Comments on: Burning Man 2012 flyover http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 18:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533980 Ito Kagehisa Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533980 <blockquote>Or, you know, the values of Burning Man might just be leaking out into the greater world after all. Because that would be a horrible thing, to have a little more wonder, and excitement, and love in this world.</blockquote>I sure hope you are right, because I love seeing all the energy and creativity, but I am totally not going out in the desert. Burners, mad dogs & Englishmen can have it all to themselves. Ugh, new BB design does not overcome the failings of Disqus. Edited to remove spurious newlines.

Or, you know, the values of Burning Man might just be leaking out into the greater world after all. Because that would be a horrible thing, to have a little more wonder, and excitement, and love in this world.

I sure hope you are right, because I love seeing all the energy and creativity, but I am totally not going out in the desert. Burners, mad dogs & Englishmen can have it all to themselves.

Ugh, new BB design does not overcome the failings of Disqus. Edited to remove spurious newlines.

]]> By: Henry Pootel http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533869 Henry Pootel Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533869 "Leaving no trace".... “Leaving no trace”….

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533865 EH Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533865 <I>Instead, we've got to be snarkier-than-thou, and not in the fun, ridiculous way that has been part of Burning Man from the beginning, but in the cynical, 'jaded' way that people who have lost something essential in their soul.</i> What are the chances that "fun ridiculous snarkier-than-thou" requires BM not to be a target of the snark? I'm just trying to be sure lest I be accused of having lost "something essential" in my soul. Instead, we’ve got to be snarkier-than-thou, and not in the fun, ridiculous way that has been part of Burning Man from the beginning, but in the cynical, ‘jaded’ way that people who have lost something essential in their soul.

What are the chances that “fun ridiculous snarkier-than-thou” requires BM not to be a target of the snark? I’m just trying to be sure lest I be accused of having lost “something essential” in my soul.

]]> By: Bryce Anderson http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533863 Bryce Anderson Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533863 Bah. The flyover was so much better last year. Bah. The flyover was so much better last year.

]]> By: unaboomer http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533807 unaboomer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533807 Really? Cause I know at least a dozen of those folks that went and they have friends. You two must have been on drugs. (KIDDING! KIDDING!) How were the drugs, btw? <3 Really? Cause I know at least a dozen of those folks that went and they have friends. You two must have been on drugs. (KIDDING! KIDDING!)

How were the drugs, btw? <3

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533781 nixiebunny Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533781 Ron Paul and Illuminati were nowhere to be seen, and very few actual hippies either. There was a lot of creativity and construction present. Dust, yes. Sun, yes. Those are good for you. Ron Paul and Illuminati were nowhere to be seen, and very few actual hippies either.
There was a lot of creativity and construction present.
Dust, yes. Sun, yes. Those are good for you.

]]> By: photon http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533739 photon Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533739 "conspiro", "drug", "single whiff  of patchouli, the sight of Ron Paul stickers or talk of illuminati" I saw (and smelt) none of this..... "hippies" of course. “conspiro”, “drug”, “single whiff  of patchouli, the sight of Ron Paul stickers or talk of illuminati”

I saw (and smelt) none of this….. “hippies” of course.

]]> By: unaboomer http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533723 unaboomer Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533723 Burning man has SO many things that look like they'd be fun to see, but none of them seem to draw me past the presence of the blaring sun, dirt air, and proximity to conspiro/hippie/drug/ugh folks that appear to dominate this scene.    I ain't no square, but I easily gag on a single whiff  of patchouli, the sight of Ron Paul stickers or talk of illuminati et al. Can't we have a gathering with the creative/construction side without the parts I dont like?   Oh yeah, those are called maker faires.    Can we have more of those, please? Im ok with the burning man people doing what they do, All I ask is that you shower upon your return to L.A.  Thank you.  Burning man has SO many things that look like they’d be fun to see, but none of them seem to draw me past the presence of the blaring sun, dirt air, and proximity to conspiro/hippie/drug/ugh folks that appear to dominate this scene.    I ain’t no square, but I easily gag on a single whiff  of patchouli, the sight of Ron Paul stickers or talk of illuminati et al. Can’t we have a gathering with the creative/construction side without the parts I dont like?  

Oh yeah, those are called maker faires.    Can we have more of those, please?

Im ok with the burning man people doing what they do, All I ask is that you shower upon your return to L.A.  Thank you. 

]]> By: giantasterisk http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533674 giantasterisk Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533674  It's not so hard to keep from getting overloaded. Just don't do a bunch of e. A week at Burning Man while sober can be plenty underwhelming.  It’s not so hard to keep from getting overloaded. Just don’t do a bunch of e. A week at Burning Man while sober can be plenty underwhelming.

