My favorite quote from 2000 is from Adrian Roberts, the editor of the defunct Piss Clear magazine at Burning Man. He said, "We used to play house. Now we're playing city." Pretty apt.
Check out the history page for a ton of photos and video from those years.
So far I've covered 1986 (the first year) to 1996, and I'll be adding the rest over time. Enjoy!
Some highlights:
It's going to be interesting to see where it heads from here. The fundamental factor limiting a bigger Burning Man population is the two-lane highway leading to it, and there's no world in which it's worth widening a highway-to-nowhere just so an extra few tens of thousands of people can go party in the desert for a week. Scarcity is going to be the new normal for Burning Man.
I have to say, two things strike me as I look through these:
I have a lot of favorite things about Burning Man. Here are some of them, set to song. Put up a new page tonight! Leave No Trace, which includes info on what, why, and how, with an emphasis on garbage minimization tips, since nobody likes hauling their garbage out afterwards. http://www.burn.life/leave-no-trace.html
They're also looking for donations. If you're in a Burner community, you're aware that there'll be a lot of opportunities to fund art and mutant vehicles and sound camps and so on, and of course those are all excellent (though some are more excellent than others). What Que Viva is asking you for help doing is funding artists themselves, particularly underrepresented ones. It's way too easy to spend all your attention on the 'big' art at Burning Man, and miss great projects like this one that, to my mind embody the spirit of Burning Man. I think it's pretty cool, and I'm donating. I hope you'll consider it too. Details: This page explains what the funding is for. Mainly for tickets and tents for the low/no-income artists, and art supplies. Donation link is towards the bottom of the page. |
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