2011 Burningman Art Theme Sucks!

[theCryptofishist]

I don't know what it is yet, but I am sure of that.

[Blurt]

I like it. I can relate to it. When I went through puberty, all I got was a coupon for kotex. Burning Man was my real entry into womanhood....

[dragonflyannie]

http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm11_theme.html

[Kinetik V]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

[AltTabMatt]

Camp wet dream and akward erection coming in 2011.

[The Bass]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

agree with all of this - BUT - Rites of Passage _should_ be a very good theme. Certainly kicks the ass of "American Dream."

[TomServo]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

[theCryptofishist]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

[thirt33n]

now i can come here again...since i'll be going in 2011. 2002 was my first year and i felt lucky. ...didn't understand all the hate for the compass degrees instead of clock streets at the time but it was confusing.
hope you all had fun whatever you did this week..

see you more this year here.

[Yobi Bear]

I saw Larry announce it Tue evening on the Playa. We were walking up the inner circle when we heard his voice and followed it to se him. I think it is very appropriate and considering my experience at this, our 1st burn, Burning Man is a Rite of Passage in and of itself.

Why wouldn't you like it??

[theCryptofishist]

A "This Theme Sucks" thread is traditional.

[unjonharley]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDT

[theCryptofishist]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDT

There are people on the board who might be talked into that!

[TheJudge]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

And as a result, every year we have fish cars, pirate ships and other things that dont relate to the yearly theme at all.

[Da Mule]

Does This Art Theme
Suck Donkey Balls? 30% [ 6 ]
Fill You With Nausea and Ennui? 20% [ 4 ]
Make You Want to Burn Your Gear Now, So You Don't Go? 10% [ 2 ]
Put a Hit Out on Larry Harvey? 15% [ 3 ]
Make You Long For "The Green Man"? 25% [ 5 ]

For all those (6 at current count) who chose the option "Suck Donkey Balls", the line forms to the right.

Ahh, yeah....that's good, right there, right there.

[artcrash]

Same old shit, some Larry generated nonsense that at least 90% of the population ignores anyway. A radical self expression event.....should be exactly that. Who needs a theme? Be your own theme! [/b]

[Bay Bridge Sue]

I like it. I can relate to it. When I went through puberty, all I got was a coupon for kotex. Burning Man was my real entry into womanhood....

There's my art installation - The Wall of Passage - A christo's fence-like structure parodying the US Flag made of Kotex, wrappers, and Tampax Tube clusters for stars... Perfect!

(Yeah, that stupid "free sample" coupon, fracking commercialism consumerism thrust on young women everywhere by the corporations, try to get me on brand loyalty my kooch... Worked well, Kimberly-Clark... Guess which brand I never bought?)

[unjonharley]

Only thing I can come up with so far is


A Port-A-Potty door set in deep playa.. Name of the project would be: Pass Within.

That would be to much for small minds.. Puns are out of style.

[Oldguy]

As I am pushing 60 now, I'd like to see a funeral Camp. Passing on is indeed a rite of passage. River Styx, Pearly Gates, or the Black Buggy will get us all someday.

I'd like to see a New Orleans style Jazz Parade. Ten years since the levees fell.

Religious, social, cultural, education passages are marked by celebration or events. Let's PARTY !!!

[unjonharley]

As I am pushing 60 now, I'd like to see a funeral Camp. Passing on is indeed a rite of passage. River Styx, Pearly Gates, or the Black Buggy will get us all someday.

I'd like to see a New Orleans style Jazz Parade. Ten years since the levees fell.

Religious, social, cultural, education passages are marked by celebration or events. Let's PARTY !!!

Re. the potty door art.. Pass as in bowl movement

[Cheyenne_Morningstar]

How about a skull and bones camp, a 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry camp or a massive Mayan Pyramid with a big boy logo on top?

[junglesmacks]

Same old shit, some Larry generated nonsense that at least 90% of the population ignores anyway. A radical self expression event.....should be exactly that. Who needs a theme? Be your own theme!

This.

[Fire_Moose]

I gots a rite of passage for ya Larry!


/grabs crotch

[unjonharley]

I gots a rite of passage for ya Larry!


/grabs crotch

Should that read: "grad socks!"

[theCryptofishist]

How about a skull and bones camp, a 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry camp or a massive Mayan Pyramid with a big boy logo on top?

See this is the problem with our highly interconnected world. People from teh UK shouldn't know about Bob's Big Boy. (It's okay if they know about Lard Lad--I don't mind that the Simpsons has passed beyond our borders.) I'm sorry, it's just wrong. And what a way to represent for ourselves. We should hang our heads in shame.

[weirdscience]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

i know one swimming across a giant trash container that contains bilge water trash and anything else that was in the bilge water and the trash container... my moms boyfriend is ex navy he had to do this lol

[Tamino]

[quote="Cheyenne_Morningstar"]How about a skull and bones camp, a 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry camp or a massive Mayan Pyramid with a big boy logo on top?[/quote]

Skull & Bones?? White boys masturbating in coffins?

[BAS]

All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!

(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)

Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.

Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDT

There are people on the board who might be talked into that!

Wait-- you mean I was supposed to wait for a THEME to do that at BM?!!

[NotANugget]

On a personal note-
I had a 12 year relationship explode and disolve while my father went from being cancer free to having to be moved into hospice.

And it is just March....

For me at least, this year's theme is hauntingly apropos.

[graidawg]

yea this years theme is appropriate for me too.

I'm having some real issues in my life at the moment and its only thinking about burning man and the personal rite of passage of actually achieving something difficult that stopping me just jacking it all in.