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...
Burning Man, part 6

Burning Man, part 6

Spent the morn­ing read­ing a book on Burn­ing Man by signifier’s friend Jess Bruder. It’s bril­liant, one of the most com­pre­hens­ive and coher­ent com­pen­di­ums on Burn­ing Man that I’ve seen, filled with photos of art and stick­ers and the detritus of the...
Burning Man, part 5

Burning Man, part 5

I head into Centre Camp for coffee with Karen from the Flam­ing Lotus Girls. There is a man there hold­ing a sign. It says: I know some­thing about you​.So we walk up to him and ask him.”You think you’re normal,” he says to me. I laugh. Normal is...