Thu, 07 Sep 2006
Enough of the stupid burning man notes! Despite what you may think I really enjoyed myself. Each link under the picture is a video of the most fun things.
 Flaming Lotus Girrrl's serpent |
 Riding on the back of Vector |
 Jesus kicking ass while being crucified |
 Plastic chimes with bling |
 Dust devils coming from the burning man |
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The link in my last post was some criticism of the event. To elaborate,
Black Rock City is a city, but it's only one because people pay an
entrance fee upwards of $200 and truck the city over the Sierra Nevada mountains in a motor
vehical. It's an experiment in community that depends on the state.
But once in the city, there are lots of thing you would expect. A post office,
toilets, roads with street signs and lanterns, a visitors center, a store to
buy ice and even a cafe. This is the adventure. Just walking around the city as
one would in any other more perminant place. It's not a rock concert or art
gallery or theater or rave or bar, it's all of these things.
Procuring a bike is easy. There's a community bike rack. There is also a person
in Gerlach, the closest town that will reclaim bikes and sell them for very
cheap the next year. The playa is terrible for bikes. If you bring a good one,
expect to have to remove the front chain rings, rear cassette, derailleur,
cranks and indexed shifters. If not there will be a fine corosive dust rubbing
on the metal.
So what's it look like out there? I took two panoramas.posted at: 22:08 | path: /burningman | permanent link to this entry
Treehugger Sums Up My Feelings About Conservation At Burning Man
posted at: 14:47 | path: /burningman | permanent link to this entry
