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Profiles in Dust: the future of Burning Man video (A Global Leadership Conference report)

April 7, 2013 By Caveat Magister

Massive amounts of extraordinary Burning Man video footage are available for download, to be mixed into whatever presentations people want. ...Read More

Regionals

Global Leadership Conference report – what is a “leader” at Burning Man?

April 7, 2013 By Caveat Magister

Burning Man, as a culture, now exists to various degrees from San Francisco to Singapore, from Korea and China to ...Read More

Regionals

Burning Man’s Global Leadership Conference – The center cannot hold

April 6, 2013 By Caveat Magister

If there was an underlying theme to the sessions I attended and the conversations I had my first day at ...Read More

Regionals

Burning Man’s Global Leadership Conference (Part 1) – Everything Old is New Again

April 5, 2013 By Caveat Magister

If you want to know what’s on the cutting edge of Burning Man, the Global Leadership Conference (happening this weekend ...Read More

Shenanigans, The Ten Principles

The 10 Principles – as we really live them

April 2, 2013 By Caveat Magister

This "adjusted" list of the 10 Principles of Burning Man was written by Melinda Green for the 2012 Boston-area regional, ...Read More

BRC Art

The Temple of Whollyness

March 28, 2013 By Jon Mitchell

The Temple is the most intense place on the playa. It contains so much. So the shape of the container ...Read More

Serious Stuff

Burning Man may be the future, but it’s not an escape

March 27, 2013 By Caveat Magister

Any future envisioned to be “like Burning Man” will have to wrestle with this fundamental fact: Burning Man forces you ...Read More

Serious Stuff

In defense of academia, and why it’s good for Burning Man

March 15, 2013 By Caveat Magister

I view academia as the most open minded institution humanity has yet created rivaling even the open mindedness of Burning ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

I Grew Up Here

March 11, 2013 By Tales From the Playa

"When I left, as soon as I could get in cell range, I called my dad and said, 'You'll never ...Read More

Serious Stuff

Burning Man is a story field

March 9, 2013 By Jon Mitchell

What makes it Burning Man isn't the objects, their positions, or our positions in relation to them. It's the fields ...Read More