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great pics
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well, i guess ill have to make it out to burning man next year.
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Thanks Mark. I was hoping you would make it out this year. Airek too. Mark your calendar for the week leading up to Labor Day 2007 and make it happen. |
great pics rand
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Everytime I think of Burning Man I think of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdone... Really cool pics!
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great pics how hot did it get?
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Amazing pics like always! This event is just insane!
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WOW - much cooler at night...:thumbsup
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Rand, thank you for sharing these wonderful pics!!
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Really cool pics
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wow those are some AWSOME pictures
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Awesome art exhibit. A salute to all participating contemporary artists! :thumbsup
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I'm afraid if I went I would have Flash backs
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those are so great
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I had a great time at BM this year, as I always do. I often wish I could go to BM anytime I want to. But the city exists for only one week each year. BM is not for everyone. But if you feel the urge to go, I recommend you speak to others who've been and if you think it's right for you, make the effort. It's an experience like no other. |
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looks like they may have burnt a lot more than the big man this time? discuss please
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thanks for taking the time Rand ... enjoyed the photos
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nice pics this year rand
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very nice rand. :thumbsup |
Good pictures you could submit them to webshots site.They could be good for background.
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Some very cool pics there....
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Your pics are great Rand, you should have been a pro photographer! Burning Man looks amazing, I really want to experience it myself someday.
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Looks like a lot of fun :) My wife has gone a few times to the burning of the man
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What he said... I'm almost positive I've convinced myself to make the trip to the 2007 event. It definitely seems like something you want to checkout before taking the old dirt nap. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup |
grat shots Rand!
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Each year at BMan there is always one art installation that really stands out to me. My first year it was the Temple of Gravity. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/galen.15012.jpg In 2004, it was David Best's Temple. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/postg.19865.jpg In 2005, it was the Jacob's Ladder (rising 108 feet into the heavens. http://images.burningman.com/gallery/bucky.24678.jpg In 2006, it was without a doubt, the installation that took 90 people from Belgium to build. It was affectionately referred to as the "Belgian Waffle". It's actual name was "Uchronia". http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC08594_JPG.jpg http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC08605_JPG.jpg http://randomania.net/BM06/tn_DSC06793_JPG.jpg I've been very curious myself to learn more about how this piece came to be. I found the following article about it's creators. I also heard on BMIR (Burning Man radio) that there was enough lumber used in the construction to span 100 miles. It was a privelage to experience this piece in person. - Best art installation: 'The Belgian Waffle' Ninety artists from Belgium shipped 100 miles of wooden beams to the playa, and nail-gunned them into a free-form cavern 15 stories high. It looked like a giant's haystack twisted into a computer model of a wave, with curved entrances on four sides. Reminiscent of Frank Gehry's undulating architectural style, its sides appeared to drip, defying gravity. Dwarfing all other sculptures, the "Waffle" was the biggest draw at night, as revelers packed into the cavern and danced to electronica bathed in neon-green light. "We didn't use a model, we just started at the bottom and kept adding as we went up," said Jan Kriekels, who said he funded the entire $250,000 project, including buying $250 tickets for the volunteers who spent three weeks building it. They used construction cranes to add the lumber to the top. The 2-inch-by-3-inch beams ranged in size from 8 to 10 feet long and came from the reject pile at a Canadian lumber mill. Although the artists might be offended by the sculpture's nickname, the installation's true name is "Uchronia" -- named after a Belgian art movement centered on a world without the concept of time, Kriekels said. "This piece is a symbol for a system that creates its own creators. We all did this together without being told how to do it -- we are factory workers, bookmakers, editors, designers, artists, salespeople -- and we can only do this if we refuse to be defined," he said. The artists plan to burn "Uchronia" tonight. Kriekels said his crew will plant enough trees in Belgium to offset his installation's greenhouse emissions. For those interested in knowing more about Uchronia and seeing some amazing images of the piece -- including it's destruction by fire -- go to http://www.uchronians.org/ |
great pics! takes me right back. :) I have to get my ass organized and get my pics and videos together.
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amazing works of art!
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Parcially as a dose of reality regarding the conditions at Burning Man, and also because I really like this pic, I wanted to post this photo of an intense dust storm that happened Wednesday lasting for nearly an hour. This photo doesn't even depict the worst of the storm as at it's full strength you could not see more than five feet in front of you. This storm produced 100% white-out condtions. All you can do is stop whatever you're doing and wait it out. http://randomania.net/BM06/DSC08528.JPG |
very cool!:thumbsup
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Now, I am all for art, and I love what people can do at burning man. But it really starts to mess with my head the amount of money that some people spend on some of these art installations there. $250,000 for that one piece above, that was just burned in the end. Gosh, why not just line up 1000 starving children right next to it with a sign in front of the piece that says "this cost $250k, imagine all the food you could be eating for that"
while I think all that shit looks way cool, $250k could really help people and places that are in dire straights in this world, and to see someone basically just throw $250k into a pile and light it on fire kind of makes me very sad...oh but wait, it was pretty! |
and let me just state, I LOVE art...and I know art can be expensive sometimes, and I have no issue with people spending lots of money to make the world pretty with art, but some of the things they do at burning man really can be a smack in the face to the rest of the world..."hey look, we are rich wierdos, look how much money we can blow!"
also, I am as much a wierdo as the next guy, and I love the concept of burning man and everything it stands for, and I will be making the journey out there in the next year or two...this was just something that has always bugged me to no end |
I think you are all beginning to see now that Burning Man is not just a bunch of hippies running around naked in the desert for a week. This is becoming one of the most important Art/Cultural events on the planet. These "great" works take years of planning and in some cases considerable sums of money are spent in their execution. 2hp |
There has always been a class that dismisses art as a frivolous pursuit. Thank goodness they are not the philanthropists upon whose generosity much art depends. It's ironic and funny that business people become patrons of the arts as soon as they can afford it. 2hp |
Jace - You do have a point. I've often thought the same thing. I really don't know how to answer that except to say that the world is full of things that need fixing and are illogical. I don't know that there is a good answer to your point. I do know that many of the people who attend BMan are quite generous with their time, money and resources for many causes. Many "burners" donated a lot of their time volunteering in New Orleans after Katrina and many are activists for a multitude of causes. I do believe that BM has achieved a status that does play a small but important role in cultural change. It would be difficult to explain it here, but the art of BM is an important aspect of the experience that draws all these wonderful creative souls together. It's these kinds of thinkers that do make a positive and meanigful change to humanity and the world. Some of the most amazing discussions I've ever had were with complete strangers in the middle of the desert. (And no, I wasn't on any drugs that made me think that). |
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coool, nice pics
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burning man rox. i've to go there in the future!
nice pics man! |
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This is from 2004: http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...AB04gender.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...hs/AB04age.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...4SexOrient.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...B04edlevel.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...AB04income.jpg http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/c...4votehabit.jpg |
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There will always be that thought in the back of my mind when viewing it all though "wow, $250k? couldn't that basically feed thousands of hungry people and save tons of lives?" |
the whole point of art is to starve
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