Webcams on the Playa
Webcams on the Playa
Where are they this year? I won't be able to go to BM this time around and I'd love to get some voyeuristic peeks as things unfold. I had to miss 2 years ago as well and there was an "official" webcam running high above center camp. It even had audio that varied between Burning Man radio and the walkie talkie frequencies of people trying to find each other ("No! We're in front of the YELLOW flaming goat, not the Blue!"). With all the wi-fi that keeps increasing each year, there's gotta be some cams besides the water tower somewhere.
"Madness is the first sign of dandruff" - Dr. Winston O'Boogie
coming soon
I guess we will see something soon. Usually hits around Thursday it seems for the last couple years. They do have the TV free BM which is updated daily with stuff from the scene. 
http://www.current.tv/burningman/
http://www.current.tv/burningman/
WEB CAM IS UP!
check the BM home page for link 
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chrispburn
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dusty Weds
yes, there was a report in the Reno Star Gazette that the winds were so strong, that the white out forced them to close the gate for two hours.
yuck!
so there's always a plus side to missing it:
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from SFgate.com
There was a really fierce sandstorm on Wednesday, one so bad that it reminded a correspondent who has been to both Burning Man and Iraq of conditions he found with the troops. You can't see more than a few feet in front of your face when it is really blowing, and all the gorgeous desert landscape and art is obscured. But there is also a terrible beauty to seeing the day turned into night by the swirling playa dust, and people seem to watch out for each other even more than they normally do here, which is a lot.
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From Klamath Falls Herald & News
September 1, 2006
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. - By 5 p.m. Wednesday the dust cloud had descended on Burning Man and swallowed it whole.
Visibility 20 feet. Dirt blasting into vehicles even with the windows closed. Festival organizers shut the entrance gates for two hours, creating a five-mile back-up of anxious partyers increasingly ready to burst.
“Let us in,” a man wailed as other drivers honked their horns each time the dust cleared briefly.
“Stop honking your horns!” a gate attendant shouted back over a bullhorn, prompting more honks.
Meanwhile, 10 miles down the road in tiny Gerlach, Nev., townsfolk just shook their heads.
yuck!
so there's always a plus side to missing it:
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from SFgate.com
There was a really fierce sandstorm on Wednesday, one so bad that it reminded a correspondent who has been to both Burning Man and Iraq of conditions he found with the troops. You can't see more than a few feet in front of your face when it is really blowing, and all the gorgeous desert landscape and art is obscured. But there is also a terrible beauty to seeing the day turned into night by the swirling playa dust, and people seem to watch out for each other even more than they normally do here, which is a lot.
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From Klamath Falls Herald & News
September 1, 2006
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. - By 5 p.m. Wednesday the dust cloud had descended on Burning Man and swallowed it whole.
Visibility 20 feet. Dirt blasting into vehicles even with the windows closed. Festival organizers shut the entrance gates for two hours, creating a five-mile back-up of anxious partyers increasingly ready to burst.
“Let us in,” a man wailed as other drivers honked their horns each time the dust cleared briefly.
“Stop honking your horns!” a gate attendant shouted back over a bullhorn, prompting more honks.
Meanwhile, 10 miles down the road in tiny Gerlach, Nev., townsfolk just shook their heads.
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Ugly Dougly
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