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Category Archives: Burnination
Worshiping the Cargo Cult: The (de?)Commodification of Burning Man Marches On
Black Rock City – Watched thousands of pagans, actual & momentary, roiling wildly counterclockwise around the collapsed symbol. Alone amidst thousands beneath the smoggy sky the decision was made to be there again before any real time for consideration.
Posted in Burnination, Electrocution, I was there, Wanderings
Tagged 'merica, bike thieves, black rock city, broken trust, burnination, burning man, champagne, circle of regional effigies, CORE, electronica, fire, impermanence, live, lub, ludum et refugium, musick, osiris, pdx, portland, radical, self reliance, survival, treehouse, womps
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Ludum et Refugium: Treehousing Portland’s CORE Amidst a Cargo Cult
Portlanding – Play & refuge, two of the main things keeping humanity interested in the rest of it. Visible everywhere one looks, much of our real expression and true creation lies in these. As one transitional being journeyed west through snow, … Continue reading
Posted in Burnination, I was there, Wanderings
Tagged 'merica, black rock city, burnination, burning man, community, CORE, impermanence, live, ludum et refugium, moopie's house, pdx, portland, regional effigy, rose city, self reliance
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Post Playa (not technically) Decompression at the Refuge with Sandra Collins & Solovox
Portlanding – Reentry is never easy. Burning through the atmosphere to find oneself crippled with the bends. Two weeks into recalibration life muted along. Unfortunately heat shielding may be faulty. Dark of night two weeks afterward found train tracks receding into … Continue reading
Posted in Burnination, Electrocution, Muzak
Tagged 'merica, electronica, live, mr. moo, musick, pdx, refuge pdx, rose city, womps
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Fertility 2.0 Burning In The Dust )°(
Black Rock City – Holes. Nothing but holes. For day after day. Adirondack cow pastures before company asset reassignment brought a Comfortless Inn on the Delaware and the misery that is New Jersey. Shimmering 2,500 miles past the sunset, a … Continue reading
Posted in Burnination, Electrocution, I was there, Wanderings
Tagged black rock city, black rock syndicate, burning man, dj brett rubin, dust, fertility 2.0, musick, osiris, ride share, self reliance, strangers, survival, wasteland, whoaman, womps
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Lakes of Fire – Michigan Was On Fire When We Got There )°(
Lucky Lake Campground – Whilst the enigmatic culture swirling about Black Rock Desert’s Burning Man continues confounding outsiders, denizens of America’s Great Lakes gathered to share and celebrate the event’s ideals at a venue closer to home. Driving through the … Continue reading
Posted in Burnination, Electrocution, Hydrofracking, I was there, Wanderings
Tagged 2012, burngineering, burning man, freakeasy, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, impermanence, it was on fire when we got here, lakes of fire, musick, old northwest, regional burn, secret gentlemen's club
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Hitching to Burn )°(
Ideas begin their existence the same way anything else does, as a seed. Most are discarded, crowded out before they can grow by deeply rooted ideals around them. Others take hold, beginning their metamorphosis into a thought. The idea for … Continue reading