2005 THEME CAMPS & VILLAGES
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Maj Jongg Maven
Once the most popular game in the Orient, Mah Jongg has been played by
millions of people for thousands of years. Originally played only by
Chinese men,then mostly by middle aged Jewish women from NY, the game
is having a comeback with the younger set. Find out how this combination
of gin rummy, dominoes, and black jack can challenge your Burning Man
mind !
Hometown: Fayetteville, NY
Contact: linalex (at) twcny.rr (dot) com
MASH 4207
M*A*S*H* 4207* we're not really doctors
Hometown: Keizer, OR
Contact: srmmrs (at) hotmail (dot) com
Math Camp: A Safe Place for Mathematics
If you are anywhere between mathephobic and mathephilic, Math Camp is
a safe place for your uniqueness and all your mathematical issues and
properties. Mathematical questions? We will try to answer them, or come
on over to hang out and answer other people's questions. We'll have a
schedule of presentations on different subjects in mathematics, so check
our schedule, or make a presentation of your own! Everything from the
traditional subjects of arithmetic (Ambition, Distraction, Uglification
and Derision) to Chaos, Fractals and Fuzzy Logic, is fair game. (Located
at Group W)
Contact: happy_squirrel (at) juno (dot) com
Media Mecca
Media Mecca is Black Rock City's press room - a resource for the media to check
in, get information, and learn more about Burning Man. All press are required
to pre-register at http://www.burningman.com/press. Media Mecca, in Center Camp,
is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.burningman.com/press
Contact: actiongrl (at) burningman (dot) com
Melba Camp
A camp for all melbites to unite in the subconcious playground. Come by
to enjoy art, sound, life and the meaning of melba, a playa inspiration!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.vaporvent.com/melbatribe
Contact: cyril (at) vaporvent (dot) com
Mindful Krew of the Man
Mindful Krew of the Man is where people can come visit the crew who build
the man. Come talk to us, ask questions, see the history of the Man
and his crews. You can come play with a model of the Man where you
can raise the arms yourself which are rigged just like the real Man
we burn every year and lift him like he was in the days when he still
stood on the playa.
Hometown: Brisbane, CA
URL: http://www.jroworkshop.com/Clean%20Up%20Plan.htm
URL: http://www.jroworkshop.com/layout.htm
Contact: shebatt (at) hotmail (dot) com
Mind Shaft Society
The Mind Shaft Society is a collaboration of artistically disciplined
conceptual scientists who embark on an Expedition every winter to discover something fascinating in relation to the theme of Burning Man. Later
each year, we recreate and present the findings from the annual Expedition in Black Rock City.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.arewereally.com/mindshaftsociety.html
Contact: really (at) arewereally (dot) com
Mind Sublime
"
To cause the mind to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state
and condense back to solid form". Everyone who possesses a skill
would be invited to share that skill with others through demonstrations
and group discussions in the form of workshops and playshops - individuals
and groups who would like to be a part of this experience - anything
you can dream of can be a contribution to this village's theme. How to
make sushi, build an art car, balance your checkbook, play a drum, build
a shade structure, film a movie, and ANYTHING else you can think of (the
goal is to have a mix of both off-playa and on-playa related information).
Hometown: Valley Village, CA
URL: http://mindsublime.tribe.net/
Contact: poprokz (at) gmail (dot) com
Mindwarp
Sensory Stimulation without the Tryptamines: A visually immersive environment that maps the mind at night and becomes a focus of artistic exchange and learning by day.
Hometown: Astoria, NY
URL: http://www.citizensofutopia.org/mindwarp/
Contact: nick (at) citizensofutopia (dot) org
Mohammeds Mini Martini and Erotica
Mohammeds has the coolest martinis and the hottest erotica(written by
YOU)all in a bedouin style camp where you can chill and watch the world go
by while lounging around on pillows and poofs.Come by and dig up those deep
dark sexual secrets and write a story for our 300 year old book or just relax
and read about other burners sick and twisted love lives.
Hometown: Incline Village, NV
Contact: tilt (at) earthlink (dot) com
Monkey Puzzle
Heal your weary Playa souls in rhythmic step with the good folks of the
_Monkey Puzzle tribe. Explore your aching mind, catch some shade and stretch
your limbs amongst gracious hosts in the _illustrious Monkey Dome, then jig
over to the mighty Amphitheater for improve dance, hoola hooping and music.
