Tag: Burning Man
this is art do not call 911
Because here’s the truth about Burning Man: it has changed. And here’s another truth: it will continue to change. It won’t ever be the same as it was in the ’90s, or five years ago, or six weeks ago. And that’s good. It’s not a museum piece, or a stage play. It’s jazz. It changes. It’s not the same every time. It’ll never be like that again.
Because here’s the truth about Burning Man: it has changed. And here’s another truth: it will continue to change. It won’t ever be the same as it was in the ’90s, or five years ago, or six weeks ago. And that’s good. It’s not a museum piece, or a stage play. It’s jazz. It changes. It’s not the same every time. It’ll never be like that again.
Burning Blog » Blog Archive » Decompression and beyond
It’s time to make Burning Man tickets priceless. It’s time to ask each Burner to pay what they can afford and to practice generosity. It’s time for the LLC to discover how much more participants are willing to pay rather than to fear how little. Getting your ticket (and giving back) should be a sacred rite that feels good to everyone involved, rather than a shameful deal with the devil that makes no one happy. It’s time for us all to learn how to make a much stronger bridge between the playa and the default world, to make a bigger step into changing the way we deal with money and commerce outside the gate.
It’s time to make Burning Man tickets priceless. It’s time to ask each Burner to pay what they can afford and to practice generosity. It’s time for the LLC to discover how much more participants are willing to pay rather than to fear how little. Getting your ticket (and giving back) should be a sacred rite that feels good to everyone involved, rather than a shameful deal with the devil that makes no one happy. It’s time for us all to learn how to make a much stronger bridge between the playa and the default world, to make a bigger step into changing the way we deal with money and commerce outside the gate.
Why is Burning Man still selling tickets at all? : Dale Larson
Dragon Lotus Burning Art
I’m a backer of Dragon Lotus Burning Art on Kickstarter, and so can you!
Burning Man 2012 Ticket Lottery Post Mortem
My bid for a pair of tickets to Burning Man 2012 for myself any my beloved was successful! Most of the burners that registered in the main sale lottery were not as lucky.
The Burning Man Organization put up 40,000 tickets in the main sale lottery that concluded yesterday. All of those tickets were distributed, and now the cries of discontent are rippling through burner circles across the world.
Spin Cycle Camp set up a survey regarding the ticket lottery. You can participate here: http://isopop.com/2012/02/
Seems like a consistent 33% success (67% failure) rate among respondents. That rate jives with the experience of my own camp having only 2 of the 6 of us who registered for the lottery ‘winning’ their tickets.
I’m not a statistician, but can anything be inferred from this success rate to estimate the total number of lottery registrations? I think it’s possible that over 100,000 registrations were in the lottery system requesting around 170,000 tickets! That is incredible!
There are already scalpers posting ads on StubHub and Ebay (DO NOT PATRONIZE THESE SELLERS) for tickets at obscene prices. It will be very interesting to see what the Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP) looks like. If there isn’t a glut of unwanted tickets available through STEP, then the event truly just hit an inflection point. The culture dynamics will be instantaneously affected. Will it be for better or worse? That is the question.
Burning Man 2012 Theme and Man Base
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).
This thing is going to burn BIG! It’s essentially a giant chimney. It gives me butterflies just thinking about it!
Dancing all night doesn’t mean your true self is a dancer any more than running for your life makes you a runner or getting sunburned makes you a piece of toast.
Dancing all night doesn’t mean your true self is a dancer any more than running for your life makes you a runner or getting sunburned makes you a piece of toast.
Burning Blog » Blog Archive » Does wearing a utilikilt and fuzzy boots make you more “authentic?”
Our world, and our lives, are fragile; we’re here for but a moment and bound in ways we can’t even imagine to the people, spaces, and nature that surround us; and true beauty is marveling at the complex majesty of the human experience.
Our world, and our lives, are fragile; we\’re here for but a moment and bound in ways we can\’t even imagine to the people, spaces, and nature that surround us; and true beauty is marveling at the complex majesty of the human experience.
Why TED and Burning Man Are More Similar Than You Think | Inc.com
…there is so much to do, so much to experience, and so many fascinating and passionate people that the only option is to surrender control and allow yourself to be led through the experience by fate as much as commission.
…there is so much to do, so much to experience, and so many fascinating and passionate people that the only option is to surrender control and allow yourself to be led through the experience by fate as much as commission.
Why TED and Burning Man Are More Similar Than You Think | Inc.com