burning man

Burning Man is an annual art festival and social experiment that takes place in the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada. First dreamed up in 1986, the Burning Man festival has become an internationally-recognized phenomenon: one week a year, tens of thousands of "burners" (including some well-known bloggers) descend upon the desert, creating a massive, art-centric city known as Black Rock City.

The influence of Burning Man extends deep into the art world, and it is well-known in creative and liberal circles. Despite a general distrust of the event by many groups who disapprove of the casual drug use, nudity and promiscuity practiced by some members, the Burning Man organization continues to grow and spread its culture of participation, gifting, and radical tolerance. Further bucking any negative reputation, the event maintains a "Leave No Trace" ethic, taking place on protected federal land, and committing to leave the grounds spotless after its post-event playa restoration phase.

You can find a multitude of blog posts tagged "burning man" directly after the end of each event (roughly the first week of September). But related posts, and fantastic photos, are posted daily by participants who, almost without exception, can't wait to get back to the playa for next year's event.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “burning man”

 

• Chris Walker: Fat-Burning Chef, Living Without Testosterone, and How to Be Ridiculously Good Looking

  
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  Todays very special guest is Christopher Walker. Hes a member of The Fat-Burning Man team, an elite tri-athlete, a brain geek (like me), a blogger over at NoGym.net, a male model, and (most importantly) a hot wing eating champion. Hes also co-host of The Road To Ripped podcast (I had the pleasure of being on their ...
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• From Scrap To Art: Getting Ready For Burning Man

  
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  Burning Man Festival is fast approaching and you’re already getting anxious for the biggest, most anticipated art festival in the West. While still four months away, it’s never too early to get that bus van primed for the road and start thinking about the theme of your art installation. If you know anything about ...
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• Burning Man Law Signed By Gov. Brian Sandoval

  
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  Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed bill AB374 into law this weekend. The burning man law will streamline the permit process for events held on federal lands and will allow the annual art fest to continue in Pershing County. The organizers of Burning Man and the commissioners of Pershing County have been arguing in ...
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• Blinkytape: kickstarting a smart strip of LEDs

  
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  Todd sez, "Check out this awesome LED strip lights controlled by a simple controller board. Matt Mets went through the Haxlr8r program and came out with this project, with the help of Marty McGuire and Max Henstell. Just a few days left to get in on it." BlinkyTape is a one meter long, full-color light tape with ...
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• Joel Salatin: Beyond-Organic Farming, Food Policy, and Why There is POOP in Your Chicken Nuggets

  
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  I am very blessed to be here today with a guest who has been requested from all over the world, Mr. Joel Salatin. Joel is a self-described "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-farmer" who produces beyond-organic meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial ...
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• The Weirdest Places On Earth

  
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  Other than your basement, I mean. What? Come on, it was a joke, dude. Just a joke. Okay, fine. I take it back. What I’m not taking back, though, is that the Sierra Club has gone and collected up some of the most astonishing, strangest, oddest, weirdest places on Earth. And then went and took pictures of them. ...
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• DocFest 2013 Capsule Reviews: “Sparks: A Burning Man Story”, “Elena” and “Fuck for Forest”

  
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  Sparks: A Burning Man Story Sparks felt mostly like the camera operators from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire were given a break from their day jobs, a huge budget, a sound recorder at a rave, and a bunch of helicopters to shoot a dance party-o-rama video of Burning Man. The film seems to have no idea what it is ...
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• Transformational Festivals Are a Symptom of Dissociation

  
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  This rant started as part of a discussion about The Bloom Series, a documentary project chronicling the culture of “transformational festivals,” following a screening of its first installment in Austin, Texas.  I have dedicated years of my life to the aims and values of this culture, and yet cannot feel the ...
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• Dr. John Berardi: Precision Nutrition, Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss, and How to Tell Georges St. Pierre What To Do

  
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  Todays episode is with one of the most knowledgable and highly-respected minds in health and fitness, John Berardi of Precision Nutrition.Bluntly, Precision Nutrition can take pretty much anyone - massively overweight or not - and get them in the best shape of their lives. They understand how the body works; they ...
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• Photos: Sunday Streets Kick Off in the Embarcadero

  
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  In my usual tradition of posting photos months after taking them… here are some pics I took during the first Sunday Streets in the Embarcadero. For those of you unfamiliar with San Francisco holidays, Sundays Streets happen every Spring. On designated Sundays, certain streets are closed off prohibiting car traffic, ...
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• Oh the places I can’t wait to go!

  
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  In 88 days time, my friends and I will be arriving in the Nevada desert for Burning Man. The 8 of them, for the first time. For me, it’s a return journey that I can’t wait to make. I didn’t realise how much I’d loved it or how much it had got under my skin until I wasn’t there while it was on last year. When ...
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• Why You Should Kickstart A Burning Man Art Car

  
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  After publishing my article last week on the extraordinary urban art Kickstarter project, Tiki Island, I realized there were still things left unsaid about both the project and Kickstarter. These are concepts that cut to the cores notions of art and crowdfunding. While I am by no means the arbiter of what projects are ...
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• Meeting The Makers

  
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  I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo the other weekend. The Maker Fair, in case you don’t know, is a weekend celebration of all things DIY and pull-yourselves-up-by-your-USB cables, a festival of steampunks and inventors, home hobbyists and serious entrepreneurs. There are Maker Faires in many different cities ...
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• Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 26th, 2013

  
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  The warmer months cometh and it’s time to think of this year’s Burning Man. [Matts] already set himself up with a sound-reactive LED project he calls the Seed of Life . Older readers, and those who really know their hobby electronic history, will know the name Heathkit . Many readers tipped us off about their ...
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• Festival Culture: Building a New Paradigm or Just a Waste of Time?

  
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  Self-reliance. Life-changing art and music. Community. Welcome to the modern world of festival culture. But is it all it’s cracked up to be?    Some would say it was a different world before 1969′s seminal 3-day Woodstock festival, and then, there’s everything that came after. The momentous event left an ...
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• How To HACK Your Body In 6 Minutes

  
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  The following is a guest post from my buddy Dan Go on how you can increase your performance, improve your health, and rock the house by incorporating an effective warm-up into your routine. Take it away, Mr. Dan! Hey there my name is Dan Go and today I want to show you a sweet little [...]
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• Summer Festival Fun

  
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  It’s almost summer time, which means festival season is just around the corner. With festivals happening literally every weekend, it may be difficult to decide which ones are worth going to. What’s the perfect solution? Go where the sunshine is, of course. We’ve compiled a list of summer festivals around the ...
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• ruff linkage 201321

  
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  [weekly linkdump, somewhat edited] #best news this week Boards of Canada – Reach for the Dead (from Tomorrow’s Harvest) – So very yes! #watch and Among Giants – "Risking injury and incarceration, an environmental activist disrupts the clear-cutting of an ancient redwood grove by sitting on a tiny ...
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• Steve Kamb: Nerd Fitness, the Gamification of Life, and How to Live Like James Bond

  
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  Todays extra-fun show is with Steve Kamb, the guy behind NerdFitness.com, a super popular blog and fitness community. Hes helped thousands of regular people "level up their lives" as he says, all while taking epic quests around the world.Now before we get to our show today with Steve, I just want to tell you guys ...
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