Every human being is a combination of mind, body and spirit. This is supported by science and psychology. This has nothing to do with religion. Spirituality is simply the recognition of the part of you and everyone else that is spirit. (Another name for spirit is "soul".) Recognition of the spirit i...

Here is the design for this year's temple:
http://temple2011.org/gallery/images.html

Concept:
http://temple2011.org/?page_id=79

http://temple2011.org/?page_id=40

From what I understand, this design is a contender.
It's from the folks who did MEGATROPOPLIS last year.

I love this idea.
The best installations on the playa are the interactive ones that require us to participate.

I imagine you will have as much fun scaring people as they will have being scared.

Unquestionably, I like this idea very much.

re: In my mind, 7 days is too short to see everything.
But what do you think about it?

In my mind,
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO SEE EVERYTHING.
LIFE IS TEMPORARY.

If our life went on forever, we would not appreciate it.
And so it is on the playa.

This was my eleventh consecutive burn and I STILL experience that "post-playa funk". I encourage you to KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! Take steps to incorporate the things you cherish about Black Rock City in your default world life. Participate. Leave No Trace. Include All. Practice Random acts of Radical ...

OK get ready cuz I'm gonna lay it down. You know how when you go to a museum and they group the art by periods or styles? Impressionist paintings. Sculpture. Tribal art. It enhances the appreciation of an art piece when you can compare and contrast it to others with similiar values. We tend to categ...

Hey Pink Daddy.

John Curley says:

You should start hearing from me when they start pounding the stakes in the ground for the fence, a week from Monday.

I look forward to his account of the beginnings of our city, too.
You will find his blog in the BUILDING BLACK ROCK CITY section.

Here and There I agree with all four of your points. Well said. To me: this is the heart of the theme: "...Great cities are organic, spontaneous, heterogeneous, and untidy. They are, like Burning Man, magnetic hubs of social interaction. This year's theme will function as a micro and a macro-scope, ...

7:30 and Detroit
Celestial Bodies

http://playaevents.burningman.com/brc/2 ... _events/1/

PLAYA EVENTS CALENDAR.

This is the call to prayer you heard.
It's by the artist David King.

http://www.davidkingcollage.com/calltoprayer1.html

I'm no lawyer, but the back of the ticket states:

The ticket purchaser or holder (you) voluntarily assumes all risk of property loss or damage, personal or bodily injury, serious injury or death, which may occur by attending Burning man 2010.

That pretty much covers it, no?

this is becoming real.
i can hardly wait!

In my opinion: The theme is not nearly as disturbing as having to watch a man get beaten on public transportation OVER AND OVER as if it's entertainment.

Then she ends it with NAMASTE.
priceless.

from the website: The mass of our cities have evolved over time, rising like mountains and spreading like the deserts. We look to them as places of permanence and wonder, where we inhabit the urban canyons carved by roads of commerce. But city differs little from the geological features in which we ...

From the website: "The most efficient and obvious solution was a circle, but that was unworkable in that it lacked straight lines of sight for security. A triangle or square, while requiring the minimum number of vantages for sight lines, enclosed too much unused space in its angles and created an u...

Consider this from the website theme description: "Black Rock City's grid, with its plazas, promenades and public monuments, was once described by the London Observer as a, "beautifully zoned tentopolis designed with a precision of which the Renaissance city state idealists or Haussmann would approv...

SLEEPER CAMP: "...we seem to have more requests for larger camps, but the interactivity has not grown. Larger camps that appear to be blossoming bedroom communities that are simply adding space to accommodate more campers, but no [additional] interactivity have become very difficult for us to place."

Astropups

I've admired that sculpture when it was part of Crude Awakening.

The first time I saw her on the playa this year, the full moon was behind her and it appeared as if her whole body was being pulled toward it.
It was absoutely magical.

This will be my tenth burn and in years past, Thursdays were always designated Three Way Thursday.

re: gays still huddle down in little ghettos, just like in the default the world, out of fear of and discomfort with straight people....

It's not about fear, it's about community.
Do you think that the people who camp in KIDSVILLE do so because of their fear and discomfort with childless people?

THANK YOU, WEDELIVER. The pictures you posted are exactly what I want to be seeing right now. The city from it's very first inception. From the ground up. The first bones of the skeleton of Center Camp. The foundation for our MAN. This will be my tenth burn. I must have seen every film, video, pictu...

the louder the megaphone the smaller the penis.

EXACTLY what do I have to do
to get one of those tags?

re: When the streets were named for the planets, BM didn't come to a halt.

Yeah, but I sure got sick of reciting "My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizza's" every time I tried to find my way home...

Apparently the playa is hard and subsequently now so am I after hearing this good news.