Conspiracy Theories, meet Burning Man
[Haters? Don’t bother reading. This is one of those Burners.Me posts that you’re not going to like. You’ll probably even want to comment about it and call me names. Wonder why I’m always negative, or...
View ArticleThe Spark of Controversy
You might have heard a lot of the hype about the new documentary about Burning Man, Spark. It’s screening tonight in Reno at 7:30, then playing to 1400 people in Washington DC, heading to New York...
View ArticleThe Poor Man’s Burning Man: Part One
by Whatsblem the Pro People have some pretty crazy ideas regarding what Burning Man is all about. Even hardcore burners have a difficult time agreeing just what it is we’re all doing out there, unless...
View ArticleTHE TEMPLE: Life and Death with Peter Gordon
by Whatsblem the Pro Peter Gordon is an award-winning photographer based in Ireland, where he’s been working full-time as an art photographer for the last seven years. Gordon studied history and...
View ArticleBurning Man HQ Sells for $17 Million
A year or two back, Burning Man moved their offices into a new building in Market St. An area “best known for drug deals, graffiti and vagrants“, it’s close to City Hall, in the heart of San Francisco....
View ArticleA Matter of Control
by Whatsblem the Pro The International Arts Megacrew is a crew of builders that has earned a massive amount of respect from the citizens of Black Rock City, in particular with the success of their very...
View ArticleRUN, IT IS RISEN! A Burning Man Easter Story
by Whatsblem the Pro On Good Friday, we reported that art car favorite El Pulpo Mecanico would be scrapped. Three days later on Easter Sunday, El Pulpo artist/designer Duane Flatmo commented on that...
View ArticleCan Gods Die?
by Whatsblem the Pro El Pulpo Mecanico, the steampunk art car in the form of an enormous cephalopod that first wowed us all at Burning Man 2011, is reportedly headed for the scrap heap. Pulp the...
View ArticleTemple Burns: Not Just for Burning Man any more
At Burners.Me, we’re very supportive of Burner culture diffusing out into the wider world. We try to live Burning Man every day, not just pretend to be someone else for one week a year. Burning Man...
View ArticleBurnal Equinox 2013 is Coming!
by Whatsblem the Pro Burnal Equinox is coming up once again on Saturday, March 2nd, halfway between Burning Man 2012 and Burning Man 2013. There will be multiple celebrations of the Equinox in...
View ArticleBurnitecture
Burning Man is a builder’s wet dream. A temporary city, with no real construction restrictions – except Leave No Trace. Right now I’m in my RV travelling to the Superbowl in New Orleans with the...
View ArticleSmithsonian: “Cities, Bridges, and Burning Man Don’t Build Themselves”
Burning Man is so old skool, it’s in the Museum. The Smithsonian Museum that is. They’ve just published an article entitled “Cities, Bridges and Burning Man Don’t Build Themselves“, a salute to various...
View ArticleModern Luxury: “RIP Burning Man (1986-2011)”
I remember what a shock to the Burner Eco-System it was when Town and Country magazine did a piece on Burning Man’s Krug-swilling society set. My how time flies! Now, not even a mere year later,...
View ArticleHow Rich People Do Burning Man
Gawker wrote this article after last year’s Burn – although it seems to mostly quote Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. It’s not plagiarism if there’s attribution! Personally, I’ve seen how some...
View ArticleThe All Seeing Eye of the Hexacopter
Thanks to French Burner Heliprod for shooting this great drone view of Burning Man 2011
View ArticleVirgins go to Burning Man
Here’s a video from 2011, well made by last year’s Virgins MotionPicturesIbiza on an iPhone, to get you in the mood. You will spot many of the 43 flavors of Burners here. The geeks from the USB Bus...
View ArticleBurning Man from the air – a quadricopter’s eye view
Here is some interesting “eye in the sky” footage from 2011’s Rites of Passage Burn, filmed by San Francisco web and video design agency ZMInteractive using a remote controlled quadricopter. It’s a...
View ArticleStanford University lecture on Burning Man and its ties to Google
Burner culture is certainly becoming bigger, better, badder, and broader. Burner Fred Turner, a cultural and literary historian and software engineer, gives us a lecture on what the Burning Man...
View ArticleAfter Bliss, comes Truth and Beauty
After yesterday’s rare transit of Venus, we thought it would be good to highlight the work of an artist who supports the divine goddess energy. Bay Area sculptor Marco Cochrane created the amazing...
View ArticleFeeling fit? Run a 50k Ultramarathon at Burning Man
This year will see the Third Burning Man Ultramarathon. Participants run 50km around a course. The race begins at 5am on Wednesday, August 29th. Last year there were about 60 participants, all in race...
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