The price point isn't the issue - the mass availability and outright commercial nature of internet availability is the sticking point that we're up against, and that shouldn't be too hard to understand. but both are very related, aren't they? with low price-point, there is mass availability. so the...

With proper approvals, you can market and sell your work with the "Burning Man" label online. that's what i'm trying to do: just get permission to sell prints of my photos. not $300 fine-art prints, but cheaper prints, with smugmug or similar outlets (e.g. zenfolio). and i don't want any "Burning-M...

Tristan, I like your photography. thanks! I think pursuing your work at Burning Man should be it's own reward. That you have been given a free ticket, weeks of highly coveted early arrival to take nearly exclusive photos of the construction, use of a basket crane for your photography, and probably ...

My impression was that the method of sale & the content of the photos were the issues of concern not the price. yeah, the method is probably part of the problem. i want to sell prints cheap using on-line ordering with good but inexpensive companies such as smugmug. the point is to make it easy for ...

thanks actiongirl. i appreciate your honest answer above, and i understand that significant policy changes are not something usually made fast, since they involve many people from all sides. what's the right of the artist if your print of the Temple goes viral and is purchased in the thousands? i wi...

How do other burners recoup costs for gifting pancakes, or pendants or rides on an mutant vehicle? How about the use of a chill tent, DJ's compilations or producing laser/light shows? I think the issue is that no one is guaranteed any recoup of any cost. Thank you for posting your pics - I enjoyed ...

Can I say it? ... Served. *lol* On the flipside Tristan, as a 2010 incoming burner I need to thank you. Watching your slideshow yesterday inspired me to go out and buy the camping gear I made a list of when I "said" I was gonna go. Now I'm invested almost $700 and waiting for tickets to go onsale. ...

> Tristan, you seem to work hard to impute bad motives on our part and to sling arrows at me because you choose to bring expensive photographic equipment to a private event and take photos of it. i can't believe what i'm reading there. i'm sorry to say but you got it wrong. i'm one of the doc-team p...

The difference is mass distribution and profit. mass distribution is already there, with the web. there are tens of thousands of BM photos on the web, that are viewed and downloaded millions times every week. people can even get then on their wall if they have those nifty "electronic frames" with W...

Tristan, did they have a problem with simply selling prints online thru a service or was it because you didn't have model releases for the people/art in your photographs? I ask because I was considering doing the same thing with the photos I took this year (I was the Temple crew's photographer). In...

MOD NOTE: Although your work is awesome, I had to remove the ad. I normally delete posts with ads, but simply removed it this time and left the rest of the links to some awesome photography. MDMF thanks. it was not an "ad". many people asked me how they could get prints of my photos. that's why i s...

on each photo-page on flickr, you can click on the "More Properties" (toward the bottom of the right column) to get all the details about the camera, the lens and the parameters used. I was mostly shooting with a Sony (Minolta) A700 DSLR and a 17-50mm F2.8 lens (35mm equiv 28-75mm), and a Sigma 10-2...

on sunday night one woman, who fell asleep / passed-out UNDER a parked art-car, got run-over by the art-car when it started to move. that happened near the hookadome. Note: it is NOT a good idea to pass-out UNDER a parked art-car. the woman was conscious when she got taken away by an ambulance, so h...

Hi, this is photographer Tristan Savatier, aka Loupiote. I have finalized my series of photos of Burning Man 2009. Here are the guest-passes allowing you the see all the photos including nudity (uncensored, maybe not safe for work depending where you work): Album: http://flickr.com/gp/loupiote/29YW8...

this is my CCD sensor after Burning Man

last year i had problems with one of my Tamron zoom lens: a lot of dust got in the lens, between the glass elements. I managed to remove most of it but i had to disassemble parts of that lens.

another witness of this police action commented here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/2850272046/ > the cropped pics with someone hands in front probably not handcuffed yes, you are probably right, the person was likely not handcuffed on this photo, because of the hand position. but this perso...

Buttercup, by sculptor Randy Polumbo - www.polumbo.com

see photo and more info here: http://www.flickr.com/gp/[email protected]/Y5xitq

> They were speeding across the playa at what must have been like 40 to 50 mph it was ridiculous they could have killed someone.

yes, that's correct. i saw them going really very fast on the playa during this operation. i don't think it was justified by the possible crime they were dealing with.

> AS for the person on the ground in that photo.. You can see people sitting in this manor to rest on the playa or a park at home this guy was handcuffed. he was just not resting there in the middle of 15 police cars (there was about that many in a large circle around him, although you see only a co...

There was a large-scale police action on the playa at dawn sunday morning. They arrested several people, apparently for drugs. LEO guys were in ambush around the big flaming yellow ducky art car where people were dancing., observing people with binoculars, and at one point they did the bust with dog...

actually www.tribe.net is back on-line just now. yeah!

no. tribe.net is still offline.

nice job!

thanks for sharing

i've uploaded another batch of bm 2008 photos.

http://www.flickr.com/gp/[email protected]/25Y76J

or go to www.playa-dust.com

enjoy!

i find it strange that even their "fail whale" is now offline. i think they should create a blog (e.g. on blogger) where they could post updates when the tribe.net site is down. 4 days off-line is bad. especially for a site that people rely upon to stay connected with friends. i don't trust tribe an...

cool, thanks for letting me know. who is the first one? and do you know this one with the bue bandana? http://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/2835134998/sizes/o/in/set-72157607118360584/ by the way, remember that a lot of my photos are censored by flickr/yahoo (nudity!), so if you want to see my enti...

wow, i can't believe that. oh, wait, i can believe that, since i got $1500 worth of gear ( land sailing equipment with art decoration ) that was anchored with rebars, and got stolen last year. it is sad that people come to burning man to steal art. what next? will they install security cameras in ce...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2 ... er.art.itn

(sorry for the advertising before the clip)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pider.html

if the other link does not work, please use the following link for my photos:

http://www.flickr.com/gp/[email protected]/25Y76J

or go to www.playa-dust.com

thanks.

this is just the beginning, i have more photos to come in the next days and/or weeks. stay tuned.