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• Fire Arts Festival

  Published: July 22, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Burning Man, Oakland, Art

  is no substitute for Burning Man, it’s really great to see this annual event becoming part of the larger Bay Area culture. Oakland residents who might never be able to afford Burning Man (or who might just not want to spend a week in the desert) are able to appreciate the awe inspiring fire and arts that burners have been

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• Oakland’s a lot like Black Rock City

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: Burning Man, Public Transit, Downtown Oakland, Temescal, Oakland, Green, Environmentalism, Art

  city. Burning Man has been big on “leave no trace” for many years, employing staff and volunteers to clean up at the event and throughout the year. But for 2007, they’re taking it to the next level with the theme of The Green Man. The Burning Man infrastructure will be powered by large solar panels, which

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• Burning Man: The Journey Begins

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada

  is my first time going to Burning Man, I can't yet give a first-hand account of what it's like. I can talk about what I do know, and in just 10 days, I'll finally be able to experience for myself what it's all about. Over the next few days, I'm going to blog about what I think some of the central concepts surrounding Burning Man are,

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• Burning Man: Road Trip Part 1 - The Vast Flatlands

  Published: August 21, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Burning Man, Costume, Driving, Nevada, New Mexico, Raw Food, Road Trip

  known as Burning Man. The first day we drove (Sam, mostly) from New York City through a bunch of little states and ended up near Knoxville, Tennessee. Most of it is a blur to me because I was half-conscious from staying awake all night getting ready for the trip. After a good night’s rest, I opened my eyes to

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• Burning Man Part II: The Unfinished Hoof

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Burning Man

  known as Burning Man. I went through quite a process to make the hooves for my costume at Burning Man. After I finally figured out how I’d do it, the first step was to make a mold from my shoe. After the mold hardened, I sprayed the inside of the mold with a releasing agent and poured the liquid rubber solution into

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• Burning Man Values Part 1

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Burning Man

  one is likely to have at Burning Man is a re-evaluation of one’s values. This can be seen on both the personal and collective levels as well as on an inner level. Beauty One very big element of Burning Man that serves as the “glue” binding the experience together into a unified theme is the art. Many attendees of Burning

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• Burning Man: Road Trip Part 2 - The Desert Mountains

  Published: August 25, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Burning Man, Nevada, Road Trip, San Francisco

  in the Wild West. Indeed many cowboy movies are set in this area. Despite being in the desert, there was a fair amount of vegetation and many farms. However, when we get to Black Rock desert, the home of Burning Man, there will be absolutely no indigenous life. Just us and the playa. After we took the I-40 into New Mexico and settled

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• Burning Man includes Hindu festival

  Published: August 27, 2007, 5:03 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Burning Man

  A traditional Indian rath yatra, or a chariot procession, a Hindu wedding and a life size temple of Lord Jagannath are among the major highlights of this year's annual Burning Man festival in Nevada desert.

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• Business Hippies: Wall Street Types Dig Burning Man

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Art Meets Commerce, Burning Man, Business Hippies

  Wall Street executives at Burning Man? You bet. Though there's nothing farther from the cutthroat, moneymaking world of Wall Street than the anticapitalist, anticorporate festival of radical...

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• The Man Preburns

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Burning Man

  look at it, the big wooden man that is the centerpiece of Burning Man mysteriously caught fire. Burning Man gets its namesake from the burning of this large man, but that’s not supposed to happen until the end of the festival, as a climactic ending/closer of the week-long event. This year, no one seems sure how it prematurely caught

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• Burning Man icon goes up in flames, 4 days prematurely

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:57 pm

  Tags: Burning Man

  A San Francisco man was arrested on felony arson charges today after the 40-foot-tall "Man" statue whose torching is the annual highlight of the Burning Man festival in Nevada went up in flames four days early, authorities said.

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• Suicide Is Painless: "A Burning Man participant was found dead ...

  Published: August 30, 2007, 5:28 pm

  Tags: Ack, Burning Man, Suicide Painless

  "A Burning Man participant was found dead this morning, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Managment.... Pirtle...

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• Burning Man

  Published: August 31, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Burning Man

  entitled: I almost went to Burning Man but my costume sucked. There’s no way in hell I’m showing up to the biggest freakfest in the world wearing Jamiroquai’s played-out fur hat. Expressing one’s creativity doesn’t happen by buying a costume - I need to be creative. The guy sleeping in my living room (aka couch

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• Burning Man festivali [2007]

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:26 am

  Tags: Burning Man, Festival

  Burning Man festivali [2007] Burning Man is an eight-day-long annual festival that takes place in Black Rock City, a temporary city on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, 90 miles (150 km) north-northeast of Reno, ending on the American Labor Day holiday in September. Picture Gallery >>

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• Crude Awakening

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:31 pm

  Tags: Oakland, Burning Man, Environmentalism, Green, Community, Art

  or for its creator, Dan Das Mann, so I thought I’d finally give everyone what they’re looking for. And I promise, this will be my last Burning Man related post for a little while. You might ask, how does this massive Burning Man art piece connect to Oakland? Crude Awakening’s creator-couple, Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito have

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