Hometown: Portland, OR
URL: http://www.monkeypuzzle.us
Contact: marceacw (at) yahoo (dot) com
MOUSETRAP CAMP
The life size Mousetrap presents the COUNTY UNFAIR, a MIDWAY of carnival
games dedicated to the RUBE in all of us! You too can spin the WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE
and loose your shirt in the worlds most unfair set of carnival games
ever created! Indeed the people of the playa will experience surreal country
living inside the Black Rock City limits! DON'T miss the chance to gorge your
self in a hot dog pie eating contest, or put your barter on a square for a
game of CHICKEN SHIT BINGO!!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.lifesizemousetrap.com/
Contact: maustrap (at) earthlink (dot) net
MST3Kamp
MST3Kamp is an interactive deconstruction of Hollywood swill featuring
nightly screenings with running audience commentary of the movies you love
to hate.
Hometown: Seattle, WA
URL: http://www.mst3kamp.com
Contact: harmonxscape (at) yahoo (dot) com
Musee des Aster (BORG2)
The BORG2 is dedicated to making the Art of the Burning Man 2005 event
SPECTACULAR. Towards this goal, we are running a demonstration project using
MASSIVELY Collaborative DO-MOCRACY as a means to inspire, facilitate, curate
and fund public works of art for Burning Man. In the process, we also intend
to reaffirm the core truth of the larger Burning Man experiment: Collaborate
creative work, broadly defined, is our main vehicle towards community. We have
funded and will bring the projects of at least ten artists to the playa this
year. The Musee des Aster will be our center camp, public shop, art institute
and obtanium depot, and where we will facilitate all the art that fits.
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
URL: http://www.borg2.org
Contact: nesdon (at) terrakino (dot) org
Mutaytor HQ
For years, the Mutaytor has been honored to be a part of many of your Playa experiences. This year, our various family members will be part of many large scale projects throughout this fine city. Our HQ, located deep within the sub-conscious of Gigsville, will be a place to gather around a fire, swap tales of old, new, and those yet to be plotted, or just swing by to nosh on some grilled cheese sammies in Shantytown. HQ is a place to celebrate this community, veterans and young-uns alike, and all that we've shared together. The Mutaytor, Plotting, Scheming, Toiling, Smashing! Repeating, since 1997.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
URL: http://www.mutaytor.com
Contact: christine (dot) nash (at) wbr (dot) com
Mystical Misfits
The Mystical Misfits will divine your future and deconstruct your psyche
with the mystical art of the tarot. Our band of misfit soothsayer's and prognosticators
will utilize the ancient wisdom of the tarot to open doorways between your
conscious, sub-conscious and super-conscious.
Hometown: Hollywood, CA
Contact: johnpedone (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
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N7B ('Nevada-7-Burn')
N7B ('Nevada-7-Burn') Amateur Radio Special Event Station at Burning Man
2005.
Consciously, sub-consciously, unconsciously, we are in a constant state
of communication. With ourselves and with others we try to bridge the gaps
of space and time, or state of mind. Radio communication is at once practical;
technical; real. At the same time it is as ethereal as a dream, as transient
and translucent as a mirage. This is a year to bring the power and the
glory of Amateur Radio to the playa.
Hometown: Kennewick, WA
URL: http://n7bweb.net/
Contact: mike97mike (at) yahoo (dot) com
NAIR (Not Arson Island Resort)
Arson Island Resort is returning to the playa in its fourth (re)incarnation:
NAIR (NOT Arson Island Resort. We will be returning with our new and improved
Pillow Fight Club. Duke it out with your friends and/or enemies 24 hours
every day, or stop in for a ride on our (also new and improved) Sand Worm.
Hometown: Seattle, WA
URL: http://www.arsonislandresort.com/
Contact: darwinman1 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Nancy'z Army of Redheadz
BETTER RED THAN DEAD!
The Fire of the ID unleashed on the Playa, where
the HELL of the Self and the HELL of this world become one!
We create
an impenatrable Army of Redheadz ONE HEAD AT A TIME! Fire up your HEAD.
Fire up your SOUL. Fire up this WORLD.
Nancy'z Army of Redheadz (will
naturally fade after 2 to 3 washingz)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Contact: gearbox23 (at) comcast (dot) net
Naughty Backwoods Ranch
Get Branded or Bucked at the Naughty Backwoods Ranch. Home of Daisy the Bull and the Naughty Cowgirls.
Hometown: Renton, WA
Contact: m.gove (at) comcast (dot) net
Nephology
Come study the clouds with us. Set your unconscious mind free.
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Contact: kathaus (at) speakeasy (dot) net
Neverland
Neverland Camp- replica of Neverland, primarily for children and their
adults. Play-bring your imagination and dress up cloths.
Hometown: Los Gatos, CA
URL: http://www.neverlandcamp.com
Contact: febekiddo (at) yahoo (dot) com
New Days Eve
Why do we only celebrate the New Year, why not the New Day. Join us each night at Midnight to celebrate the start of a new day. Stop by every day to read or write your burning man new day's resolutions.
