Want to escape the frigid north this winter? Want to go to an official Regional Event somewhere tropical? Want the best Hawaiian trip you can get for your money? Yes, then check out: Collidiscope The Oahu Interactive Arts Festival March 7th - 10th, 2012 Near Laie, HI Tickets are $60 (13 and under ar...

Rebirth 2006, The Hawaii Interactive Arts Festival March 31st - April 2nd, near Pahoa on the Big Island Ka Pilina is proud to announce “Rebirth 2006”, our first multi-day festival showcasing and celebrating interactive art here in Hawaii, tickets are now on sale, see our website (www.kapilina.org) f...

Aloha, It looks very likely that this project will expand into a "Possible Garden" made up of numerous monuments each produced by individual art teams. More info on this soon, for now you can help this project by posting your wildest hopes and fears for Burning Man's future here. Thank you. Andi BMH...

July 2015: MTV and FOX team up for their first ever "Reality-palooza", a festival/reality TV event that takes place in a desert over the course of a week. It features dozens of performers and they have also partnered with a couple of cable channels like Discovery, A&E, Travel channel, Comedy Central...

I am putting together an interactive art project for the playa in 2006 and I need YOUR help. The project is a monument from the future designating the Black Rock desert as a UN world heritage site on the 100th anniversary of Black Rock City first rising from the dust. It will detail that 100 year hi...

April 20th, 2012: Black Rock City LLC ceases to exist, all remaining assets are transfered to The Black Rock Institute, INC. a nonprofit NGO.

This is forwarded with permission from Brad Holland in Colorado: Andi, great idea for the obelisk! Your idea gave me ideas. Use them, filter them, expand on them or discard them. I?m sure more will pop into my head over the next few week/months. I may be able to help at several levels. Here are some...

Here is one: 2010: Burning Man has emerged as a prime target in far-right culture wars. Every legal attempt to shut don BM has failed and self-described "holy culture warriors" take it upon themselves to shut it down any way they can. The night of the burn, clutching bibles and saying aloud the 23rd...

Aloha, I am coordinating a project for the playa in 2006, a "monument from the future", the year 2091 to be exact. It designates the Black Rock Desert as a UN Heritage Site and details the 100 year history of Burning Man there. What the structure will be and how many iterations there will be is stil...

If only more people felt that at heart.

Who is a burner? This is a question that to most people seems simple, surely a burner is someone who has been to Burning Man at least once, right? Well there are some competing opinions you might not be aware of, and these opinions are not mine but come from various burners I have talked to or whose...

Aloha,

I believe Dick, the Maui Ka Pilina Island Coordinator is throwing a NYE bash. Yoiu can email him at [email protected] I am sure there will be a bunch of burners. Drop him a line and have fun.

Aloha, A tribe (http://kapilina.tribe.net) has been created by Ka Pilina, the Burning Man Hawaii Regional group for Hawaii burners to communicate. If you live here in the islands and want to join the growing burner communities on Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island than check out our tribe and joi...

How about a constructive, non-partisan, fat-free, oh and don't forget low carb idea? A couple of people earlier on this thread had said how they thought the "key hole" plaza thing didn't really work out, and someone else mentioned how art, themecamps, and most creative activity was near the esplanad...

Hey the gang's all here! you realize, of course, that "radical inclusion" is an anathema to every other principle that has ever at one time or another been pronounced to be a part of the burning man ideal. You seem pretty sure about that. For simplicity's sake let's confine all these principles you ...

OOPS! Sorry for the double posting, my bad.

MY MY! The language! What will the children think? Whatever happened to Radical Inclusion and respect? I guess that is just another one of Larry's nefarious plots. What's wrong with telling the truth? Truth not fit with your view of the universe? That's your problem not mine, but if it makes you fee...

MY MY! The language! What will the children think? Whatever happened to Radical Inclusion and respect? I guess that is just another one of Larry's nefarious plots. What's wrong with telling the truth? Truth not fit with your view of the universe? That's your problem not mine, but if it makes you fee...

Every year there are always tired old burners who proclaim "Burning Man is dead!" They leave, some come back later. But I find the most interesting post-playa freak-out was this year's. I think it is all really about how the demography of BRC is changing, the San Francisco majority has been eroding ...

Well, andi certainly speaks to (if not for) a certain number of people who want to do Regional activities with a certain stamp of identity under the org's imprimatur. There are a hell of a lot of people out there, though, and I don't think andi's spoken to all of them. I don't speak for anyone but ...

Hey there Bob, good to see you still adding something constructive.

It is heartwarming to see the discussion turn more intellectual and move away from the emotional bloodletting of the past few weeks. It is encouraging that Jim and Chicken are sticking to their guns and have put forth a concrete proposal to "fix" the "art problem" at BRC in a postive way that could ...

Tritical, your dream has already blossomed in the Regional Network. You can already find all you describe and more in the Regionals, and they are growing. And each Regional is an independent organization, founded by burners who approach the Project (and not the other way around). Most Regional Conta...

In 2004 there seemed like there were more people dressed the part but they were just buzzing around from big event to big event. I encountered a lot of people like that, and the numbers definitely seemed up from previous years. I encountered a fair amount of people who would demand things from our c...

In learning how to do anything you either stumble around until you find the right way or you research how to do it then learn and eventually master. There is a standard way to do everything, meaning the most efficient plan to get you what you want, call it a standard of practice. In the early days o...

In learning how to do anything you either stumble around until you find the right way or you research how to do it then learn and eventually master. There is a standard way to do everything, meaning the most efficient plan to get you what you want, call it a standard of practice. In the early days o...

You know buners form splinter groups all the time? But they are still related and come out to play.

Sensei, I wish I was overstating things, but from my perspective what is transpiring and Jim's active continuation of it is ONLY destructive. Let me explain myself a little bit. 2+ years ago I started up Ka Pilina, the Hawaii BM Regional group. I work 40 hours a week in my PAYING job, then I come ho...

Bob, it seems the art of the metaphor is lost on you.

I don't think any of you are getting it. Let me restate the question without all the personalization. (Sorry, I screwed up, the initial post should not have been so personal and should have gone more like this: NO ONE seems to like Burning Man as it is now, what direction do you favor the event and ...