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

Burning Man is an six-day-long annual event 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. The event is described by organizers as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance^[1] and takes its name from the ritual of burning a large wooden sculpture of a man on the sixth day. The event is organized by Black Rock City, LLC, under the guidance of one of the founders, Larry Harvey and five other members of the board, including Marian Goodell, Harley Dubois, Michael Michael, Will Roger Peterson, and Crimson Rose. In 2007, 47,366 people participated in The Burning Man Project. ^[2] Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Playa lake be merged into this article or section. ... The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada in the United States. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... Reno redirects here. ... This article is about the holiday in the United States. ... For other uses, see Community (disambiguation). ... 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. ...

History

1986 to 1989

The annual event now known as Burning Man is the result of a merger of two events, one of which began as a nameless beach party 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-meter-) 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. Sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held 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 of the pre-Burning Man gatherings was the fact that Baker Beach is a cove area frequented by nudists. “Summer solstice” redirects here. ... 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. ...

Harvey had attended some of the earlier solstice 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-meter) 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).

For Harvey, the use of wood in building the man had symbolic significance and was a critical part of the ritual; also, he swears that 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."^[3] This article is about the 1973 film. ...

1990 to 1996

In 1990, a separate event was planned by Kevin Evans and John Law on the other worldly, remote and largely unknown playa known as Black Rock Desert.^{[citation needed]} Evans Conceived it as a dadaist event with temporary sculpture to be burned and situationist performance art in Black Rock Desert, and asked John Law, who also had experience on the playa and was a defining founder of Cacophony Society, to take on central organizing functions. In the Cacophony Society's newsletter, it was announced as Zone Trip #4, A Bad Day at Black Rock (inspired by the movie of that name). John Law, left, and Michael Mikel aka Danger Ranger another Burning Man founder. ... Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. ... Look up Situation, Situationism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada in the United States. ... Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film which tells the story of a stranger who comes to a small town to give the father of a Japanese_American soldier the medals that his son won. ...

Meanwhile, a snag had developed for Harvey and James' beach party - it was busted by the park police, who were not going to allow anything that big to be burned near the trees and brush (even though they had burned a similar-sized effigy in the same spot two years previously). 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, just in time to take it to Zone Trip #4, which they'd been invited to bring it to by Law and Evans, because of their similar themes of burning temporary art.^{[citation needed]}

Michael Mikel, another active Cacophonist, realized that a group of city folks coming to this harsh, unforgiving environment would be facilitated by some camp-counselor-types to make sure nobody wandered out into the desert and died. He took the name Danger Ranger and created the Black Rock Rangers.

Thus Black Rock City was born, organized by Law and Mikel, based on Evans' idea, with Harvey and James' symbol. For seven years it would double in size every year, growing by word of mouth alone, adding energy and creativity. By the late 90s, Evans and James had moved on and the remaining three - Law, Harvey, and Mikel had formed a partnership which owned the name and symbol.

1997 to present

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

By 1997, the event had become more widely known and had again garnered the attention of law enforcement. At this juncture, Harvey and some of the newer organizers formed an LLC to control Burning Man and apply for BLM permits, and Law withdrew in protest. Image File history File links 2005-Black-Rock-City. ... Image File history File links 2005-Black-Rock-City. ... 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. ...

Since then, one of the challenges faced by the organizers has been trying to balance the freedom of participants - a defining element of the character of the experience - with the requirements of various land-management and law-enforcement groups. Over the years, numerous restrictions have been put in place, such as an imposed, rigid street structure, an extremely low speed limit (10 mph), driving unapproved non-art cars (which drove out most of the early art-car artists, in protest), strictly enforced bans on bonfires and burning your own art when not approved by BMorg, tiki torches, fireworks, firearms (including unloaded firearms, which shut down some of the long-running performance art), and dogs. Another 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-meter-) 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" (Burning Man participants) during the week of the event.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2007, in response to litigation initiated by co-founder Larry Harvey and then by co-founder Michael Mikel, co-founder John Law announced that he would be pursuing Mikel and Harvey in a bid to make Burning Man and its trademarks a part of the public domain.^[4][5][6] Larry Harvey (born 1948) is the originator of the Burning Man project. ... John Law, left, and Michael Mikel aka Danger Ranger another Burning Man founder. ...