Hometown: New York, NY
Contact: jodie (at) walrus (dot) com
Nexus
The Nexus, a marvelous microcosm in the macrocosmic universe that is
Black Rock City. Homestyle atmosphere with the finest in music, performance,
libations, and creative interaction available on the playa. Bringing
promises of high voltage, blinding illuminations, throbbing basswaves,
dragons, and chakra aligning vortex ring generators, as well as plain
good old fashion good times. A beacon to a better tomorrow and a fine
place to visit. Come shake it with the crew.
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
Contact: random (at) gotitogether (dot) com
N-gon's Playground of the Mind
Exercise is a path to good mental health. Come join us in some healthy competition over the volleyball net, jump over your troubles on our tramp, let your stress drop away from your unconcious tossing 'shoes, and let endorphins put a cheery outlook on your psyche.
Hometown: Martinez, CA
Contact: stromsmo (at) pacbell (dot) net
NOD
NOD has been a trans-temporal agent of change in the occult community
for the past several years with it's cells focusing on a wide range of
interests including but never limited to Dzog Chen, Ving Tsun,
WeiChi/Go, Tantra, Eastern Meditation, Sensuality, Tarot, Kabballah,
Philosophy, and other forms of psychic remodeling. This year we look
forward to sharing in these explorations with the Burning Man
community. Stop by for a lesson in Ving Tsun or a game of WeiChi/Go or Perudo.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
URL: http://www.occult.net/
Contact: miadear93 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Nose Fish
Camp Nose Fish presents "Head Games," a delightful collection
of large scale games, puzzles, art and more to make adults feel like
kids again! We'll also have the MEZ dynamic video exhibit, the Great
Unhot (our impressive people cooler), and as usual we'll be directly
interacting with "watchers" to entice them to come in, have
fun and participate!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.timefold.com/nosefish
Contact: hoco (at) timefold (dot) com
Nothing Camp
Camp Nothing. Have you spent years coordinating with others to create
really cool stuff, participated in big theme camps, built large villages?
Nothing is for you. We will be a loose collection of burners taking
a break from extreme adherence to organized camps and interaction schedules.
Need to take a year off and experience what it was you felt when you
first
arrived? Want that feeling of plopping you stuff down and seeing how
it works with those cool new neighbors? Nothing is for you. At Camp
Nothing, we will plan nothing, no meals, no infrastructure, nothing.
Just bring your gig with no obligations. Go out and participate in
the big picture freely without feeling that you're letting your campmates
down. Take a year off. Camp Nothing, where nothing is art.
Hometown: Winter Garden, FL
URL: http://www.nothing.rexroadranch.net
Contact: joel (at) coolight (dot) com
Nuk Fam Power Lounge Camp
Power Lunch...power nap...and on Playa be sure to POWER LOUNGE!
Nuklear Family recreates itself this year, mergeing and mingling with Los
Angeles area camps to form a comfy theme camp and village that provides
good vibes, perhaps a coveted giftie and best yet: a colorful, 24/7 furry
public chill space, the Power Lounge! Come show us your incredible lounging
abilities or recieve instruction from our seasoned professionals. Were
looking forward to lounging ith you!
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: brc_sweettart (at) yahoo (dot) com
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Oasis Dome
The Oasis Dome is an oasis of calm, moisture and living things in the
middle of the desert. The dome contains a fountain as its centerpiece,
tropical plants, and massage tables.
Hometown: Mountain View, CA
URL: http://www.efalk.org/OasisDome/
Contact: falk (at) efalk (dot) org
oasis of dreams
The Yin/Yang, Sun/Moon, Male/Female, Dreams/Nightmares -Our daydreams and nightdreams join to complete the picture of wholeness and all we desire. Whether you are looking for the daydream oasis, with cool mists, palms swaying and the sound of flowing water, you'll find it here. Or perhaps you are looking for the nightdream oasis, with the moon, stars, and the coolness of the dark, the mystical side. You'll find that also in our dreamy night time atmosphere. Come explore your dreams, we will interpret your dreams, have a tarot card reading and make your dreams come true by manifesting them in our Pagan New Moon ritual on Friday Night at Dark time. You can participate in black light body painting and create a dream journal to take with you. Dreams illuminate, dreams set goals, dreams are instigators for change, and dreams give hope. Our camp has had a dream come true, after 4 years of waiting, in June '05, one of members received a kidney transplant from a living donor friend. *Billy the kid*-ney is doing great. Within this dream, we continue to do our part by reminding people to *RECYCLE YOURSELF*. Be a part of someone else's dream to receive a transplant, and with that-LIFE. Honor, celebrate and investigate the hidden wonders of dreams and the knowledge of self they can bring to your life.
