Uh-oh, now I'm in trouble.
Jan. 8th, 2005 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9I've almost decided to go to Burning Man 2005. I've figured out a way to go really cheaply (yay Aeroplan!) and I know people (well, at least one person) going. I just have to talk it over with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leapfish and see if he'll be OK for the seven days or so that I'll be away. I don't want him getting lonely!
What is Burning Man? Burning Man is many things, depending on the person you ask. For me, it's an art festival held out in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, north of Reno, Nevada. 35,000 people drive out into the desert with all the food, water and shelter they need to survive, and build a tent-and-RV city. For one week each year, Black Rock City is the third-largest city in Nevada. Everyone performs, displays, shares, or even is art for that week. Then they pack everything up their belongings, trash, and even cigarette butts, clean the desert, and leave no trace at all that they were ever there.
It takes place the week before Labour Day every year. It's called Burning Man because on the Saturday before Labout Day, a 40-foot-high wooden stick man is set on fire, and everybody watches it burn. Well, except for the criminals that buy tickets just so they can raid everybody's RVs and tents during the Burn. So that's why you lock stuff up.
Some people see it as an opportunity to avoid laws that they dislike, so there's lots of nudity there (perhaps as many as one-quarter of attendees get naked at some point, but I'm just guessing). Not as a sexual thing, just as a freedom thing. Many attendees (at least half? Again, just guessing) take the opportunity to ingest all sorts of narcotics, even though for years various police forces have attended undercover. Attendees ("Burners") tend to practice quite advanced tolerance for just about anything.
I have attended before, withpetele, DaveO, Evan, Elyse, Justin, and Chris. It took me a bit to find my old trip reports about it, but I've posted them on LJ on the appropriate dates, so now you can read all about the last trip if you want:
1. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155598.html
2. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155758.html
3. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155923.html
More about Burning Man: http://www.burningman.com
Fun reading:
http://www.burningman.com/first_timers/
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/health_safety.html
I'm now amusing myself by reading the Google results of "Burning Man sucks."
leapfish and see if he'll be OK for the seven days or so that I'll be away. I don't want him getting lonely!What is Burning Man? Burning Man is many things, depending on the person you ask. For me, it's an art festival held out in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, north of Reno, Nevada. 35,000 people drive out into the desert with all the food, water and shelter they need to survive, and build a tent-and-RV city. For one week each year, Black Rock City is the third-largest city in Nevada. Everyone performs, displays, shares, or even is art for that week. Then they pack everything up their belongings, trash, and even cigarette butts, clean the desert, and leave no trace at all that they were ever there.
It takes place the week before Labour Day every year. It's called Burning Man because on the Saturday before Labout Day, a 40-foot-high wooden stick man is set on fire, and everybody watches it burn. Well, except for the criminals that buy tickets just so they can raid everybody's RVs and tents during the Burn. So that's why you lock stuff up.
Some people see it as an opportunity to avoid laws that they dislike, so there's lots of nudity there (perhaps as many as one-quarter of attendees get naked at some point, but I'm just guessing). Not as a sexual thing, just as a freedom thing. Many attendees (at least half? Again, just guessing) take the opportunity to ingest all sorts of narcotics, even though for years various police forces have attended undercover. Attendees ("Burners") tend to practice quite advanced tolerance for just about anything.
I have attended before, with
petele, DaveO, Evan, Elyse, Justin, and Chris. It took me a bit to find my old trip reports about it, but I've posted them on LJ on the appropriate dates, so now you can read all about the last trip if you want:1. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155598.html
2. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155758.html
3. http://www.livejournal.com/users/c9/155923.html
More about Burning Man: http://www.burningman.com
Fun reading:
http://www.burningman.com/first_timers/
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/health_safety.html
I'm now amusing myself by reading the Google results of "Burning Man sucks."
