Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles When Is Gifting Not Gifting? April 5, 2024 By Caveat Magister Some of my least favorite experiences as a Burner are when we become victims of our own success. Often this happens when the “default world” culture takes something that we ...Read More
Participate in BRC, Shenanigans A Look Back at the Mutation of Mutant Vehicles with DMV OG’s Chef Juke, Sparky & Pepper Mouser July 17, 2023 By Brinkley While Rangers ensured in '98 that only "art cars" drove on the open playa, 1999 was the first year of ...Read More
Serious Stuff How a Solstice Gathering Sparked Ritual, Communion, and Burning Man June 21, 2023 By Burning Man Project Wherever you are today at 57 minutes after this hour, welcome the solstice. This celestial moment marks the day we ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles What Burning Man Can Teach the Surgeon General About Curing Loneliness May 18, 2023 By Caveat Magister The Surgeon General has declared that loneliness and isolation are an epic health crisis and must be addressed. According to ...Read More
Serious Stuff Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Alba Roland Mejia on Race, Film, and Dust April 13, 2023 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley Alba Roland Mejia is an Oakland-based filmmaker. She visited Black Rock City for the first time in 2022 and shot ...Read More
Global Art, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification March 21, 2023 By Caveat Magister Since I started this series, I’ve gotten a few messages from people saying (more or less): “YES, I want to ...Read More
Serious Stuff A Sweetthang Story: Remembering Susan Bernosky March 15, 2023 By Harley K. DuBois Susan Bernosky’s story can be told by beginning with Hurricane Camille, which smashed through Gulfport, Mississippi in August 1969. Susan ...Read More
Building BRC, Serious Stuff Remembering Cowboy Carl: The Other Man in the Hat March 1, 2023 By Tony “Coyote” Perez-Banuet “People think the life of a cowboy is some sort of Wild Bill shoot-em-up wrangler type. But a real cowboy ...Read More
Shenanigans Meet Santa Zero, the Cacophonist (and Burner) Who Started SantaCon December 20, 2022 By Kirsten Weisenburger Burning Man culture is filled with secret instigators who show up time and time again to help make astonishing things ...Read More
Global Art, Rhymes with Burning Man, Serious Stuff Everyone’s an Artist; Artists Need to Make a Living Like Everyone November 30, 2022 By Caveat Magister This is part III in Caveat's series about "decommodifying permission" and figuring out how to square the needs of a ...Read More