Hometown: Auburn, CA
URL: http://www.geocities.com/burningman_oasis
Contact: phcoop (at) hotmail (dot) com
OBOP (Ojai Bureau of Pleasure)
OBOP (the Ojai Bureau of Pleaure) returns to celebrate our mother Psyche
with a metamorphic environment including the Chrysalis Lounge and Psyche's
Womb, which gives birth to Pleasure. We will also host the Phonebooth
to God, offer live music each evening, mount a publically composed
storyboard where participants can author a story one word at a time,
produce the first ever Black Rock Idol contest, and serve as home to
the fire troupe Fiamma Luna, and to Ganesh, the copper cruiser of the
playa.
Hometown: Ojai, CA
URL: http://www.obop.org
Contact: dave (at) glenmuse (dot) com
The Oedible Complex
The Oedible Complex is a search for meaning in random tones, a musical invocation of the divine, and a portal to the eternal. Also, we'll have some really good food and drinks for those who join our journey.
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Contact: peterandanne (at) mindspring (dot) com
Operation Camp
Operation Camp will deliver an exciting journey into childhood with an adult twist. Come play our life sized Operation game and determine poor Sam's fate. Shot or a shock...take your chances...spin the wheel...you might end up pantless!
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
URL: http://www.mrbudz.com
Contact: mistybudz (at) hotmail (dot) com
Opulent Temple of Venus
By day: a full service salon for the goddesses of the playa, providing
healing and intentional attention for mind, body, and spirit. By night:
A full scale sound camp providing a space for sacred dance and opulent
chilling to world class music.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.opulenttemple.org
Contact: sydgris (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Oracle
Do you have a question? Everyone does. A visit with the Oracle provides
insight into your own life's journey in a safe, encouraging setting.
We use Tarot, a powerful medium which we don't pretend to understand.
For each person, the cards have a revelation. We hope to meet you in
shared experience, wherever we may be.
Hometown: Arbuckle, CA
Contact: rattatrat (at) hotmail (dot) com
Ordinary/Extraordinary Life Stages
Enter the psyche of the child, adolescent, and/or adult in our life stages. Re-create or re-experience some of life's tough, funny, gritty and beautiful moments.
What life stage are you in right now- mentally, physically, spiritually, socially? Are you a child wanting to play? Then venture into our CHILD STAGE and find: giant games, stilt-walking, (soy)milk and cookies, laughter, arts and crafts. Are you an adolescent looking for deviance? In the ADOLESCENT STAGE find: The Wheel of Addiction- spin the wheel to win cigarettes and feed your addiction and elect if you so choose a new path by signing a pledge to quit X number of days after burning man. Also find -condoms, candy, keg, vanity products. Are you an adult looking for wisdom? In this stage: tell your LIFE STORY through a recorded interview, anonymously or with an interviewer. Do you have a compelling, funny, sad, unbelievable story to tell. Do you have a confession to make, do you need to make sense of your life? OR just come and listen to anonymous segments of fellow burners' life stories as they are played back in clips in our main shade structure. Also, make your own life or work business cards out of reused material.
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
URL: http://www.burntheman.org
Contact: amyrushell (at) yahoo (dot) com
Our Lady of Schlongs
First let us thank all the visitors to Our Lady of Schlongs Meat Inspection
Center over the last five years. Your participation is what makes the camp
great. Please join us this year for another rip roaring Meat Inspecting
experience. Bring your "Meat" by and we'll make sure its "USDA PRIME".
Inspections are rewarded with an ice cold BEER.
Hometown: North Hills, CA
URL: http://www.schlonghappy.com
Contact: tataume (at) hotmail (dot) com
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P"05" (Pepperland)
You may say I'm a dreamer,but I'm not the only one,someday I hope you'll
join us and the world will be as one.Visit us at Pepperland and see your
dreams become reality.
Hometown: Muscatine , IA
Contact: jameso (at) machlink (dot) com
Pamper Camp
Got Playa grit? Come to Pamper Camp, where desert lovelies will pamper
your fingers and toes with manicures and pedicures, put a Cosmo in your
hand and a copy of Vogue in the other. A real nail salon where visitors
are encouraged to give and receive.
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Contact: mmay (at) sfchronicle (dot) com
Pancake Playhouse
Attention: If you suffer from PDD (Pancake Deficit Disorder), Pancake Playhouse has the cure! Get your morning-after dose of syrupy goodness from the folks at Pancake Playhouse -- feeding burners mind, body, and soul since 2001. When soft rock is heard, pancakes are served.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.pancakeplayhouse.com
Contact: blackrockcara (at) yahoo (dot) com
Pandora's Secret Dream Lounge
Got a secret that's just yearning to be told?
