Google & Silicon Valley execs?Krassy
- zaq2
- The 5 mile wide circle is almost complete, it wasn't even close to this in 99, there were only 22,000 people then, and it was an embarrassment to go at the timerobotron3k
- My friends told me not to tell anyone I worked with when I lived in San Francisco at the time, even the LGBTs thought it was a stupid event. I lied to my bossrobotron3k
- Told him I needed the time off, guy was a mean Queen, reluctantly gave it to me. Whew! The first morning on the playa, I'm bicycling by myself, I bump into himrobotron3k
- We became BFF after thatrobotron3k
- And if you don't believe me, here's the footage to prove it, I'm at 0:30... Enjoy! https://youtu.be/8bW…robotron3k
- ha robo - brilliant.fadein11
- I'm not, friends did. Said first few days an uncaged zoo; windy, dusty, sex assaults, traffic deaths, plane crash. Many, many scammed out.BustySaintClaire
- whoa! Robo is a hippy? :)Krassy
- Wow Busty, I went again in 2006, started hearing about sex attacks then. People get creepy af after the burn, not surprised creepy is now the norm.robotron3k
- i wouldn´t be suprised if he was marching in charlottesville right after or before burning man.neverscared
- I went to the first Coachella just a couple of months before, also something called the Cyberfest, 250 acts on 250 acres. Wish they did that again...robotron3k
- I went to the first Coachella too, and every single one (except for one) after thatKrassy
- Damn Krassy that first was epic! Wow the end of Saturday night unbelievable! Sunday the same!robotron3k
- Beeswax6
ATTENDING BURNING MAN OR PARENTING A TODDLER?
1. You never shower without an audience.
2. The person who refused to wear sunscreen or drink water is now having a meltdown, and it’s your job to chase them around brandishing pickles and Gatorade until they chill out.
3. You can’t shut up about it.
4. There’s a song playing, and you’re pretty sure it’s the same song, and you’re pretty sure it’s been playing all day, but you’re not quite sure where it’s coming from or how to turn it off.
5. Everyone keeps going on and on about how much they’ve “grown.”
6. You eat the majority of your meals in your underwear.
7. You literally can’t remember the last time you got a good night’s sleep.
8. Your favorite outfit gets puke on it seconds after you put it on.
9. The one thing you desperately want to go to invariably gets eclipsed by a nap.
10. You get called seven different things over the course of a week, none of which are actually your name.
11. Someone finished the Cheez-Its, but no-one’s owning up to it.
12. The one time you attempt sex, you get interrupted by someone in a unicorn onesie and swim goggles jumping up and down on your mattress while begging you to make a grilled cheese.
13. You spend an inordinate amount of time discussing who’s been to the potty, and when.
14. A lot of the art isn’t actually that great.
15. You get involved in deep philosophical conversations about such powerful mysteries of the universe as: “Is this an apple? Are you sure? This isn’t an apple. Is this an apple?” and “Why do we have hands?”
16. Shirt-cocking.
17. You take a billion blurry pictures that nobody cares about but you.
18. You know it’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, annoying, and expensive, but you love it more than anything... except sleep. Boy, do you love sleep.
- Beeswax3
- May have been the last best tests, I think they begun taking money at center camp on 06robotron3k
- festsrobotron3k
- fooler0
“Burning Man Not What It Once Was,” Says First Time Burner on Second Day
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — Senior Amazon engineer Eddie Shipman claimed today that Burning Man, the weeklong electronic music festival held in the Nevada desert, has declined sharply in quality since first-time burner’s first experience some 24 hours ago.
- "weeklong electronic music festival"
definitely not what it once was.Beeswax
- "weeklong electronic music festival"
- Krassy0
Man arrested at Burning Man site charged with sexual assault
- Krassy0
Man found dead at Burning Man; sheriff's office investigating as suspicious
- I've walked into a suicide case one morning, glad I didn't see anything in that state but even hearing about it was enough to mess me up.Beeswax
- holy crap what a huge area.sarahfailin
- Sounds Darwinian .. surprised there aren't more. https://www.facebook…BustySaintClaire
- i_monk1
Setting fire to artworks in the desert "creates atmospheric pollution" says Burning Man festival
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/1…
Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030.
The festival, which sees 80,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert each summer, has drawn up a draft sustainability plan after calculating that its carbon footprint is 100,000 tons of CO2 per year.
- Smouldering Man?BusterBoy
- Que mamona la gente deverasHijoDMaite
- They could burn a 7 story tower of beeswax. negative emission.BH26
- How much environmental damage could a fire or two cause?CyBrainX