MEDIA COVERAGE
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2008
- Burned Out on Burning Man: Can the artistic free-for-all go green?
by Matthew Taylor, Sierra Club Magazine, July/August 2008
“Event organizers had long promoted a "leave no trace" ethic and ensured that volunteers scrub the desert of the last cigarette, but a chorus of demands for increased environmental responsibility helped motivate last year's eco-theme: Green Man.”
- Five-Alarm Artists Turn On the Burn for Fire Arts Festival
by Jenna Wortham, Wired,com July 9, 2008
“Industrial sculptors, mechanical engineers, flying trapeze artists -- and, of course, fire-safety officials -- are busy preparing for this year's Fire Arts Festival, which features .., some of the more fiery performances [from] Burning Man.”
- Steam Punks in the Trees
by Rachel Swan, East Bay Express, July 9, 2008
“… to create a piece of vintage fantasy-world architecture using scrap repurposed from the streets of West Oakland. Orlando had, at his disposal, sixty part-time workers, a small grant from Burning Man, and six months”
- Entertainers enjoy going up in flames
by Marla Miller, Muskegon (MI) Chronicle, July 4, 2008
“Billed as the premier "extreme fire show" of the West Michigan lakeshore …Colquitt created West Michigan Burnerz in 2003 after he attended Burning Man”
- Fighting for the right to party: Proposed ballot measure would make it city policy to better facilitate concerts and street fairs
by Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian July 2, 2008
“The "Promoting and Sustaining Music and Culture in San Francisco" charter amendment would acknowledge the importance of special events to the city's character …Save SF Culture Coalition [members include] Black Rock City LLC.”
- Artistic Fire Pits Find Home On Ocean Beach
by Josh Keppel, KNTV/NBC11.com (San Jose, CA), July 1, 2008
“...groups like Burners Without Borders and The Black Rock Arts Foundation have teamed together with the National Parks …to help keep Ocean Beach clean [by installing] three artistic metal Fire Blooms and four colored concrete Sea Stars.”
- Man who torched effigy early gets prison sentence
by Martha Bellisle, Reno Gazette Journal, June 28, 2008
- Appleton man lends hand in Peru in aftermath of earthquake
by Kara Patterson, Appleton (WI) Post-Crescent, June 24, 2008
“David Green …is in his third month of service in Peru with Burners Without Borders… "Once I saw my skills were needed, and their grass-roots way of working, and that even though I was new I could make a difference, I decided to stay," Green said.”
- Local Burning Man members express concern for Detroit through art and public service
Check out the Burners
by Amber Arellano, The Detroit News, June 19, 2008
“...Michigan Burning Man community will unveil a dramatic 35-foot-tall artistic pavilion on Detroit's west side, ...a free place for community gatherings and an outdoor home for the Motor City Blight Busters' youth summer arts program.“
- 21 Days Of Black Rock City Goes On Display: Burning Man Art Show Opens In North Bay
by Josh Keppel, KNTV/NBC11.com (San Jose, CA), June 4, 2008
“...an exhibit in Petaluma, Calif., [includes] a time-lapse video taken from three still cameras that recorded an image every five minutes for 21 days, showing [a] 160-degree view of Black Rock City [and also] 130 large photographic prints [by nine photographers]“
- Groups double exposure time by sharing Civic Center permits
by Mary Voelz Chandler, Rock Mountain News (Denver, CO), June 4, 2008
“Artist Thomas K. Loughlin's "Pictures of You" showcases Iranian culture... [It] will debut next month. One of two tents will then head to the Burning Man festival in Nevada, while the other comes to Denver for the DNC and then to Minneapolis for the [RNC].“
- Nevada Tribe Gets Solar Power From Burning Man
by KTVU.com, Oakland CA, - May 31, 2008
“Students at a school on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation will get a firsthand lesson... a new solar energy system at Natchez Elementary School in Wadsworth (NV)... built through donated labor from Black Rock Solar.“
- Bang the drum, the monkeys spin
by Patrick May, San Jose (CA) Mercury News, May 23, 2008
“The flying monkeys are laughing at you, San Jose. You're way too serious. Lighten up. ...It's called "Homouroboros." ... a gigantic zoetrope first unveiled at last year's Burning Man... pure monkey magic.“
- Burn, Baby, Burn: Should I bring the kids to Burning Man?
by Kris Vagner, East Bay Express (Emeryville, CA), May 21, 2008
“People who believe so strongly in art and fun that they're willing to haul a week's worth of food, water, shelter, and silly clothing out to a barren lakebed in Northern Nevada to share good times with 40,000 strangers. Those were the things – and people – I wanted my kid to see.“
- Giant poppies spring to life at Arboretum
by Jennifer Katz, Chestnut Hill Local (Philadelphia, PA), May 15, 2008
“Travelers have been both delighted and perplexed by the field of large red flowers ..just inside the fence of Morris Arboretum...300 ten-foot red poppies made out of aluminum and pvc pipe and randomly "planted" in the Northwestern meadows, ...originally designed ...for Burning Man”
- A Thing of the Past: The East Village Mamele
by Marjorie Ingall, Jewish Daily Forward (NYC), May 15, 2008
“In some ways, The Temple is the mirror image of the Western Wall. People place notes in the Wall because of its agelessness…But they put notes in Burning Man's Temple precisely because of its ephemeral nature, because it will disappear and the notes will be immolated.”
