Not a Cell Phone in Sight. Just Burners Living in the Moment.
As you finish checking all the things off of your packing list and you turn that final corner toward Black Rock City 2023, take a moment to ask yourself: Are ...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
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
Call for Submissions: Black Rock City 2023 “ANIMALIA” Sticker Designs
By Deets Shay
It’s that time again! The moment has arrived to create your designs for the 2023 Black Rock City stickers. With ...Read More
To Reconcile Art and Commerce, Take Them Less Seriously
My first post in this series explored the way in which Decommodified art can do things that commodified art can’t. ...Read More
Earth Energy: An Interview with Burning Man Co-founder Will Roger Peterson
Photographer, conservationist, and Burning Man Co-founder Will Roger Peterson lives in Gerlach with his life partner and fellow Co-founder Crimson ...Read More
So Much Gratitude — For You (Yes, YOU)
Burners around the world kept the flame burning brightly this past year. Some of us built an ephemeral city in ...Read More
An Invisible Thread Connects Us: Paiute Shoshone Blessing and Tule Harvest
Black Rock City rises each year on the ancestral land of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone ...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 2023: ANIMALIA
“Sometimes, I am the beast in the darkness.” ―Heather Durham The Black Rock Desert can appear at first glance to be ...Read More