[SwitcherX]

What did you do when Cartman and Cthulhu showed up?


 

[LittleHelp]

BUMP for 2011 tickets going on sale today for $210 at 10 AM Pacific. As ol' Dr. Gonzo instructed, "Buy the ticket, take the ride."

[bignatslover]

So all you guys who have been to Burning Man (since I have not) -
would you say the ladies in attendance are a little bit more promiscuous
than those in your average college bar, or about the same -
or perhaps to such a far greater magnitude that an exponential scale would
first need to be plotted?

[Goldeneye]

Love this playa pic.

Am I the only one who wants to know who the fuck this is?

[prophoto]

So all you guys who have been to Burning Man (since I have not) -
would you say the ladies in attendance are a little bit more promiscuous
than those in your average college bar, or about the same -
or perhaps to such a far greater magnitude that an exponential scale would
first need to be plotted?

Burning man is like real life, only fractured.

That is, all the popular guys with all the resources have all the hot chics.  It is equivalent to all the rich guys in the real world get all the hot girls.  So, if you happen to be doing something that makes a lot of waves and people notice, you get lots of attention.  If you are just the average joe...you are just the average joe. 

I camp with OT, for those of you who can figure that out, yes, that OT.  And Yes, I took a bunch of drugs and had sex with a number of unnamed females in many places that I am yet to understand.  But, Burningman is not about chics or sex-- especially when most of the girls end up with playa dust inside their ...love caverns, and this can cause the guys to get crazy rashes on their...Performance art staffs.  Not that I would know about any of this stuff.

[Klcarsite]

Posted in the youtube random thread, but appropriate here:  sample pack of someone else's playa adventures

-Munch "gives a good feel for what the event is about" Wolf

Oooh...  *squee*   ...19 more weeks!!

[Klcarsite]

Posted in the youtube random thread, but appropriate here:  sample pack of someone else's playa adventures

-Munch "gives a good feel for what the event is about" Wolf

Ooh!  That video was awesome.  *squee*  19 more weeks...

[MunchWolf]

So... just a few more weeks ... who's going?

-Munch "besides me and the above person" Wolf

[Palomine]

Bring back some of this, will ya Munch?

[NAFOD]

I'm currently in Fallon, NV.

The week leading up to BM, had a hell of a lot of people in town. I saw a lot leaving today in Sparks and Fernley (gas/food stops on way home)

Attachment is Burning Man from 20,000 feet. Not my pic, but from another pilot in my squadron.

[Bad Kitty]

I always wanted to go to burning man.

i hope I get a chance to before it becomes too comercial

[MunchWolf]

too commercial?

That's like saying a religion is becoming to sciency

-Munch "Burning Man is the Anti-Mall" Wolf

[Bad Kitty]

for now yes...
I've seen it happen over and over though...

suits & ties can find their way into any niche, and once they nest they multiply like crazy, and Orkin can't do anything about them. And next thing you know, you need a budweiser parking pass, and the flammable materials for the burning man have been brought to you by Sony, and the music is some generic crap that must be played 17 times a day on the radio contractually, and it's actually the "verizon wireless burning man event, keeping you connected" and if you call it anything else verizon will sue you for breaching their licensed title agreement.

have you never seen this sort of thing before?
if 100,000 people are going to burning man, I assure you, there are backroom corporate boardrooms brainstorming all day about how to break in on the action.

[MunchWolf]

You do know what burning man is, don't you?  Decommodification is one of the founding Principles.

Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

-Munch "as someone who has been there, to suggest sponsorship could happen is an alien concept .. it's as likely as suggesting the Catholic Church universally renouncing their faith for atheism" Wolf

[Bad Kitty]

yes, i know what it is. (this debate will go much faster if you give me a bit more benefit of the doubt)

I think you simply underestimate the fact that I can't think of anything that has promoted decommodification, that didn't eventually succumb to money in the long run.

which is why... I want to go to burning man while it's still a virgin. (my original posted sentiment)

it was a bit of a tongue in cheek jibe at this seemingly unavoidable trend, that everything sells out eventually. The comment was in a context similar to "I'd like to use a cell phone before they're all iphones" or some similarly satirical statement.