Friday, October 24, 2008

Burning Man

1. So many credit cards, all belonging to the same person. They hit the American dream dead on.__
2. It was hard work.
3. That was the best head stand I could muster on the magic carpet car.
4. You can see it was massive.
5. Lets hear it for Belgium















The theme for Burning Man this year was “The American Dream.” Boy do wish it had taken place after all this financial shit hit the financial fan. There would have been so much more enjoyable ironic art targeted at the theme. The burning man crowd has never been the first to buy into “the dream” but does anybody anymore?

For those who are reading this and have no idea what Burning Man is, I’ll sum it up in five words or less. Self-sustained, temporary-community, gift-economy, art-project, party-in-the-dessert. That’s five words right?

I took a break from tour leading this summer, and as well as a few other things I went to the festival this year, for my third time. Eva was there for her second. We camped into the dessert with a group of about 15 close friends and 40,000 not quite as close friends. Some of course got closer than others over the week.

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