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"Back in '04, Mattypoo found a gentle man wandering on the playa with a cattle prod. It turned out he was an "experientialist". He told Mattypoo, "This will hurt a lot, but then you will feel amazing and you'll want to hug me."
As promised, it sucked for a moment and then Mattypoo gave the mendicant priest a big hug. Delicious Dan loves hugs, so he was inspired to open up his own shop!
No bartering, no "gift exchange", just 100% absolutely $free$ electroshock therapy! And there was no shortage of volunteers to experience this 100% absolutely *real* cattle prod shock to the ass, either!
OK...I failed to post here that Hollis Hawthorne, the burner woman who has been in a coma since February, had a major breakthrough last Tuesday and spoke. You can get all that amazing, wonderful and heartwarming information on the blog Help Holli Heal set up by her family here.
Get ready for Burning Man with Crunchy Mama's amazing and totally comprehensive packing list! This list has been in development going on 12 years now and has been invaluable in my preparations for Black Rock City for every one of them.
You can download it for free at Archive.org right here. When you land on the page click on "PDF" in the box on the left side.
Hi again everybody. I'm Tony Edwards also known as "OhTony". This is Part Three of "Burner: Tales from the Playa". The last part, Part Four will be posted next Wednesday.
-- OhTony
While we've received a lot of positive feedback on Facebook about Katherine the Great's series "Burners in Business", it wouldn't be right if we also didn't receive some snark, especially from one of the folks at Piss Clear. FWIW, K'Buster is calling the kettle black! :P You can get his fabulous "It was on fire when I got here" t-shirts at Cafe Press! I've got mine!
Hi! I'm Katherine the Great. This week's episode is part of my "Burners in Business" series featuring an interview from 2007 with Nikki Doran, owner of Wild on the Inside and creator of Prepare for the Playa-- an annual event in San Francisco dedicated to providing everything you need for a great Burn! More than just your average trunk show, Prepare for the Playa aims to connect Burners in Business with the folks who could make the most use their products and services-- that is, other Burners!
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Please Help! Elias Sorokin has been missing since Monday 7/20...
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A word from filmmaker Jason Siadek:
"The devil is trying to draft all of our souls to fight God and His angels, so I figured it's high time we got rid of that chronic asshole! I picked up a roll of chickenwire and some vano to papier mache him with incendiary entrails. Since the devil came from the bible, I used a bible for the skin. I brought a few dozen, but it only took one bible to make the life-sized demon and his 8 foot tall pitchfork. He lived all week on the playa, facing the Man with a mirror, and then we burned him on Friday night to clear the way for the weekend.
Construction Notes
Papier Mache on the playa is a moop management challenge, but it's a great activity for passersby that want to contribute a few strips to the project. By the time he was done, my friend DaPete, my buddy Scott, and a host of new friends had all relaxed in the morning shade to run their fingers through the gooey wonder of vano and water. I used different chapter pages for his various parts: "Deutronomy" and "Numbers" (the law) were his pitchfork. His head was "Kings". His chest was "The Bible" from the cover inset page. His penis was "Genesis" and his anus was "Exodus".
The incredible fire sculpture that he's leaning on for the burn was built by JD (the star of the "mOOnshOt" demolition). I cleaned the wreckage up after I shot the final scene. I don't know how you feel about the death penalty, but the devil was a fucker of a moop generator so he had to be destroyed, which ironically generated more moop.
My friend and ex-BRC pat Andrew kept the brazier burning with fresh pages from the two dozen bibles I brought so that anyone who wanted could throw a few pages on. There was no shortage of volunteers.
This project was a hoot to execute, but a challenging concept, and my friend Scott (the son of a pastor) wonders what Jesus would think about all of this. All I can say is that I hope Jesus is cool."
Screenshot from Burning Man's home page.
Whatever they're smoking at BMHQ turned into a big public stink on Twitter. It started as a simple tweet from @danger_ranger (aka "Michael Michael", Ambassador and Director of Genetic Engineering for the Black Rock City LLC):
So does this really mean that Burning Man is really becoming 501c? Really??? I'm shocked! I mean... maybe they really are a cult!
Thankfully my fears were allayed because it wasn't long before @mariangoodell (Director of Business and Communications for the Black Rock City LLC) piped up:
The thing that bewilders me is that nowhere in that article Danger Ranger references does it actually state that Burning Man is to become a non-profit. And I'm also wondering: do they realize that Twitter is a public conversation? Maybe the lesson BMorg needs to learn is the difference between a private email and a public tweet.
But then again this could be all just one big joke. Haha! Fuck you, ranger! I mean, you have to keep in mind that M2 is a former member of the Cacophony Society, so maybe this is just a prank. Just like the prank Paul Addis pulled in '07.
