Burning Man is an eight-day-long festival organized by Black Rock City, LLC, under the guidance of founder Larry Harvey. The festival is held annually and ends on the American Labor Day holiday in September. The festival takes place on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, 90 miles (150 km) north-northeast of Reno. Though the specific location on the playa changes from year to year, the location has been quite constant in recent years. The temporary city is an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.^[1] The event takes its name from the ritual of burning a large wooden sculpture of a man on the sixth day. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community. ... Black Rock City, LLC is the organization behind the annual Burning Man festival ending Labor Day weekend in early September, on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. ... Larry Harvey (born 1948) is the originator of the Burning Man project. ... Labour Day (or Labor Day) is an annual holiday that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with salt pan (geology). ... The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada in the United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... City nickname: The Biggest Little City in the World Founded May 9, 1868 County Washoe County Mayor Bob Cashell Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 179. ... A community usually refers to a sociological group in a large place or collections of plant or animal organisms sharing an environment. ...

The festival is named after its Saturday night ritual, the burning of a wooden effigy.

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History

1986 to 1989

The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot (2.4 m) tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog. The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as "a spontaneous act of radical self-expression." A popular myth is that Larry Harvey had a girlfriend (sometimes it is a wife) that he caught in bed with a good friend. Not wanting to actually harm his former friend or end up in jail, he constructed an effigy which he burned on the beach, thus Burning Man was born. This myth has been discounted many times. However, sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held spontaneous art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the summer solstice for several years prior to 1986, and the burning of sculpture was a central theme. In addition to the burning of sculpture, a key ingredient to the pre-Burning Man gatherings was the fact that Baker Beach is a cove area frequented by nudists. Another notable US-based effigy-burning is Zozobra, which occurs every fall during Santa Fe, New Mexico's "fiestas"; an approximately 50 foot (15 m) ) tall "Old Man Gloom" has been burned every year at Zozobra since 1924. A solstice is either of the two events of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equatorial plane. ... Larry Harvey (born 1948) is the originator of the Burning Man project. ... Baker Beach with the Golden Gate Bridge as its backdrop. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Categories: Stub ... Nickname: The City Different Location in the State of New Mexico Coordinates: Country United States State New Mexico County Santa Fe Founded 1607  - Mayor David Coss Area    - City  37. ...

Satellite image of Black Rock City showing the familiar "C" or semicircle pattern.

Harvey attended some of the pre-Burning Man gatherings on Baker Beach, and when Grauberger stopped holding her parties, Harvey picked up the torch and ran with it, so to speak. Harvey asked Jerry James to build the first eight foot (2.4 m) wooden effigy with him, which was much smaller and more crudely made than the neon figure featured in the current ritual. In 1987, the effigy had grown to almost fifteen feet (4.6 m) tall, and in 1988 it grew to around forty feet (12 m). Image File history File links 2005-Black-Rock-City. ... Image File history File links 2005-Black-Rock-City. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... Burning Man is a week-long festival with international draw, held annually on the week prior to and including Labor Day weekend (in early September) in the United States. ... A semicircle of radius r. ...

The name "Burning Man" came to Harvey when he was watching a video of the 1986 ritual. A member of the crowd watching the event shouted out "Wicker Man!", suggesting that the burning of the wooden effigy was somehow related to the ancient Celtic ritual of the Wicker Man, signifying rebirth. Harvey was the son of a Freemason, and (for Harvey) the use of wood in building the man had symbolic significance and was a critical part of the ritual; also, according to him, he did not see the movie The Wicker Man until many years later, so it played no part in his inspiration. Accordingly, rather than allow the name "Wicker Man" to become the name of the ritual, he started using the name "Burning Man." This article is about the European people. ... The Wicker Man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic Wars). ... American Square & Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ... The Wicker Man is a cult 1973 British film combining thriller, existential, horror and musical genres, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. ...

