'Burning Man' and Detroit Connection...From Desert to Urban Blight

Amongst the Initiatives getting the Spotlight at Burning Man is the Detroit Dream Project.  Think of it as a tribute to the Motor City roots combined with an effort to combat Urban Blight through Art Projects.

Is everyone at 'Burning Man' or Down the Shore?

All this might explain why things have been a little quiet, e-mail wise. I guess a couple of projects will have to wait a few more days to be completed.

Burning Man's icon goes up in flames, 4 days prematurely

This is kind of funny - arson charges for burning the Burning Man: I guess he just couldn't wait!!via eyebeam reblog: "A San Francisco man was arrested on felony arson charges today after the 40-foot-tall "Man" statue whose torching is the annual highlight of the Burning Man...

"Burning Man" Burns ... But Will Be Replaced

In 1986, Larry Harvey and a couple of friends thought it would be a great idea to set out over Labor Day and hold a “Counter Culture” festival.    Today, the Burning Man festival has morphed into an...

Premature Immolation: Burning Man Torched Early

The giant figure dominating the Black Rock Desert during the annual art/music/maker/bacchanal that is Burning Man festival is supposed to burn... just not so soon. I'm a little surprised that this hasn't happened...

Hurricane Katrina: Big Broken Drive By

I was heading down into the Deep South to live out of my vehicle indefinitely, deep within a natural disaster zone. By that night I would finally be joining a group of proven nutcase art festival volunteers I had yet to meet. I trusted enough through past associations...

Good Times: Decompression 2006

"Yesterday at Decompression was tremendous fun. I'm so glad I went. Free hugs at the door, thumping music, beautiful hooping women, friends I haven't seen in a long time, partying with Vann and his posse, fabulous...

BURNING MAN: Designers eager to try Zen and the art of desert architecture

Nearly 25,000 people have gathered this week in Nevada's Black Rock desert for Burning Man. That means costumes, nudity and unfettered risque behavior in general, but one man's vision for a portable zendo for meditation provides a calm shelter from the storm. A circular...

Burning Man Counterculture Festival

"The Burning Man counterculture festival in Reno has come to a close. Thousands of celebrants danced, hugged and cheered as the annual festival climaxed with the traditional torching of its namesake object on the...

Burning Man: It's a way of life for some Valley residents

"The Labor Day weekend offers all kinds of recreational possibilities for hard-working Arizonans. You could take a boat to the lake. You could go camping in the mountains. You could watch a D-Backs game, or have a...

BURNING MAN GOES GREEN

"With the Burning Man art festival in the Nevada desert starting Monday, a group of San Francisco scientists is busy calculating how much the event contributes to global warming."

Burning Man: Fire Arts Exposition

"Experience this quintessentially San Francisco art experience, an exciting and incendiary exhibition of innovative and inspiring fire art. Ranging in nature from meditative and quietly interactive to spectacular,...

Mechanical Spider Hatched in the Minds of Genius Madmen

In the frigid dawn of a dark September day was born a mechanical creature hitherto undreamt of. It was raw and fragile in its beauty. It was the unadorned spawn of 9 inspired insomniacs, spurred by the call to arms...

Burning Man is Setting for Murder Mystery

""The first time I went to Burning Man I thought I had to write a murder-mystery set there," Donn Cortez says while sitting in the backyard of his apartment off Commercial Drive, discussing his latest novel, The Man...

San Francisco: Heat on the Street

Welcome to Decompression What is "Decompression?" Before the playa dust has completely settled and our heads have stopped spinning, many of us gather in the months after Burning Man to...

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