Some photos of Minkowski, my art installation this year, during setup and operation -- before it was destroyed by the storm.
I've got some interaction videos as well, which I need to edit down.
It worked fairly well until destroyed -- I saw a bunch of people interact with it, some returning later to try again. I logged all interactions and am looking forward to analyzing the data!
Hey, i'm back! man, what a year. so great. already planning for next year.
What's that? the rain and mud?
Oh yeah, that was definitely a thing, wasn't it? so many noobs who don't know to just sit & chill and wait for the desert to dry out, sheesh. Well, i guess the media and the haters had fun with it all and got to feel smug for a couple days. Oh well. I have yet to see any story that actually captures how it really felt to the average burner. #BurningMan
@baba_lilith@otakup0pe@Dr_Bombay The thing I’m really concerned about is how quickly changing weather patterns might make the event completely unviable. “It’ll be hot and dusty and windy at times” is one thing, but it being on the cards you’ll get torrential rain, 80km/h winds and 50°C for days at a time over the ~2 months between setup and resto is something else altogether.
"Burning Man... is now a magnet for the kinds of people who make a lot of money by devoting their lives to upholding the unjust status quo, and who go to Burning Man in part to shore up their smug sense of being creative innovators as they endeavor to make things worse for the rest of us."
Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck
@timrichards it has been going that way for decades. Due to the increasing hype and mainstream influence that they enjoyed, there never was any real push back on selling out.
@starburst42@ai6yr Well, I had no idea what a luggable loo was (other than guessing), but now I do! This is a pretty good article with useful info for people like me >>>
@exador23@wryanfisher Zoom out... This is pre-structure... it looks like some parts of the site already have more natural water accumulation, probably because those areas have the most rutting from prior years. I'm curious why there are "red" (dry) areas, but one is obviously where the "Burning Man" sits, which appears is surrounded by lower (trampled?) area, allowing for more water runoff. Either that, or ash remnants on the surface pushing off water.
@ai6yr@wryanfisher red areas are probably small dunes that dry out quicker. it's one of the myriad reasons I stopped going. the smallest bit of trash starts accumulating dust when the wind blows. playa restoration tries to knock them down, but you've still got more material there. The annual flooding can only flatten it back out so much.
The lower right corner of the image always gets the most dust during the event. prevailing winds tend to blow dust kicked up from roads that direction.
Since #BurningMan is in the news, here's a fascinating, funny and surprising podcast by sociologist Erik Davis, who has gone regularly since the beginning. A #history and a #sociology rolled into one 1/
Sentinel-1 #satellite showing the long line of cars in the "Exodus" line at Burning Man at 2023-09-05 0152UTC (yesterday, PT) -- enough metal there so it's highly reflective. #BurningMan#imaging
Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun
Protesters highlighted the festival’s carbon footprint, but the biggest issue may be Burning Man’s opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.
Ha, you can track how long it is taking to get out of #BurningMan by watching the ham radio folks using #APRS. KK6FEN's 3 hour path. Not moving very fast. Left camp around 6 hours ago. Still in line.
Yes, I know some people flew private jets to #BurningMan and that's bad. Yes, maybe some attendees are a bit much.
But danged if this doesn't make me want to defend the lot of them to the death. 😂
As an Episcopalian I was relieved when Tucker Carlson called my denomination "pagan." I can only imagine I'd be stoked to have this guy call me a pagan too.
Wow, they've turned the clearly defined exit roads into 25 lane freeways there at #BurningMan trying to not drive in the #mud. Looks like a mud gauntlet here caused everyone to widen out the road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6INIzHP3Q-o
Civic Responsibility - Ignore your fellow campers hopelessly stuck in the muck, as you burn rubber past the carcass of their disabled vehicle
Leaving No Trace - Make sure to put thousands and thousands of new ruts in the floor of the desert, while leaving while the playa is still a muddy mess.
Gifting - Leaving all your crap with people at your campsite, because you are going to bug out early despite what the organizers have asked.