John Law, as well as other members of the Cacophony Society, have been heavily involved in Burning Man since 1989. Recently, John Law has begun legal proceedings openly contesting claims by Larry Harvey regarding the control of certain trademarks related to the event.^[2] He also tells a very different version of the origins of Burning Man, which conflicts both in emphasis and content with the history described on the Burning Man website.^[3] The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society. ...

1990 to 1999

The event grew quickly, moving from Baker Beach in San Francisco to the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 1990 after the burn scheduled for the summer solstice was shut down by police. After striking a deal to raise the Man but not to burn it on the beach, event organizers disassembled the effigy and returned it to a vacant lot where it had been stored. Shortly thereafter, the legs and torso of the Man were chain-sawed and the pieces removed when the lot was unexpectedly leased as a parking lot. The effigy was then reconstructed, led by Dan Miller, Harvey's then house-mate of many years. The Man found his new home in conjunction with the already scheduled Cacophony event sponsored by John Law and Kevin Evans, "Zone Trip #4" in the other worldly, remote and largely unknown, Black Rock desert. The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada in the United States. ...

As the event has grown, one of the challenges faced by the organizers has been balancing the freedom of participants with the requirements of various land management and law enforcement groups. Over the years, numerous restrictions have been put in place, such as bans on fireworks, firearms, dogs, and driving non-art cars. A notable restriction to attendees is the 7-mile (11 km) long temporary plastic fence which surrounds the event and defines the pentagon of land used by the event on the southern edge of the Black Rock playa. This 4-foot (1.2 m) high barrier is known as the "trash fence" because its initial use was to catch wind blown debris that may escape from campsites during the event. Since 1998, the playa beyond this fence is not available to burners during the week of event. Some artists and early attendees believe the underlying freedoms and concepts of the Burning Man event have been reduced or eliminated by these restrictions, leading to criticism of the current event as being too structured and controlled. Others contend that these restrictions are unfortunate but necessary to the survival of the event in the face of growth and notoriety and that in balance the original spark of creative invention is well alive and flourishing. Additionally, other recreational users of the desert believe the event's rapid growth and arid location (where the natural healing effect of the winter rains is not as effective) have caused the surface of the Black Rock Desert to change for the worse. The Burning Man organization strongly denies that the event has ever caused any damage. Several documentary films have been made about the event, some of which give a fair representation of the event. Most of these films are available through the Burning Man website. It has been suggested that Firework be merged into this article or section. ... An assortment of modern hand-held firearms using fixed ammunition, including military assault rifles, a sporting shotgun (fourth from bottom), a tactical shotgun (third from bottom), and a sporting rifle (top). ...

2000 to present

In January 2007, John Law announced that he would be pursuing Michael Mikel and Larry Harvey in a bid to make Burning Man and its trademarks a part of the public domain.^[4][5]

Timeline of the event

Statistics shown below illustrate the growth of the Burning Man festival, according to a timeline on BurningMan.com and other sources:

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(Note: The man has remained close to 40 feet (12 m) tall since 1989. The height and structure of the base have changed; thus the following referenced height figures are misleading.)

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Principles

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Because of the variety of goals fostered by participatory attendees, Burning Man does not have a single focus. Features of the festival are subject to the participants and include community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification, and revelry. Participation is encouraged, and being a spectator is discouraged.^[6] The Burning Man event is governed by the 10 principles of Burning Man, which are radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.^[7] Leave No Trace is an ecological principle of leaving an environment of habitation in such a condition as to render it impossible for future observers to discern the previous presence of the practitioners of the Leave No Trace methodology. ...

Gifting

Instead of cash, festival participants rely on a gift economy, a sort of potlatch. Since the earliest days of the event, an underground barter economy has also existed, in which burners exchange material goods and/or favors with each other. While this was originally supported by the Burning Man Organization, this now is largely discouraged by the event organizers.^[8] A gift economy is an economic system in which the prevalent mode of exchange is for goods and services to be given without explicit agreement upon a quid pro quo (the Latin term for the concept of a favor for a favor). Typically, this occurs in a cultural context where... The Kwakwakawakw continue the practice of potlatch. ... Barter is a type of trade in which goods or services are exchanged for other goods and/or services; no money is involved in the transaction. ...

