Hey I remember you! Our robots definitely need to meet up, whether it's at Burning Man or elsewhere. I'm currently upgrading my bot and also struggling to get a ticket (you know how it's been) but if we're both out there this year I'd love to hang out!

Hey everyone! I had a musical dancing robot as my project this past year. I performed for a few hours each night at the base of the man. Unfortunately I did not recruit any photographers to record my antics! About a billion people took pictures of me/with me, if you are one of those people (or you k...

The Burning Man website says that the grant application form is not available. Does anyone know when it will be made available?

Thank you everyone for your responses, I've gained a lot of perspective. I would like to send a message to the group of people involved in the assault: I would love to get in contact with you to bring closure to this whole thing. I'm not interested in retaliation but it would mean a lot to me to jus...

I feel for the robot man but realistically who's going to risk getting beaten up by a 6,5 guy and his 4 friends when they confront him? Well apparently not you. I'll cross you off the list. I should introduce you to my father, you guys would probably get along great. His response was also "Probably...

Awesome :) You guys are illustrating the important point that the majority of people at Burning Man are awesome, wonderful, interesting, and friendly people. Unfortunately, just like in the real world, it only takes a statistically insignificant number of assholes to ruin things for everyone. If one...

We were waiting for Megavolt to perform when a very hyper guy punched his girlfriend, the girl's friends just stood there and watched. Another bystander got inbetween them, my husband then got even more between them and I grabbed the girl and tried to walk her farther away. She was very drunk and d...

I'm not all that surprised I was assaulted, given the types of people attending Burning Man these days. Oh. Fucking. Puh-leez. You had my sympathy until you pulled out your wide paint brush and started slapping it around. That very sentiment on its own makes me stand back and wonder just what your ...

I don't know that I agree that additional disclaimers and warnings need to be put into the welcome materials (it's not Burning Man's responsibility to teach people how to be grown-ups), I'd rather that people be responsible for their actions and that people who commit assault and battery be held ac...

So sorry to hear that this happened, and glad to hear that you're okay. And while it may be safe to say that it probably was an outsider (at least I'd like to hope so), that's something you couldn't possibly know at this point. It could have been a long-time veteran who was out of his gourd and beh...

It reinforces the whole 'Brits abroad' negativity.... I feel pretty embarrassed to say I'm British sometimes and when an event gets as popular internationally as BM has, it brings out the dickheads en-masse. In Europe the Brits are seen as the pissed up Neanderthals of the continent and are general...

Hey Everyone, My name is Spiff and my project for this year was a musical dancing robot. I performed each night at the base of the man for 2-3 hours each night. If anyone saw me and took any pictures please let me know and send them to me if you can, I would like to put together a catalog of robot p...

I think that we ought to be educating ourselves on these things. I think that every burner needs to know what they can and can't do during an incident and they need to be ready to do what they can. If we can't detain someone then we can still follow them. As long as they aren't allowed to disappear...

As nice as the idea of detaining this individual is, it may have resulted in legal complications for the one doing the detaining. First: I'm not a lawyer. I have however read up some on the legal aspects of citizens arrest. In California for example, if you conduct a citizen's arrest AND attempt to...

The guy was very tall, around 6' 5'' or so. I'm really sorry that this happened to you. I can imagine the shock that it sent to those around you and yourself. Also I could imagine that it would be hard for someone to run and tackle such a large man. I'm 6' 260# and my internal self preservation (sc...

I did make a statement on BMIR about it, they were very supportive of me when I told them what happened. There were many witnesses. There were probably 15 people standing around me when it happened. They were all very supportive of me as I had an emotional breakdown while picking up my ruined costum...

If you want anyone to come to Justice for this, you need to post more information. We need date, time, location and general description of what happen to you. If you saw the attackers and what some of the bystanders looks like. Anything can help, even stupid little bit of information can be help. I...

Hey all, my name is Spiff. My project for this year was a musical robot costume. I performed each night at the man for 2-3 hours to a very positive reception. But on Friday while performing on the playa, I was attacked. Someone leg tackled me while I was wearing 45 pounds of robot and had almost no ...