Burning Man 2014

[L.D.]

I live within an hour of BM and will not go near it. you will never get rid of the silt. I have worked for a rental co. and most of it comes back ruined. sorry for the bad revue, but I live here. I have worked on some of the art cars, and I have to say they were quite interesting.

[GerryS]

I dunno. I'm torn....I love the vehicles, but Everything I've seen on this event looks hedonistic to an extreme...I outgrew the party culture long, long ago. I'll drink a few drinks, I'll pass on the bong, and I'll call the police for anything harder.

But right now, I LONG for the quiet of a forrest, a place to set aside all the bullsqueezins from the corporate crap.

Seriously, I want to be the odd old guy who lives down goat hollow road that nails hubcaps to the trees and run the barbershop on the town square....

[Wolffarmer]

I hear you Gerry. I would not want to do much more of BM than I am getting now. There is more than one dry, dusty lake bed around Nevada and Oregon. I think it would be nice to go camp out in the middle of one of those for a week during the summer. Do it when it is dry or you will be camped there until it becomes dry.

Randy

[High Desert]

BM= Big business. 38,000 tickets sold in 44 minutes @ $350 each. That's $13,300,000. And that's just the primary main ticket release. There are around 6000 "special tickets" left to sell later plus other lottery sales. Serious bucks.

[robfisher]

Surely you must know it costs a lot to sweep up after 50000 people.

[High Desert]

Surely you must know it costs a lot to sweep up after 50000 people.

LOL, you've got that right! The local news says they had to put up a $1M+ deposit with the BLM to cover costs!

[Wolffarmer]

They have to run the porta potties. Build the boundry fence, Man, Temple and other infrastructure. Pay off the local governments and pay for police. It is now a non profit organization though I have not seen the books so do not know just where it all goes. They do have full time staff now and also there are art grants.

Randy

[GPW]

I hear Colorado’s putting together a new Festival called “Smoking Man” !!!

[Redneck Teepee]

I hear Colorado’s putting together a new Festival called “Smoking Man” !!!

Only problem is no one will remember being there or if they had a good time or not....

[Christina]

I've been to Burning Man with my teardrop going on eight years now and it's incredible. (Hi Randy!) It's my second home and is FAR more than the sum of its rumors. Where else in the world can you stay up all night, dance at a blues club with a guy wearing an alligator costume, watch bad French films at 3:00 a.m. while eating popcorn from the Midnight Popcorn Palace, follow a clan of luminous jellyfish or go to a club that plays Johnny Cash all night?



Intrigued? There will be two more ticket sales in the future: the STEP sale where pre-purchased tickets are sold and the OMG sale where another 2,000 or so tickets will be sold. The prices are high, but once you are there, you won't even remember how much you paid.

My teardrop does just fine out there. I don't spend the entire day inside of it. We have a large canopy shelter we set up for shade and dust protection. The dust just gets into everything, you can't help it, but it's part of the experience. There's a badge of honor that comes with having that soft, pale dust all over you. I'vebeen able to keep much of the dust out of the interior by just keeping the doors closed.

If you are interested, I've covered Burning Man in several posts on my blog:

http://tinyyellowteardrop.blogspot.com/ ... g-man.html

http://tinyyellowteardrop.blogspot.com/ ... op-to.html

I also write about the tiny houses of Black Rock City for the Tiny House Blog. This gives you an idea of how brilliant people are out there. Not everyone is a drugged out hippie. I've met engineers, doctors, scientists and teachers and people are super normal.

http://tinyhouseblog.com/yourstory/tiny ... argo-cult/

[Christina]

They have to run the porta potties. Build the boundry fence, Man, Temple and other infrastructure. Pay off the local governments and pay for police. It is now a non profit organization though I have not seen the books so do not know just where it all goes. They do have full time staff now and also there are art grants.

Randy

Every year they give millions of dollars in grants to the artists who build the Honorarium and central art pieces. It costs a lot of money to build a 35 foot tall howling coyote out of steel.

[Wolffarmer]

As far as the dust destroying rentals. I imagine that is cause they are rental RVs and people track in all kinds of dust when they just do not care. I did not find the dust to bad on my equipment. Yes there will be dust for ever in the textured plastic of my TV, that is just the "patina".

One of the people that provided an art installation last year, became a Nobel winner I think for biology. I have seen ages from under 1 year old to well older than me.

Hi Christina. Tell Harry howdy

Randy

[GPW]

I’m still waiting for “ BEER DRINKING MAN ” ... ...

[Wolffarmer]

Build it and we will come.

Randy

[Corwin C]

I have never attended myself ... I've always been intrigued though. Honestly, there's WAY too many people for me.

A picture to give you an idea ...