- ZeroOne Preview
by Gary Singh, Silicon Valley Metro/MetroActive.com, May 14, 2008
“Hudson first displayed Homouroboros at Burning Man last year… the Children's Discovery Museum should provide a perfect downtown San Jose setting for this project, which is simultaneously primeval and technological [yet] simple enough to appeal to those from 1 to 92.”
- BioTour encourages new thinking on fuel
by Nick Feldman, University of Washington Daily, May 12, 2008
“A 1989 Bluebird school bus converted to run on vegetable oil from Massachusetts to Nevada for the Burning Man Festival... transformed into a full-fledged mobile nonprofit organization that has visited 42 states and countless middle schools, high schools and colleges.”
- Power From the People: What happens when creative consumers decide to generate their own energy?
by Brian Doherty, Reason Magazine, May 2008
“At the 2007 Burning Man ...Mason planned to unveil a huge sculpture illustrating the potential of gasification and its terra preta byproduct. He called it the "Mechabolic," after what he had started to call the Mechabolic Hypothesis... ”
- The Real 'Kid Nation': True tales about life as an elementary school teacher
by Don Asher, MSN Encarta, May 2008
“She used to be a vice president of a brokerage house in Beverly Hills... Then she went to the Burning Man festival held near Gerlach, and found the desert serenity irresistible. When the festival was over, she stayed, and talked her way into a job with the local school.”
- 'False Space' residential gallery brings art to life
by Mishia Teplitskiy, University of Texas at Dallas Mercury 4/28/08
“The exhibition includes an installation by a Dutch artist Daniel Rozenberg called 'Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia.' During his residency at Centraltrak Rozenberg will prepare a much larger model for Nevada's "Burning Man" festival.”
- No sugar at this 'tea party' : Annual benefit gives offbeat local artists chance to shine
by Laura Hawkins, University of Arizona Wildcat, April 24, 2008
“What do you get when you combine fire, clowns, good music and children's literature? No, not some kind of terrifying ritual book-burning. It's "Ms. Spyder's Combustible Tea Party," …Think of it as a small sliver of Burning Man”
- Environmental Heroes - Harnessing the Sun: Tom Price
People Magazine, April 21, 2008
“Black Rock Solar... brings solar power - a clean and renewable source of energy - to schools and hospitals in low-income communities”
- Nevada Elementary School to Receive Free Solar Array From Black Rock Solar, Dubbed 'Environmental Heroes' by People Magazine
PR NewsWire, April 15, 2008
- Environmental Graffiti Interview: Tom Price
by Robert Knox, Environmental Grafitti, April 14, 2008
“...if we ...could get volunteers from Burning Man to help build and install [solar power] for not very much wages, then we could build it pretty much for free”
- Burning Man: New York photographer chronicles and his work is showing at Chemeketa Community College Art Gallery
by Ron Cowan, Statesman Journal (Salem OR), April 6, 2008
“In 41 color photographs... Kirchheimer chronicles everything from the dust to the stark, surrealistic beauty of the the setting, the artistic creations and even the participants.”
- Sculptor envisions colorful steel birds for Capitol Hill subway station
by Mike Lindblom, Seattle Times April 4, 2008
“Take a pair of used fighter jets… Rearrange the slices so that each plane curves, like a heron taking flight...That's the vision of Mike Ross, the public-art sculptor for Sound Transit's future underground station at Capitol Hill...[who built] "Big Rig Jig"…last year for… Burning Man”
- McCain To Campaign At Burning Man? April Fool's Joke? You Decide
HuffingtonPost.com, April 1, 2008
- McCain will not be attending Burning Man
Reno Gazette-Journal, April 3, 2008
“McCain's campaign staff confirmed Tuesday that a news release posted on the Burning Man Web site announcing a McCain appearance… was an April Fools' Day joke.”
- Burnin' love: Eclectic volunteers return for movie (archive)
Biloxi (MS) Sun Herald , March 28, 2008
“A volunteer group that assisted both the Biloxi and Pearlington areas in the brutal aftermath of Katrina has returned to host a community potluck barbecue dinner and to premiere an hour-long film about the organization's South Mississippi experience.”
