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
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Burning Man Is an “Efficiency Third” Culture, and That’s Why You Love It October 3, 2016 By Caveat Magister In a recent article, burner and economist Conner Smith asked “Does Burning Man work?” Smith acknowledges by the end that ...Read More
Serious Stuff Structural Integrity: How It Feels to Choose Burning Man and (Nearly) Blow Up Your Life September 13, 2016 By Tales From the Playa By Anonymous So far as I see, I can tell this story three ways. Way 1: Last year, I ...Read More
Serious Stuff What happened to White Ocean, and why every prankster should condemn it September 7, 2016 By Caveat Magister Okay, let’s talk about White Ocean. If you hadn’t heard: on Sept. 1, White Ocean made a Facebook post discussing ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa PEACE IN OUR TIME!!! Media Mecca and the Census end their four year war with historic treaty! September 3, 2016 By Caveat Magister In 2012 the Census claimed that Media Mecca had poached one of their most beloved volunteers, while Media Mecca claimed ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa The Darker Impulses of Artists – or “Why We Shout Insults at People Through Megaphones (Maybe)” August 30, 2016 By Caveat Magister The other night, I was the asshole on a megaphone shouting things at people going by my camp. I couldn’t ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive Public Service Announcement: Should I use a tent or an RV at Burning Man? August 26, 2016 By Caveat Magister This is a controversial issue that people never seem to stop arguing about: what's the best way to experience Burning ...Read More
Serious Stuff Thoughts on the Place of Native Costumes, and Promotion of Social Justice, at Burning Man August 23, 2016 By Caveat Magister I want to thank, and applaud, members of the HYBYCOZO art crew for bringing up the difficult issue of Burners ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Radical Inclusion: Listen Up Before Dressing Up August 22, 2016 By Guest Post By Yelena Filipchuk, Dio Ganhdih and Allegra Lucas of HYBYCOZO We go to Burning Man to get free. We go ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive Public Service Announcement: What kind of tent do I need at Burning Man? August 19, 2016 By Caveat Magister If you want to be comfortable at Burning Man, you need the right tent. Extreme environmental conditions out in the ...Read More