Burning Man 2017-18

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An estimated 70,000 people will descend on Black Rock Desert, Nevada for the Burning Man Festival.
Stunning bird's-eye view of Burning Man shows desert city | Daily Mail Online
  • An estimated 70,000 people are expected to attend the event this year in Black Rock Desert, Nevada
  • The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4
  • The city was transformed into a 'metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance'
  • This year's theme is Radical Ritual, where participants are asked to 'create interactive rites, ritual processions, elaborate images, shrines, icons, temples and visions'
  • Incredible photos show the first three days of the festival

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4832086/Stunning-bird-s-eye-view-Burning-Man-shows-desert-city.html#ixzz4rAVGuII3
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This picture is all we need to ram into Area 51 with set-up livestreaming!! Since it's Nevada...might aswell hop in A51.
 

Toroid

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Burning Man 2018
Some 70,000 people are expected to attend the Burning Man festival this year.
Final Burning Man preparations are made as an 70,000 revelers descend on the Nevada desert | Daily Mail Online
The notorious week-long festival begins Sunday and runs through September 3 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert
  • An estimated 70,000 'burners' are expected to attend the revelry, donning other-worldly costumes
  • The event has kicked up of controversy as law enforcement performs traffic stops on the road to the venue
  • The #MeToo movement has also called the appropriateness of the signature 'Orgy Dome' into question
  • Founded in 1986, the festival is known for celebrating music, art, self-expression and sexual liberation

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nivek

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The Burning Man seems to me a sickening, hedonist festival whose organizers falsely believe they are doing something 'important'. They are congregating for a pleasure-seeking good time (see the photograph posted by Nivek above) and no higher purpose. The participants likely have strong views on 'diversity' and 'inclusivity' (in fact, the organization's first in its list of principles is 'radical inclusion'), but what is ironic is that all the pictures I have seen (see the Mail article in the original post) show white people exclusively. It is a festival for well-to-do, metropolitan white degenerates.

I met a fellow who had been (it was, sadly, all he ever talked about) and he sought to highlight the festival's principle of 'leave no trace' by conspicuously cleaning up after himself (quoting from their spiel "Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.").

However, Black Rock was until the 1990s a pristine desert often used for land speed record attempts but the heavy use of the desert for Burning Man has left it unsuitable for further land speed record attempts. The Bloodhound SSC team, successor of Thrust SSC which holds the land speed record set at Black Rock in 1997, is looking elsewhere for its attempt to reach 1,000 mph.
 

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Burning Man has left it unsuitable for further land speed record attempts. The Bloodhound SSC team, successor of Thrust SSC which holds the land speed record set at Black Rock in 1997, is looking elsewhere for its attempt to reach 1,000 mph.

Didn't know that. Those swine. That BLOODHOUND SSC looks like one badass mofo. No doubt it too has been mistaken for a weather balloon. :)
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Trouble in hipster paradise: How the 'toxic work environment' behind the scenes of Burning Man is being blamed for the suicides of seven workers at the annual counter culture festival

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Current and former employees at Burning Man, an annual festival in a Nevada desert, said work conditions are so poor and toxic it has led to several workers committing suicide. According to a report by Salon.com , seven Burning Man employees have died by suicide between 2009 and 2015. Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a psychologist and the lead of the Workplace Task Force for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, told the outlet that the number is shockingly high. 'To give you a benchmark, in a community of 1,000 people we would expect one suicide death in one decade,' she said.

Salon spoke with numerous current and former employees who blamed the high suicide rate on dangerous and stressful work conditions, alleged mistreatment by management and unfair pay. ‘They don’t help out the workers that are injured, quite often, and they just try to get them to work for the most by giving them the least and then discard them,’ former Burning Man staffer Caleb Schaber during a protest outside the company's San Francisco headquarters in February 2007.

Schaber worked as a full-time employee for Burning Man in 2003 after working as a photojournalist in Iraq and Afghanistan. He eventually quit Burning Man but continued to volunteer at the festival and fight for worker's right. Two years after staging the protest, Schaber committed suicide. Friends and former co-workers told the outlet they believe the way Schaber was treated by the company after challenging its labor practices contributed to his suicide.

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Toroid

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Trouble in hipster paradise: How the 'toxic work environment' behind the scenes of Burning Man is being blamed for the suicides of seven workers at the annual counter culture festival

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Current and former employees at Burning Man, an annual festival in a Nevada desert, said work conditions are so poor and toxic it has led to several workers committing suicide. According to a report by Salon.com , seven Burning Man employees have died by suicide between 2009 and 2015. Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a psychologist and the lead of the Workplace Task Force for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, told the outlet that the number is shockingly high. 'To give you a benchmark, in a community of 1,000 people we would expect one suicide death in one decade,' she said.

Salon spoke with numerous current and former employees who blamed the high suicide rate on dangerous and stressful work conditions, alleged mistreatment by management and unfair pay. ‘They don’t help out the workers that are injured, quite often, and they just try to get them to work for the most by giving them the least and then discard them,’ former Burning Man staffer Caleb Schaber during a protest outside the company's San Francisco headquarters in February 2007.

Schaber worked as a full-time employee for Burning Man in 2003 after working as a photojournalist in Iraq and Afghanistan. He eventually quit Burning Man but continued to volunteer at the festival and fight for worker's right. Two years after staging the protest, Schaber committed suicide. Friends and former co-workers told the outlet they believe the way Schaber was treated by the company after challenging its labor practices contributed to his suicide.

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Maybe they were murdered because they knew something. That doesn't look to be a very fun event especially when there's windblown sand everywhere.
 

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Thousands turned away from the festival due to zero visibility.
Whiteouts and 60mph winds caused the entrance to Burning Man to close for several hours | Daily Mail Online
The notorious week-long festival began Sunday and runs through September 3 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert
  • An estimated 70,000 'burners' are expected to attend the revelry, donning other-worldly costumes
  • As thousands arrived Sunday, high winds and low visibility caused the festival's entrance to close at 3.30pm
  • Nevada Highway Patrol said there was zero visibility and travel conditions were extremely hazardous
  • But shortly before 8pm, the festival organizers reopened the gate to revelers, who still had a six-hour wait
  • Founded in 1986, the festival is known for celebrating music, art, self-expression and sexual liberation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBcnWlYLN8
 
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