Tyler Durden Invented Burning Man
Perhaps you’ve still never heard of the Cacophony Society, Burning Man’s parent group. Pardon the cliche, but for history’s sake, we’re going to have to talk about fight club. Fight Club is a book...
View Article“Carnival Cosmology” by Gary Warne
This year’s Burning Man theme, “Carnival of Mirrors,” seems to be continuing in the default world, with some not-so-pretty funhouse mirrors clanging and shattering against each other every time...
View ArticleEssential Burning Man History: William Binzen & John Law talk Desert...
Ever wondered why, if Burning Man was invented by punk rockers and industrial artists, the event doesn’t just look like a straight Mad Max and Tank Girl desert cosplay arena? Where did all the splashes...
View ArticleEnter the Zone — Episode 1: How a Band of Pranksters Inadvertently Created...
Welcome to the first story in a three-part series that unpacks how our 2021 theme — The Great Unknown — summons Burning Man’s origin story. Long before the Man touched down (and burned up) in the Black...
View ArticleInto the Zone — Episode 2: A Bad Day at Black Rock
Welcome to the second story in a three-part series that unpacks how our 2021 theme — The Great Unknown — summons Burning Man’s origin story. Long before the Man touched down (and burned up) in the...
View ArticleInto the Zone — Episode 3: The Great Unknown
Welcome to the final story in a three-part series that unpacks how our 2021 theme — The Great Unknown — summons Burning Man’s origin story. Long before the Man touched down (and burned up) in the Black...
View ArticleHelping Artist Communities Flourish: A Conversation with Burning Man...
P Segal has been an instigator in San Francisco’s underground art scene for decades. She led Burning Man’s move from Baker Beach to the Black Rock Desert and started Black Rock City’s Center Camp Cafe....
View ArticleMeet Santa Zero, the Cacophonist (and Burner) Who Started SantaCon
Burning Man culture is filled with secret instigators who show up time and time again to help make astonishing things happen. Our eyes may wander to the shiny humans who stand in the limelight. But...
View ArticlePut on Your Fancies and Join Us for the Cacophony Society Cocktail Party in...
“It would not be a stretch to say the first Burning Man was a cacophony cocktail party featuring the burning of a wooden effigy.” – Trippingly.net That’s right, we are resurrecting one of the...
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