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A Hot Mess – Burning Man in the Nineties
Outside Magazine published a story last October about the early history of Burning Man, with contributions from many of the original participants. The story is written by Brad Wieners, who is an editor...
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Home Is Where The Man Burns
Last year, Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey and “founder” John Perry Barlow teamed up in London for an interview with Tech Crunch. We covered it here: Sauce for Goose and Gander. At the time, they...
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Brainwashing: The New Billionaire Obsession
Vox has just published a piece on Burning Man by Gregory Ferenstein: “Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are obsessed by Burning Man“. Perhaps a more appropriate title might be “why the media are obsessed...
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Plug-n-Play Goes All the Way…to the Top of the Pyramid [Update]
“self reliance is the greatest art” – my teabag message as I’m finishing off this post. Earlier this year, Burning Man CEO and Founder Marian Goodell gave a talk at TEDx Tokyo, while social alchemist...
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Local Legend Law
Alex Mak at Broke Ass Stuart has a great interview with Burning Man founder John Law, who fought to keep Burning Man’s intellectual property in the public domain. Instead, it is now owned by the other...
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Selling Out Part I – Wrapping The Gifting
Burning Man is partly the story of a half-dozen eccentrics—an unemployed landscaper (Larry Harvey), an art model (Crimson Rose), a struggling photographer (Will Roger Peterson), a dot-com PR gal...
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First We Take Manhattan
“Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes” – Karl Marx If there’s one thing Burning Man founder Larry Harvey can do, it’s wax lyrical. The New Yorker brings us a tale of how he went there and did...
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The Great BMOrg Cash-Out of 2010-2017, $35-47 Million: an Updated Estimate
A guest post from our reader A Balanced Perspective, updating his post earlier this year. The BMOrg Cash Out of 2010-2017, $35-$47 Million, an Updated Estimate by A Balanced Perspective I penned The...
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Why The Man Keeps Burning
Larry Harvey recently gave this talk at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. He’s appearing without his trademark Stetson these days. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2014, bmorg, founders,...
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Burning Man
BMOrg continue on their mission to get every mainstream business publication to look at them for guidance on how to run companies, with Harley Dubois giving an interview to Entrepreneur magazine....
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“Failure!”– Tananbaum Gets Called Out by BM Director
Image: Beverly & Pack/Flickr (Creative Commons) A couple of days ago, BMOrg finally posted their response to the many concerns raised by our community after this year’s event. You can read our...
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Who’s The Best Burning Man Talker?
In 2011, BMOrg announced their change to a non-profit on a mission to save the world. Since then, we sure have seen a lot of panel discussions and jetsetting from Larry & Co. I guess what they’re...
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2014 Afterburn Report: The Death of Transparency
We’ve been duped, Burners. For 4 years now, we’ve been sold on a “pie in the sky” vision. Burning Man would no longer be about exploiting volunteer labor and the financial and artistic contributions of...
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Founded On Fire Magick
Fest300 has just published a lengthy interview with Burning Man Founder Crimson Rose. Are they the new Voices of Burning Man? The article is very interesting and I encourage you to read it in its...
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Burning Man Unofficial Founder Dies
John Perry Barlow first went to Burning Man in 1994, and has been a key shaker and mover of the event ever since. I spent much of the afternoon in conversation with Larry Harvey, Mayor of #BurningMan...
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Smithsonian A Hit: Qui Bono?
Is Burning Man cashing in from their Smithsonian exposure, right before the big cash-out of the “Original Founders”? Here is some of the coverage of No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man at the...
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