Organic Mutant Archives: burning man
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13 September 2007
Burners, coffee, true believers, and a desperate dispersal of cookies
On Friday (while at Burning Man), I discovered that there was a wi-fi network available and as I had been commanded by my co-blogger to twitter if I could, I decided that it made sense to spend and hour or so at Center Camp (where the wi-fi signal lived) with my trusty laptop.
After a breakfast [...]
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11 September 2007
Burning Man art: Massive
One of the well known joys of Burning Man - and really the only part that I felt I really understood before I arrived - are the massive art installations. I guess I cheated on this front a little bit, as Nicole and I attended the Burning Man Arts Preview back in July, where we [...]
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8 September 2007
Hot days, wild nights
After being welcomed home, I mounted a suspended, empty hydrogen tank, which was rung by the BRC greeting crew, and thus my adventure was begun. We had identified a target address for our camp, using some of the Burning Man collateral we had collected recently. 4:00 and Jungle, we said (those are streets in BRC), [...]
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7 September 2007
“Welcome Home”
I spent the better part of the last month-and-a-half preparing to travel to and survive in the environmentally challenging environs of Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis of about 45,000 in the middle of the Nevada desert. BRC is, of course, home to Burning Man, the famously wild festival of art, music, and free spirits. [...]