Every year, hard working participants create over a thousand theme camps throughout Black Rock City. Planning and running a theme camp is hard work, and Placement works even harder learning about, understanding, and responding to the needs of those camps. Part of that job is visiting every theme cam...

We usually have room available to just “walk on”, especially later in the week. I do recommend signing up and at least doing the training if you’re interested in it at all - it’s a self paced online class that usually takes 30-40 minutes. We can do it on playa too, of course, but most people would m...

Every year, hard working participants create over a thousand theme camps throughout Black Rock City. Planning and running a theme camp is hard work, and Placement works even harder learning about, understanding, and responding to the needs of those camps. Part of that job is visiting every theme cam...

My understanding is that the BLM has gotten crankier over the years about people being out partying when they are supposedly there to work. How strongly that is enforced, I can't say. A related issue is that some PnP-ish camps who can't get placement try to game the system by trying to acquire SAPs ...

I think you picked up the wrong link - that one goes to the ill-considered 2023 missive that caused all sorts of confusion.

This is the 2024 update: https://journal.burningman.org/2024/07/ ... or-e-bike/

Ever wondered how Placement visits over 1,000 camps in just a few days? They aren’t Santa- they are YOU! PEERS is a group of individuals that volunteer their time on-playa visiting placed camps to gather information about interactivity, neighborhoods and each camp’s experience with the placement pro...

I see your point, but I think this is just a case of one word being used in two different contexts. One (the disclaimer) is a very specific legal phrasing that protects the org in civil court. It's not so much that you're actually consenting to Mr. Creepy Asshole taking your picture, it's just that ...

Yes, and do you realize that by pointing out the existence of a contradictory "policy" you only further prove your original point? Eh? I don’t think we’re really disagreeing here. I just didn’t want anyone getting the idea that the fact that state/federal law doesn’t explicitly ban it makes it ok t...

It is probably worth noting that anyone taking pictures or video on playa has also implicitly agreed to the media policy, which expressly limits how those photos may be used, makes it clear that they should ask consent before filming someone, and also requires that if the subject of the shot asks th...

Welcome!

Colorado has a lot of burners, and a number of different local events. I highly recommend you get involved in your local community and participate in some of the regional events.

A couple of links to help get you started:

https://denverburners.org/
https://apogaea.com/

Speaking only for myself, I think the notion that the org is to blame for “dumping” tickets on camps is complete nonsense. The org just offered camps the tickets, they didn’t compel them to accept them. Camps were completely free to turn them down. If a camp decided to buy tickets they didn’t actual...

I think it's a mistake to add it as a principle. Well-intentioned, but a mistake. The 10 principles aren't rules or commandments. They were invented almost two decades into the experiment to try to describe the existing culture to people participating in regionals who had never been (and might never...

Even after the Rangers spoke to them they continued to blast their neighbors at high DB levels. By this point, I would recommend heading down Esplanade to the Placement office (right next to Ranger HQ) and letting the Placer on duty know what's going on. I'd also make sure you mention them (includi...

Decibels don’t matter until it’s 90 decibels can cause hearing loss. The sound policy disagrees with you. And I fail to understand how a ranger walking into a camp and saying “there has been a complaint so you need to turn it down” is mediating a conversation. I agree. But every Ranger I know - whi...

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Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:05 am

(by the way,..we love your camp, you guys are awesome).

Much appreciated, but I should clarify that I'm just a senior member of the camp, not the organizer. It's still run by one of the people who founded it 25 years ago.

Rangers don't tell placement whether or not to place a camp. They just pass on information about camps that had a lot of complaints, multiple calls involving law enforcement, obvious LNT issues, or whatever. The placement criteria regarding being a "good neighbor" is a catch-all term that includes a...

I did have 2 camps playing extremely loud and shitty music until about 7:00 AM each morning. One of my camp mates had a decibel meter and it read 86 decibles in the center of our village at 2:00AM. I totally get that it's Burning Man and its going to be loud. My problem was the fact that we were on...

One note about "last year's first timers"... I've met quite a few, and most of them loved it. They'd been warned it could be hot, windy, and dusty, and that's exactly what it was. Unlike veteran burners, who had developed expectations for the range of weather you get at BRC, they weren't really surp...

> Anyhow, is it just me or were things kind of slow this year? Didn't seem slow at all to me, but I'll admit I didn't go out Thursday night, since I was tired from everything else I'd been doing. Nor have I encountered much in the way of "private social clubs", save for camp dinners and the like. Yo...

Current fuel storage regulations prohibit storing more than 110 gallons of flammable/combustible liquids in a camp. I have no idea if this is in any way a viable option, but as I read it there is a distinction between “fuel in use” vs. “fuel storage”. Fuel in an external tank that is plumbed to the...

The suggestion that LEOs would enforce the speed limit is wrong. The speed limit is a BORG rule. It is not a law. I have it from people in the know that it is actually part of the agreement with BLM. If you doubt that, look at all the people who get pulled over on gate road for going a few miles ov...

Hrmm... this is close enough to home this year that I might actually be able to drop by after camp dinner. Will try to do so.

> If they are in the camp list they have some standing.

Not necessarily. That list is of all the theme camps that applied for placement - being on it does not mean that the camp is actually getting placed.

In fact, I can guarantee that there are camps on that list that didn't get placement.

I disagree heartily with the notion that newbies shouldn't volunteer their first year. "No spectators" applies to newbies too, and volunteering is an easy way to get involved. While I wouldn't recommend signing up for 20+ hours of shifts, there are plenty of opportunities where you can volunteer for...

I never liked having coffee and beverages for sale at center camp. Nor did I ever buy into Larry's justification for it, so I'm glad they're gone and hope they stay that way. One could argue that the org shouldn't even build center camp at all anymore, just as I've been known to argue that they shou...

OK, after talking with some people in the know, I have an update. The Unlimited Communications offer is legit, though it probably shouldn't have been advertised quite in the way it was. Unlimited Communications is an approved OSS vendor for generators, and this year OSS generator providers are also ...

Sort of shoots a hole in a previous post that insists none of the providers are playing outside of their designated category. It’s possible the OSS page just hasn’t been updated yet to include them in the fuel category - it does mention that there are “some businesses that still need to be added pe...

Yeah, you just preface the domain with site: It used to work great with eplaya, but lately I’m not having any luck either. It still works for other sites, which makes me wonder if a robots.txt or similar has been added to tell Google not to crawl the site. More specialized search terms can be found ...

Would they support art that demanded no publicity or accolades that reflect on their foundation, and was burned at the end of the week? I don’t know. But I don’t see any sign of them demanding publicity or accolades, including in their grant application. I don’t think a 1-2 sentence synopsis on a l...

sort of a political stunt, IMHO: state you are doing a thing (scaling back), but actually increase it, and depend on no one actually noticing, and once it's done, it's too late. you get the kudos for "scaling back" and the backlash for not is minimal... That would perhaps be reasonable if they were...