It seemed that a larger number than usual left early this year. I don't remember ever seeing so many close-in spaces empty on Saturday afternoon. The temple burn has always been The Big Event for me. For health reasons, I almost had to leave early this year, but am glad I was able to stay all the w...

I'm not inclined to question the perceptions either of the person who started this thread or of others who report something different because I think it is more likely that they firmly believe what they claim than that they are liars. That doesn't mean we are unable to come to some bottom-line dete...

I AM A PROUD NEVER NUDE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE AND THOSE THAT DONT LIKE IT CAN GO FUCK THEIR NAKED SELVES! same when i die......assholes......i will be CLOTHED. that doesn't mean that you cant do what you want to, but stay the fuck away from my life, and i'll stay the fuck away from yo...

...I don't want my picture on the internet for future employers. That's a real consideration. It already happened to me on Facebook with my default world name clearly attached. Some friends have registered shock, but I think most of them find it interesting. Luckily I am at a point where it won't a...

I'm not sure if I am reading the follow-ups to my post correctly, but I was trying to bring in a new angle beyond body acceptance or fear of being nude in a public setting. Both of these themes have gotten some good discussion in this thread, but I was thinking that focusing on participation and ho...

I'm wondering if the same is true for me. I had to miss last year because of a big surgery and now look quite different from when I was last on the playa. So in two years, I have gone from being a somewhat muscular middle-aged guy to a somewhat wasted old man. My issue isn't modesty (for the most p...

A new service from BRC Post Office Extreme, email to the playa. The plan is to deliver telegram-like messages. Here's what you need:

http://www.brcpostoffice.com/arttoplaya

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that you can send email to the playa and it will be delivered (we hope) telegram-style:

http://www.brcpostoffice.com/arttoplaya

Check it out.

Please choose the correct answer. The revised address system won't work because it... a) has Larry's fingerprints all over it b) contains excessive nudity c) isn't dusty enough yet d) enforces a deviant interpretation of the Bible e) plays at 160 beats per minute and you get too tired dancing to it

To all who commented on our first draft of a more expressive address system for BRC, thanks again. For the simplicity advocates, we have reduced the original many pages to one, albeit with some loss of illustrative detail and humor. There are other changes, but what's important here is the outcome ...

Not my favorite description, but last year I told one of my classes that there'd be a substitute coming in because I would be (here's the cryptic euphemism intended to be a perfect non-description) "away for a while." After class, a young lady comes up to me and says, "So, what's you...

stormfeather wrote:Maybe the burn is where I will gain some acceptance of my nude self, of just how I am today.... That would be nice.

So, did you gain, lose, or forget about acceptance?

Philly - how do we make stamps for the BRCPO? or postcards? Can we just make the postcards on cardstock on our printers? And Stamps - are they just stickers of a particular size - can they be see thru? WEE, what fun... I just might make some up..... The U.S. Mail allows small postcards and large po...

Toolmaker wrote:Project Mail for Everyone:

I think every address should get at least one postcard. That way nobody gets left out of the experience of getting mail while camping.

And remember, if postcards or stamps are your art, gifting to the community through the BRCPO is always in good taste!

like when Fire Elf will finish inventing a picture language that we all intuitively understand and complete the job of making English obsolete. more like from first person, i'm attempting to do the blindfolded jedi trick and find the little mechanism beyond perceivable page, while manifesting the e...

Donna and I will have what we hope is a more or less optimally simple system up on the web soon. For all the people that don't see the need of it, maybe you don't need it. I promise that neither Donna nor I will lose any sleep about that. Especially when we have so many things to lose sleep over al...

I'm sure something in this thread will remind me to make a sign for the BRCPO:

You can't put baby wipes into a mailbox and you can't put them in the porta-potties either.

You know, dear Burner Pals, I don't hear anyone complaining about being able to make themselves reasonably understood because there are too many resources available in English. A more expressive address system serves several purposes, chief among them making it easier to find a location. To the ext...

Golly. I take a little time off to go work on recabling my studio and come back to find this thread has gone native in an eplaya kind of way... Thanks for your constructive thoughts, robbidobbs (and for all that great porta-potty work!) and jaycerochester. And thanks also to all the playa theorists...

No need to reinvent the wheel hear kids I'm letting you in on a well kept secret put a mail box out in front of your camp with camp name on it... We: The Embassy Camp I am Magic forest always get our mail in a timely fashion...& people can find us too.... -PT We are not trying to re-invent the ...

theCryptofishist wrote:Are we going to be insulted if we don't use the system?

I'm not sure about this, Fishy, but I think the rule is (1) that you will be insulted if you don't use the system and you are posting on eplaya and (2) you will be insulted if you do use the system and you are posting on eplaya.

I'm out there to get away from the structure of my life, not to bring it with me. No one has to use the address system. But for people who want to be found, their wishes will be closer to fulfillment. Oh, and about that complexity thing, an address is basically street, cross-street, side-of-street....

The address format Donna Matrix and I are proposing is actually quite simple, simpler than "Leave No Trace" seems to be, judging from the obvious difficulty people have in picking up after themselves. As a long-time Delivery Specialist for the BRCPO who tries to do just about all of it al...

I'm hoping that the streets will be named for famous suburbs. C can be Celebration. Or maybe A will be Aneheim and C will be Centerville. "B" can be Branson and "I" can be Internment Camp. Are we grasping America yet? I think this is a brilliant theme choice. When the Europeans ...