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Comment on The Great Metropolis face-off, Burning Man vs. the Big Apple, round 2: finding a restroom by The Great Metropolis Face-off, Burning Man vs. the Big Apple (and others), round 9: waiting in line « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:18:41 +0000

[...] Man, waiting in line offers social or artistic opportunities, with the inspired endeavoring to make otherwise humdrum waits memorable. What if your local airport applied such concepts? How might your experiences with going through [...]

Comment on Nature, red in tooth and claw by The Great Metropolis Face-off, Burning Man vs. the Big Apple, round 6: pests « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog

Sun, 09 May 2010 16:53:14 +0000

[...] mentioned by a comment to a previous post, the Black Rock Desert’s environment is so arid and alkaline that it doesn’t support [...]

Comment on Where to learn more about sociology and anthropology by Where to learn more about sociology, part II « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog

Where to learn more about sociology, part II « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:19:45 +0000

[...] A while back, in response to a Burner’s request, I queried some of my colleagues and posted a short list of recommended readings for newcomers to the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. [...]

Comment on The Great Metropolis face-off! Burning Man vs. the Big Apple, round 1: Costco by Ashes

Ashes — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:55:09 +0000

Hello!

Thanks for your kind review of the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet! We will be returning to the playa in 2010 and rocking it hard!

Look for a return to some of the old-school, and a whole bunch of the new school!

You can find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Rock-City-NV/Costco-Soulmate-Trading-Outlet/36792643819?ref=nf

—- Ashes

Comment on Nature, red in tooth and claw by dangerski

dangerski — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:26:51 +0000

Have you ever noticed how “nothing lives ON the playa” ? Well, there is a simple enough reason for that I suppose, it is simply inhospitable. Maybe in some ways as inhospitable as say mars or the moon, but with better air and lots of dust, but water under the surface and probably a microbe hiding here or there. But for the most part inhospitable. This fact alone, that nature itself is smart enough to avoid trying to live there, makes it about the stupidest place to camp ever. Granted there are some advantages when you need the space for 30-40,000 plus people to camp for a week suddenly, and the ability to control all ingress and egress points using a simple plastic fence, top notch. I mean, you can’t start the forest fire there, or trample the flowers, and hell the police can contain you quite well so they are happy enough and well financed after a years worth of citations written in a simple week. But life does pass through and quite routinely, natural life that is. In the 11 years in a row I have been, birds, giant moths, and even a praying mantis have visited our camp, as odd as it may seem. I have seen hawks overhead and some rodents, oh wait those were small hippys, I forgot…. and after all is said and done, it isn’t all that bad, I have stayed
almost a week past labor day before, ok 5 days maybe before getting shuffled out. I love the place. btw, 2 ft of snow? snowpocalyspe? I am from Wisconsin, aka southern Canada? 2 ft. please….. you city folks are forgetting how to live. Lets talk dystopia! lets talk too much police presence and harrasment at burningman, lets talk subvert the man!

Comment on Burning Man as a small world phenomena by Kat

Kat — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:27:20 +0000

Funny,
I stumbled upon this website randomly today and I happen to know Marat

Comment on The Great Metropolis face-off! Burning Man vs. the Big Apple, round 1: Costco by Maxime Blanchard

Maxime Blanchard — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Dear Colleague,

It is very interesting to read you.

Maxime

Comment on Shame and Virtue at Burning Man by Cleaning up for a better quality of life « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog

Cleaning up for a better quality of life « Enabling Creative Chaos Blog — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:26:51 +0000

[...] federal Bureau of Land Management, which manages the Nevada Black Rock Desert. As mentioned in a past post, Burning Man organizers are willing to use shame to get event participants to clean [...]

Comment on Where to learn more about sociology and anthropology by admin

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:01:56 +0000

Thanks, Lee, I’ve made the correction!

Comment on Where to learn more about sociology and anthropology by lee

lee — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:08:12 +0000

Thanks for the hat tip, Katherine. Though I feel I should clarify that I’m actually a religious studies scholar, not anthropologist (tho’ there is a fair heap of that in my background…)