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Pictures from their camping trip · Jul 24, 06:59 PM

I’m not experienced; I don’t know what Burning Man is, but I’m left explaining the event to anyone I tell anything more than “a desert camping trip.”

There’s the official home of Burning Man online, but it’s badly disorganized and a bit much for the casual reader. Still, their FAQ. Wikipedia has an entry for Burning Man. I haven’t read it.

Waldemar at Fotki has a work-safe Burning Man 2003 gallery.

He also has a gallery from 2004.

Brad Templeton wrote up a good what is Burning Man essay, his photo essays span many of the different kinds of sights to see. If you at work, in a libary, or otherwise motivated to avoid nudity on film, stick to the following pages.

Black Rock City is where everybody lives.

On the playa outside the city, there is art.

Burners confound the line between form, function, and locomotion.

The city transforms at night:

By now it should be obvious that we are dealing with Satan’s birthday party, aka the quest for hell. Or at least a redefinition of weird.

Here are more picture from a flickr set. Be careful, there are exposed breasts in the previous link. Not for work.

Seriously, I could go all day linking to pictures (caution, not work safe). Where was I? Oh yeah: ask me again ex post facto.

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  1. I am now kicking myself not planning to go to BM! I been looking at the pictures of the past decade! So much art! So much freedom of expression. — Yin    Jul 25, 12:19 AM    #

  2. Don’t forget the 110 degree weather, 70 mph winds, white outs, rain ins, and 40 degree nights. Its no picnic. Not the kind of picnic I’d like at any rate. Which is why it’s my kind of picnic. — Tom    Jul 25, 12:44 AM    #

  3. Just wanted to point out that one of the articles you linked to contained the phrase, ”...culminating in the erection of a 52 foot tall wooden man outlined in neon.” So, the erection of a 52-foot-tall wooden man would be approximately… — Katie    Jul 25, 06:23 PM    #

  4. I’ve known about this for donkeys years but have never managed to go. Looks like fun, in an artsy, alternative kinda way. — Mark Lawrence    Jul 29, 09:29 AM    #

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