Early in the morning of August 28, 2007, a well-known, longtime critic of Burning Man organization's policies, who had previously pranked the Man as early as 1997 (AKA BMorg) g), was arrested and charged with arson for deliberately setting the man on fire almost five days ahead of schedule, during the Lunar eclipse.^[7] A replacement man was built on site and installed in time to be burnt on Saturday as planned.

Timeline of the event

Statistics shown below illustrate the growth of the Burning Man event.^[8]

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(Note: The man itself has remained close to 40 feet (12 meters) tall since 1989. Changes in the height and structure of the base account for the differing heights of the overall structures.)^{[citation needed]}

The event has gone through several changes, including growing from a small handful of people to over 47,000 people attending the event in 2007. The scale of the event has increased enormously, and Black Rock City, LLC has become more structured since its creation in 1997. 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 this article or section be merged with All the worlds a stage. ... 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. ...

Black Rock City is not considered a Census-designated place according to the United States Census Bureau. If it were, 2000 event attendance would have placed it between Carson City and Pahrump, making it the 7th largest city in the state of Nevada at the time. Since then, Paradise, Sunrise Manor, and Spring Valley (all suburbs of Las Vegas) experienced proportionally larger population growths than the rest of the state, pushing Black Rock City to the 10th largest city in Nevada according to 2004 census estimates (still between Carson City and Pahrump).^[13] A census-designated place (CDP) is an area identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical reporting. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... Motto: Proud of its Past. ... An aerial view from March 2005 shows development scattered across the valley floor. ... Looking west toward Paradise Road and the Las Vegas Strip in the CDP of Paradise, Nevada Paradise is a census-designated place located in Clark County, Nevada. ... Sunrise Manor is a census-designated place located in Clark County, Nevada. ... Spring Valley is an unincorporated township and census designated place (CDP), in Clark County, Nevada, United States located two miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ...

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 event are subject to the participants and include community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification, and revelry. Participation is encouraged, and being a spectator is discouraged.^[14] 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.^[15] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 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, event participants are encouraged to rely on a gift economy, a sort of potlatch. In the earliest days of the event, an underground barter economy also existed, in which burners exchanged 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. A gift should be given unconditionally. Often the giver benefits more than the recipient. ^[16] A gift economy is an economic system in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future quid pro quo. ... For other uses, see Potlatch (disambiguation). ... A 19th-centure example of barter: A sample labor for labor note for the Cincinnati Time Store. ...

Decommodification

With the exception of the following items, no cash transactions are permitted in accordance with the principles of Burning Man:^[17]

• Café beverages (coffee, chai, lemonade, etc.) are sold at Center Camp^[18]; the money raised offsets the cost of the coffee.
• Ice is available for purchase at three places in the city: "Camp Arctica" in Center Camp, "Ice Cubed" at the 3 o'clock portal, and "Ice-9" at the 9 o'clock portal.^[19] Ice sales benefit the local Gerlach-Empire school system. Bags of crushed ice (7 pounds) are available for $3 per bag, or $15 for 6 bags (buy 5, get one free). Solid block ice (10 pounds) is also available.
• Admission tickets,^[20] though most attendees purchase tickets in advance at select stores or via the Burning Man ticket website. In addition, parties who attempt to sneak in or assist them may be charged a "stupidity tax" on top of their ticket price.
• Tickets for the shuttle bus to the nearest Nevada communities of Gerlach and Empire, operated by contractor Green Tortoise. As of 2006, the tickets were $5. Participants must be clothed and sober to board the bus.^[21]
• A Re-entry ticket, which allows a vehicle to leave and re-enter the event may be purchased upon exit.
• Aviation fuel may be purchased at the airport by pre-arrangement, but payment may be made on-playa.
• An airport use fee is payable at the airport upon first entry^[22].
• RV dump service and camp gray water disposal service are available for cash from Johnny-on-the-spot, the official contractor^[23].
• Fresh water fill for RVs and camp water tanks is available for cash from the official contractor.
• Diesel and Biodiesel are supplied by Sierra Fuels, the official contractor.
• Camps can contract for private portable toilets and servicing within their camp from the official contractor.