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UPDATE 23 July 2009 11:30 - I guess I really should ask myself what I was smoking last night. While at first glance I thought the Hatted One was referencing the Black Rock Arts Foundation in this passage from the article, on a second reading I had to rethink this:
CG: So you wonder how Burning Man might look 50 years from now?This changes the game from a possible prank, to well, pretty much factual, they're going non-profit (at least it seems Larry Harvey and Danger Ranger want it to). Maid Marian? Not so sure. And what about the rest of the board? Who knows. Perhaps this is what Joseph Pred, Senior Staff Emergency Services Operations Chief meant in his tweet.
LH: Oh yeah, that’s what we’re working on. Next year will be our 25th — the silver jubilee if it were a marriage. The event is replenishing itself. Unlike a lot of things, it’s not defined by just one age cohort. It’s thriving. I’ve no trouble imagining it lasting another 25 years and more. We’re in the process of shedding the corporation into a non-profit in order to help take care of the employees who have been with us for so many years and allow them to advance in leadership and responsibility in our absence. We’re involved in a reorganization from top to bottom; it’s going to be very interesting.
Hi again everybody. I'm Tony Edwards also known as "OhTony" and I've been invited by DaBomb to be the newest contributor here on BURNcast.TV. This is Part Two of "Burner: Tales from the Playa" Parts Three and Four will be posted on the next two consecutive Wednesdays.
Dammitina was a Showdog. The dog of a Showman. We did it together. All of it. This is her curtain. -- Chicken John
The year 1996 was a watershed year for Burning Man: the theme was HeLLCo; the neon Smiley flickered in the effigy for a brief minute; Michael Furey was killed in motorcycle collision; and three people were seriously injured when a car ran over their tent. Also that year today's guest Danger Angel worked as the night supervisor for the Black Rock Rangers and after that she never again returned to the playa. In this interview we find out why. Music by SolarCycle available on Magnatune."1996 was the year Burning Man went over the edge: too many people for the infrastructure, too many gawkers, too many cars, too many arrests, too many heartbreaks. After years of beating the odds, we got our asses whipped, and we did it to ourselves."-- Stuart Mangrum
Editor of Twisted Times
and former Director of Communications
for the Black Rock City LLC.
Get the latest headlines from the Burning Man 2009 right on your iPhone or iPod Touch with this new webapp. Each hour the folks at Webbappuniverse comb the Internet to find you the best headlines regarding the event and deliver them on your mobile device.
Philip Waymore's American dream for Burning Man 2008. Video by Hedy.
The Burn -- Burning Man 2008 from MrNightshade on Vimeo.
Photo flipbook by Mr. Nightshade, theblight.net
Hi, I'm Tony Edwards also known as "OhTony" and I've been invited by DaBomb to be the newest contributor here on BURNcast.TV. This is Part One of "Burner: Tales from the Playa". Parts Two, Three and Four will be posted on the next three consecutive Wednesdays."Burner: Tales from the Playa" is a one-man show written and performed by me. It is the true story of a seven-time "Burner" and chronicles the joy, heartbreak, amazement and life lessons learned at Burning Man, the annual festival which takes place on Black Rock Lake, a remote, dry lake bed in Northern Nevada, lovingly known to Burners as "the playa".
"Burner" is a multi-media production, featuring images, video and sound captured by me at Burning Man. It is directed by Jerry Diner. The above video is from a performance which took place on February 2, 2008 at Abundant Sugar in Los Angeles.
And so, I present to you, "Burner: Tales from the Playa". I invite you to watch it and share it with your friends. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed it's creation. Much love to all of my dusty friends who supported me in this labor of love.
In this interview my guest "Charcoal" shares his experience of having survived falling into the remains of the Burning Man bonfire at the event in 2006. A year later he shares his story of recovery. Recorded 5 September 2007 in San Francisco, CA.
As mentioned in this recording:
UPDATE: 15:00:06 14 July 2009:I want to clarify that "Charcoal" is not the identity of Anthony Beninati who, the year prior to Charcoal's incident, also fell into the burning ashes of the Man in 2005. According to reports, Beninati was a three time veteran of Burning Man whereas Charcoal was a virgin when it happened. Unlike Beninati, Charcoal did not sue the Black Rock City LLC nor does he plan to do so.
Scott Beale is the blogger behind Laughing Squid, an online resource for art, culture, and technology based in San Francisco. He's been also covering stories pertaining to the Burning Man community (drink!) for a long time and we think Scott is just all sorts of awesome sauce. Scott took this set of photos are from last night's "Sand by the Ton" event in Oakland to benefit The Big Art Experience headed by Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito.
Words, video, pictures can not begin to capture what it feels like to be there. My first experience and everyone was so welcoming! I felt like I finally found "home."
Homeslice is a Burning Man crew from Los Angeles that have a special place in my heart. In 2002 I had the pleasure of calling their camp my slice of heaven on the playa and ever since then the people there have been part of my burner tribe. In this home video we focus on one particularly amazing piece of art called "Leather Corndog" where you can drum to your soul's content on a re-purposed junk-metal sculpture. Earplugs and leather gloves recommended for extended crushing. More from filmmaker Jason Siadek:
"Helping out with an art project lets you participate in something much bigger than you might ever pull off by yourself. Even if you don't consider yourself an artist, there are many projects that could use your $, your camera, or a minute of your muscles. A lot of my films are about other people's art, and I always hope that somehow I can contribute by sharing their art in perpetuity after the fact. Nothing really compares to being there, but it's certainly worth the time to reflect. I've been fortunate to find some great people in the Burning community that have amazing projects that took an army to produce.'
