Stories From the City: The First-Year Surprise of Sunrise Diner
During their first year at Burning Man, Nathan McKinley (a.k.a “Oncall”) and Zella Henderson (a.k.a. “Lifesaver”) would wake to mimosas ...Read More
Posts about Building BRC
Follow the stories of building an annual desert metropolis.
A Turning Point for Placement
The Camp Placement Questionnaire closed on April 25 and the Placement Team saw the most questionnaires in Burning Man history: ...Read More
Streets Ahead: The 2019 Black Rock City Plan is Here!
Can’t wait to stride down our city’s streets? Take a gander at Ganymede, hang a right at Hyacinth or leg ...Read More
Coyote Nose – The Garbage Myth
As a child, the garbage truck would always terrify me. It was a huge metal brute with a yawning monster ...Read More
Cultural Direction Setting: Where Do We Go from Here?
So you’ve read our last two posts on Cultural Direction Setting — What’s Happened and What We Heard. Perhaps you’re ...Read More
MOOP Map 2018: High-Resolution Environmental Accountability
By DA
Hello Black Rock City, DA here. Serving as Burning Man’s Playa Restoration Manager since 2005, it is my responsibility to ...Read More
The Metamorphosis of the 2019 Man Base
As we considered the design for the base of the Man this year, we were keenly aware that this was ...Read More
Renwick Storytelling Day: The Art of Connection, Community and Change
By Kari Gregg
This is the ninth post in a series about “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man,” the upcoming exhibition at ...Read More
One Last Look
By John Curley
(This post was written after a visit to Playa Restoration last week; the BLM inspection was scheduled to take ...Read More