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- Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:57 pm
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: How was your volunteer job this year?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12194
Re: How was your volunteer job this year?
Took a bit of a break from volunteering this year. Still put a shift in with the Rangers, but nothing like the hours I normally pull. Most of my time I spent getting to know campmates and making people grilled cheese sandwiches. And you know what? It was fantastic. I'm looking forward to getting bac...
- Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:45 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16562
Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man
they have "double O" status... Exactly. The story just doesn't make sense given the strict processes in place, and while individual Rangers have obviously made mistakes over the years (as humans do), I would be extremely surprised to find out that a whole group of Berlin Rangers and Ranger chain of...
- Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:32 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16562
Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man
I'm sad and disappointed to hear of this kind of behavior from the Ranger community, and I'm sorry that this happened to you. That being said, I'm also a bit confused. Ranger shift leads don't have the authority to kick someone out of the event - extremely few Rangers do, and any eviction requires t...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:27 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: Getting there from la belle France :)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2884
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: Question?...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1607
The photo at the bottom of "Domestic Services" kills me. :lol: http://www.playazon.com/camp/domestic.html Her response to complaints about the website taking too long to process orders is my favorite: "Dear Ms Endsley I'm sorry to inform you that we have no 'live' people to speak with regarding thi...
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: Carson City, NV - First Time Burning Man
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2868
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:48 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: The Best Advice You Can Give...
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17335
2. Don't be paranoid about playa foot...if your feet burn a bit in the playa dust...relegate yourselves to shoes and socks and foot baths. If yours don't get the tingly's it's likely that you aren't susceptible to playa foot and may enjoy lots and lots of naked foot time. I walked around barefoot f...
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: 2011 Share Resources
- Topic: Who Wants a Stripped Down Fifth-Wheel?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 658
Who Wants a Stripped Down Fifth-Wheel?
Okay guys, my mother has a 25 foot long fifth wheel that she's looking to get rid of. It's torn down to the base, so it's really just a flat surface at this point, but the wheels, bearings, and base frame are good and it seems like the perfect beginning to an art car. She's giving it away to anyone ...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: Question?...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1607
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:36 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: I want to Burn with the best of them!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3651
Re: I want to Burn with the best of them!
I hope I don't sound naive or too starry eyed (though I totally am) to you vets out there. I just think the idea of Burning Man is totally freaking amazing. :D Starry eyed first-timers are the most fun. Hell, showing people around the playa for the first time is one of my favorite activities out th...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:53 am
- Forum: Philosophical Center
- Topic: Role of art at the burn? Party scene?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7434
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:16 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Center
- Topic: Role of art at the burn? Party scene?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7434
PavementBlues: That was kinda what I was thinking too. Is it safe to say that Burning Man is a community that is built around creativity and art? Or is it a big party with some art and goofyness to justify it? I would say the former, though there will always be people who don't get it. And yes, the...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Center
- Topic: Role of art at the burn? Party scene?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7434
The problem is in the definition of art as it is used at Burning Man. Art cars, theme camps, structural pieces, spontaneous performance...everything in some way represents a reaching for creative expression. A few years ago I was walking around barefoot on the Esplanade and some guy ran over and sta...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: All about the Beest.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1076
Re: All about the Beest.
I dance poorly and often. 'Love it!!! This is right at the top of the ecclectic list of perfectly acceptable behaviors at BM that keeps me pining for my first time. Agreed! And bad dancers always look like they're having a better time. Funny how that works - it's like old people running around nake...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:21 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: The Best Advice You Can Give...
