BURNING MAN...N-E-1 ever gone?,What the hell is it?.

[iNfErNaL]

I've allways wanted to know what Burning Man was about but never took the time to inquire about it...What exactly is it?.Where is it held?.What's the reason behind it?.How the hell do people get the bizzare vehicles out there?...Just curious,it looks pretty interesting and I'm just wondering if anyone's gone or if knows a little more about it.

[*FFC*]

Calling MRS W!

[iNfErNaL]

Calling MRS W!

Ha Ha Ha,I was kinda thinking she could answer this for me.I remember her mentioning Burning Man recently.

[*FFC*]

Ha Ha Ha,I was kinda thinking she could answer this for me.I remember her mentioning Burning Man recently.

She was just talkin bout it in the shoutbox

[abnormaltoy]

I've allways wanted to know what Burning Man was about but never took the time to inquire about it...What exactly is it?.Where is it held?.What's the reason behind it?.How the hell do people get the bizzare vehicles out there?...Just curious,it looks pretty interesting and I'm just wondering if anyone's gone or if knows a little more about it.

Be still my throbbing loin  

What more could a (semi) normal red-blooded male ask for, than to wake up next to this example of feminine pulchritude every day for the rest of his life. Would that I could win her undying love.

Though, I thought there was a "no nip" rule...was it set aside for this little bit of heaven?

[Tallchevy]

 

[iNfErNaL]

Looks interesting...Info? 

[Loosekannon]

I think they have it on a dry lake bed in northern Nevada(black rock city  ). Was talking to some chick about it a year or so ago, and she said it was up there. The meaning of it 

Check this link out    http://burningman.com/

[Loosekannon]

Check this out, its a link that shows the city on the lake bed. It is just pics but it tells you how to use it with Google earth. Gota scroll down the page to see the pics
http://bmearth.burningman.com/

[iNfErNaL]

Hmmm   ,Interesting.it looks kinda cool.You know Tiffany from 4WD Toyota Owner's mag?,her dad told me he goes to it every year.

[BNRSHNTZL]

i haven't been to one but i know that allot of raves tried to copy it with no success

[Yota Up]

Infernal - It's a huge get together of people from all walks of life.
I had a good friend that used to go every year.  They set up a huge circle and build a village in the desert.  You find your way around by the hands on a clock => compass.

At the end, they burn this huge "man" - hence the name of the gig.

The only thing that has ever kept me from going is that I am not cool with public sex.  No way.  I'd never take my wife to Mardi Gras to have her butt grabbed and me stab someone in the face and do time over it.  Just the same, I don't want to see some dude's junk hanging out.  And yes, you will see nakedness.  Some guys may like that, but in truth - not all naked is pretty. 

Also - I hope you've "been experienced" in the spirit world.  It's safe to say that this is the #1 psychedelic get-together in the country.  LSD, mushrooms, peyote, mescaline, and of course - that nasty stuff they call "E"cstasy.

[iNfErNaL]

WOW!!!,Thanx Yota Up  ,that's kinda what I was looking for.Sounds pretty crazy to me,Definately not somewhere I'd take the fam,but DOES sound interesting.

[Lady Di]

Yes, basically a week of unbridled decedance. LOL! Well i guess it's not all SEX and DRUGS and (whatever passes for music now aways) but it seems a good part of it is. And yes, there is a lot of nekkidness, but like someone already said, not all nekkidness is good nekkidness.

It's held on the playa in the Black Rock Desert. It becomes one of the most populated towns in the area for that week (it would have been this past weekend, labor day weekend). The city is many miles across, and I think we are talking like 30-50,000 people if I remember correctly. It is a full fledged city, with Black Rock cops, and jails, and stores, expect they do not take money, you have to barter for everything. (unless they changed that).

My sister has gone to it quite often, (she skipped the years when the yuppies took over in their RV's back in the mid-90's, I think LOL) a lot of people set up "Art Camps". A few years ago her and some other friends built this full size bicycle powered carousel. It was underwater themed with paper machete fish build around the bicycles, it was a huge full scale construction project with project managers and such.
They got funding through donations and the burning man assoc. (something or other) - I think it cost them close to $30K.

