Eric wrote:I see thousands of participants.

don't confuse 'audience participation' with 'participation' - the keyword is 'audience'.

doesn't change the fact that this is burning man:



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here is the infected mushroom performance from 2010:



how many participants do YOU see here? ... i see zero. i see booked performers and thousands of spectators.

You're talking apples and oranges here. products are apples. you buy an infected mushroom CD because you heard them at burning man. you buy a monster energy drink because you drank it at burning man. apples. the orange is the one brings in ticket sales, and the other doesn't (call it a pear). you'r...

i was one of the founders of clan destino. some of you may remember that in 2004 we allowed ourselves to be somewhat sponsored by monster energy drink. monster provided us with a big rig sound stage and tons of drinks to giveaway. at the end of the week, that truck rolled up the esplanade with its l...

and now you think there is going to be too little "real" burners in attendance. A real burner is one who possesses a ticket and gets into the event, that's it. i had no idea it was that easy. 'real burner' = 'ticket holder'. it's so simple, and clarifies everything regarding the whole 'what is a bu...

If I were in a corporate slave-job my mind would be on the awesome vacation I'd be taking at the end of August that I was saving up all my vacation time for. I would have my ticket in hand the moment they were available as the very first measure in my plans, because they really would be plans. that...

...scarcity of tickets is showing new price points that people would pay to attend and what a bargain it really is to have ticket prices where they are offered by the org. there's a huge segment of the burner population who attend the event because they work at slave-like corporate jobs. their live...

I think this is not a good year to sneak in. i agree. however, it may be the biggest year for it - which could jeopardise the whole thing for us all. if they ended burning man right now - thousands would still show up, and thousands are being denied entry this year. i don't want it to end this way ...

I think anyone trying this, will be surprized by how much help perimeter gets from the crowd. i hope you're right. but by the numbers of burners right now ignoring the decommodification principal on ebay and other sites, do you really think your average burner will come to the rescue of the gate cr...

Easier to take a run at perimeter, and that can't be done as a surprize. yes, that's really what i meant. sneaking in has never been taboo, although i thought it was in my first couple years. it's actually quite accepted. but if it's done in massive numbers - this could cause the whole event to be ...

all good points. there's another unknown that's troubling for this year that i've already heard talked about: shut-outs showing up and running the gate. if that happens in significant numbers the LLC would be in violation of their license. i don't think the powers-that-be would shut them down for th...

as many of you know, the last coachella sold out in one week. this was due to scalpers. professional scalpers have multiple IPs and employees and multiple mailing addresses with hundreds of credit cards. a pro scalper can purchase 1,000 tickets to any event which sells transferable tickets - ie burn...