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Volunteering

The Burning Man event is heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers. Many of these participants happily donate their time and energy to assure the event's continued survival. ^[24]

Art

Art on the playa is assisted by the Artery, which helps artists place their art in the desert and ensures lighting (to prevent accidental collisions), burn-platform (to protect the integrity of the dry lake bed), and fire-safety requirements are met.^[25]

Since 1995, a different theme has been created, ostensibly by Larry Harvey, for each year's event. For 2006 the theme was Hope and Fear^[26] and for 2007 it was The Green Man.^[27] 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.^[28]

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 lake bed of Lake Lahontan serves as a tabula 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 an art form at Burning Man. 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. Some particularly interesting vehicles include: giant motorized muffins, an 8 legged mechanical spider, a yellow submarine, (nearly identical to the "Yellow Submarine" album picture), and many things not easily described.^[29] The Mondo spider is a custom created vehicle propelled via 8 steel legs in a spider like walking motion. ... For the 1999 release, see Yellow Submarine Songtrack. ...

Temples

In addition to the burning of the Man, the burning of a temple has become an activity at the event. David Best's temple projects were ritually burned from 2000 to 2004. ^[30] David Best (b. ... do ya wanna serrrrb? how a bOut a biawtCh? or just sum iinnoCent loOkin SkaNk?? add lido0l_miz_tekno@hotmail. ...

In 2005, Best stepped aside to allow for another artist, Mark Grieve, to build his own interpretation of a temple.^[31] Grieve's temples were seen in both 2005 and 2006. However, in 2007 David Best took over the temple building duties for one last time. Best has stated that it is time to hand the temple over to the community. ^[32]

Black Rock City

The neon-tubed Man at the 1999 event

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 event. 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 ( 40°46′9.48″N, 119°13′12.36″W in 2007). 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. ... This article is about the U.S. State of 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 Black Rock City where things can officially be purchased with money - though only drinks from the Center Camp Cafe and ice from Camp Arctica.

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.^[33] For example, Palenque Norte is a theme camp that provides lecture space for talks on entheogens and psychopharmacology. Palenque Norte is a Burning Man theme camp inspired by the Palenque Entheobotany Seminars. ... This entry covers entheogens in the strict sense of the word (i. ... Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of any psychoactive drug that acts upon the mind by affecting brain chemistry. ...

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.

Theme camps and villages often form to create an atmosphere in the Black Rock city that their group envisioned. As Burning Man grows every year and attracts an even more diverse crowd theme camps are Black Rock city's own subcultures similar to what can be found in every other city.

The Burning Man community

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.^[34][35] Fashion line Imitation of Christ incorporated toplessness in its public fashion show, which brought comparisons to Vanessa Beecrofts art. ...

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 Playa lake be merged into this article or section. ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which maintains the desert, has very strict requirements for the event. These stipulations include trash cleanup, removal of burn scars, dust abatement, and capture of fluid drippings from participant vehicles. For four weeks after the event 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 event remains.^[36] 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, Stop Burning Man, has criticized Burning Man for the environmental impact left by the event. 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.^[37]
• 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.^[38]

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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.^[39] They have created the CoolingMan organization^[40] 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.^[41] 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 warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ... Greenhouse gases are gaseous components of the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect. ... Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 450,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ... Alternative energy is energy derived from sources that do not harm the environment or deplete the Earths natural resources. ...