Anyhoo.. that's the type of stuff that goes on, and of course the Art Cars. She and her BF and other friends went again this year, I think they are doing a pirate themed thing. I know they bought a van they were converting. You can't drive a vehicle on the playa unless it's an art car.

The conditions can be very harsh. The year they did the fish carousel a wind storm kicked up and you could not see your hand in front of your face, from what Pani told me. Her and her BF at the time were trying to get about a mile back to their camp and ended up way off track. 

It can get really cold, or really hot.

Another year she ended up in the hospital with severe dehydration. You really do have to be careful. It sound brutal.

The story is that it started out on Baker Beach in the San Fran. This guy was jilted by his girlfriend and burned 'the man' in effigy.. it grew bigger every year and eventually they moved it into the desert. The man grew bigger every year till it got to it's limit, which I believe is 30' tall.
Not only do they burn the man, but from what I hear, everyone burns their art camps too, and there is not a scrap of evidence that they were there when all is said and done.

Well now what I wasted all the time typing all that I just went here... LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man

[Lady Di]

LOL! The greenies are out to get them too

Additionally, other recreational users of the desert believe the event's rapid growth and arid location (where the natural healing effect of the winter rains is not as effective) have caused the surface of the Black Rock Desert to change for the worse. The Burning Man organization strongly denies that the event has ever caused any damage

[Lady Di]

Oh, and check it out.. while I was close on the participants, the 'Man' 72' tall in 2005!

Holy carp... look at the notes from this year... sounds like a real buzz kill of a year!

"The Man catches fire around 3 in the morning on Tuesday 8/28, http://youtube.com/watch?v=JpBMYDY7YrY crews scramble to rebuild as reported from BRC's Radio.

A Burning Man participant commits suicide. The man was found dead the morning of August 30, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent within the Comfort and Joy Camp. The apparent suicide would be the festival's first in its 21 year history."

The Comfort and Joy Camp... if that is not irony I don't know what is!

[Lady Di]

Theres some good youtube vids on art camps and art cars: 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=03KQq_9dCGY

[iNfErNaL]

So I guess we missed it by a day,huh?.

[Lady Di]

So I guess we missed it by a day,huh?.

Well it's a week long thing, but the climax, as it were is when they burn The Man. I would imagine that must be Sun. night as everyone will be packing up and leaving on Monday? Or maybe Sat. night to give people a chance to get their together.
50,000 people would be a lot to clear out in one day!

Edit: It does burn on Sat. night.

[Lady Di]

a report on the suicide.. this is creepy...

Identity of apparent Burning Man suicide victim still unknown
Steve Timko
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
September 1, 2007

The Pershing County Sheriff's Office still is trying to identify a man who apparently hanged himself Thursday morning at Burning Man.

Sheriff Ron Skinner said the man appears to be white, between 20 and 25 years old with light brown hair and a "very slender" build.

"At this time, the individual is a John Doe to us. We have not identified him," Skinner said. "I'm sure somebody knows who he is. They haven't approached us yet."

The problem with Burning Man, a counterculture festival in the Black Rock Desert, is that it's not uncommon for people to disappear for several days at a time among the festivities, Skinner said.

An initial media account is that the body hung in a tent for a couple of hours and that people thought he was doing performance art. Skinner could not confirm that.

"They probably believed that (the body) was some kind of a prop," Skinner said. "One individual who had come in during that period of time thought he was a mannequin. That was probably appropriate because of the light in the tent and the way the person was. It was rather dimly lit."

It appears the man was alone in the tent when he was hanged, and he was there about 60 to

90 minutes before he was found, the sheriff said.

"I would describe the scene as kind of surreal," Skinner said.

"It was one of those scenes that was out of place."

Skinner was at the tent and said it was being used by party-goers. It appeared they were holding a Burning Man version of the game show "Jeopardy!" in there, Skinner said.