Decommodification

With the exception of the following items, no cash transactions are permitted in accordance with the principles of Burning Man:^[9]

• Café products (coffee, chai, etc.)are sold at Center Camp,^[10]; the money raised offsets the cost of the coffee.
• Ice at "Camp Arctica" in Center Camp,^[11] of which sales benefit the local Gerlach-Empire school system. Block and crushed ice is available for $2/bag.
• Admission tickets,^[12] though most attendees purchase tickets in advance at select stores and via the Burning Man ticket website.
• Tickets for the Green Tortoise shuttle service into the nearest Nevada communities of Gerlach and Empire.^[13] As of 2006, the tickets were $5. Participants must be clothed and sober to board the bus.
• Pumping of waste tanks from recreational vehicles, provided via a contract with Johnny on the Spot,^[14] which also services the event's portable toilets.

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Art

Art on the playa is assisted by the Artery, which helps artists place their art in the desert, and ensure lighting (to prevent accidental collisions), burn platform (to protect the integrity of the dry lake bed), and fire safety requirements are met.

Since 1995, a different theme has been created, ostensibly by Larry Harvey, for each year's event. For 2006 it was "Hope and Fear" and for 2007 it is "The Green Man". It determines to some extent the design of the Man (although his design and construction, while evolutionary, has remained relatively unchanged) and especially the structure on which he stands (an Observatory for "Vault of Heaven" a Lighthouse for "The Floating World"). These themes also greatly affect the designs participants employ in their artworks, costumes, camps and vehicles.^[15]

Burning Man primarily features outsider art and visionary art, though a great variety of art forms are presented during the event. Creative expression through the arts and interactive art are encouraged at Burning Man. Numerous Theme Camps, registered and placed by the LLC, are created as event and residence centers by sizable sub-communities of participants and use extensive design and artistic elements to engage the greater community and meet the LLC's interactivity requirements. Music, performance, and guerrilla street theatre are art forms commonly presented within the camps and developed areas of the city. Adjacent to the city, the dry lakebed of Lake Lahontan serves as a tabla rasa for hundreds of isolated artworks, ranging from small to very large-scale art installations, often sculptures with kinetic, electronic, and fire elements. Adolf Wölflis Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as Raw Art or Rough Art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created... Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. ...

Artwork is generally viewed as a gift the artist makes to the community, although art grants are available to participants from the LLC via a system of curation and oversight, with application deadlines early in the year. Grants are intended to help artists produce work beyond the scope of their own means, and are generally intended to cover only a portion of the costs associated with creation of the pieces, usually requiring considerable reliance on an artist's community resources. Aggregate funding for all grants varies depending on the number and quality of the submissions (usually well over 100) but amounts to several percent (on the order of $500,000 in recent years) of the gross receipts from ticket sales. In 2006, 29 pieces were funded.

Various standards regarding the nature of the artworks eligible for grants are set by the Art Department of the LLC, but compliance with the theme and interactivity are important considerations. This funding has fostered artistic communities, most notably in the Bay Area of California, the region that has historically provided a majority of the event's participants. There are active and successful outreach efforts to enlarge the regional scope of the event and the grant program. Among these is the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF). Michael Christians Flock in front of San Francisco City Hall The Black Rock Arts Foundation was established May of 2001 in order to promote public, community-based art installations. ...

While BRAF does not fund any installations for the event itself, it relies on the donations from the LLC for a significant portion of its funding, and does facilitate presentation of work created for the event in outside venues as well as offering its own grants for artworks that typify interactivity and other principles and traditions the event.