A dream that's waiting to come true?
Stop by Pandora's Secret Dream Lounge and attach your
wildest dreams and your deepest darkest secrets to our
Giant Sphere of Secrets and Dreams. Friday night we
will roll the Sphere in procession to it's fiery end
wherein all of your secrets and dreams will drift off
into the world in a blaze of glory.
Our comfortable Eastern themed lounge will be available
as well to entice you with its billowy pillows, twinkling
atmosphere, and alluring music.
Around dusk, we will be lounging and drinking green/mint
tea to recuperate from the day's tall-bike jousting tournament
or just enjoying the occasional entrancing performances of our
lovely mystic belly dancers. We'll also have a poi repair boy
that will be available when he's not off spinning poi himself.
We have many other activities planned as well so feel free to
stop by at any time. We'll be waiting for you!
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
URL: http://pandora.makeshiftindustries.com/
Contact: steve (at) genetics (dot) wustl (dot) edu
Pangea
Individual Consciousness creates ideas, collective consciousness can
create worlds. Welcome to Pangea.
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Contact: dennis (at) turtlefuzz (dot) com
Panty Camp
Panty Camp returns, for our third year, to expose the beauteous diversity
of ladies panties. Lounge in our Panty Pavilion, completely made of panties,
or pick up a clean pair for your very own!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.pantycamp.org
Contact: cotton (at) pantycamp (dot) org
PARADOX LOUNGE 2005 [beta]
PARADOX LOUNGE 2005 [beta]: It's Your Birthday!!!
Hometown: Olympia, WA
URL: http://www.paradoxlounge.com
Contact: alton (at) altonparker (dot) com
Paradox Lounge: Dream Awake
Paradox Lounge presents Dream Awake
Happy Hour Lounge and Bar
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Contact: rgilbert (at) gmail (dot) com
People United for Nothing (P.U.N.)
Let us help plant the seeds of trust in your hearts. Just as Eros said unto Psyche, who mistook him for a monster, "Where there is no trust, there can be no love." People United for Nothing is a social experiment with only one rule: Bind Nothing! For Nothing is the secret key of this law: "Love Under Will." Unite by thine art so that all disappear! That being said, until the Man burns on Saturday, join us for Foot First Aid in the late mornings with Dr. Sno and Cocktail hour in the early evenings with your host, Mr. Nobody! Nightly performances from the Canadian Fire Conclave and Santa Cruz Fire Conclave with special guests from all over the world! Look for the EL-wire signage advertising the Nowhere Bar. Also, come and claim your free P.U.N. button, now available in more fabulously bizarre colors than ever before. We thank you for supporting Nothing over the past three years. Let's do it again! Please remember to bring your cocktail glass and any gifts you might have for our fearless bartenders.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
URL: http://p-u-n.tribe.net
Contact: snoh23 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Pewterman
Those little metal men are back out on the playa! And our home base, located in Sanctuary Village, will be featuring the Flying Hookah Lounge as our chill-space. We welcome all and encourage participation!!!
Hometown: Dallas, TX
URL: http://www.geocities.com/mr_nks2000/PEWTERMAN.html
Contact: Nathan (at) naftatraders (dot) com
Pigmalions: ObsessiveBaconDisorder
Come enjoy 11am bacon and bloody mary's at Pigmalions: Obessive Bacon Disorder Camp. Lounge, laugh and feast!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Contact: christine_troy (at) hotmail (dot) com
Pinewood Derby Camp
Come build your racer just like when you were a c*b s**ut, only different. We will be having races every day.
**STANDARD CLASS**: come by, bring some scotch, hang out, get a block of wood, and make a car. All cars will meet the standard weight and materials rules to make an equal playing field. We'll have some tools.
**OPEN CLASS**: Make your best car at home and bring it. For open class, there is only one rule -- it has to fit on the track. All materials, propellants and controls are allowed. We'll post track dimensions on our web site soon. (extra points if your car destroys the track. Then we can all get drunk and stare at it)
Standard class races will happen throughout the day as we have cars to fill the track. Open Class races will be scheduled... come by the camp to find the next scheduled Open Class race.
Hometown: Tujunga, CA
URL: http://www.whatdiddaddydotoyou.com/pinewood
Contact: jimk (at) gigsville (dot) org
pinhole
The pinhole camp builds and operates a walk-in pinhole darkroom. Burning Man participants can take out one of our portable pinhole barrel cameras and photograph the art and other participants on the playa in a new and unique way. They then return to our camp to have these photographs developed, creating beautiful art of their own.
