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Burnitecture
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...
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Burnal Equinox 2013 is Coming!
by Whatsblem the Pro The Machine – Photo by Douglas Hope Hooper Burnal Equinox is coming up once again on Saturday, March 2nd, halfway between Burning Man 2012 and Burning Man 2013. There will be...
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Temple 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...
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Can Gods Die?
by Whatsblem the Pro Photo: Sarah Taylor 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...
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RUN, 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...
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A 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...
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Burning Man HQ Sells for $17 Million
Larry Harvey, Ed Lee and David Chiu announce new Burning Man HQ in 2011 A year or two back, Burning Man moved their offices into a new building in Market St. An area “best known for drug deals,...
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THE TEMPLE: Life and Death with Peter Gordon
by Whatsblem the Pro The Temple of Transition, Burning Man 2011 — Photo by Peter Gordon Peter Gordon is an award-winning photographer based in Ireland, where he’s been working full-time as an art...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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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...
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The Octorapture Draws Nigh
by Whatsblem the Pro When Duane Flatmo, the artist behind EL PULPO MECANICO, made public the plans to scrap his great beast of a mechanical flame-juggling octopus on Good Friday of this year,...
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Reading the Fine Print of the New Permit
I had a chance over lunch to look through the 13 page decision issued by the Bureau of Land Management. Basically, last year they were considering a permit increase to near 70,000 over 5 years. In 2011...
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Burning Your Way to Happiness
Burning Man is the subject of all kinds of different academic studies. This latest one is quite staggering in its scope – they surveyed more than 16,000 Burners, a study that took over 4 years and...
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The Black Rock Bijou: Cinema in the Zone
by Whatsblem the Pro Meet me in the balcony and baise-moi — PHOTO: Oliver Fluck There’s a moment at Burning Man that is etched indelibly into my memory: while biking out in the deep playa, I spotted a...
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Have You Seen Me?
by Whatsblem the Pro Burner Photographer Peter Gordon — PHOTO: Dave Earl Peter Gordon is a well-respected playa photographer who has won a slew of accolades for his work, especially in his native...
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Baby Burner Tells All
by Whatsblem the Pro Haley Dahl, 18, has been attending Burning Man since she was 9. Where the subject of children attending Burning Man comes up, controversy follows. Strong opinions run the gamut,...
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Burners Versus The Man
Last week we posted some aerial photos of Burning Man. The post was not very popular, being viewed only about 1300 times in total – most other posts here get ten times more views than that in a day....
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Those Who Cannot Remember the Past. . .
by Whatsblem the Pro Controversy over photography, film-making, advertising, and commerce at Burning Man is both constant in the burner community, and nothing new. A whole playbook of common arguments...
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They Ride Roughshod
by Whatsblem the Pro The principle of Decommodification that so many burners hold dear takes yet another brutal pounding this week as Australian chartbusting singer-songwriter-actress Missy Higgins...
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