"Leather Corndog is a series of projects that Reverend Nairb and Egg took the lead on, and in 2002 their project was a giant mobile drum set, powered and moved by people. I'd love to cut this short even smaller, or make it more melodic, but hopefully you can get a sense of the symphony and the dissonance, the chaos, and the harmony of this wondrous monstrosity! It starts off with a glimpse of our camp, "Homeslice" before night falls and the Leather Corndog goes on the beat."
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This is the third video submitted by moontroll who writes about this one:
"A short film shot from a bicycle as the sun rises over the Black Rock Desert on Saturday morning. I am out on open playa, blissfully weaving amongst beautiful Burners glowing in the first light of day, the Temple of Forgiveness, the shrine and Abraxas, a mobile art car/soundsystem that is providing amazing sunrise grooves."
More videos and photos by moontroll here.
This was an impromptu video shoot I did with the performance group LUCENT DOSSIER (a Los Angeles/Burner collective). It features particularly the aerialists Alecia Scholtze and Autumn Phillips. Made with Elevated Dreams and Morpheusfilm.-- Chala
4th of Juplaya from Star St.Germain on Vimeo.
Like I said yesterday, I was so busy over the 4th of July weekend I don't have any videos for BURNcast.TV to post today. Malderor, our correspondent from San Francisco, was on assignment to cover the happenings on 4th of Juplaya but the dude completed a total fail when he forgot to bring his video camera with him. He did however send an SMS when he got off the Black Rock Desert to say "Fourth of Juplaya is better than Burning Man". From what we can tell in this video that was shot at last year's event we might have to agree.
BURNcast #015
Hope, Not Fear - A Podcard from Burning Man 2006
At the time of this posting there are over 78 episodes of the BURNcast audio podcast available for download for free in the iTunes store so be sure to check'em out! Until next week, I hope you enjoy this recording from Burning Man 2006.This episode of BURNcast is intended as a soundscape for friends who were unable to attend this year’s Burning Man. It’s like a postcard -- or rather a podcard -- featuring the sounds of the playa on Friday night before the burn. It’s simply a bike ride from 7:00 and Esplanade to 3:00 and Esplanade across the playa.
In it you will hear Megavolt’s electric presence, the Neverwas Haul’s whistle, blasts from Burninator II and El Diablo thundering in the night. You also will hear the squeek of bicycles and overhear conversations as things begin to literally heat up on the playa that night.
UPDATE at 10:00am July 7: As posted on my Facebook wall are the following responses to my utter bewilderment at this cartoon:Gwen Likes Pink at 2:23am July 7:To which I respond with the following image taken at Burning Man:
This is actually a TV show: it's called Xavier, Renegade Angel and it's on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.
Pete Goldie at 8:06am July 7:
Yeah, TheBomb, you should watch more TV.
BMTimer
Burning Man 2008
Kindle for Iphone
iPhone app (this is the "free" part) and pay $7.99 (this is the "gotcha" part) for the digital version of the book "This is Burning Man" by Brian Doherty. This book is by far the most comprehensive writing about Burning Man that details the history and evolution of the event from its beginnings in 1986 up until 2004. The pros of getting the digital copy of this book is that it ain't heavy and it all fits nicely in the palm of your hand. The cons are that Doherty can't actually autograph this one like he's done for my paperback edition but oh well. If you don't want to shell out $7.99 for your own digital copy, you can borrow it from your local library for free. It's still a great book and you should read it regardless of what you paid for it or its method of delivery be it pixels or paper.
Halfway between the price point of $3.99 and "free" comes another burner useful app called TentFinder that costs $1.99. TentFinder purports to be the "ultimate music festival companion". I do not personally own this app so to review it would be unfair. But I will say that it aims to help you find your tent when lost at a music festival by apparently using GPS and a compass to guide you home. One review of TentFinder that I read on a blog said: "Great idea, bought this for global gathering and tested it out. Works well." However in another review in the iTunes store the user had just the opposite experience, giving it a rating of one star and wrote a not-so-glowing (but I think very informative) review. You be the judge and check it out for yourself. But I'd love to hear what you think so send me an email privately or post a public comment on this blog post and let me know.
That's it for this summer's crop of iPhone apps. I'm looking forward to more wonderful, useful and elegant applications as this technological platform unfolds as a tool of expression and innovation for other burner developers, programmers, and new media artists. It will also be very interesting to see how the apps as featured in this post develop and evolve in upcoming versions and revisions. Finally, for what's it's worth, I'd like to remind you that both the audio and video podcasts of BURNcast are available for free in iTunes. It's my gift to you. So fuck your day! :)
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