Does anybody have any-- or any ideas about how to get-- several large, transparent, water-tight containers? Huge aquariums are the obvious first solution, but expensive. The containers need to be smooth glass (or plexi?) so the view through isn't distorted by uneven refraction-- flat surfaces are pr...

Does anybody have any-- or any ideas about how to get-- several large, transparent, water-tight containers? Huge aquariums are the obvious first solution, but expensive. The containers need to be smooth glass (or plexi?) so the view through isn't distorted by uneven refraction-- flat surfaces are pr...

I want to second that wreck beach idea. Living in grad residence on the UBC campus made it all too easy to spend big chunks of my summer down there, but it's impossible to not love the atmosphere down there. It'd make a great venue. But maybe during the rainy winter season...? It'd be more in the sp...

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Well, this thread has come to a fairly effective refutation of my original intentions-- so I guess it's time to flip it around: A democractic vote for the theme? It'd be a tyranny of the masses, masses of fat, old guys in need of blow jobs. The death of burningman in a hand basket... Thesis <-> Anti...

disney co. is a profit-driven organization, and that is a much greater threat to creativity than any group vote could ever be. Why, exactly? As long as BM's premises remain intact, it should be able to steer clear of that fate. Burning Man is not a non-profit entity. Because a yeah or nay at the en...

Yeah, the walt disney example is a good one... except that disney co. is a profit-driven organization, and that is a much greater threat to creativity than any group vote could ever be. As long as BM's premises remain intact, it should be able to steer clear of that fate... Though in some of the oth...

Art by democracy/comittee/vote/whatever:crappy art. I got 3 words for ya: back street boys. I am not an org worshipper, but I think it a safe bet that if the running of the event gets more 'democratic' we are going to be in a lot of trouble. Strict majoritarian rule does not yield pretty results. A...

>have you *read* the four point plan? it's all about maintaining control over the bm community, and not letting it develop on its own. i think where you see slavish devotion to larry, there are really people who think the theme is a silly place to fight the autonomy fight. No, I haven't read it. Wh...

The inspiration for this suggestion I've made is that Larry himself has stated that he holds democracy as an ideal. This being the case, wouldn't it make sense for him to actually welcome the idea of the BM community taking more authorial control for itself? Might this not actually be one of the pha...

Again, committees were never part of it. Burners posting ideas to the BM community, then the community making their preference known through a vote-- that was the idea. I'm not a network specialist, nor a statistician, but it seems like it could work something like this: If someone has a theme idea ...

Don't you get it? You're spinning your wheels. Go to the dictionary and look up 'preogative' then put it in a sentence like, um, "It's Larry Harvey's fucking preogative to assign the theme as he sees fit without having to consult any of us." Larry Harvey also makes statements like the following, co...

Dear PJ, Thank you for your thoughtful response, but: com·mit·tee: n. A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter. This fundamentally different from a democracratic vote. Your point about the rarity of genius IS t...

Who said anything about a committee? One guy offers up an idea, somebody else has a different one. Lots of people vote. It's the distribution of final say, not creative process. I thought the BM community would be welcoming to a little critical consideration of alternative ways of doing things. I di...

I’m noting how much discussion there is of what the theme is going to be next year, suggestions for themes, etc. Why don’t we put the theme up for a community-wide vote? The logistics of working it out would be managable if the will was there. Larry Harvey has this idea of Burning Man eventually fun...

This thread seems to highlight a lack of both institutional trasparency and communication channels to the BM inner circle...

What are some thoughts on how that meshes with the non-heirarchical, anarchistic, grass-roots foundations of BM...?

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