Tales of a Technogypsie

Excellent Adventure Excellent Adventure* Burning Man 2010 * Black Rock City, Nevada * Contact: bm10 (at) carbonworkshop (dot) com * A art piece near the Temple of Flux stands voice-reacive audio-visual laser-blastin’ phone booths created by Gustavo Huber and Shelly Brown of Carbon Workshop. In tribute to the time travelling “Bill and Teds Most Excellent [...]

The Temple of Flux Burning Man 2010 * Black Rock City, Nevada * www.temple2010.org * Designed and constructed by Rebecca Anders, Jessica Hobbs, Peter Kimmelman and their crew from Berkeley, California. This year’s temple stands as a counter-monument rather than the usual Burning Man temple that echoes the churches and mosques of history. It serves [...]

Saturday at the Burn 2010: Bodypainting, Dust Storms, Art, Music Saturday, 4 September 2010 * Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada, United States of America * Awakening with a bit of a hangover, Sir Thomas Leaf set out to open up the Tree Leaves Body Painting Station before setting out for his day. He wandered [...]

Friday at the Burn 2010: Bodypainting, Dust Storms, Art, Music “The Man” – 2010 Friday, 3 September 2010 * Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada, United States of America * Awakening to the hot sun after a mid-morning glare peering into the Vanwagon vardo, Sir Thomas Leaf stumbled out of the van, off his futon, [...]

Thunderdome / Death Guild * Burning Man * Black Rock City, Nevada * http://www.deathguildthunderdome.com/ * Every year many Burners look forward to the infamous “Thunderdome”, the interactive art project of San Francisco’s famed “Death Guild”. It is one of Burning Man’s most famous landmarks and one of its most exciting projects/theme camps. Operating for 6 [...]

Burning Man 2010: Metropolis * Black Rock City, Nevada * Monday, 30 August 2010 through Monday 6 September 2010 * Every year, in the heart of the Nevada Desert, a city known as Black Rock City is constructed to host the Burning Man Festival. It is a human created world with a dream of teaching [...]

Gerlach, Nevada, USA: Gerlach was founded with the construction of the Feather River Route of the Western Pacific Railroad from 1905-1909. Very much tied with Empire, Gerlach is the larger of the two towns on the edige of Black Rock Desert. Combined population with Empire is about 500 according to the 2000 Census. Both towns [...]

Burning Man Festival Black Rock City, Nevada Burning Man is a week long arts and entertainment, sustainable and self-reliance festival that occurs every year embracing Labor Day. From 1986 until 1989 there was a Summer Solstice bonfire ritual held on Baker Beach in San Francisco by Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and their friends. Here they [...]

Black Rock City, Nevada, United States Is one of Nevada’s largest cities during Labor Day every year. It is a temporary, experimental, city of art that only exists for the annual Burning Man Festival that creates it. It is created together by artisans, community, adventurers, gypsies, scientists, Burners, and the Black Rock City, LLC organization. [...]