Come stop by Playasophy in the 3:00 Plaza (1:00 position in the circle at intersection 3:00 & B) for hookah and iced coffee during the week! We'll be doing this every afternoon Tuesday-Saturday, it's a great way to beat the heat.

I hear ramen's a popular meal out on the playa

Strictly speaking, In California, the plate has to be permanently mounted to the vehicle. Zip tied to a bike wont cut it. The light also has to be permanently mounted and wired as to shine on the plate to make it visible from 50 feet and to come on when the parking lights do. A duct taped flashligh...

Simon, looks like you called it - a "DMZ" (dance music zone?) for musical mutant vehicles to blast their tunes out in deep playa with portapotties nearby

We kept a 6" lip of foam material under the door when we cut it out - this allows for both the tarp to fasten to the inside and for some foam structure to reinforce the panel. We didn't have a problem tripping on the foam because of small wooden ramps on either side - this also helped reinforce the ...

We cut the hexagon for our tarp about 1' larger (overall) than the floor of the yurt. After all the walls are up and the yurt is pinned down we have 2 people go in and unroll the tarp (like you would a carpet) from the far side of the yurt towards the door. The tarp is taped up to the walls with bif...

aaaand a totally different tangent, but an EDM camp has released their lineup for Burning Man way ahead of time yet again. Last year it was White Ocean, this year it's Mayan Warrior http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=30450 Complete with slightly deaf response http://i.imgur.com/MUOkltO.jpg ...

We ran into this problem last year - yurts will fit into a cargo van, but *JUST* barely. In the end we found it easier to wrap the foam panels in tarp and plywood and tie/ratchet strap them down to the roof of the van so we could use the interior space for less rectangular things (bikes, art, you na...

This sounds awesome! I'll have to check out the 'Straya thing if I can remember...

As someone coming from California, I'm pretty sure my (lack of) water use during the week of BM offsets just about anything else I might generate along the way. The state estimates the indoor use of water per capita at around ~100 gallons per day http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/01/23/how-much-water...

OH NO! There's something ostentatious at burning man? Call the police NOW!

Figjam, I'm sure you had some questions about how turnkey camps are evaluated and placed prior to this article being written. Does it answer ANY of them? We’re often asked why we even placed Turnkey camps if they didn’t meet our standard for public interactivity. It’s an excellent question. ...and o...

Baby oil is not so good in Bloody Marys
...and paprika is even worse as lube

Did you guys end up meeting up? I stopped by the blanket/sign a couple times but the only people I saw there were non-eplayans so I left a poorly scrawled note for Ratty.

If you saw a 6' guy dancing in an inflatable dinosaur suit yesterday, it was me.

Moop Map has been updated to include all remaining areas! Any chance of an HD version of this? http://blog.burningman.com/2014/10/envi ... ise-again/

I'll be there...do people dress up for this? If so, I will be the crazy dancing guy in a dinosaur suit.

I get a 'Github Page Not Found' when I try to access that link

If I had put together a bucket list a year ago, Burning Man would definitely be on it. It wouldn't be crossed off yet, though - I've attended exactly once and that's hardly the full experience I'm looking for.

Elliot, if we can build another wrong way bike would you be amenable to the idea of a bike race?

Of course, I volunteer myself as one of the contestants.

Namaste

Stop reappropriating my culture! That word has a deep spiritual significance to it, and my people were exploited by the white man for centuries.

How nice of them to leave a shade structure for DPW to use during their breaks while cleaning the area!

When someone asks me to "describe Burning Man"

What worked: 1-pot meals! chili, ramen, stroganoff, curries (some with a pot of rice on the side) were a fantastic way to feed 30 hungry campmates at once. Ingredients could be bought in bulk and nothing but the meat and some veggies needed refrigeration. What didn't: grilled cheese, bacon (without ...

Unjohn, Simon, and whoever else reads this:

Bring your bullhorns and let's sing the song that never ends at/throughout the temple burn next year! First person to get things thrown at them wins...something.

If anyone is not sure what "speech jamming" really means, play around with http://stutterbox.co.uk/ (webapp) for a bit - it's amazing what just a little bit of reverb/delay will do to your brain. It's not really a hi-tech solution to the Dancetronauts' volume so much as "you're being an obnoxious fu...

Cheers to all of you. Yes, every last one. I couldn't have asked for a better first burn, and every single person I met (bitter ones included) made that possible. Cheers to the camp running sake tastings out by 3:30 and K every evening as they felt like it. Cheers to the folks at Bow Chika Wow Wow g...

Sometimes you just need the freewheeling riffs only jazz can provide

Hello all! I'm a burner (FINALLY) looking to attend my first Burning Man. A group of friends and I are joining up a camp some friends started a couple years ago and have started building a hexayurt for ourselves. Not really looking to go crazy prep-wise other than essentials the first year, I just w...