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MikeVDS · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: I love Burningman

I thought I'd counter some of the negative vibe in here with some positive. So this post is for what we love about burningman. No matter where you go or what you do you'll find negative aspects, but to me burningman is about focusing on the positive.

I love the community. I love the culture. I love the art. I love the partisipation. Most of all I love feeling like a 10 year old again riding my bike around and playing.

Ron · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 623

I love the fact that many folk tend to be more open to engage the stranger and enjoy street interactions than in the general corse of events. Early in the week, just about every person I walk by will return a smile and nod, say, "Hi," and maybe even chat a bit. I've been lucky enough to meet various friends by such chance encounters, something that almost never happens outside of BRC.

I love the art. Weather we're talking about the hight craft and spectacle of the Mother Serpent, say, or the simplicity and elegance of the string art golden gate bridge wandering around and experiencing all of the art is incredible.

I love the way women act. In no other city in the world have I been approached for a bit of sensual fun by as many women as I have at the Burn. In my experience, only swing clubs seem to create the same sense of freedom, power, and sexuality in the female participants. And that's a very cool thing, in my world.

I love the stories and adventures the playa provides. Dodging fireballs, laughing until I can't breath, beating up assholes, eating food that never tasted so good, wandering from encounter to encounter, teasing camp mates and new friends met, giving and getting all kinds of cool gifts. Yummy.

I love the community. With the goal of creating a camp and constructing some form of Shady Tower each year, a group of folk have pulled together to make our own little clan and kin. We stay in touch all year, visit each other, argue, fight, make up, and love each other in a very family kind of way.

I love the looks on folk's faces when they walk into my art each year. Seeing the expressions as the cool wet grass does it's magic on their bare, playa encrusted, feet. I love watching around 100 burners talk, laugh, sleep, and seek shelter from the sun on a spot of ground that I and my friends built. Bringing grass and shade to BRC gives me a fantastic feeling.

I love what I learn each year. Everything from how to use a new tool to bits of hard fought personal understanding. I love how going each year reminds me that culture is a creation, not a pronouncement. Among other things I love about the burn. Next?

Ron

MikeVDS · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:54 am Post subject:

Were you the one who built the pyramid filled with grass this year? That was pretty awsome. I wonder if I talked to you. Faces all turn into blurs for me.

gyre · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: Plain Talk

I like it that most burners say what they think,
and don't mind if you have an opinion.
Getting used to that almost makes you unfit for Reality Camp.

Oh, yes and everything else too.

I can't get my friends to come.
But last night I met a couple that I recruited to come.
It took only an hour.
They're already making plans now.
I'm so thrilled.
They will be great, too.
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AntiM · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject:

I nearly have my Aunt Pat talked into attending with her boyfriend. She's always been interested, I think she'd have a blast.
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joel the ornery · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject:

SED · Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 1387

I love the negativity.
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joel the ornery · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

Dr. Pyro · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 1376 Location: Newcastle, CA

I love being able to flirt all I want and if I go over the line I can be told to "fuck off" without hurting my feelings. Of course, that in and of itself wouldn't get me to stop, which is another thing I love about Burning Man.

blyslv · Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 1678 Location: Fanta Se NM

I like the outpouring of energy undertaken by so many people for no other reason then that it feels good.

And Doc ... Fuck Offf!
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joel the ornery · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

helitack · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

...and it will stay with you on your permanent record...

SED · Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 1387

Wow, I've never been convicted before. Where do get my tattoo?
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helitack · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

From Butch, he's the 450 pound fun loving leprechaun in cell 25.

Ron · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 623

Ron · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 623

Hey, Joel, it was good to meet you as well, a sentiment shared by all of the inmates you bumped elbows with during your squat. Is it next year yet? ;)

Ron

MikeVDS · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

The grass was great. Burningman is like a different world, and entering that pyramid was like entering another world from that other world.

joel the ornery · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject:

Ron, please tell all your compadres hello for me... i've got your neighborhood on my must visit list.

my favorites from burning man...

the friends i have met, friendships cultivated and those friends i haven't met... and the opportunity to visit them where they live someday.

the idea that "yeah, it (insert subject) is possible... a general positive vide versus a negative one (usually associated with default world)

the mountains, the climate, the weather, the dust... you don't see any of it where i live. the scenery alone has made me a wealthier person.

totally selfish here.... the fucking great strories and photos i get to share with my default world friends that for whatever reason can't see themselves at burning man.

i'll add to the list again, when it suits me.

Ron · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 623

joel the ornery · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:35 am Post subject:

SED · Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 1387

Fuck off! Fuck off! FUCK OFF!!!!!

EVERYBODY JUST FUCK OFF!!!

And Joel, I can get you kicked out for looking up my kilt, so just back the FUCK OFF!!!!
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joel the ornery · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:33 am Post subject:

helitack · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

Love? No.
Enjoy? Yes
Are robots art?

Kinetic IV · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

Robots are definitely art IMHO. No question about it. Precision art on a grand scale. Drawing, sculpting and more are part of making one, and are quite often overlooked anymore.
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helitack · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I don't see it that way. I don't recall seeing any robotics in my art history classes. Nor my art theory classes. Nor my aesthestics classes. Nor in any of the galleries where I have shown my work. But that's just my opinion from 21 years in the fine art photography gig. I need to sell a few more prints we made last year on the playa so I can buy another lens...and some more film...and chemicals...

Kinetic IV · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

Just because it's not in some old musty art history book somewhere as a type of art doesn't mean it's not art.

I wonder if there's an art debate coming out of this? We already have "Moop or Schwag", next up? "Is it Art or Trash?" I could see some serious debate going on over that one.
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