The tent at its highest point was about 15 feet, and the body was at least 4 feet off the floor hanging from the tent's main post, Skinner said.

They have not found a suicide note. Skinner said he considers it a suicide unless an investigation shows something else happened.

"There's nothing to make us believe otherwise," Skinner said.



Another good story on the suicide and the man burning prematurely ... as well as other interesting links... http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3547516&page=1 

[iNfErNaL]

Wow,that's insane!!

[iNfErNaL]

So what about some of these crazy looking vehicles,how do they get them out there?.I know some of them they dress up there,but what about the rest?

[Lady Di]

Wow,that's insane!!

could you imagine if you were doing the aforementioned hallucinagenics (of which are NOT CONDONED by the Marlin Crawler board, it is just a fact that they are taken) when it came to light that that 'performance art guy' wasn't? Oh man!!! That would not been a good thing.

[Lady Di]

So what about some of these crazy looking vehicles,how do they get them out there?.I know some of them they dress up there,but what about the rest?

You are allowed to drive your regular vehicle to your camp and park it, you can't drive it on the playa after that. So I'm sure they trailer some of the art cars in.

[UKMyers]

I was camped this weekend at about 8000 feet in the Sierras. Saturday night we kept seeing these really weird flashes off to the East. It almost looked like far off lightning cept the sky was clear. Somebody mentioned that maybe it was burning man going on that we saw... looks like an interesting gathering of people!

[Lady Di]

I was camped this weekend at about 8000 feet in the Sierras. Saturday night we kept seeing these really weird flashes off to the East. It almost looked like far off lightning cept the sky was clear. Somebody mentioned that maybe it was burning man going on that we saw... looks like an interesting gathering of people!

Interesting is probably the loosest term I could come up with.
I'll get a link to pictures and video from my sister... I'm sure she will have many.
We are so alike yet so opposite we joke that we are keeping the balance of the universe in check.

[BLACKDOG]

So what about some of these crazy looking vehicles,how do they get them out there?.I know some of them they dress up there,but what about the rest?

They tow them   last monday when I was filling up in reno, some people came up to fill up their "ship"  it was a van, cut the back section down (kinda like the beast master)  put a boat hull around it, covered the entire thing in astro turf, and decked it out with a pirate theme.  they were towing it out there with an RV. 

I think burning man used to be more into the eccentric art culture, but a lot more people are just using it as an excuse to be completely hedonistic for a week.  I was talking to a couple in the store that wed, they said they were going up to burning man, and I asked them if they did any art stuff.  the guy responded "No, we're just going to get ed up.  We're meeting a bunch of friends out there."  Apparently they've gone for a few years, and their small group has grown into several thousand people, who don't care at all about the art part of it  



I just think its funny because at the end of it, when people are coming through reno,you can tell who the burning man attenders are.  their cars are all really dusty white, and even the people inside look like they've had a bunch of flour dumped on them

[abnormaltoy]

I didn't read all the posts...but, I just heard on the radio that it costs $250 to attend. A bit much, don't you think?

[Wermz84]

Crazy festival in the desert.  where people go to get away from normal society, money, and corporate sponsorships.  There are some good and bad parts to it.

I never saw any public sex, and I was looking for it cause i wanted to be a part of it. 


I saw lots of kids and families and all sorts of walks of life there.  not just for hippies.


alot of cool art in the desert.  I saw a 40' Tesla Coil.

Turns into a big town for a week, Kinda looks like barter town from mad max. 

nobody takes any money, you have to barter for things.  I found someone making grilled cheese sandwiches and ended up trading 2 jolly ranchers and a coke for one.  fun.

lots of fire at night.   Everything is alive and lit up.

during the day as your walking around people will casually squirt you with water guns, and you say thanks.  Cause its a 120deg.  (most people just chill in the day cause of the heat.)

it is a desert, bring materials and suplies to last for a week. plus build a make shift shanty, and any entertainment you want. 

Definatly an experience.

   

[abnormaltoy]

I never saw any public sex, and I was looking for it cause i wanted to be a part of it. 

Ever been to the airport in Minneapolis?