What if my art project is a loaded gun?
It was Tuesday in the desert. The hottest part of the afternoon. I was sitting on my favorite couch in ...Read More
Posts about Serious Stuff
Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.
Welcome to the Burning Man Media Frenzy. Here’s how we win it.
Did the sideways attempt by an astringent horse-meat peddler to associate its tacos with Burning Man on a television commercial ...Read More
Theme Camp Dues & Don’ts
The concept of a Theme Camp can be bewildering to someone who has never been to Burning Man. Deciding if ...Read More
Writers of Burning Man, Unite!
Does Burning Man have a literary culture, at all? The answer is no. But by this time next year – ...Read More
Art and Whimsy are renewable resources
Where’d all the fun people go? A recent San Francisco newspaper article was ostensibly about a book – the newly ...Read More
A reading list inspired by, but not about, Burning Man
A few weeks ago a call went out on the Burning Nerds list: ideas for books and articles that aren’t ...Read More
Burning rituals for our digital world
For the past few weeks I’ve been struggling with something Chip Conley said at Burning Man’s Global Leadership Conference. (You ...Read More
We’re no better than anybody else, you jackass
The session on “outreach to subcultures” at the Global Leadership Conference was winding down when the Kid-Who-Cares-More-Than-You in the front ...Read More
Burning Man may be the future, but it’s not an escape
Any future envisioned to be “like Burning Man” will have to wrestle with this fundamental fact: Burning Man forces you ...Read More