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. For other uses, see Police (disambiguation). ... 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. ... NPS director Mary Bomar in her park ranger uniform A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas, as well as other natural resources and protected cultural resources. ... Black Rock Ranger Teksage rides a Mutant Vehicle during the Nevada Day parade. ...

Burning Man has developed a reputation for drug use,^[42] which is not tolerated by law enforcement.

In 2001, local law enforcement objected to an art installation depicting a homosexual act at a former camp called "Jiffy Lube" now renamed "Stiffy 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.^[43]

Regional events

See also: List of regional Burning Man events

The popularity of Burning Man has encouraged other groups and organizations to hold events 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 and Fuego de los Muertos in San Diego; Playa del Fuego in Delaware; Burning Flipside in Texas; Recompression near Vancouver, British Columbia; and Kiwiburn in Whakamaru, New Zealand.^{[citation needed]} The following is a list of regional Burning Man events ordered alphabetically by geography. ... 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. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Delaware. ... Burning Flipside (or Flipside) is an annual alternative arts and perfomance festival staged in Dripping Springs, Texas near Austin. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... Recompression is an annual gathering hosted by the Vancouver Burning Man community. ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... 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 requires the event to conform to certain standards outlined by the Burning Man organization, and to be substantially coordinated by a "Burning Man Regional Contact," a volunteer organizer with an official relationship to the Burning Man Project via a legal Letter of Agreement. In exchange for conforming to these standards, the event is granted permission to officially represent itself as a Burning Man Regional Event.

Burning Man in popular culture

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Music

• In 1997, the band Third Eye Blind released a track titled "Burning Man" on their self-titled album.

Television

Burning Man has been featured in both fictional and non-fictional accounts on American television.

• In the 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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!"

• In the 2000 The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger", Lisa joins the environmental group Dirt First which is looking for someone to camp out with in an endangered tree. The group's leader, Jesse, says, "Once you're up there, you can't come down. Not for a Phish concert, not even for Burning Man."

• In an episode of Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy's dad attends an event called Burning Duck.

• In the 2003 Reno 911! episode "Burning Man Festival," 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.^[44]

• In the 2005 South Park episode "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.

• In the 2005 American Dad! episode "Francine's Flashback," Stan and Hayley actually attend the event in order to rescue Francine, who had been brainwashed by Stan.

• In the 2005 Malcolm in the Middle episode "Burning Man," Hal and Lois discover Malcolm and Reese's plan to sneak off to Burning Man, and 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. In the end, as opposed to the man burning, the RV the family came in is burned and is thus dubbed "Burning Van."

• 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 TV 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.^{[not in citation given]}

• In the Clone High episode titled "Homecoming: A Shot in the D'Arc", Clone High principal, Cinnamon J. Scudworth, and GESH (Genetically Engineered Super Human High) principal, Colonel Principal, make a bet on a basketball game between the two schools. Colonel Principal's bet is the Clone High won't score a single point against GESH. The loser has to do the other principal's laundry for a week. When Clone High does score one point, Scudworth holds up a pair of stained underwear in front of Colonel Principal and says "I wore these bad boys at Burning Man...7 years in a row!"

• In an episode of Dharma and Greg, the couple try explaining what Burning Man is to Greg's parents... who obviously don't get "it".

• In an episode of Lucy, Daughter of the Devil...Satan's interns cause DJ Jesus to crash (making him absent for an appearance at Burning Man) From there Satan temps DJ Jesus with whores and a brothel. DJ Jesus says, "If you like this, you'd love burning man. No one wears clothes. It's all body paint and glitter."

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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 photographer Spencer Tunick, also features Burning Man, where he organized thousands of participants to pose for an epic artistic nude photograph.

• In the 2007 Movie "Knocked Up", one of the characters undergoes harassment for growing a beard. One of the comments made towards him is "How was Burning Man this year?"

• Dave Attell references Burning Man in a routine on his Album Skanks for the Memories.

