MetaFilter posts tagged with burningman

Delrious Time-Lapse

netbros — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:49:21 -0800

Ben Wiggins features stunning time-lapse photography. From the strange colorings of the Cnidarian and Montipora coral species, to summer cloud transformations in and around San Francisco. Couldn't make it to Burning Man 2009? See it... in just two minutes (2008, 2007).

Burning Man, a front page post

twoleftfeet — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:34:48 -0800

Metafilter has never really had a front page post just about Burning Man. Maybe this year it will be different, because Burning Man goes digital.

Who owns The Man?

scalefree — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:14:30 -0800

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a criticism of Burning Man, LLC's Terms and Conditions, saying that the automatic rights assignment to BMOrg for photos & video taken during the event is "creative lawyering intended to allow the BMO to use the streamlined “notice and takedown” process enshrined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to quickly remove photos from the Internet" and that this is corrosive to our freedom of speech. Burning Man responds.

Fire Art!

pombe — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:02:58 -0800

The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based fire art collective. Their recent works have included The Serpent Mother (pics | video); the Angel of the Apocalypse (pics ); and the Hand of God (pics | video). Another bay area fire arts group is Interpretive Arson, creators of Dance Dance Immolation (previously featured), and the interactive 2pir (video).

I'M ON UR PLAYA BURNING UR MAN

jcruelty — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:45:50 -0800

The man got lit up early. Culprit out on bail. LOLCATS on the case.

Smoke Rings are COOL

spock — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:07:01 -0800

It takes something truly exceptional to be both impressive and completely useless, simultaneously : Let's face it, smoke rings are cool and sometimes mysterious. (Maybe just not 5 min. and 31 seconds worth of cool and mystererious). Amaze the kids and without lighting up! (zerotoys.com YouTube video) Naturally occuring vortex rings are even cooler. The inventor in the first link, (Aussie Peter Terren of the previously mentioned tesladownunder.com) shows more on vortex ring launchers) and has also recently discovered both YouTube and MeFi. Keep up with his latest geekiness on his What's New page.

Urban Lumberjacks Building Steam-Powered Tree

...possums — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:36:32 -0800

Chop it down and steam it up! (work in progress)

The Shipyard

treepour — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:06:18 -0800

Founded in Berkeley by artist Jim Mason, The Shipyard, a collaborative industrial arts space constructed from recycled shipping containers, has hosted numerous large-scale projects and events including a Survival Research Labs show, Power Tool Drag Races, gassification experiments and workshops, and various large-scale Burning Man projects such as 2005's Clockworks. Short documentary here (quicktime). However, relations with the city of Berkeley have been consistently tense. Recently, the city shut off the Shipyard's power, to which the Shipyard responded by going off grid. On May 8, Berkeley issued 3-day vacate and abate notice, with which the Shipyard is attempting to comply (auto-playing video).

Graffitti Archaeology and the Best Homework Ever

DragonBoy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:15:30 -0800

Cassidy Curtis is responsible for the best overnight homework any teacher has ever received in any course at any level at any place in any subject at any time, ever, ever, ever. If being able to hand-draw Torus in 3-Space renderings isn't enough for you (on skin too) then would you believe a Flash based Graffitti Archaeology application or a Telestereoscope and even a pretty normal blog. (couldn't find his myspace page though...)

John Law speaks.

lupus_yonderboy — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:31:15 -0800

Who owns the Burning Man? John Law wrestles Larry Harvey and Michael Mikel to bring the Burning Man name into the public domain.

The Skies of December Turn Gloomy

fandango_matt — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:04:04 -0800

The La Contessa, the Spanish galleon that roamed Lake Lahontan, is gone.

Street Studio at Burning Man

HuronBob — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:31:11 -0800

Photographer Clay Enos does his thing at Burning Man ....Burning Man is an event that is always going to attract interesting individuals. What better place to set up a "street studio". (some images NSFW)

Cause Dick is America, America is Dick.

jrb223 — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:36:33 -0800

Healing Dick

Benjamin Krain, photojournalist

madamjujujive — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:26:11 -0800

Benjamin Krain, photojournalist. His series on Katrina captures both scale and detail. His portfolio includes work on Afghanistan, Cuba, Burning Man. His work on the Marshallese was previously on Mefi. (flash warning for the haters)

100 photos from the playa

crunchland — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:41:01 -0800

Burning Man 2005 ... 100 photos by Scott London. (note: some nudity. may not be safe for work.)

BurningManRoadTrip

srboisvert — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:25:44 -0800

The journey to burning man. Part 1. Part 2 An interview with a Burning Man founder. Bike Ride man. Thunderdome. QT vids.

virtual burning man

crunchland — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:15:06 -0800

virtual playa ~ a digital Blackrock City using Microsoft Flight Simulator.

burning man 2003

specialk420 — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:57:59 -0800

it does look like fun
burning man 2003. more links? photos? stories? from this years fun in the desert.

maura — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:17:55 -0800

'Girls Gone Wild' goes to Burning Man. The denizens of Black Rock City get pissed; Voyeur Video tries to save face. "Instead of stopping the sale, Voyeur changed the festival's name on its Web site, the suit alleges, to "Rainbow Fire Festival," but kept the description. ("Rainbow Fire Festival is all running around naked and exposing yourself in front of your peers," the Web site now reads.)" Lord help me, why do I find this all really, really funny?

tippiedog — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:59:57 -0800

Who needs Burning Man? Austin [well, Round Rock, actually] has the Hairy Man Festival! "One highlight of the Festival is 'the Hairiest Man Contest.' This year's Grand Prize is a 4-night cruise for 2 from Galveston to Cozumel!!" And don't miss the Legend of the Hairy Man!

Mo Nickels — Sun, 02 Sep 2001 11:50:08 -0800

Reasons not to bring a dog to Burning Man. Find-and-replace "Burning Man" with "Manhattan." Replace the bit about the alkali with comments about cramped shelter and lack of green space. Add to the comments about the undue heat so they also refer to snow and cold. Now you've pretty much mirrored my thoughts on why it's unfair to for selfish humans to have large dogs in Manhattan. Link circuitously via Memepool.

maura — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:25:41 -0800

Happy Burning Man, everybody!

captaincursor — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:41:16 -0800

Bianca's is shutting down. One of the oldest community sites on the web is going away. It's been kept alive for so long through the hard work, passion, and sheer enthusiasm of the founders and volunteers who cared about the site. You Burning Man participants take heart though, Bianca's will most likely still continue on as a theme camp.

Bianca loves you.

holgate — Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:14:52 -0800

Eat your heart out, Burning Man... Allahabad may become the world's largest city for the next six weeks. It's expected that at least 20 million people will attend the Kumbh, but numbers could rise to 70 million. Wow.

Mr. skullhead — Sat, 02 Sep 2000 12:34:01 -0800

Burning Man. Does anyone really care anymore? It always seemed like a bogus 'artsy' version of Spring Break to me. Plus it pisses me off that a bunch of rampaging fools trash a perfectly good desert.