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mate and incredibly low humidity of the black rock desert makes flying difficult pulling off stunts even on the best day could be a suicide mission at least one pilot has met his doom at burning man he had made the same mistake i had nearly made he went into a turn too fast and too low his plane flipped and he landed in the dust like a stone after getting photos pablo and i parted ways i m still grateful to him for taking me up there it was one of the most thrilling hours of my life and an experience i ll never forget having nearly killed myself and a pilot i went in search of the green bike i had used to get to the airport it was long gone i took a swig of water and started hiking back to the city along the way i managed to hitch a ride on a mutant car it s afternoons like this that have made me realize that there is absolutely no place on the planet like this crazy annual fest posted by brandon at 3 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels airport monday february 14 2011 random photo 4 a buggy mutant vehicle posted by brandon at 8 43 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random photo friday february 11 2011 tales from the black rock beacon i attended burning man in 2009 as a spectator and was determined to get more involved in 2010 i got in contact with the fine folks at the black rock beacon a few months prior to the festival and signed up to work as a staff writer i had finished up a gig in portland and had several weeks to kill before the beginning of fall term at portland state with nothing better to do i rolled out to the playa early and set up camp the tuesday before the gates opened at that point black rock city was still pretty vacant the man had yet to be placed on top of his pedestal and the center camp tent was an empty shell i was the first beacon staffer to show i threw down my tent and spent those first few days sleeping late and working on an art project out on the playa slowly but surely members of the beacon staff trickled in before i knew it i was helping set up the paper s makeshift tent office and scribbling comic strips to cover an old bench out front i was surprised at how devoted the staff was to the beacon two veterans had dumped several thousands of dollars into a large printer that cranked out copies of the daily paper several editors worked around the clock their days beginning at 10 am with a staff meeting and often ending well after midnight i snagged a corner of one table in the tent and dubbed it the international affairs desk where i parked my ass for more hours than i care to admit one of the highlights of the 2010 fest for me was staying up all night chatting with other staffers and chain smoking while bleary eyed burners staggered over in search of information we put together a chart to track the number of times we were asked where the information tent was located if memory serves there was around a hundred slash marks on the board by the time the man burned i ve worked in a few newsrooms in my time and unsurprisingly the beacon s proved to be the most fun during my week in their tent i sat in on interviews with blm troopers artists a shirtcocker and larry harvey i spent one afternoon running around the city debunking a rumor about a mutant car being used by federal agents to bust people on drugs after a wild goose chase i discovered that the vehicle in question belonged to a crop of blm employees that were cruising the city and having fun like everyone else during their off hours the guy who built the thing laughed when i told him about the stories that were going around oh i also got a free flying lesson from a pilot with a stunt plane out at the airport too i also took it upon myself to run around town as a newsie handing out papers at the front gates to attendees fresh off the highway and at center camp i didn t do the extra extra bit though the beacon s neon purple sign and the staff s round the clock bacon fests drew all sorts of brc denizens to the tent one day a group of frat brats from socal decided to hold court in the office loudly demanding acid every five minutes we couldn t get them to leave finally one staffer cut off their supply to bacon and they left of their own accord on a brighter note another afternoon a gorgeous topless gal from spain stopped by to use the internet the staff and the editors were a great welcoming bunch many of whom work as journalists outside of the city in their normal lives there was howeird an awesome british expat who looked and sounded a bit like dumbledore from harry potter i should also mention carry a mother from the seattle area who lets her hair down at burning man every year and rocky a journalist from san fran who looked like billy idol there was also rhino a gentle giant from down south and mitch and jane and durgy i ll stop now lest i forget anyone posted by brandon at 8 40 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels camps saturday january 22 2011 burnier than thou left for dead i arrived early on the playa in 2010 to participate in an art project with a group from my hometown of portland oregon and to serve as a staff writer and photographer for the black rock beacon one of my first assignments for the daily paper was to get a photo of the temple i hopped on my bike and rode out into the open playa with a backpack full of supplies in addition to my camera i brought along my usual survival pack a big jug of water goggles and a makeshift dust mask as anyone who has ever been to the festival will tell you the weather in black rock city can turn on a dime hell it can turn on a penny too i snagged my photos and rode over to bliss dance for a few more shots the front gates weren t due to open to the general public for another 36 hours and two volunteers were putting the finishing touches on the piece s metallic legs as i was taking photos a guy emerged from a trailer and started screaming at them you ve gotta get down here right now why what s going on one of the volunteers asked storm s comin if we ve got lightning on the way that thing s gonna work like a giant conductor you two ll get fried in a second flat he frantically pointed back towards the city proper a gigantic wind storm had risen and was headed right for us like a tempest straight of well the tempest it appeared out of nowhere within 30 seconds we were engulfed in alkaline dust and wind i tossed my camera in my bag grabbed my goggles and mask and attempted to ride my bike back to the beacon s camp no dice visibility had dropped to five feet and getting on the bike let alone balancing on it wasn t an option i trudged through the storm getting pelted with dust that felt like sandpaper against my exposed skin i d been in storms on the playa before but not quite like this i stopped and hunkered down hoping the winds would calm long enough for me to make it to safety after a few minutes they were only getting stronger i knew i wasn t going to die out there but it sure felt like it and so i fought my way onward through the storm struggling to breathe while attempting to get my bearings with no visual reference point i had no clue where i was on the grid off in the distance i could make out the vague shape of an rv i slogged over towards it dropped my bike and collapsed cursing my bad luck and lousy timing i looked around i had found myself in the camp for the black rock roller disco i crawled over near a back