• Part of the film Neurosphere was produced at Burning Man. The film is expected for release in 2009.

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Software/Technology

In 2006 the first Burning Man Software was created by Dan Alvidrez (The Builder) of BurnItMan.org. He created several pieces of Mac OS X Software that topped Apple.com's charts including:

• The Burning Man Countdown Widget
• The Burning Man Search Widget
• The Burning Man Slideshow Widget
• The Burning Man Screensaver

Other Burning Man software includes:

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

• In the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, one of the latter venues the player performs at is a reference to Burning Man entitled "Dessert Rock Tour". The player's band plays on a large stage in the middle of the desert with a giant neon light tubbed alien standing over the drummer. Several concession stands and such can also be seen along the side of the crowd.

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Print

• In issue 75 of the Marvel Comics book X-Force, the characters visited a thinly disguised Burning Man-like event entitled "Exploding Colossal Man."

• America's most widely distributed satirical newspaper The Onion has published several jabs at the BMorg, including 1998's "Local Teen Definitely Going to Burning Man Next Year"^[45], which describes someone discovering Burning Man through an MTV broadcast encouraged by BMorg, 2003's "No One Makes It to Burning Man Festival"^[46], and most notably weighing in on the Early Burn controversy with the October 18, 2007 issue, whose front page was headlined by "Conceptual Terrorists Encase Sears Tower In Jell-O"^[47], followed up by "It Only Tuesday", and "'95-'96 Prayers Finally Answered". Two of these front page articles were continued, so when reader opens to page 6-7, the two leading headlines are "Fuck-Fiends in Funk" and "Why Didn't Authorities See This Aesthetic Tragedy Coming?"

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

• A significant portion of the novel The Blood Price by Jon Evans takes place at Burning Man.

Kristen, Christine: Reconnecting art and life at Burning Man. in: Raw Vision, Nr. 57 (Winter 2006), S. 28 - 35. Van Proyen, Mark/Gilmore, Lee (Hrsg.): AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press This article is about the comic book company. ... X-Force was a Marvel Comics superhero team, one of many spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. ... The Onion is a United States-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online. ... David A. Vise is a journalist and writer. ... For the music producer/manager, see Larry Page (British singer and manager). ... Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: ; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. ... This article is about the corporation. ... Google Doodles are modifications of the Google logo created by the company for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, like the Olympics. ... There is more than one person named Jon Evans: Jon Evans (author), Canadian author of adventure novels Jon Evans (musician), British bassist who frequently plays for Tori Amos See also John Evans (disambiguation) Category: ...

PIKE, Sarah M. 2001. Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art. Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival. In: Mazur, Eric Michael/McCarthy, Kate (Hrsg.): God in the Details. American Religion in Popular Culture. London/New York: Routledge, 155-176

KOZINETS, Robert V. 2002. Can Consumers Escape the Market? Emancipatory Illuminations from Burning Man. In: Journal of Consumer Research, 29, June 2002, 20-38

HOCKETT, Jeremy 2004. Reckoning Ritual and Counterculture in the Burning Man Community: Communication, Ethnography, and the Self in Reflexive Modernism. Dissertation. Albuquerque, New Mexico: The University of New Mexico

DOHERTY, Brian 2004. This is Burning Man. The Rise of a New American Underground. Boston/New York: Little, Brown and Company

CHEN, Katherine 2004. The Burning Man Organization Grows Up: Blending Bureaucratic and Alternative Structures. Dissertation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University

BÖNNER, Bertine 2005. Das Burning Man Projekt - Religiosität und Spiritualität in Black Rock City? Eine ethnologische Perspektive. Magisterarbeit. Grin Verlag

See also

• Apogaea
• Art Car
• Black Rock Ranger
• Brian Doherty (journalist)
• Cacophony Society
• Culture Jamming
• Dada
• John Law
• Larry Harvey
• List of regional Burning Man events
• Mondo spider
• Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism
• Situationist International
• Zozobra

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References

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