Hometown: New York, NY
URL: http://www.pinholecamp.org
Contact: pinholecamp2005 (at) gmail (dot) com
Pink Funk
Pink? Fuzzy? Sound? Lovey? Come by and vist our camp Pink Funk. We will be having pre-funk parties (pre-funk at Pink Funk) daily and heading out in our 2 pink bunny arty cars. We looking forwarding to meeting as many as possible!!
Hometown: Park City, UT
Contact: jonl (at) skyware (dot) net
Piss Clear alternative newspaper
PISS CLEAR is Black Rock City's favorite alternative newspaper, and has been a fixture at Burning Man since 1995. It is also Black Rock City's longest-running publication, now in its 11th year, with a daily circulation of about 10,000. It's cheeky name is a constant reminder for playa denizens to drink enough water so that they "piss clear."
As an independent newspaper, PISS CLEAR prides itself on being Burning Man's snarky reality check, chock full of insightful articles, acerbic rants, witty commentaries, and funny lists. Free from any censorship from the Burning Man organization, it is PISS CLEAR's duty to tell it like it is – and to do so in a way that both entertains and informs the citizens of Black Rock City!
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.pissclear.org
Contact: pissclear (at) pissclear (dot) org
Pizza Smut
Have one of our succulent playa pizzas. Peruse the titillating reading materials provided with your meal while thick, steaming pepperoni and hot, oozing cheese slide down your throat. Outcalls and incalls.
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Contact: inzimbabwe (at) yahoo (dot) com
Plato's Cave
Two-Sentence description: Plato's Cave is a camp installation of human perception. Sit or lay, listen to cave mixes, and zone out on the shadows and images. Assess how real the world is around you, and then step into the light.
Plato's Cave (The Cave) is an allegory of the conscious mind, an awakening. Inside, you witness graphic images that depict the pathetic condition of mankind, that we, society at large, are prisoners of shadows and voices, of our own misconception, and that deliverance from these shadows and illusions is painful and difficult; because we grow accustom to the images, the illusions, we see everyday.
Those who pass through The Cave will witness man's struggle. The first test that the liberated prisoner has to face is to get accustomed to his new condition and to forsake his long-cherished illusions. The second test is to see the unity of all things. The third is to show compassion towards his fellow prisoners and not merely revel in his own happiness. The fourth is to detach himself completely from the false valuations and hierarchical distinctions made by the men in the den. His fifth and much more difficult test comes if he is then made to re-enter the cave of darkness, for he would appear ridiculous to the prisoners who still cling to their former illusions centered on the shadows. They would say that he had become blind to realities since leaving the cave, that it is better not even to think of ascending, that they would be entitled to put to death anyone who tried to free another and lead him up to the light. "The Human tragedy lies simply in our refusal to recognize that we live in a condition of perpetual imprisonment, clinging tenaciously to the sights and sounds of earthly life, mistaking slavery for freedom and shadows for realities."
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Contact: ab (at) pageffect (dot) com
Playa Go Round
Come to the Playa Go Round and take a spin back into your youth. With every rotation you go deeper and deeper into your psyche. We're always open and you're always welcomed. Wednesday is Colorado Burner appreciation day. Will see you a mile at 9PM for cocktails and Beats, Thursday Night is our 7th annually Playa Go Round throw down. Don't miss it! Live performance by Bhakti Rasa and DJ YAYHA.
Camp Playa-Go-Round (at 2:30 and Esplanade) proudly presents the first
and probably the last annual...
Psyche-Delic Fashion Show!!! Thursday at 4:30 pm. YOU are the models, creators and fashion victims. Think Austin Powers meets Sigmund Freud. There will be a panel of 3 esteemed judges. You will be judged. Harshly.
There will be fabulous prizes. There will be fabulous music for you to strut your stuff by DJ Chris. Come show us how mental you really are!
Hometown: Denver, CO
URL http://www.playgoround.com
Contact: ronnie (at) playagoround (dot) com
PlayaGround
PlayaGround. Tommy Bigfinger and Tomas Verde invite you to PlayaGround, Where the Sexy Freaks and inFamous come to play.
Hometown: East Rockaway, NY
Contact: tommybigfinger (at) optonline (dot) net
Playa Info
We've combined many of the information services into one, easy-to-find, location in Center Camp. You'll find:
* Our Famous Oracles. They will help answer your questions, hook you up with volunteer opportunities, help you recover found items, locate a locksmith, and answer your more esoteric questions.
* Directory. You can register your campsite or theme camp here. Let your friends know your exact Black Rock City Address. Need to leave a message for a friend? This is the place to do it!!! Directory addressing and messenging is available through terminals at Playa Info.
* Burning Man Information Radio. We broadcast public service announcements, information on events, and other data to keep you informed while on the playa.
