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An art car community began to cohere in the 1990s, inspired by movies and books with a wide underground following, and the development of innovative art display venues such as Burning Man. One of the main forces behind this is filmmaker and art car artist Harrod Blank, who created the art car documentaries Wild Wheels (1992), Driving The Dream ...
The Neverwas Haul is a three-story, self-propelled mobile art vehicle built to resemble a Victorian house on wheels. [1] Inspired by the fantastical stories of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, the Haul was designed by Shannon O’Hare and built by a crew of volunteers at the Shipyard [2] art space in Berkeley, CA, in 2006.
Blank is also the co-founder (along with Philo Northrup) of one of the largest annual art car gatherings in the country - the Art Car Fest, held every September in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is largely responsible for the organization of an art car theme camp at the annual Burning Man festival and is working on a documentary about the event.
Burning Man 2024 was a wild ride, with Mother Nature throwing a few curveballs that no one saw coming. The nine-day festival, which ran from Aug. 25 through Sept. 2, reportedly welcomed around ...
I went to Burning Man for the first time in 2023 — and many people are wrong about the event. Many people think Burning Man is a big music festival only attended by celebrities and CEOs.
Dating back to 1986, this year’s Burning Man starts on Sunday, August 27, and continues through Monday, September 4. Its theme is “Animalia.” The art and fire of Burning Man, in pictures
Burning Man began as a small, spontaneous act of catharsis in 1986, when Larry Harvey, a carpenter from San Francisco, gathered friends on the city’s Baker Beach to burn a wooden effigy, a ...
From a three-day, 80-person "zone trip," Burning Man became an eight-day counter culture event with 70,000 participants from all over the world. In 1997, six of the main organizers formed Black Rock City LLC to manage the event, with Harvey as the executive director, a position he held until his death.