Throwing it out to the Mastoverse: Are there any #BurningMan friends out there who happen to have a photo of Michael Garlington's "Chapel of Babel" from last year, specifically the side with the portrait of Willem Dafoe? crossing fingers
A fire installation at unSCruz, the Burning Man regional event for Santa Cruz. It’s a shallow metal bowl plumbed for propane and suspended upside down 8 feet in the air. The flame is starved for oxygen and blooms and spreads when fresh air drifts into the bowl.
I laid beneath it on a cold evening this weekend, and it was marvelous.
I have a director’s chair I bought ~30 years ago, when I needed chairs and they were cheap at Pier One. The wood was looking dry so put mineral oil on it … and realized it still had playa dust on it from #BurningMan EIGHT years ago. The canvas is fine (tiny mold spot in one spot from all the rain), the wood frame is fine, and it folds up to slightly larger than today’s camp chairs — which rarely last that long with the same amount of abuse. I’m basically Team Wood and Canvas forever.
@jonobie I miss Pier One! they had some quality stuff. We have a set of those director's chairs in storage, too, and they are still solid as the day we bought them.
@ratkins Rob tell your rich friends about me! Im closing my web store and trying to get rid of my huge wearable catalog, everything 30% off!! Sorry to spam u, hope u have an awesome burn
The best thing about the #BurningMan community was often the #food, nice to see this hasn't changed. I'll probably never go back and yet I want to visit Breakfast Alley.
@kitoconnell Sometimes I look at situations like this and it suggest to me that, even with Burning Man being higher on the radar to the average person.... the media us now in a hypocritical spot bc of two colliding agendas.
@Catwoman69y2k I did some writing about my experiences in the community a while ago but I'm very glad I was never there as media. The environment rewards full immersion and not remaining at a journalistic remove.
long but really interesting podcast interview with not only Marion Goodell (Burning Man CEO), but also one of the protestors and also the man in charge of Fly Ranch, Burning Man sustainability, and regarding the burn's environmental impact perspective. #BurningMan
Once again shaking my head at a #burningman regional franchise event using a social media platform that has enabled genocide as the only place they announce information.
@otakup0pe We (as technologists) have failed miserably that this is basically the only realistic way muggles can organise on the internet. It’s terrible, but I really can’t fault the muggles for this one.
(It could be worse: in Berlin we have a Telegram group, numerous Facebook pages, a couple of different seldom-updated web sites and a Discord. It’s a mess.)
#burningman
The ENTIRE "selling point" of this festival for years was it's integrity, specifically ecological integrity with the idea that people would "leave-no-trace" when they left.
(I do this when I camp in the back-country of northern algonquin park, ontario, canada.)
The hypocrisy of this festival is so overt that it is OBVIOUS that it is time to PUT IT DOWN. #burningmanisdone
Playa Restoration seems to be going well #BurningMan
"It turns out a rough playa like the one we have this year is easier to remediate than last year’s dunes. Chaos explained, “The ruts and holes caused by vehicles is a real issue but one that can be mitigated fairly easily by dragging and watering. This process breaks down bumps and high spots, and then fills in the depressions. We have a lot of experience with this and are conducting these operations currently.”
This is really cool. DA is one outstanding dude, a real unsung hero for decades, doing a rather unglamorous job. Neat to see GQ do a profile/interview with him.
Minkowski (my art installation at the burn this year) was an interactive piece with memory, so it recorded small amounts of data from each interaction. This enabled it to "remember" previous interactions and respond accordingly if you entered a code it gave you.
I've extracted that data and am starting to parse it. High level summary:
@ratkins I mean, sort of? I think my summary would be
Water is going to get in there
Yes, even in there
Mud is conductive
Consider not being in blowing mud conditions
I didn't conformally coat and silicone-seal everything because I needed to be able to do maintenance in the field with limited tools, but that likely would have helped.
@ratkins Forecast is now calling for a chance of rain next week, which would be amazing. If we get enough, moop will bubble up to the surface and we should have a smoother and crispier playa surface.
#BurningMan is the secret entrepreneurial smurf village in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged where the aristocracy of the new world go on strike against the oppressive influence of normal people.
In the real world, without exploitable workers laboring for them to maintain it they get dysentery and cholera after a few days
Max Burns on the Burning Man festival and its (spurious) claims to be about imagining a new utopian society:
"Revelers come to Burning Man to bathe in the hypertight light of an inhibitionless celebration; but not every attendee is created equal. A census of the festival conducted in 2017 found that over three-quarters of attendees were white, while only 1 percent were Black."
Some people have the luxury of pretending. Other's do not.
@ratkins@Dr_Bombay oh there are issues to be dealt with for sure! But the hot takes and obvious schadenfreude are currently overwhelming. There is a big conversation to have about many parts of TTITD and how to make it even better but right now everyone is in "see, told ya" mode. #burningman#brc2023
It’s sad that there are so many articles that focus only on the rich folks who show up at #BurningMan without covering the huge numbers of participants who don’t fit that description, who work and save and struggle just to get there and join their community, to do something beautiful… and who themselves have a dim view of wealthy folks who just jump in without giving back.
The burners that I know are evenly split between career professionals and wage earners, and one of the most amazing thing about the community is how it brings them all together, to help each other out.
But so many articles would have readers believe burning is just about rich people hanging out on the playa.
It’s far from an accurate picture of the community and event.
@volkris@Decad3nce Bingo. Conflating the Burn being (obviously) affected by climate change with the Burn being a meaningful cause of climate change is spectacularly dumb. And universalising the experience of rich wankers is ignorant. Nobody laughed harder at the idea of Diplo and Chris Rock trudging down gate road than the other 70,000 of us there.