Mutant vehicles

Mutant Vehicles are vehicles, often motorized, that are purpose-built, or more commonly, creatively altered cars and trucks, and are a common art form at Burning Man. These range in size from motorized chairs and couches to golfcarts and large double decker buses. Participants who wish to bring motorized art cars or Mutant Vehicles must submit their designs in advance to the event's own DMV or "Department of Mutant Vehicles” for approval and for physical inspection at the time of the event. Vehicles that are unsafe, minimally altered, and/or whose primary function is to transport participants are discouraged or rejected. In prior years art cars (defined as art vehicles that are still legally driveable on public roadways) were allowed but as the number of participants at the festival increased, further restrictions needed to be added to the registration process. Now it is very rare for an art car to become registered - the level of modification required is generally large enough to rule out most such vehicles. Art cars can be present at campsites but they must remain stationary for the duration of their stay. An art car is a vehicle that has its appearance modified as an act of personal artistic expression. ...

Most participants bring bicycles to help transverse the event, which covers an area of approx. 5 square miles. Many participants turn their off-the-shelf bicycles into art bikes through "garage engineering" and decoration with accessories including fake fur, reflective tape, stuffed animals, electroluminescent wire and other materials.

Temples

In addition to the burning of the Man, the burning of a temple has become an important ritual at the event. The ritual burning of David Best's temple projects from 2000 to 2004 rivaled the burning of the central Burning Man complex in community significance and popularity. The ornately designed temple buildings have used recycled scrap plywood from toy manufacture and other wood mill operations and have borrowed from Southeast Asian and Balinese architecture to create very large and flammable structures. Themes of loss and grief are expressed by participants who use the temples as repositories for memories, often of deceased loved ones, which are often commemorated with objects and mementos placed in the temple and writings on the objects or the temple itself.^[16] In 2005, Best stepped aside to allow for another artist, Mark Grieve, to build his own interpretation of a temple. do ya wanna serrrrb? how a bOut a biawtCh? or just sum iinnoCent loOkin SkaNk?? add lido0l_miz_tekno@hotmail. ... David Best (b. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Black Rock City

A neon-tubed Man, from the festival, 1999

Black Rock City, often abbreviated to BRC, is the name of the temporary urban phenomenon created by Burning Man participants. Much of the layout and general city infrastructure is constructed by Department of Public Works (DPW) volunteers who often reside in Black Rock city for several weeks before and after the festival. The remainder of the city including theme camps, art installations and individual camping, are all created by participants each year. Image File history File linksMetadata Neonman2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Neonman2. ...

City Planning

The developed part of the city is currently arranged as series of concentric streets in an arc composing, since 1999, two-thirds of a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter circle (resembling the layout of Poverty Point or Seaside, Florida) with the Man Sculpture and his supporting complex at the very center. Radial streets, sometimes called Avenues, extend from the Man to the outermost circle. The outlines of these streets are visible on aerial photographs. An aerial view reveals the circular pattern of ancient Indian earthworks at Poverty Point. ... Seaside, Florida is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle roughly midway between Fort Walton Beach, Florida and Panama City, Florida. ...

The innermost street is named the Esplanade, and the remaining streets are given names to coincide with the overall theme of the burn, and ordered in ways such as alphabetical order or stem to stern, to make them easier to recall. In 1999, for the "Wheel of Time" theme, and again in 2004 for the "The Vault of Heaven" theme, the streets were named after the planets of the solar system. The radial streets are usually given a clock designation (for example, "6:00, 6:15"), in which the Man is at the center of the clock face and 12:00 is in the middle of the third of the arc lacking streets. These avenues have been identified in other ways, notably in the 2002, in accordance with "The Floating World" theme as the degrees of a compass (for example, "180, 175 degrees") and in 2003 as part of the Beyond Belief theme as adjectives ("Rational, Absurd") that caused every intersection with a concentric street (named after concepts of belief such as "Authority, Creed") to form a phrase such as "Absurd Authority" or "Rational Creed". However, these proved unpopular with participants due to difficulty in navigating the city without the familiar clock layout.

