The theme of Burning Man 2012 (unofficially released back in November at the Artumnal Gathering) has been posted to BurningMan.com: FERTILITY 2.0. Also included in the theme post is a rendering of the man base (shown below).
Pavilion design by Rod Garrett and Andrew Johnstone
This thing is going to burn BIG! It’s essentially a giant chimney. It gives me butterflies just thinking about it!
A short film by Teddy Saunders – www.tedshots.com
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 29
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsnyhttp://FreeWillAstrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Botticelli’s painting The Birth of
Venus, the goddess of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for
the first time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying to
cover her private parts with her hand and thigh-length hair. Her
attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover her up.
Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests it’s actually quite
sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we humans can’t bear the
confrontation with sublime beauty, we must always keep it partly hidden.
Your assignment in the coming year, Capricorn, is to overcome this
inhibition. I invite you to retrain yourself so that you can thrive in the
presence of intense, amazing, and transformative beauty.
amen
Last weekend we had some friends over for dinner, games, and a burn. Being close to the Winter Solstice, I’d built a man to burn to welcome the sun back! Enjoy!
Solstice Man 2011 from DhammaSeeker on Vimeo.
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#winning
05 SEP 2011 – 05:16 PDT – Gate Road, Black Rock City
In 2010, I couldn’t wait to leave the playa to get relief from my stinging hands — though I also knew I’d be back for more. Now in 2011, idling in the queue to exit, I have a longing to stay. I felt comfortable here this week, and I’m afraid that I’m developing a strong sense of home for this place.
Standing in the crowd after the Temple burn last night, I was trying to puzzle it out. To figure out in my head space why, among all the diverse cacophony, I felt as if I knew all of these people. Realizing my folly in venturing into head space, I’m content to sink back into heart space and simply smile. Smile in recognition of the unity that makes us one.
Satellite Photo of Black Rock City 2011
Last year I posted the Keep Calm And Burn On posters around Black Rock City as my personal art project for Burning Man 2010. In a similar vein, I’m going to be posting this notice on the public bulletin boards around Black Rock City for Burning Man 2011.
I got the inspiration to post this sign from a snapshot on the wall of the cubicle next to mine in my default world job. It’s a picture of a sign in front of the Woolworth Building in New York City.
photo by Gene Han
I’m amused at how the meaning of the sign shifts depending on it’s physical context. Outside of a building in New York City, it’s an off-putting warning to the innocently curious. Within the city limits of Black Rock City, it’s a sly reminder of the principle of Participation (one of the ten principles of Burning Man).
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
There are no tourists in Black Rock City — only participants. Though sometimes we all need a reminder.
The time is coming when the window for us to restore the control of our government to our selves will close, and we had damn well better act before then. Because this deal is more than a tipping point in which the government goes from defending the safety net to gutting it. This is wrong! And while our government has now declared that it has given up the concept of right and wrong, you and I have not and will not do so. – Keith Olbermann
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