DUers That Are Burners

[discocrisco01]

Is anybody this community is passionate progressive and a Burner (A person that goes Burning Man, has been one or multiple times, and is active in your BM regional and participates in local progressive causes)

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. I am a burner

From one burner to another, put down the bong and rework your post. It is very hard to understand WTF you are asking or discussing here in this post.

[patricia92243]

2. I still don't understand what a Burning Man is?????

[seabeyond]

6. me either... nt

[mak3cats]

11. I had to go find out - link follows

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/

[BoWanZi]

18. I picture it as Woodstock minus the music/lsd but plus the hipster/maryjane and huge burning effigy

I want to go someday just to experience it.

[uppityperson]

3. Burner support staff here, support friends/family who go/have gone

Never been myself but am active in local progressive causes. And national ones.

[MilesColtrane]

4. I prefer the Internet.

Just as much nudity...not as much mud.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. I've never been to Burning Man

But if I had enough money to buy a Badonkadonk Land Cruiser, I'd go just to show it off:

http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE

Materialistic me.

[alfredo]

7. Does David Bowie come with it?

[Blue-Jay]

8. I participated in an active BM earlier this morning.

[Iggo]

10. Lucky! (n/t)

[msanthrope]

19. Thread win. n/t

[Iggo]

9. I thought you meant pot smokers.

Although I guess the two are not mutually exclusive.

[MineralMan]

12. Been once. Bare boobies in the middle of nowhere.

What's not to like. However, I am distinctly not cool enough to be a burner.

[discocrisco01]

14. Burning Man

You do not think as yourself as being "cool". Most of the people that I know in the local community are some of the most nicest and tolerant people around. I have high-function autism and I also a recovered alcoholic and I still go to the event.

[MineralMan]

15. OK. I think you should go, if it pleases you.

Did I suggest otherwise?

It's not my bag. That's all I'm saying.

[MilesColtrane]

16. Oh, I know your type.

Saying, "It's not my bag.", with your "tune in, turn on, drop out", and your free love.

Well, maybe "my bag" isn't "hip". Maybe my bag is a shoeshine, a sharp haircut, Mom, apple pie, and a love for my country.

How's that rattle your cage, Mister Anti-establishment?

[MineralMan]

17. Joe Friday - Perfect!

I remember that episode.

[snooper2]

13. I go there to sell the hippies

battery operated curling irons :P

[Generic Other]

20. In Second Life for years there was a Burning Life event

patterned after the real event. With firedancers, lamplighter processions, drumming, dancing, creation of amazing artworks. An empty desert plain was open to participants to fill with their creations. There are only a few groundrules. No selling or commercial advertising. And the land must be left as it was found. No sign of campfires, trash or any indication of human habitation. Even the art had to be destroyed as it is temporary. Clothing is optional. Imagination is not.

The interesting thing about Second Life's version of Burning Man was that the wife of the real Burning Man event ran the SL one. The participants took it very seriously. It is part of Second Life's origins as the creator of SL was said to have been at the real Burning Man reading Snowcrash when he got the idea of creating such a place in the virtual world.

At the end of the event, a huge Burning Man is set on fire. And the Temple is also set ablaze. One year on Second Life, the temple housed wishes and prayers and blessings that visitors had left behind. When they lit the temple on fire, these comments scrolled across my computer screen for 15 minutes. Prayers for peace, wishing blessings on humanity, amazing one sentence expressions of many many people's feelings throughout the world. I must admit, I was moved by this.

I know many may think Second Life is a silly game, but there are moments it transcends the pixel cartoon environment. This was one of those times.

As a postscript, the creator of Second Life and many of its inhabitants lost their vision of a free multi-dimensional cyberworld transcending the virtual in their lust for dollars. And most of Second Life looks exactly like the real world today. No imagination required at all. Everyone lives in a beach house in Malibu. :)

A video I made of the drummers in 2008 in SL. I was an amateur at machinima then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIbI2XKT0E

More often I filmed the art itself as is the case in this machinima filmed at the last Burning Life. Warning nude pixel statues.

http://www.vimeo.com/7414460