Burning Man, part 11

Headed to Center Camp for espresso then tried to get over to the steam bath again but the line was enorm­ous and by then it was get­ting on for midday.I had inter­views lined up with the crew from Mechabolic, which was an amaz­ing pro­ject to build a 110-foot...
Burning Man, part 10

Burning Man, part 10

aethyrflux and I wandered off and had one of those magical Burn­ing Man nights where you meander across the playa talk­ing about mys­ti­cism and sci­ence, emer­gent con­scious­ness and cre­ativ­ity. We saw Swarm (I’d been look­ing for them for a few nights),...
Burning Man, part 9

Burning Man, part 9

Back to Media Mecca around 2.30 to make it to the media art tour. There was another insane dust storm, so they plied us with liquor until the storm passed and then a grand golden dragon named Abraxas pulled up out­side the tent com­plete with war­ri­ors in...
Burning Man, part 8

Burning Man, part 8

Sig­ni­fier found out where the steam bath was, so I headed over there. Oh wow. Inside a dome, they’d built a low wooden bench around the edges and the floor had wooden floor­boards in a hexagonal pat­tern with gaps between. There was a keg of...
Burning Man, part 7

Burning Man, part 7

I went to media cock­tails and we got hit by a wind­storm. This one wasn’t too bad and it was nice to hang out at the media space and sip my bour­bon and mango-pas­sion­fruit Rock­star energy drink (it actu­ally tasted pretty good…)Back to camp for dinner and...