Center Camp

Center Camp is located along the midline of BRC, facing the Man at the 6:00 position on the Esplanade, and serves as a central meeting place for the entire city. It is also the only place within in Black Rock City where things can officially be purchased with money - though only drinks from the Center Camp Cafe and ice from Camp Antarctica.

Villages and Theme Camps

Villages and Theme Camps are located along the innermost streets of Black Rock City, often offering entertainment or a service to the temporary residents.^[17]

Theme Camps are usually a collective of people representing themselves under a single identity. Villages are usually a collection of smaller theme camps which have banded together in order to share resources and vie for better placement. Some Theme Camps and Villages have added links at the end of this article.

The Burning Man community

Terminology

There is specific terminology used by the Burning Man community.

bar

An establishment serving free alcoholic beverages (most commonly, mixed drinks).

burner

A Burning Man participant.

M.O.O.P.

Matter Out Of Place. Litter on the playa.

playa name

a pseudonym by which a burner goes around at the playa, often something creative, funny, and witty.

tourist

Pejorative terms used to refer to people who come to Burning Man to spectate rather than participate in the event, often arriving not long before the actual act of immolating the effigy.

virgin

A first-time Burning Man attendee, or one who has yet to attend the festival but plans to do so eventually.

whiteout

A dust storm on the playa.

yahoo

see "tourist".

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Self-expression

The event promotes self-expression, and participants express themselves in a variety of ways. The event is clothing-optional and public nudity is common, though not practiced by the majority.^[18][19] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Burning Man and the environment

"Leave No Trace" policy

Participants are encouraged to Leave No Trace of their visit to Black Rock City. Burning Man takes place in the middle of an uninhabited large desert playa. Participants are told to be very careful not to contaminate the playa with litter (commonly known as MOOP, or "matter out of place"). In addition, while fire is a primary component of many art exhibits and events, materials must be burned on burn platforms. At one time, burning was allowed to take place directly on the ground of the playa, but the formation of burn scars was observed. Leave No Trace is an ecological principle of leaving an environment of habitation in such a condition as to render it impossible for future observers to discern the previous presence of the practitioners of the Leave No Trace methodology. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with salt pan (geology). ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which maintains the desert, has very strict requirements for the festival. These stipulations include trash cleanup, removal of burn scars, dust abatement, and capture of fluid drippings from participant vehicles. For 4 weeks after the festival has ended, the Black Rock City Department of Public Works (BRC - DPW) Playa Restoration Crew, remains in the desert cleaning up after the temporary city and making sure that no evidence of the festival remains.^[20] US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ...

A local environmental group, http://stopburningman.org, has criticized the festival for the environmental impact left by the festival. Their criticisms include the following

• Despite the BLM and LLC insistence on the practice of LNT, the amount of residual trash at the site has increased over the years.^[21]
• The cleanup verification process is flawed
• According to ecologists Peter Brussard and Donald Sada, the cumulative effects of Burning Man on the complex playa ecosystem need to be more carefully investigated.(Stop Burning Man. Retrieved on 2006-08-06.)

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Burning Man and effect on global warming

A group of San Francisco scientists are calculating how much the event will contribute to global warming.^[22] They have created the CoolingMan organization^[23] and have implemented a system that will calculate how much greenhouse gases Burning Man participants will create. The project has inspired many to look for positive ways to get involved in the global warming and climate change movements by seeking out solutions. The CoolingMan website suggests ways that Burners may offset the damage by planting trees or investing in alternative energy solutions.^[24] Since this is a new development, the impact won't be fully realized until Burning Man 2007, a year when ecological concerns will also be explored through the art theme of "The Green Man". This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... For a List of scientists, see: List of anthropologists List of astronomers List of biologists List of chemists List of computer scientists List of economists List of engineers List of geologists List of inventors List of mathematicians List of meteorologists List of physicists Scientist pairs List of scientist pairs See... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected... Greenhouse gases are gaseous components of the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ... Future energy development face great challenges due to an increasing world population, demands for higher standards of living, demands for less pollution and a much discussed end to fossil fuels. ...

