2011 Burningman Art Theme Sucks!
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2011 Burningman Art Theme Sucks!
I don't know what it is yet, but I am sure of that.
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
Rites of Passage
I like it. I can relate to it. When I went through puberty, all I got was a coupon for kotex. Burning Man was my real entry into womanhood....
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Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.Kinetic V wrote:All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!
(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)
anything worth doing is worth overdoing..
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Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.TomServo wrote:Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.Kinetic V wrote:All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!
(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
It's awesome..
I saw Larry announce it Tue evening on the Playa. We were walking up the inner circle when we heard his voice and followed it to se him. I think it is very appropriate and considering my experience at this, our 1st burn, Burning Man is a Rite of Passage in and of itself.
Why wouldn't you like it??
Why wouldn't you like it??
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Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDTtheCryptofishist wrote:Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.TomServo wrote:Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.Kinetic V wrote:All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!
(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)
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There are people on the board who might be talked into that!unjonharley wrote:Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDTtheCryptofishist wrote:Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.TomServo wrote: Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
And as a result, every year we have fish cars, pirate ships and other things that dont relate to the yearly theme at all.Kinetic V wrote:All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!
(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)
"Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union." - Lao Tsu
For all those (6 at current count) who chose the option "Suck Donkey Balls", the line forms to the right.Does This Art Theme
Suck Donkey Balls? 30% [ 6 ]
Fill You With Nausea and Ennui? 20% [ 4 ]
Make You Want to Burn Your Gear Now, So You Don't Go? 10% [ 2 ]
Put a Hit Out on Larry Harvey? 15% [ 3 ]
Make You Long For "The Green Man"? 25% [ 5 ]
Ahh, yeah....that's good, right there, right there.
What theme
Same old shit, some Larry generated nonsense that at least 90% of the population ignores anyway. A radical self expression event.....should be exactly that. Who needs a theme? Be your own theme! [/b]
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Re: Rites of Passage
There's my art installation - The Wall of Passage - A christo's fence-like structure parodying the US Flag made of Kotex, wrappers, and Tampax Tube clusters for stars... Perfect!Blurt wrote:I like it. I can relate to it. When I went through puberty, all I got was a coupon for kotex. Burning Man was my real entry into womanhood....
(Yeah, that stupid "free sample" coupon, fracking commercialism consumerism thrust on young women everywhere by the corporations, try to get me on brand loyalty my kooch... Worked well, Kimberly-Clark... Guess which brand I never bought?)
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As I am pushing 60 now, I'd like to see a funeral Camp. Passing on is indeed a rite of passage. River Styx, Pearly Gates, or the Black Buggy will get us all someday.
I'd like to see a New Orleans style Jazz Parade. Ten years since the levees fell.
Religious, social, cultural, education passages are marked by celebration or events. Let's PARTY !!!
I'd like to see a New Orleans style Jazz Parade. Ten years since the levees fell.
Religious, social, cultural, education passages are marked by celebration or events. Let's PARTY !!!
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Re. the potty door art.. Pass as in bowl movementOldguy wrote:As I am pushing 60 now, I'd like to see a funeral Camp. Passing on is indeed a rite of passage. River Styx, Pearly Gates, or the Black Buggy will get us all someday.
I'd like to see a New Orleans style Jazz Parade. Ten years since the levees fell.
Religious, social, cultural, education passages are marked by celebration or events. Let's PARTY !!!
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Re: What theme
This.artcrash wrote:Same old shit, some Larry generated nonsense that at least 90% of the population ignores anyway. A radical self expression event.....should be exactly that. Who needs a theme? Be your own theme!
Savannah wrote:It sounds freaky & wrong, so you need to do it.
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See this is the problem with our highly interconnected world. People from teh UK shouldn't know about Bob's Big Boy. (It's okay if they know about Lard Lad--I don't mind that the Simpsons has passed beyond our borders.) I'm sorry, it's just wrong. And what a way to represent for ourselves. We should hang our heads in shame.Cheyenne_Morningstar wrote:How about a skull and bones camp, a 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry camp or a massive Mayan Pyramid with a big boy logo on top?
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"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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i know one swimming across a giant trash container that contains bilge water trash and anything else that was in the bilge water and the trash container... my moms boyfriend is ex navy he had to do this loltheCryptofishist wrote:Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.TomServo wrote:Not really referring to the theme, but 2002 and 2010 are competing, to be my favorite year. 2002 gave us La Contessa....and while she's gone, I still see a lot of boats on the playa.Kinetic V wrote:All themes suck. Besides, everyone knows the event was better last year!
(2002's Floating World theme still remains my personal favorite!)
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[quote="Cheyenne_Morningstar"]How about a skull and bones camp, a 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry camp or a massive Mayan Pyramid with a big boy logo on top?[/quote]
Skull & Bones?? White boys masturbating in coffins?
Skull & Bones?? White boys masturbating in coffins?
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Wait-- you mean I was supposed to wait for a THEME to do that at BM?!!theCryptofishist wrote:There are people on the board who might be talked into that!unjonharley wrote:Like standing for hours, looking through two rolls of toilet paper.. Looking for the equator.. With your pants down around your ankels..BTDTtheCryptofishist wrote: Remembering that conversation we had on the board earlier this year, about the sailors' rituals for crossing the equator...well...there are...possibilities.

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On a personal note-
I had a 12 year relationship explode and disolve while my father went from being cancer free to having to be moved into hospice.
And it is just March....
For me at least, this year's theme is hauntingly apropos.
I had a 12 year relationship explode and disolve while my father went from being cancer free to having to be moved into hospice.
And it is just March....

For me at least, this year's theme is hauntingly apropos.
You awaken from the fairyland dream
Your eyes have focused on the fan on the ceiling
You realise your a part of the machine
Uptight in Terminal City
Fucked up in Terminal City
Your eyes have focused on the fan on the ceiling
You realise your a part of the machine
Uptight in Terminal City
Fucked up in Terminal City
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yea this years theme is appropriate for me too.
I'm having some real issues in my life at the moment and its only thinking about burning man and the personal rite of passage of actually achieving something difficult that stopping me just jacking it all in.
I'm having some real issues in my life at the moment and its only thinking about burning man and the personal rite of passage of actually achieving something difficult that stopping me just jacking it all in.
FREE THE SHERPAS
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.