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.”