What should you do if you're pulled over by the police on the road to Burning Man? The above scene is an excerpt from "Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters" video created by FlexYourRights.org.Flex Your Rights is dedicated to providing the general public with the finest educational media available for teaching people to understand, appreciate, and assert their constitutional

Flat Smiley Template FinalThe Flat Smiley Project is collaborative new media project and community building activity for Burning Man 2011. Flat Smiley invites participants to befriend him and take him along on your travels to Black Rock City. Flat Smiley's message is: "No Burner left behind!" Using Flat Smiley is like sending a postcard from the playa for many burners who are not able to attend the

It is with a sad and heavy heart to announce the passing of Rod Garrett, Black Rock City's City Planner. Rod's duties included city planning and design, design of official structures, as well as production of illustrations and other graphics.Rod first attended the event in ’95. He says he didn’t realize then that he'd go back to Burning Man again and again, much less end up designing a city for

This video requires QuickTime Plugin"The Apotheosis of Crimson Rose," from producers Doug Jablin and Anthony Bondi, offers the sights and sounds of Burning Man 1998. Featured here are interviews with Maid Marian, Lady Bee, Fantuzzi, Flash, Dan Das Mann (talking about his installation "The One Tree"), Steve Heck, Waterboy, Wes Modes, Charles A. Gadeken and many more including Larry Harvey.It's interesting

BURNcast interviews Mountie Josh, a first time burner from Canada at the bar at Camp Fandango.  A few weeks after the burn he shared this essay about his experiences on the playa with us:PlayaI just spent the last week waiting for the other shoe to drop.  Every person I know who’s ever been to Burning Man has described a decompression state, where “returning to the default world” as

Wow. This video really does take us back. Feather boas on the playa and Nambla the Clown???1997 marked another major pivotal year Burning Man and the event almost didn't take place. Due to the accidents and deaths from the year before, it was considered too dangerous to continue in the same way. In order to manage the increased liability load, the organizers formed the Black Rock City, LLC. Also, new

The year was 1996 and the theme was Dante's Inferno/HeLLCo.  A shit ton more happened that year. Where do we even begin? Do you want the short version (above) or the long version (below)?The short version is from Chuck Cirino's WeirdTV. The long version is a playlist of 22 videos by PuzzlingEvidenceTV of which the 11 focus solely on HeLLCo including footage of events leading up to Burning Man

Pope - Freakincense 20101010b by Pope Rajulio Here's some beats from DJ Pope, who will be serving them up fresh on the playa this year. His schedule is as follows:Tue 8/30 10pm @ Nexus (10 & E) Wed 8/31 12am ...@ Enclave (9 & Esplanade) Thu 9/1 1am @ Burntown (8:45 & Esplanade) Fri 9/2 2pm @ Pink Carpet (3 & C) Sat 9/3 3am @ Transmorpagon (3 & Esplanade) And now a word

This news story out of KTVU from 1995. Dogs were still allowed on the playa.

Our series continues as we curate videos from each year of Burning Man over the next several blog posts leading up to this year's burn. Today's video is logged from 1994-1995. It's from Chuck Cirino of WeirdTV who covered Burning Man in the early days when the event got to the Black Rock Desert. Noteworthy in this video are clips featuring not only Larry Harvey one of the co-founders of Burning Man,

The Man 1994 - Photo: Malderor Our series continues as we curate videos from each year of Burning Man over the next several blog posts leading up to this year's burn. Yesterday we featured early footage of the early years of Burning Man leading up to its arrival on the Black Rock Desert. Today we begin with a video from 1994 by a British based production company called Journeyman Pictures that

Factoids:The Man is 40' tall Attendance: 600 Danger Ranger founds the Black Rock Rangers. The first Donner Award is given to a pilot who manages to land his Cessna upside down just south of camp.

Burning Man 1990. Source: Danger Ranger BURNcast was delighted on how our collection of Burning Man tickets from 1995-2011 was shared with a wide audience of burners thanks in no small part to LaughingSquid deeming it worth a blog post.It got us to thinking it also might be worthwhile to curate videos from each year of Burning Man as well so over the next posts leading up to this year's burn. So

 Source: Google Maps The first ever Google "doodle", 1998. At $360 a ticket the cost of simply entering the gates of Burning Man this year ain't cheap and is only made more exorbitant when BMorg announced the event sold out two weeks ago.  Since then scalpers have been gouging the market with tickets selling anywhere from $700 to $5,000.  Which begs the burning question: who bought

Back in 1997 tickets to Burning Man cost only $65. For one time (and one time only) the event was held on privately held land known as Hualapai Playa instead of the publicly owned land of the Black Rock Desert.  According to reports that year about 10,000 people found their way to Black Rock City.1997 was also the first year Burning Man hosted their official website after first starting out on

Today we're featuring an epic slideshow set from photographer Brian Erzen. In sharing with us he wrote:I'm a freelance photographer, and filmmaker. This was my 8th year heading home, and the first time in man years I brought a camera. I was asked by some good burner friends to be there photographer for the inner circle's fire conclave group Poi's in the Hood based out of LA. Which was a huge honor

DJ Zach Moore - Breaks for Black Rock City: Volume II by The Space Cowboys New from DJ Zach Moore who writes:The second volume of my Breaks for Black Rock City series is my set *as recorded live* from Public Works in San Francisco on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011. The Space Cowboys and Brass Tax teamed up that night to throw an absolute barn burner to benefit Pete Hudson's CHARON Project which will

 Source: NBC Today in San Francisco is the official launch of the Burning Man Project non-profit. The change in operation from a private LLC to a nonprofit organization is tremendous as it requires Burning Man to be more transparent in their business operations with finances for the event to be documented and reported to the Internal Revenue Service.The launch of is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. today

It’s three days into Burning Man and you’re ready to abandon that tangled mess that used to be your hair. Great, because Barber Ella Shop wants to give you a mohawk -- and they want to do it while wearing silver spandex and enormous Jane Fonda wigs. But first they need a little help...The folks at Barber Ella Shop were thrilled to learn recently that Burning Man has placed them in the bustling

This video by by Rich Van Every who writes "In anticipation of our gathering on the Black Rock City Playa...this is a gift to you."UPDATE: It was pointed out to us on Facebook that Rich also did this video to a different song:

BURNcast is always interested to see how Burning Man is featured in mainstream media. This roundup of clips are from local news stations from last week. Not really new news, but worthwhile coverage even if it's old.The first story is BMorg's very own manager of communications ActionGrl speaking on behalf of the Org from the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area. Second up is a story from KOLO news out of Reno

 This series of PSA's is made possible by the Black Rock City Department of Public Works.Motion Video Presentation By:patchesTheJew Creative Supervision By:DA — Playa Restoration Manager Sound Editing By:Jimmy FontanaFirst seen on: http://moopmap.blogspot.com/

The following audio essay as read by author Michael Garfield is from his adventures to Burning Man 2008.  He writes:Wandering the streets of Burning Man this summer, my contemplation of sacred geography and comparative mythology lead me to explore the relationship between the outer and inner worlds, death and rebirth, synchronicity, symbolism, and ritual...This is the author-read audio of my

DJ Spooky @ BM 2001Back in 2001 Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid sparked a tremendous brouhaha at Burning Man when it was announced he would be spinning at Camp Xara.  The story goes that Rangers became perturbed because they believed that his presence might cause a gang incident or something. But the real issue was Spooky promoting himself at the event. How far we've come as