The Man at 40
Forty years ago on the solstice, the first Burning Man event took place in San Francisco. Only a handful of people alive today remember that evening on Baker Beach, and ...Read More
What Burning Man Can Teach the Surgeon General About Curing Loneliness
The Surgeon General has declared that loneliness and isolation are an epic health crisis and must be addressed. According to ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Alba Roland Mejia on Race, Film, and Dust
Alba Roland Mejia is an Oakland-based filmmaker. She visited Black Rock City for the first time in 2022 and shot ...Read More
Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification
Since I started this series, I’ve gotten a few messages from people saying (more or less): “YES, I want to ...Read More
A Sweetthang Story: Remembering Susan Bernosky
Susan Bernosky’s story can be told by beginning with Hurricane Camille, which smashed through Gulfport, Mississippi in August 1969. Susan ...Read More
Remembering Cowboy Carl: The Other Man in the Hat
“People think the life of a cowboy is some sort of Wild Bill shoot-em-up wrangler type. But a real cowboy ...Read More
Meet Santa Zero, the Cacophonist (and Burner) Who Started SantaCon
Burning Man culture is filled with secret instigators who show up time and time again to help make astonishing things ...Read More
Everyone’s an Artist; Artists Need to Make a Living Like Everyone
This is part III in Caveat's series about "decommodifying permission" and figuring out how to square the needs of a ...Read More
Anything Commercial Art Can Do, Decommodified Art Can Do Better!
In my first post in this series, I said that decommodified art can do things that commercial art can't. But ...Read More
Burning Man 2022: How Life Imitated Art
I have a new metaphor for the way Burning Man changes. For the last 10-ish years, I’ve been a part ...Read More