- Burn on the Bayou' showcases Burning Man participants' post-Katrina relief efforts
Daniel Terdiman, CNET news.com, March 21, 2008
“Burn on the Bayou is a strong film that successfully shows how a large group of people took it upon themselves to run to help communities that were in no position to help themselves.”
- Burning Man costumes illuminate the outrageous
Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal, March 21, 2008
“[Jan] Loverin, curator of clothing and textiles at the Nevada State Museum, and [Scott] Klette, a photographer for the museum, went to the annual Black Rock Desert event to document the fashions and costumes [for] the presentation "Nevada's Desert Dress: The Fashion of Burning Man"... "Scantily clad, nude or elaborately clad, it's because of Nevada features, our climate," Loverin said.”
- Burning Man months away, but cheap tickets sold out
Sam Bauman, Nevada Appeal, March 20, 2008
“Burning Man celebration doesn't set up until Aug. 25 and tickets have been on sale for several weeks now. Prices edge up as the date nears...”
- Pisco Shakedown: Disaster relief group, Burners Without Borders, brings hope, color and plumbing to Peru
Gregory Dicum, Conscious Choice, March 2008
“On August 15, 2007, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale devastated Pisco, Peru. ...The [BWB] effort in Pisco began when Sam Bloch, a carpenter who helped build Burning Man’s Center Camp, heard about the earthquake. He and three friends headed to Peru and just showed up on the scene to see if they could help.”
- Tanker, Tanker in the Sky: An artist’s tribute to truck power
Justine Ingersoll, RoadKing magazine, March/April 2008
“Big Rig Jig [seen at BM 2007] was inspired by a cross-country hitch-hiking tour Ross took with his fiancée, Nicole, years ago. The couple caught the majority of their rides with truck drivers, and Ross found himself fascinated by the people and places he saw along the way.”
- "Big Rig Jig" artist lands Sound Transit gig
Mike Lindblom, Seattle Times, February 23, 2008.
“For its future Capitol Hill light-rail station, transit officials have hired Mike Ross... whose sculpture of tanker trucks — "Big Rig Jig" — was a highlight of last year's Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Barbara Luecke, Sound Transit's public-art administrator, said she pursued Ross after she saw "Big Rig Jig" at Burning Man.”
- Book Review: 'The making of Second Life'
Daniel Terdiman, CNET news.com, Feb 11, 2008
“Rosedale's 1999 visit to Burning Man... influenced his view... There was a magic going on out there in the desert--a way that people dealt with each other and laid down their disbelief--with which he wanted to imbue his virtual world.”
- Downtown Santa Cruz Closer to Burning Man
Russ Megowan,City on A Hill Press (Santa Cruz, CA), January 2008
“What do a flamethrower, glow-in-the-dark sneakers and a giant labyrinth have in common? They are all housed at the Museum of Art and History... as part of the exhibit 'Close to the Flame: In the Spirit of Burning Man'.”
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Von Knowledge Sommeliers, Barcamps und der Gift Economy des Burning Man
(Machine Translation)
Media Blog (Germany), January 22, 2008
“Burning Man, and it is a real phenomenon, the concretization of science fiction ideas, California thinkers and free spirits.... also goes to the post-monetary era....the free thinking, that we Germans are missing in many cases... refreshing as a freshly squeezed orange juice.”
- Taking the desert by storm
Joab Jackson, Government Computer News (GCN.com), January 21, 2008
“..all we could see was a wash of yellowish-orange flying sand and debris. Iraq? No, the 2007 Burning Man arts festival....How does one make a newspaper in the middle of the desert? The enterprise has indeed left a long line of damaged, sandblasted equipment.”
- Hundreds of volunteers participate in Fernley flood cleanup effort
Staff Report, Reno Gazette-Journal, January 18, 2008
“FERNLEY--There was businessmen and women, construction workers, teachers, laborers, people from all walks of life, who came out help neighbors who were affected by the Fernley flood.”
- Black Rock Solar
Jeremy Faludi, Worldchanging.com, January 16, 2008
“Ever heard of someone donating a 90-kilowatt solar array? Ever heard of them doing it over and over, and inviting you to help? Meet Black Rock Solar, a child of Burning Man's Black Rock City that plans to make a difference in the rest of the world.”
- Wi-Fi, Philanthropy, and Solar Power
Amy Mayer, Wi-Fi Planet, January 14, 2008
“The array will wirelessly send information about the wattage currently being generated, ... and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions avoided since the array was installed... a real-life, real-time learning opportunity for the students using the solar power”
- Solar man
Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 2, 2008
An article about Tom Price and his work with BWB and the Black Rock Solar.
- Redefining Parties: Out of Doors, Off the Hook
Damon Tabor, Outside Magazine, January 2008