tire and it was just large enough to serve as a wind barrier as i was breaking out my water jug i heard a door slam a heavy set guy in his 40s dressed in a hawaiin t shirt came around the front of the vehicle and sneered at me don t you dare lean your bike up against my rig he spat i looked over at my bike a good seven feet away it wasn t going anywhere near the rv sure enough it was shiny and new it must have cost 80 grand or more easy while i wasn t about to put a scratch on the thing there s no telling how much damage was being caused by all the corrosive dust flying around ok no problem i muttered weakly without another word he wandered a few feet into the wind you call this a fucking storm he screamed this is a pussy storm he laughed manically i couldn t tell if he was coked up or just an asshat he jumped in the rv and fired up the engine i moved away as he gunned the big whale off into the dust he manuvered the rv a grand total of 50 yards away set the emergency break and killed the ignition what was all that about i wondered did that douche just do that to spite me this seemed to be the case he had mocked the storm before retreating to the safety of his overpriced metal behemoth worse yet for all he knew i could have been injured and in distress obviously he was more concerned about his toy than me another human being exposed to the elements again i grabbed my bike and scooted over to a large nearby tent this guy was a one man class war the human embodiment of both a turd and yuppie privilege most likely a middle manager divorcee from palm springs at least he had stopped short of yelling let them eat cake enraged i broke out my camera and filmed this after another twenty minutes the storm died down still livid i wandered over to the rv and filmed another clip feeding the burner trolls in the weeks that followed these two videos received a few hundred views and several comments most were supportive don t let it get to you man someone wrote i was out on the playa gifting like crazy and doing my best to take care of everyone i met then back in december someone with the username burning man mike left something far nastier mike has since deleted his comments but they were pithy and patronizing i ll paraphrase serves you right you shouldn t have gone out there unprepared moron as much of an ass the rv owner had been at the very least he had a motive for his actions the deluded notion that i was going to somehow damage his beloved four ton baby burning man mike though was being a dick pure and simple he broke out the tired and cliched radical self reliance argument to put me in my place the impracticalities of radical self reliance from the ten principles of burning man radical self reliance burning man encourages the individual to discover exercise and rely on his or her inner resources right o anyone who attends burning man had better be prepared for the elements the playa is a rough dangerous place that doesn t give half a damn about anyone foolish enough to spend a week or two in its presence you need water supplies food proper shelter sunscreen enough stuff to easily fill a sedan for a single attendee that said i have no idea how i could have been better prepared for a storm on the open playa i had goggles i had a dust mask and water i suppose if mike had received a similar assignment he would have carried an all seasons tent a deep sea diving suit a case of beer and a bbq out there with him as these things so often go a flame war between the two of us ensued imaburner another attendee and an apparent colleague of mike s ganged up on me all in all the three of us exchanged around a dozen bitter diatribes then a few weeks ago the two of them abruptly deleted their comments imaburner left this as an explanation burningmanmike and i imaburner have withdrawn our comment we ve made our point we hope the poster has learned something positive and will move on revenge is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die a good point but it came on the heels of a heap of contempt from them the encounter with the rv owner and these two have soured me a bit on burning man one of the central goals of the annual event is to build a temporary society in one of the harshest places on the planet in addition to the challenge another thing commonly cited as the appeal of heading out there is the communal spirit of the festival the internet is filled with anecdotes and tales of how burning man is different from modern society for a few days out of the year it s practically a utopia ultimately it all boils down to people out there give a damn about each other hundreds if not thousands are willing to claim that the festival has changed their lives i recently read a story about a roughneck biker dude that went to burning man and came out the other side a better man after being randomly kissed by a stranger on the cheek but as with any city there s bound to be a few assholes roaming about i obviously ran into one of them in the middle of that storm i ve had dozens of great experiences in black rock city so it s odd that i m willing to let this one nasty encounter tarnish my overall perspective still there s the inescapable problem at burning man of a class system at work despite efforts to establish an open communal vibe there s no getting around the fact that some people truck out there every year over prepared in fancy rvs and barely get any dust on themselves while everyone else gets hammered by the elements many view burning man as an opportunity to get out of town get blitzed and dance their asses off at many of the makeshift raves around the city they wouldn t know a principle if it bit them on their glow sticks these weekend warriors drag down the festival down several pegs sometime during the week at the beacon s office someone broke out the term burnier than thou it s a phrase that nicely describes anyone with a holier than thou attitude such as the one employed by burning man mike obviously i can be accused of this but it s typically the wealthy attendees with rvs or with a 20 000 budget for a mutant vehicles that are most disdainful of anyone having a hard time out there not dressed up in a costume covered in 300 worth of led lights there s a good chance someone will cop an attitude on you it s the equivalent of a rich individual yelling get a job at a panhandler another well worn term used by this crowd tourist as if anyone willing to truck out to burning man could be accused of being a tourist the sort of lazy clueless type that you might see wandering around the mall of america the average tourist wouldn t last five minutes on the playa rv or no rv there s a certain amount of curiosity and all around ballsy ness that goes with trucking all the way to northern nevada for anything let alone a week in a wasteland i m sure burning man gets its fair share of leering pervs there to take pictures of exposed flesh or hang out in the corner of orgy dome it s a term that should be reserved for them and only them it ll never happen but i wouldn t be opposed to banning rvs outright from burning man if only to level out the playing field i ll conclude this rambling rant with this two more from the ten principles communal effort our community values creative cooperation and collaboration we strive to produce promote and protect social networks public spaces works of art and methods of communication that 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