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Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the western United States. [1] [2] The event's name comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night, the Saturday evening before Labor Day. [3]
John Law (born November 17, 1958) [ 1] is an American artist, culture-jammer, and neon sign technician. [ 2] He was a primary member of the Cacophony Society and a member of the Suicide Club. He is also a co-founder of Burning Man (a.k.a. Zone Trip #4, a.k.a. Black Rock City) which evolved out of the spirit of the Cacophony Society [ 3] when a ...
Two-day event with Burning Man art installations, mutant vehicles, theme camps, music, performances on Venice Beach. YOUtopia is the annual regional 4-day campout from June 7, 2023 to June 11, 2023 in Jacumba, CA – De Anza Springs Resorts San Diego. This is an annual regional event held each October in San Francisco.
The name Burning Man comes from the giant wooden structure, among many other large sculptures that pepper the barren landscape, and disappears into a roaring fire that marks the end of the ...
Drones, planes and helicopters have allowed Burners to capture some amazing aerial photography.
David Best (born 1945) is an internationally renowned American sculptor. He is well known for building immense temples out of recycled wood sheets (discarded from making toys and other punch-outs) for the Burning Man festivals, where they are then burnt to the ground in a spectacle of light and heat.
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The unidentified man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower , and it is unclear whether he fell while searching for safety or he jumped to ...
AfrikaBurn is an official Burning Man regional [ 1] event, held at Quaggafontein ( lit. "fountain of Quagga ") in the Tankwa Karoo, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is centered on the building of a temporary creative community in a semi-desert environment, involving ephemeral artworks, some of which are burnt towards the end of ...