Safety, policing and regulations

BRC is patrolled by various local and state law enforcement agencies as well as the Bureau of Land Management Rangers. Burners refer to these people collectively as LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers). Burning Man also has its own in-house group of volunteers, the Black Rock Rangers, who act as informal mediators when disputes arise between burners. When the occasional eviction of a burner from BRC becomes necessary, volunteer rangers typically enlist the assistance of LEOs. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ... It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled National Park Ranger (United States). ... Black Rock Ranger Teksage rides a Mutant Vehicle during the Nevada Day parade. ...

Burning Man has developed a reputation for drug use,^[25] which is not tolerated by law enforcement.

In 2001, local law enforcement objected to an art installation depicting a homosexual act at a camp called "Jiffy Lube." The art was moved to a more private area of the camp, giving rise to charges of censorship and homophobia from a number of quarters.^[26]

Regional events

The popularity of Burning Man has encouraged other groups and organizations to hold festivals similar to Burning Man, In recent years, burners wishing to experience Burning Man more frequently than once per year have banded together to create local regional events such as Xara Dulzura, Fuego de los Muertos in San Diego, Playa del Fuego in Delaware, Burning Flipside in Texas, Recompression near Vancouver, BC, in New Hampshire, Kiwiburn in Whakamaru, New Zealand. Xara Dulzura is an annual art, music and creative mythology festival lasting several days. ... Fuego de los Muertos (often abbreviated to FDLM) is an annual, Burning Man affiliated regional decompression event. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... Playa del Fuego is a regional event inspired by the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada. ... Official language(s) None Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Area  Ranked 49th  - Total 2,491 sq mi (6,452 km²)  - Width 30 miles (48 km)  - Length 100 miles (161 km)  - % water 21. ... Burning Flipside (or Flipside) is an annual alternative arts and perfomance festival staged in Dripping Springs, Texas near Austin. ... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Recompression is an annual gathering hosted by the Vancouver Burning Man community. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,359 sq mi (24,239 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 3. ... Whakamaru was set up as accommodation for the Whakamaru Hydro Power Station in New Zealand. ...

Some of the events are officially affiliated with the Burning Man organization via the Burning Man Regional Network. This official affiliation usually consists of the event conforming to certain standards outlined by the Burning Man organization. In exchange for conforming to these standards, the event is granted permission to use certain trademark items such as the name "Burning Man" or use of the identifiable Burning Man logo.

Other Burning man styles regional events are organized and created by burners completely independent of affiliation with the LLC. A good example of this would be InterFuse in Missouri, Firefly in Vermont, and Transformus in North Carolina. Black Rock City, LLC is the organization behind the annual Burning Man festival ending Labor Day weekend in early September, on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. ... InterFuse is the name of the Midwest regional burn, first held in April 2004 at a beautiful, 150 acre (607,000 m²) wooded location near Columbia, Missouri and attended by 186 people from fourteen different states. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St. ... Firefly Arts Collective is a non-profit organization that facilitates the annual Firefly festival. ... Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Area  Ranked {{{AreaRank}}}  - Total {{{TotalAreaUS}}} sq mi ({{{TotalArea}}} km²)  - Width 80 miles (130 km)  - Length 160 miles (260 km)  - % water 3. ... Transformus is the regional Burning Man festival for the south-east United States; it is a festival celebrating art, music, and learning. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ...

Some of these events are attended by only a few hundred participants, but larger numbers of participants are becoming more common as any individual events build in reputation and in production. It is also becoming more common, that successful regional events create a need to develop official entities which are entrusted by the community, to handle the details of the event (such as ticket sales, insurance policies, permits, and local and federal tax liabilities). Based on the Burning Man principals, these entities which are created to produce the events are usually non-profit organizations, such as Ignition Northwest in Washington state.

