August 21, 2022
My Work Commute
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August 20, 2022
Will Call Before The Sign Goes Up
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August 19, 2022
The Man
A view of the Man along the 3 O'Clock road in 2019, before the crowds arrived.
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August 18, 2022
Sometimes It Rains At Burning Man
A little bit of rain blowing across the Black Rock Desert in 2018. While falling rain can be seen frequently over the desert, it rarely reaches the ground.
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August 17, 2022
Before The Black Rock Desert Gets Crowded
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August 16, 2022
Working Will Call at Burning Man
Photo by Frank Martin in 2018.
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August 15, 2022
On The Black Rock Desert
Camping on the Black Rock Desert before the crowds get here is really beautiful. It's beautiful after the crowds get here too, but there's a noticeable difference. This photo was shot shortly before sunrise in 2019.
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August 14, 2022
On My Way To Burning Man
This was in Bishop on my way to Burning Man in 2019, and things should look pretty much the same today. I go to Burning Man before the gates open to help set up Box Office, where I volunteer.
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July 20, 2022
Burning Man Not Observed
A Christian attempts to interpret Burning Man according to his own beliefs. It's like they say, "if all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." If the author ever really attended Burning Man, I have serious doubts he ever had a conversation with any other Burner.
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April 17, 2022
Black Rock City Street Plan For 2022
The street names will be Esplanade, Apparition, Breton, Cocteau, Dalí, Enigma, Fugue, Glimmer, Hypnagogia, Inception, Jarry and Kahlo. No "L" street this year because they enlarged the block between "E" and "F."
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December 22, 2021
Burning Man Music
After every Burning Man, Rockstar Librarian provides links to all the recordings of music at the event that he finds. I only just now discovered that Muloka provides Soundcloud playlists of Burning Man music at music.bm. Here, for example, is one of two playlists for music from 2019, the last official BM event. 468 tracks. It doesn't look like Soundcloud calculates the total duration of that playlist, but most tracks are at least an hour long, a few may be several hours long. Then there's playlist two of two for 2019 with another 187 tracks from that year. Those should keep you set for a while.
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November 10, 2021
Burning Man's Gatekeepers
A little (5 minutes) documentary about Gate, Perimeter & Exodus, a crew of volunteers at Burning Man that control and monitor Gate Road, the gate itself, and the entire perimeter of Black Rock City outside the trash fence. They are not the Greeters, an entirely separate, friendly, huggy crew of volunteers.
I volunteer for Box Office, which is most certainly not GP&E, but we are friendly neighbors. The two camps are adjacent inside Black Rock City and we Box Office people walk over to GP&E to catch their bus out to the gate where our Box Office is also located. For me, the hugest difference between the two crews is that in Box Office I get to sit inside an air conditioned room for six hours while I work. GP&E volunteers work outdoors for six hours in whatever kind of weather the Black Rock Desert decides to dish out. The only break they might get would happen if weather (a dust or rain storm, usually) got so bad they had to actually stop all traffic.
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September 10, 2021
The Drone Show At The Renegade Burn
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August 30, 2021
Livestreaming From The Renegade Burn (not Burning Man)
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May 24, 2021
Burning Man 2019
It's from 2019, but was posted on YouTube only today.
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April 10, 2021
Burning Man Art For 2021 Is A 'Go'
In this latest announcement from Burning Man they say (among many other things) that they are committing to fully funding art now, even though we don't yet know if Burning Man will actually happen on the Black Rock Desert this year. This means that probably some (or possibly all) of the art will actually end up being displayed somewhere else in the world.
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January 16, 2020
No Spectators - in Oakland
Shot with film on my Lomography camera.
The Temple, behind the museum. The Temple and the replica of "Truth is Beauty" can be visited any time the museum is open. You don't need to buy a ticket to the No Spectators exhibit for these two.
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September 29, 2019
Burning Man 2019 Photos
My complete set of photos from Burning Man 2019 can be seen here. Below are a few samples.
First morning on the playa, just before sunrise. You can see the moon about to set to the right. Klank is camped in the larger trailer and I'm in the Scamp.
Looking the other way, toward what will be Black Rock City.
How I stabilized my shade structure. It worked perfectly. The shade structure stood there for three weeks and wasn't damaged in any way. That sphere is a light, not any part of the stabilization.
Box Office still under construction.
DPW (Department of Public Works) putting up the shade structure in front of Box Office.
Early in the construction of the Temple of Direction.
The Man viewed along the 3 O'Clock road.
A week after I got there, some neighbors had begun to move in.
Fomogenesis Camp's shade structure.
Fomogenesis Camp during setup.
Segways with shiny decorations.
The 747 was there for its, presumably, last time. It's been sold to someone in Las Vegas.
Burner Buddies on the corner of 4:30 and J.
An official map showing the locations of all theme camps. (Full size image here.)
David and his sister Nancy. David sold his Scamp to me after last year's Burn.
A history of the temples displayed at the Temple of Direction.
Burner Buddies trying to get photos of the wedding party.
Pan and Flavio renewed their wedding vows in the Chapel of Chimes. (Here is the album of their wedding photos.)
Poppy and friend waiting for the start of the Naked Pub Crawl.
Some of the art behind Center Camp.
During the burning of the Temple of Direction.
The Temple of Direction starting to collapse.
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September 6, 2019
Putting Up A Shade Structure
Erecting A Burning Man Shade Structure In The Wind. This was the Dr. Bronner's camp.
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