Burning Man


Burning Man Mosaic, originally uploaded by alachia.

I had no idea this even existed until tonight when @Azyxa linked me some incredible photos of the event. I couldn't use them in the mosaic because they are copy righted but here's a link: http://flickr.com/gp/loupiote/29YW8C

It's this crazy festival of community, art, and self-expression called Burning Man that happens every year out in the dessert. Over 40k+ people attend and participate in it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man). It just seems absolutely amazing. I absolutely love the idea of art merging with humanity and vise versa.

Art and Community are becoming extinct in most of the US. You see the evidence of this in our architecture and how we spend most of our daily lives. We've fallen in love with predictabilty, tradition, and independence. It must be amazing to throw yourself into an event like this and perhaps discover parts of your nature you never thought existed. I am totally amazed. They even have a Thunderdome! lol.

5 comments:

Peteicus_X said...

Hmmmm, now I know you aren't listening to my chats. :9. I started telling you about this the other night. I have some friends that went this year I loaned them each a bike to ride. If you want read any of their personal experiences, lemme know... I have wanted to go to this for years.

Alachia said...

lmao. you know. I do recall that chat! At the time though, I filed it away in the "I have no freaking clue what you're talking about" pile. I had no context or pics. I often do this with most name dropping which I have no idea about.

Shawn said...

It's been a dream of mine to be at Burning Man since I first learned of it years ago. I even preached a sermon a couple years ago about what the church could learn from Burning Man.

Alachia said...

now I am intrigued. What could the church learn from Burning Man? What was the summary of the sermon. See, this is why all your sermons should be podcasts so I can just go back to the episode. lol.

AzyxA said...

I just found out a friend of mine who lives in SF is going to BM next year...