Hello fellow Outer Sunset-dwelling burners. I am writing an article for the Sunset Beacon called 'bringing home the burn'. It is about us, and the connection between the Outer Sunset community and the BRC community. Would love to hear from you:
- your name & playa name if you have one
- what years you've gone to BM
- your experience this year, your art car, projects + PHOTOS
- how you've seen BM change over time
- about your Outer Sunset BM 'family'
- what you love about living in the Outer Sunset
- any other commentary you'd like to contribute.
Thanks a lot![/list][/list]
SF Outer Sunset Burners wanted for article in Sunset Beacon
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Laurathegypsy
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SF Outer Sunset Burners wanted for article in Sunset Beacon
Laura The Gypsy
Re: SF Outer Sunset Burners wanted for article in Sunset Bea
[quote="Laurathegypsy"]Hello fellow Outer Sunset-dwelling burners. I am writing an article for the Sunset Beacon called 'bringing home the burn'. It is about us, and the connection between the Outer Sunset community and the BRC community. Would love to hear from you:
- your name & playa name if you have one
- what years you've gone to BM
- your experience this year, your art car, projects + PHOTOS
- how you've seen BM change over time
- about your Outer Sunset BM 'family'
- what you love about living in the Outer Sunset
- any other commentary you'd like to contribute.
Thanks a lot![/list][/list][/quote]
- your name & playa name if you have one: Sean "Doozer" Burke
- what years you've gone to BM: 2007 and 2008
- your experience this year, your art car, projects + PHOTOS: This year I was with Blackrock Spatial Delivery at Center Camp, right next door to the post office. We are a bike messenger camp. We delivered postcards, mail, and packages to various camps, and it was a blast. We camped with a lot of Rangers, one of which is my cousin, @pparatus. We had a smallish art car, the Land Yacht, a 26 foot cruiser, with Captain Goddamit at the helm.
I had just gotten out of a 10 year relationship just prior to leaving. Wasn't sure what would happen to me on the playa, and in some ways I'm still not sure what did. I spent A LOT of my burn crying at the temple, almost every day. I wrote on its walls. I stapled up a picture. I was comforted by the strangers who are my playa family, and comforted them in return as they purged their own hurts. I met girls, yet wasn't ready to be with them, and wandered off. Met another girl, and relived my entire 10 year relationship in the course of an evening, finally punching the eject button as the sun rose and wandered off confused to contemplate what it all meant. I think I figured it out.
But after the temple burned, and as I drove back to the mundane world, I realized it didn't hurt anymore. I may be sad when I look back, but the sharp pain is gone. I cried it all out at the temple. And the playa gave me exactly what I needed to make sense of the last 10 years of my life. This year was a spiritual journey, a walk-about of the soul. And I will never look at Burning Man the same way again, nor the people who go there.
For some it is just a party, a rave, whatever. For me and many others it was always more. But now I know why, and just how much more.
If anyone wants to hear more, PM me. I'll try to post some photos later/
- how you've seen BM change over time: I've only been two years, but my individual experience was so completely different I'm not sure I can objectively say what was different about the burn itself. Seemed like there were a TON of Irish people this year. Also seemed like more people just there to rave, but that could have been colored by my own personal experience, and the particular people and places I ended up at and with.
- about your Outer Sunset BM 'family': Now that I am single, I have a few friends. But it used to also contain what I thought would be the love of my life.
- what you love about living in the Outer Sunset: I like being 'out there' yet having it be easy to get wherever I need to go. I like the quiet, the smell of the ocean, and being close to the park. I like just knowing the ocean is there, even if I don't see it every day. I like the little restaurants, and markets, and the more laid back, blue collar feel, and the lack of 'hipsters', and the reasonable prices at the bars as well as their friendly and more 'real' clientele.
- your name & playa name if you have one
- what years you've gone to BM
- your experience this year, your art car, projects + PHOTOS
- how you've seen BM change over time
- about your Outer Sunset BM 'family'
- what you love about living in the Outer Sunset
- any other commentary you'd like to contribute.
Thanks a lot![/list][/list][/quote]
- your name & playa name if you have one: Sean "Doozer" Burke
- what years you've gone to BM: 2007 and 2008
- your experience this year, your art car, projects + PHOTOS: This year I was with Blackrock Spatial Delivery at Center Camp, right next door to the post office. We are a bike messenger camp. We delivered postcards, mail, and packages to various camps, and it was a blast. We camped with a lot of Rangers, one of which is my cousin, @pparatus. We had a smallish art car, the Land Yacht, a 26 foot cruiser, with Captain Goddamit at the helm.
I had just gotten out of a 10 year relationship just prior to leaving. Wasn't sure what would happen to me on the playa, and in some ways I'm still not sure what did. I spent A LOT of my burn crying at the temple, almost every day. I wrote on its walls. I stapled up a picture. I was comforted by the strangers who are my playa family, and comforted them in return as they purged their own hurts. I met girls, yet wasn't ready to be with them, and wandered off. Met another girl, and relived my entire 10 year relationship in the course of an evening, finally punching the eject button as the sun rose and wandered off confused to contemplate what it all meant. I think I figured it out.
But after the temple burned, and as I drove back to the mundane world, I realized it didn't hurt anymore. I may be sad when I look back, but the sharp pain is gone. I cried it all out at the temple. And the playa gave me exactly what I needed to make sense of the last 10 years of my life. This year was a spiritual journey, a walk-about of the soul. And I will never look at Burning Man the same way again, nor the people who go there.
For some it is just a party, a rave, whatever. For me and many others it was always more. But now I know why, and just how much more.
If anyone wants to hear more, PM me. I'll try to post some photos later/
- how you've seen BM change over time: I've only been two years, but my individual experience was so completely different I'm not sure I can objectively say what was different about the burn itself. Seemed like there were a TON of Irish people this year. Also seemed like more people just there to rave, but that could have been colored by my own personal experience, and the particular people and places I ended up at and with.
- about your Outer Sunset BM 'family': Now that I am single, I have a few friends. But it used to also contain what I thought would be the love of my life.
- what you love about living in the Outer Sunset: I like being 'out there' yet having it be easy to get wherever I need to go. I like the quiet, the smell of the ocean, and being close to the park. I like just knowing the ocean is there, even if I don't see it every day. I like the little restaurants, and markets, and the more laid back, blue collar feel, and the lack of 'hipsters', and the reasonable prices at the bars as well as their friendly and more 'real' clientele.