* Playa Bulletin Boards. A Burning Man tradition. Post messages about your theme camp events. Find fun things to do while in Black Rock City.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.burningman.com/participate/information.html
Contact: robo (at) burningman (dot) com
Playa MacGyver
Your all-purpose problem-solvers on the playa! Here to share our secrets and special tricks for great gaffs, righteous rigs, fantastic fix-its, and spectactular scenes of saving the day.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
URL: http://www.palyamacgyver.tribe.net
Contact: mdq (at) comcast (dot) net
Playatography/Storytelling Camp
" Faces of Burningman" will record the spirit and consciousness of Burningman 2005 through portraits and stories. In the cool relaxed environment of the studio, participants may choose a photo session that reveals the inner self or a video session sharing a story about themselves. Participants receive either a CD of their portraits or a video of stories to remind themselves later who they really are.
Hometown: Woodland, CA
URL: http://imageevent.com/photogenics/facesofburningman
Contact: solo (at) yolo (dot) com
Playa World Records
Playa World Records is Black Rock City's foremost authority on collecting, confirming and accrediting records set and broken on the playa. Any and all are welcome to visit us at our Playa World Record Headquarters and make an attempt at earning entry into what will undoubtedly become Burning Man's most prestigious community.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.playaworldrecords.com
Contact: peg_oberste (at) gspsf (dot) com
playfully yours
"playfully yours" a dungeonous experience, our dungeonmaster will instruct and share the pleasures of S & M play in our fully equiped dungeon, you can also interact with others, under his supervision or instruction.
Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
Contact: pndlaino (at) aol (dot) com
Pleasure Kitten Army
Think "Fight Club" with a BDSM theme. The first rule of Pleasure Kitten Army is: Purr!
Dedicated to spreading pleasure in all forms.
Applicants needed who feel they have what it takes for pleasure while purring. Must be able to withstand strict discipline, act as servants, be submissive. Sweet kitties needed with a learning attitude or experience. (Trainer positions also available!)
Hometown: Davis, CA
URL: http://www.purr4meow.tribe.net
Contact: razor.listsmail (at) guddals (dot) com
PolyParadise
PolyParadise has been influencing the Hearts & Minds and Washing the Bodies of Playa Citizens from '2:00 - 10:00' for the past 6 years.
We are a group of polyamorists seeking to live our dreams, and this camp is one manifestation of that. Polyamory involves openness to multiple loving relationships, with honesty among all partners.
Come in from the sun... take a load off your feet...
Trade in your "OLD" Playa dust for "NEW" Playa Dust at the Infamous 'Human Carcass Wash'. Get involved with some of your closest Playa friends and some new friends in trading your old Playa Dust in for a clean body ready to be dusted once again. This event honors your stated boundaries of where you do want to be touched or washed.
3:00-4:30p Daily.
Join us for 'Poly High Tea' 4:30-6:00p Daily. First, it's a Tea Party. We will be serving Tea and Cookies... for tea and cookies.
All you Polyamorous, poly-curious, and poly-friendly folks out there on the playa are invited to join us for a discussion about the practical issues of loving more than one in an open, responsible multi-person relationship. There are many workable forms of Polyamorous relationship - polyamory is polymorphic! There is much wisdom in the poly community which can be helpful to people trying to make *any* relationship work, monogamous or Polyamorous. There will be a facilitated discussion in which you can get your questions addressed and some of the knowledge in our community can be shared.
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
URL: http://polyparadise.azcompuguy.com
Contact: scotto (at) burningman (dot) com
Pop Science
A team of intrepid scientists descends upon the playa with one goal - to complete our knowledge of human psychology by understanding the one remaining anomaly: the burner brain. Come and let us pop your mind!
Hometown: Belmont, MA
Contact: asewell71 (at) gmail (dot) com
PORN & EGGS
Who are we? We are the new elite. We have Betty Davis eyes. We are artists & dreamers, creatives, musicians, singers & dancers, writers, poets, optomists, freaks, geeks and seekers of lost souls. We are a rapidly expanding cult of cultural anthropologists and closet pornstars. We are love. We are magic. We are a hit and run operation. We are just one step ahead of the man. We will scream your dreams with you.
Come give us a hug.
Hometown: Washington, DC
URL: http://www.PORNandEGGS.com
Contact: bernard (at) bernardphoto (dot) com
Port of Entry
The Port of Entry is home for the Airport with planes, helicopters, skydivers,
ultralights and more. This aviation and landsailing village is also home
for the Black Rock Travel Agency, the Phoenix Bar & Lounge, and Fly
by Nyte camp. Were about a half-mile outside the edge of BRC because
thats where the planes have to park, but still only one mile from Center
Camp
and out of the city dust. Find us by following the 5:00 radial street
outward, and then continue along Aviation Blvd adjacent to walk-in camping
until
you get to the trash fence.