]]> By: Jim Nelson http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533653 Jim Nelson Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533653 Or, you know, the values of Burning Man might just be leaking out into the greater world after all. Because that would be a horrible thing, to have a little more wonder, and excitement, and love in this world. Instead, we've got to be snarkier-than-thou, and not in the fun, ridiculous way that has been part of Burning Man from the beginning, but in the cynical, 'jaded' way that people who have lost something essential in their soul. Or we're dealing with DPW, who just plays the game a bit rougher than everyone else :) But in all seriousness, Burning Man exists in a tenuous legal spot - all it would take is one Senator to decide to make an issue of it, and hold up funding for the Department of the Interior, to shut it down. So, keeping the perception of that thing in the desert as something other than the drug-fueled hippy orgy sounds like a good thing to me - and if you think that hiring a PR person for a 50,000 person festival is adopting 'how Corporate America Does Things', you are entirely too allergic to organizations of this size. Or, you know, the values of Burning Man might just be leaking out into the greater world after all. Because that would be a horrible thing, to have a little more wonder, and excitement, and love in this world.

Instead, we’ve got to be snarkier-than-thou, and not in the fun, ridiculous way that has been part of Burning Man from the beginning, but in the cynical, ‘jaded’ way that people who have lost something essential in their soul.

Or we’re dealing with DPW, who just plays the game a bit rougher than everyone else :)

But in all seriousness, Burning Man exists in a tenuous legal spot – all it would take is one Senator to decide to make an issue of it, and hold up funding for the Department of the Interior, to shut it down. So, keeping the perception of that thing in the desert as something other than the drug-fueled hippy orgy sounds like a good thing to me – and if you think that hiring a PR person for a 50,000 person festival is adopting ‘how Corporate America Does Things’, you are entirely too allergic to organizations of this size.

]]> By: mat catastrophe http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533650 mat catastrophe Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533650 Or, you could just take a closer look at this: http://blog.burningman.com/2012/01/news/public-relations-manager-position-available/ Or, you could just take a closer look at this: http://blog.burningman.com/2012/01/news/public-relations-manager-position-available/

]]> By: mat catastrophe http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533646 mat catastrophe Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533646 Not having corporate sponsors does not automatically mean you're still an underground operation. There's a lot of slick PR involved and that just means that the values of how Corporate America Does Things has been adopted by the Festival, as opposed to the values of the Festival becoming a norm in Corporate America. Not having corporate sponsors does not automatically mean you’re still an underground operation. There’s a lot of slick PR involved and that just means that the values of how Corporate America Does Things has been adopted by the Festival, as opposed to the values of the Festival becoming a norm in Corporate America.

]]> By: rhodian http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533644 rhodian Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533644 I have a serious case of Burning Man envy. I have a serious case of Burning Man envy.

]]> By: thejaymo http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533635 thejaymo Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533635 Just been comparing my anual Hexayurt deployment count on the GeoEye aerial photo for the Hexayurt Project against this video :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejaymo/7986877363/in/photostream It appears that I have missed lots/many were not identifiable. The numbers might be ~10% higher than the 739 hexayurts i counted this year! Thanks for posting Cory! Just been comparing my anual Hexayurt deployment count on the GeoEye aerial photo for the Hexayurt Project against this video :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejaymo/7986877363/in/photostream

It appears that I have missed lots/many were not identifiable. The numbers might be ~10% higher than the 739 hexayurts i counted this year!

Thanks for posting Cory!

]]> By: Richard_Kirk http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533599 Richard_Kirk Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533599 No tin-foil beanies for us. We gonna lay out the whole daam site as a Fresnel zone plate, and focus them mind-control rays back up at the govmint satellites, and burn em all out, yeah. Sigh. Wish I was there... No tin-foil beanies for us. We gonna lay out the whole daam site as a Fresnel zone plate, and focus them mind-control rays back up at the govmint satellites, and burn em all out, yeah.

Sigh. Wish I was there…

]]> By: northierthanthou http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533594 northierthanthou Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533594 Cool visual. Cool visual.

]]> By: anansi133 http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533583 anansi133 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533583 This video makes me so happy! A unique perspective without having to get all crispy and dusty and overloaded... what's not to like? This video makes me so happy! A unique perspective without having to get all crispy and dusty and overloaded… what’s not to like?

]]> By: macegr http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533578 macegr Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533578  Makes it easier to get permission from everyone.  Makes it easier to get permission from everyone.

]]> By: Jim Nelson http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533574 Jim Nelson Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533574 Oh, yes. We're mainstream as fuck. We had Motorola and Google out there, handing out free cell phones to all the special people, and Prada was giving the beautiful people special feather boas that would get you in to the VIP area, where Daft Punk was playing every night at sundown. Then, we had a sing-along with One Direction at center camp. Oh, yes. We’re mainstream as fuck. We had Motorola and Google out there, handing out free cell phones to all the special people, and Prada was giving the beautiful people special feather boas that would get you in to the VIP area, where Daft Punk was playing every night at sundown.

Then, we had a sing-along with One Direction at center camp.

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533484 nixiebunny Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533484 Looks like about 9 AM. Hardly anyone is out and about.  Looks like about 9 AM. Hardly anyone is out and about. 

]]> By: mat catastrophe http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533479 mat catastrophe Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533479 Hiring some good PR people has really helped this festival of misfits get all sorts of mainstream. Yay! Mainstream! Hiring some good PR people has really helped this festival of misfits get all sorts of mainstream.

Yay! Mainstream!

]]> By: kamilothoris http://boingboing.net/2012/09/15/burning-man-2012-flyover.html#comment-1533474 kamilothoris Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181159#comment-1533474 Jelloooooooed out! Jelloooooooed out!

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