One type of event is popular with those that find returning to the "default world" to be a little jarring after having enjoyed the experiences of the burn. To relieve this culture shock, burners may participate in decompression events to recapture the spirit of the original festival. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Decompression party refers to a period of time spent by deep sea divers either in decompression chambers or at various depths on their way to the surface to gradually adjust to surface pressure in order to avoid the bends. ...

Other regional events have been established that connect and grow localized communities of burners. These events build upon the cultural bond of Burning Man, yet add a particular unique flavor of their own. Most regional events last a few days, occur annually, and are much less formal than Burning Man itself.

See also: List of regional Burning Man events

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Burning Man in popular culture

• Television Burning Man has been featured in both fictional and non-fictional accounts on American television including plots centering around the event on Comedy Central's Reno 911! ("Burning Man Festival" first aired 09/24/03) and TechTV's Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. There was also a parody of Burning Man, entitled "Burning Duck" in one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

• Burning Man 2006 was covered extensively for television for the first time by Current TV which handed out cameras to participants and broadcast daily updates via satellite from the playa. In keeping with the spirit of Burning Man, Current removed their corporate branding and said no to commercial sponsorship for the entire week of coverage. The result was a temporary pirate TV station known simply as TV Free Burning Man. The five daily pods as well as the live burn can be viewed online here: [1]

• Reno 911! The officers, planning to go undercover at Burning Man, head out from Reno but get lost on the way, encountering various embarrassing situations such as having to attend a family restaurant in their fairly ridiculous costumes and getting questioned by other fellow cops. (Season 1, Episode 10, originally aired 9/24/03).^[27]

• Malcolm in the Middle When Hal and Lois discover Malcolm and Reese's plan to sneak off to the Burning Man festival, they decide to make it a family outing, with predictably disastrous results. Hal sets up a barbecue grill and curious observers assume that he's actually engaged in some kind of "suburban dad" performance art. Reese and Lois embrace the true spirit of the event and Malcolm loses his virginity to an older woman. The episode was the season premiere of the show's final season (Season 7, Episode 1, aired 10/30/05).^[28]

• The Simpsons In episode 4 (Lisa the Tree Hugger), Season 12, a guest character called Jesse Grass mentions the Burning Man festival at an environmentalist meeting.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer In the season 2 premiere episode (When She Was Bad), Sunnydale High's computer science teacher Jenny Calendar describes her summer vacation (which included attending Burning Man) to Buffy's watcher, Rupert Giles. "I did Burning Man in Black Rock, ohhh, such a great festival, you should've been there. They had drum rituals, mobile sculptures, raves, naked mud dances, you would've just... hated it with a fiery passion!"

• American Dad! In episode 4 (Francine's Flashback), Stan and Hayley actually attend the festival in order to rescue their brainwashed mother.

• South Park In episode 902 (Die Hippie, Die), Eric Cartman briefly makes references to Burning Man while talking about hippie festivals. Also, in the background at the hippie festival, a large neon man, similar to the one at Burning Man, can be seen.

• Film Several documentaries have been made about the event, including Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock and Juicy Danger Meets Burning Man. A short documentary on Discovery: Times's Only in America hosted by Charlie Leduff. A clip from the 1998 burning of the man can be seen in Bodysong, a full length documentary about human life on earth.

• Naked States a documentary about and directed by the photographer, Spencer Tunick (http://www.hbo.com/nakedstates/cmp/main.html) also features burning man, where he organized thousands of participants to pose for an epic artistic nude photograph.

• Comics In X-Force (issue #75), the characters visited a thinly disguised Burning Man festival entitled "Exploding Colossal Man."

• The Onion The popular daily newspaper parody has published several jabs at the festival, including 1998's 'Local Teen Definitely Going to Burning Man Next Year'and 2003's 'No One Makes It to Burning Man Festival'.

• The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, contains an entire chapter describing how Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two creators of the Google search engine, were regular attendees of the event.

• Second Life has an annual virtual burn, Burning Life, that coincides with Burning Man.