Hometown: San Jose, CA
URL: http://www.portofentry.org/
Contact: tigertiger (at) burningman (dot) com
Post Beatnik Syndrome
Oh, we've got it bad. That syndrome. Everytime we see a set of Bongos,
the poetry just spills out. This unconscious sense of disrespect for
authority rises, and we have an urge to have a cup of coffee, sit on
a pillow, play and listen to music, and space out. It's so hard to
get anything done, but, what the hell, we don't care anymore, just
want to enjoy the remaining daze ahead. Come join us, and watch the
sun come up, waltz across the sky, and set into the western desert.
Oh look, there's the moon.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: captsquid (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Primitive Technology Camp
Stop by to brush up on your flint napping skills, or if you're in the
mood for something less greuling, try a drink from the Bad Advice Bar
- dispensing tequila and conflicting advice from an aging hippie, yuppie
business consultant, and proper British gentleman.
Hometown: Ellwood City, PA
Contact: infidelcastro (at) yahoo (dot) com
Prometheatrics
Prometheatrics is proud to return with the Hypercube, a four-foot mirror
box suspended point-down from bungee cords, providing participants with
a deeper sense of self-discovery as they're closed in tight with an infinite
number of their own reflections. We also offer a self-running self-portrait
studio involving the projection of your photograph onto the back of a
drawing surface for a skill-free rendition of yourself, in addition to
a trampoline (for more of your bouncing needs) and an I-Ching light display
which slowly cycles through the King Wen sequence.
Hometown: Sherman Oaks, CA
URL: http://www.prometheatrics.com
Contact: quidam (at) prometheatrics (dot) com
Punani Trim Parlor
Celebrating our 5th Anniversary of doing our small part to beautify the
playa. Within every woman lie aspects of the Goddess.
In our culture
it is easy for any woman to lose sight of these wonders.
My purpose
as the Greenman is to meditate upon these aspects within you. In finding
them, I reflect them back to you.
We are open Monday thru Sunday
- 12 noon to 6pm or as inspired.
Hometown: Garberville, CA
Contact: greenman (at) asis (dot) com
Psych de Soleil: A Tiki Bar
A fire-friendly tiki bar featuring nightly happy hours with poi dancing, hula shows and fantastic tiki drinks. In addition to trained dancers, the bar is manned by two trained psychiatrists who will dive deep into your unconscious to prescribe the most potent potables for your ailments.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Contact: enenbach (at) gmail (dot) com
Psyche's Wrinkled Wardrobe
Psyche's Wrinkled Wardrobe will provide the venue, forum, and audience
for a probing exploration of personality. We will offer a stage and
invite citizens of Black Rock City to participate in a series of
encounters including performances, interviews, and contests, all
designed to reveal the many selves of those who step upon our stage.
Hometown: La Jolla, CA
Contact: eddie (at) bermingham (dot) com
Psychic Fossil
Psychic Fossil is a metaphor for traces of shadow that hide within
the human psyche. In life, the hurts, the fears, the losses we experience
leave behind their calcified remains in the depths of our souls. In
order
to experience healing, these shadow "fossils" must be unearthed
and embraced. As long as they stay hidden from conscious consideration,
they can continue to wreck havoc in unseen and unrecognized ways. By
prying loose the fossilized remains of an old wound, acknowledging
its existance and recognizing that in addition to pain, it has created
strength,
that is the path to finding healing.__Fossil could be (geographically)
the largest installation in Burning Man history. The individual components
of Fossil are intended to be STOLEN by who ever finds them and taken
home. The discovery, exposure and unearthing of the fossil is symbolic
of facing that aspect of personal shadow. Taking the fossil home and
displaying it prominently is symbolic of the individual's conquest
of that aspect of their own shadow. It also makes a nice memento of
Burning
Man 2005._
Hometown: Arvada, CO
Contact: jgardner (at) gasanim (dot) com
Pyschic Taxi
Psychic Taxi Random Service, provides pedal powered rickshaw transportation.
We are able to devine where you need to go, if you sit back and relax
your mind, we will take you to your unconscious destination.
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Contact: jalle27 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Q
QUBE LITE
Queer and queer-friendly groovy 60's ambience; music, design, visuals,
drinks, fun, and games.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Maxicode (at) aol (dot) com
Quixote's Cabaret Club and Bar
Roll Up, Roll UP, come and see the wonderful show at Quixotes Cabaret Club and Bar
Hometown: London, UK
Contact: ukmontyuk (at) yahoo.co (dot) uk


