I really am raising money $230+ so far that I will give to the Best Playa Art of 2006. Take a photo of your favorite piece and post it here: tribes.tribe.net/artprize with a review. The piece with the most posters in agreement wins, and will receive however much money we have raised at the SF Decomp...

One of the most signifigant ideas is for the community at large to participate by voting on the projects that will recieve grants. This year they will be grants of money raised independently, and not taken from ticket proceeds. As it has in past years, in 2005, the BMorg will give over $200,000 to a...

That would be me.

http://battleborgs.tribe.net

heres that link.

Voting for the Art Council ends tonight at midnight. If you registered, you should go vote, the turnout is less than 30% so far. BORG2 is, despite what you may have heard, a sincere effort to work together with the LLC to improve the event. Or at least it will be if the right people get elected. You...

Samtzu wrote: and reason tells me that this is still a money (or cookie) grab! This is not a 'natural' outgrowth, unless you would consider a tumor a natural growth. It has blossomed out of resentment of the success of Burning Man I hate that you used my name to support this utterly false position. ...

Pardon my poor syntax. I wondered if people didn't want more than a fan club. A fan club is all about the people, and it is also often about art, there is good camaraderie and unified purpose and love, most every part of the community that the detractors of Jim and Chicken's petition seem to feel is...

well duh. Without the people there is nothing. I asssumed that was self evident. The question is what unites the people, what about this particular gathering of people is unique, and how to maintain it. Fan Clubs and neighborhoods are all about the people too, don't you want more? And don't you want...

What ever Bill Clinton is, even Ken Starr ain't gonna say he's stupid, yet James Carville, an exceeding loyal minion, crafted that seminal remark about that campaign with that obviously similar epithet. What some of the younger posters may not know, is that some of these guys on opposite sides are (...

One of the core concepts that the whole thing has crystalized around is that community forms spontaneously around art, and that community can be constructed as a collborative work of art. The larger, more complex and ambitious the art ptoject, the more support it needs from the personal community of...

BS, Burning man is all about art by committee. Everything really really awesome that I've seen out there over the past 7 years could never have been pulled off by an individual artist. Committees can have hierarchic structures, a single person's vision can mobilize them and remain intact. Democratic...