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Whatever you want to
call it - A City - A Festival - Community; Its been going for
over a decade; We thought you might like to see up close what
some people call - A
PROTOAPOCALYPTICHIPPYNEOPAGANFREAKFEST |
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A lot of nudity & fire
- While the law looks the other way - If you think that is
strange you haven't seen nothing yet. |
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We heard about this
strange and wonderful desert in Nevada where you could burn
things... |
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More nothing than
anyone ever imagined, so blank that it became possible to
affect the world by just suggestion. |
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It is impossible for
most people to see something has value if does not have a
financial reward at the end or something you end up with; a
trophy or a prize. It is so hard to explain - a couple of
young girls that come by and watch me work - they ask what are
you doing this for; some of the best things in life are the
things you do not get any money for. This is not something I
am going to sell; make money with, its something I want to do. |
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When I wrote the
initial theme camp request I asked to be in the back row
farthest away from the esplanade but still in Theme Camp zone;
someone said to me when you write something like that to the
Burning Man people, they are sure to put you front and center. |
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I had a random
encounter as he walked past me on the Playa in 1996; and asked
him why the desert; I was secretly concerned he seen a vision
and he must bring his people to the desert and if that was the
case I was going to bale. |
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Larry Harvey is a
washed-up Hippie. He doesn't own the event, Maid Marian doesn't
own the event, it is about the people who volunteer that make
the event happen. |
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I am a very impatient
by nature to get to where I imagine...To tell you the truth I
don't know that I am all that eager to get there...What
happens when you get there? |
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It takes a long time
to discover what your gifts are...The trick is to find what
you are that coincides with the world, it could possibly fit
in; then suddenly your dream is there and as in a dream you
step into the frame and suddenly everything in your world is
meaningful and you were born to be in it; and everything is
animated and you were meant to be there. Now how are you going
to figure that out unless you keep doing stupid things. |
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That is what they are
doing out there in the Black Rock Desert...Live your passions
and make yourself available to visions and do not try and
rationalize to much and move towards what feels real and then
for Gods sake accept the help of your friends cause that is
what will keep you sane. |
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I see the Black Rock
Desert as a place that people can go out and do anything they
want; however crazy it is; whether it makes sense; weather or
not it is useful by any conventional category; maybe they will
discover something in themselves; maybe they will discover the
focal plane between them and the world and maybe they will
discover a life. |
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Someday someone is
going to find that we were there, even though we try and leave
no trace; there going to say, these people must have thought
this was a sacred place to go, we go there for some reason, I
am not sure what we worship. |
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Authorities are hoping
the festival will burn itself out the way it
began...Spontaneously. |
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Two feet shorter than
the Man...Anytime anyone asks me how tall the temple is, it is
two feet shorter than the Man...Because I am a guest. |
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When you get ready to
go to Burning Man...As soon as you leave the door to your
house, your at Burning Man. |
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If we were told to eat
an alligator, we would assign a person to each leg, the head
and the tail and we would find people to consume it. |
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We have invented a kind
of formula here, we give them a task that takes them out of
themselves and in doing so, they completely forget themselves,
their not concerned weather they are having a spiritual
experience, there doing something. Its work; Burning Man is
work. |
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Its nothing like you
hear, I take that back, it is everything you hear and a lot
more. |
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This is one of those
events that the outside world needs to see at some point... |
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First of all you have
to be self-reliant, you have to have a strong character, it
helps if your unique. There's no complaining or whining, we
have gotten rid of those people. We live, eat, sleep,
socialize, have sex altogether, 24/7 were on the ranch, and if
there is one flawed character it ruins the whole harmony of
the camp. |
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You sort of walk
around in a daze adjusting to the natural elements, there is
no plain people here. Everyone says, everyone should come out
here to Burning Man. I could not disagree more, it is
definitely not for everyone. You have to have a certain sense
of humor and a certain open-mindedness, Burning Man the idea
is great, Burning Man the Art is fantastic, but Burning Man
the one-on-one experience often disappoints me. People have not
thought thru their rhetoric enough to get past some of the
catch phrases. It a start, there is something really organic
about it, really pleasing about this idea of a festival
created by its participants. |
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It amazes me that
people need to come out here to the desert to endure survival
conditions to have a city where it is truly civilized, meaning
that people treat each other with the utmost respect. You are
not being marketed to, its all about survival. |
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When I walk the circle
I say it is Not Your Fault, every year I say the same thing. I
walk that circle and I say to people it is not your fault,
they look at me and say What the Fuck are you talking
about...and then I come up to a women, I thought it was my
fault...My son committed suicide and I had a fight with him
the night he left...Everybody thinks it is an abstract term,
but you need to know it is not your fault. |
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I do not want to die,
I hate the idea of dying, its not so much the injury, but the
insult. If people lived for 300 years you would get life
stories for the first 130-200 years, all this person did was
Fuck Up again and again. Then on year 230 that's enough of
that...And who knows, given enough chances, the problem with
life is you do not have enough chances, you better be alive to
the meaning of things while you have the chance. |
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