• David Cross jokingly mocks anti-Bush protesters on his comedy CD It's Not Funny by saying, "I'll see you at Burning Man, ya hippie."

• The American progressive metal band Mastodon, have a song entitled Burning Man, on their debut full length album Remission
• Queensyrche also have a song called burning man on there album q2k.

• Robot Chicken In "The Black Cherry," (Season 1, Episode 20, July 17, 2005) a Secret Service agent informs President George W. Bush that Air Force One has been stolen. When Bush calls the plane, President Bill Clinton answers, surrounded by skinny dancing girls and hip hop music, and tells Bush that he needed the plane to go to Burning Man. Snoop Dogg is the pilot, in a reference to the film Soul Plane. Bush orders the plane destroyed.

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See also

• Larry Harvey
• Black Rock Ranger
• Art Car
• List of regional Burning Man events

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Notes

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General

• Official Website
• Black Rock City travel guide from Wikitravel
• Burners Without Borders
• Category at Open Directory Project
• Thorough tour of Burning Man 2002 to 2006, for the first timer to the curious person (by Marc MERLIN)
• BORG2 - "The Burning Man Renaissance".
• Burning Man, song by Canadian rock/reggae singer Yuya
• Burning Man 2006 Events - Burning Man 2006 Google Maps Mashup for camps, events, art installations.
• Piss Clear - Black Rock City's independent alternative newspaper
• Artists Republic Fremont: BurningMan - includes information about coolers and ice, surviving the wind, and shade structures
• Packing Lists for what to bring to Burning Man.
• MarXidad.com - Burning Man - includes quotations of burners' descriptions of the event, as well as some related humor
• Burning Man’s Piano Moverby Brian Doherty, excerpted from the book This Is Burning Man
• Globe Trekker - Justine Shapiro of Globe Trekker ends up at Burning Man
• [2] - The Ecstasy of Exile - A New York journalist experiments with drugs at the event.
• Flame On - A British journalist's account of Burning Man 1997
• BurningMan - A Report From The Front Lines - 1999 - PhyreSeed aka Adam Wells, www.SacTownPyros.com
• Google Maps satellite view of the Black Rock City site
• Hand-drawn map of Burning Man 2005 (Psyche)
• A 14-minute audio journey through Burning Man 2002, from public radio's 'The Savvy Traveler'

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Photo collections

• Burning Man Image Galleries
• Burning Man photographs by Scott London
• Burning Man 2006 – 1998 photos by Gabe Kirchheimer
• Patrick Roddie's photos from Burning Man 1998 to 2006
• Waldemar's Burning Man 2005 collection
• Burning Man 3-D - ten years of stereoscopic photographs
• Written and picture essays of experiences at Burning Man 1997-2006
• Playalicious Burning Man Pictures - Burning Man photos from 2001-2005
• Photo essay from a Burning Man virgin's perspective
• Photos and reports from Burning Man 2002-2006 by Marc Merlin
• Burning Man pictures from 2003-2006 by MV Galleries
• People, Art and The Burn - Photos from Burning Man 2006 by Andrew Hoshkiw
• Burning Man photography from 1998 to 2006 by NK Guy
• Playa-dust.com - Burning Man photographs by Tristan Savatier
• Los Angeles Fire Conclave
• Barbara Traub's 2006 and 1994-2003 Burning Man Photos and Desert to Dream Book

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Video

• Journey to the Flames - 8 years of Burningman
• Confessions of a Burning Man - Documentary about the Burning Man Festival.
• Flaming Lotus Girls, Burning Man documentary by MADNOMAD FILMS.
• Burning Man: Beyond Black rock (documentary)
• This Strange Eventful History: The Art of Burning Man 2001
• Gifting It by Renea Roberts
• Bright Path Video is an audio project on transformative experiences of people who attend BurningMan. CD version available soon.
• TV Free Burning Man 2006.
• Burning Man supports Chiditarod, an urban shopping cart race around Chicago that subscribes to a "leave no trace" policy while collecting food for the hungry.