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17335
The best advice I could give? Hmmm.. "Relaaaaaax. Count to ten. Squeeze my haaaand. I'm here. I'm real. It's all gonna be okaaaaaayyyyy." You sound like a Green Dot. As for advice...well, here: 1. Don't get involved with big theme camps for at least two or three years. Too many virgins run into big...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:05 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: Burning Man versus Reading Festival....UK/US comparison
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3753
"Sometimes I’ve felt like maybe Americans are smug about their profound sense of self-awareness, but they’re really not. We might cynically believe that Burning Man is simply a chance to get fucked up in the desert and play out a mid-life crisis in good company. But the truth is, even if it is, ...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:20 am
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: 2010 Moop map
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1668
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:15 am
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: Questions about DPW/Greeters/etc
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16193
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:50 am
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: Questions about DPW/Greeters/etc
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16193
I like the idea of the Rangers a lot, and from what I gather they do off-playa orientations. I can easily get to SF, though it'd be great if they offered them in Seattle (or Portland, for that matter). If you end up Rangering, please God try to get the handle 'Ranger Balzac'. I want to hear the ann...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: Questions about DPW/Greeters/etc
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16193
It is possible to do the Ranger orientation (a step AntiM may have skipped) off playa. In San Francisco, of course, but I think Seattle, too. Maybe Portland, there are a lot of burners there. So, spending a weekend in San Francisco or Seattle and taking that might get you ahead of the game. There a...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:06 am
- Forum: Get Involved Year-Round
- Topic: Questions about DPW/Greeters/etc
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16193
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: HEY GUESS WHAT? WE'RE STILL OUT HERE CLEANING UP
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10223
You put the focus on "Shit Happens" rather than "Learn from It". Was what happened acceptable? No. Were the people involved responsible for not helping clean up? Yes. Were we as camp coordinators also responsible for not properly organizing the breakdown? Yes. Is there any point in getting pissed at...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: HEY GUESS WHAT? WE'RE STILL OUT HERE CLEANING UP
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10223
Dang PB... sounds like 81+ dickwads. seriously. Most all of them I like very much, and many of them put in a huge amount of work up to that point helping with the camp. Unfortunately, those who had already helped were ready to go home and get some rest, and the others seemed to not understand just ...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:52 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: HEY GUESS WHAT? WE'RE STILL OUT HERE CLEANING UP
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10223
Re: HEY GUESS WHAT? WE'RE STILL OUT HERE CLEANING UP
And oh yeah that *special* camp that decided to just up and leave all manner of filth? (you know who YOU are) Don't even THINK of trying to register your camp next year! If you do manage to somehow sneak on in next year you can expect a few visits from some of our more unruly DPW crew ASSHOLES! WE ...
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:22 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Djembes
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2143
I brought out a djembe in 2007 and the goatskin head ended up so warped that it was never able to tune properly again. It was a really nice djembe, too - I wish that I had put a little more thought into the environment that I was bringing it into and adjusted the head accordingly. Lesson learned! .....
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:24 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: On the bus...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3400
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:23 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: On the bus...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3400
Howdy, Blues! You'll have a great time at the Burn without substances - my first year I was sober almost the entire time because I was too busy trying to figure out just where in the HELL I was. Also, quite interesting coming onto ePlaya for the first time in ages and seeing your post. We appear to ...
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:59 am
- Forum: 2010 Theme Camps
- Topic: Brainstorming for Theme Camp Ideas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8487
I like hammered dulcimers! John Jacob Niles on the Appalachian dulcimer. When I was a kid, one of my dreams was to own a dulcimer. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpaAeqBhwrM[/youtube] And seriously, I would be SO down to kick some jams at a Barbarian Groove Camp! I've been doing found perc...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:41 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: boots
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13372
Those reef's are quite handy. They're pretty trendy here, and work well for desert parties... they also have a flip flop with a plastic "flask" in the bottom of them... SO rad. I found a pair of reefs in a garbage can a few years ago. Turned out they fit, and since then those things have taken more...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:12 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: Hello Burners
- Replies: 4
- Views: 944
Re: Hello Burners
No you don't.DeadSilence wrote:I need this in my life to live it to the fullest.
HOWEVER, it certainly helps. A lot.
Welcome!