Cargo Cult Camp Coordination [Updates]

faye in egypt fisheyeWe’ve had some requests from Burners to repeat last year’s list of Camp Placements for 2013. Please comment on this post if you know your camp’s location, and tell us a bit about what type of shenanigans will be going down there. You can even send photos and links to Kickstarter/Indiegogo projects, Facebook pages etc. – unlike some others, we encourage all this stuff and want to help. We will do our best to update this page as info trickles in, so please bookmark it and keep checking. Thanks to Burners Erik and dcoyle for suggesting this, we did it last year and I guess some found it useful. We also endorse BurnerMap as a great way to find out where your Facebook Burner friends will be, you can print it out if you’re not into smartphones on the Playa. If you are into them, like some others, then Rockstar Librarian has an app for iPhone and Android for 2013.

Thanks to Ron’s Log and BMOrg for providing us the list of street names for 2013:

  • Esplanade – the radius of the curve of Esplanade is 2,400 feet
  • Airstrip
  • Biggie Size
  • Consumer
  • Desiderata
  • Extraterrestrial
  • False Idol
  • GDP
  • Holy
  • Interstellar
  • John Frum
  • Kowtow
  • Laissez-faire

More than 1000 camps applied for placement this year, a new record.

There is no Root Society and no Opulent Temple this year.  2 major “big sound” camps lost. According to trilobyte, BMOrg defines “big sound” as above 300 watts:

“Big sound” can be a confusing term, since we each have our own ideas of what constitutes big. From the city planning standpoint, it’s a measure of wattage. 300 watts is the general rule for the whole of the city. To me that seems painfully low, but for the most part I think the idea is car or home stereo class. More powerful systems need to be around the edges of the city, either along Esplanade or (for the bigger systems) between 2-3 and 9-10.

Cargo Cultists

2:00 & Esplanade, Hookahdome

2:00 & Esplanade, Fractal Nation Planet

2:00 & B    )(ooligans Alley

2:00 & D Love Nation – We are primarily focused on Upbeat, Full-on Melodic PsyTrance but will definitely mix it up with Techno and other stuff through out the week.
We also invite you to come hang out in our 90′ x 30′ infinite loop chill dome playing mellow sounds…with places to chill out and interactive LED art through out

2:00 & I – Camp Question Mark

2:30 & A – Camp Whisker Biscuit. We host a daytime shade lounge with tea, hookah, couches and the like. We also have an aerial acrobatics structure with some performance and instructional sessions throughout the week, and a giant banana split art car. http://facebook.com/campwhiskerbiscuit

2:30 & A-B – Terminal City:\\404 Village Not Found  Longtime TC veteran camps Playawaste Raiders and MASH 4207th are joined this year by Swish Embassy and The More Cowbell Saloon.

2:30 & B – More Cowbell Saloon – Our bar is pretty much all hours “if someone is behind the bar, we are open”. However, Mon-Thur, noon-ish until sunset we will be hosting various events.Look for a giant steel rocking horse.

2:30 & B – Camp Gallavant and the ARRRR Bar. Lots of great Parties and of course gallons of Se(a)men!!!

2:35 & Esplanade – Disorient

2:45 & E – VW Bus Camp, “Leopard Lounge and Day Spa”. Either silly typos or someone is just trying to be funny! Burners Without Matches is good as is, tho. Burners Without Matches is there also, stop by and burn one with us.

2:45 & G Campo Alegre – Got some great events from Yoga, dance therapy to our sunset revival and salsa party and campo cocktails

3:00 & Esplanade – Department of Tethered Aviation

3:00 & somewhere… The Gypsymonkeys, Dark Nebula and Souler Tribe are going polycamporous and forming The” Gypsy Nebula Village”

3:00 Plaza – Dark Carnival Community Cafe

3:00 Plaza – Black Rock French Quarter

3:00 & D – Camp Pickled Monkey – 1940s style drinks and live piano music!

3:00 & E – Inebriation Nation is here to help you avoid the sorry fate of being the only one sober enough to actually recognize John Frum when he does come, fleeing in terror from his hideous laserbeam eyesockets while your friends simply lean on things and chat amiably about the new BoC record, blissfully oblivious to their imminent doom. We’re a cluster of several multi-year camps who have joined together in a mutual quest to rid our fair city of the scourge of sobriety (and/or boredom, and/or fear et. al.) that has befallen us, or may well befall us at some indeterminate point in the future. Kamp Kioty, Tikiplex-12, and the all-time classic Playa bar The Livers’ End welcome you for frosty beverages, quirky cinema, sick beats, and Giant Nintendo (though not necessarily in that order). We’re also providing a huge Art Wall to leave messages/drawings/ruminations for Mr. Frum and your fellow travelers, and a Museum stocked with smaller-scale works from regional artists. We’re not really sure how this will all blend together, but it has raisins in it, and you DO like raisins. See you in the dust!

3:00 & E Camp Walter Look for the huge VW bus and the big VW Beetle ‘Big Red’. We are having a Hot PINK! Happy Hour Tuesday from 5-9pm. Come say hi!

3:00 & F – Skinny Kitty Teahouse. Drop by for tea, any hour of the day or night! Look for the giant saddle tent.

3:00 & G – Camp DOA (not to be confused with BRC DOA, aka (proudly) The Short Bus)

3:00 & H – Space Gnomes

3:15 & Esplanade – Kostume Kult

3:15 & E – Black Rock mafia – Come by and say hi and drink with the fishes!

3:15 & H – S’mores – You will have to walk a little to get your S’more on this year but it will be worth it. Mmmm delish!  Get em while they are hot and sticky.

3:15 & L – Camp Blue Moon – We can hydrate you with a electrolyte replacement. Or we can dehydrate you with Mamajuana No its not what you are thinking but it is a drink from the Dominican Republic which is very tasty

3:30 & Esplanade – Couch Burners Camp

3:30 & E Cheezy Porn celebrates everything Porn…and the cheesier the better! We lean towards the silly & soft-core rather than raunchy & hard-core. We’ll have you wondering whether the wet spot in your pants is from being turned-on or laughing your ass off!

3:30 & E – Camp P6 (Barbie Death Village sub-camp) Drop by for the monkey hut made of aluminet and 90% shade cloth and make up your own damn mind as to what works best. Also pop by for random abuse from some aussies, UK peeps and a certain Czech girl

3:50 & C – Wish You Were Here camp

4:00 & Esplanade – Illumination Village – (featuring Sideshow ensconced)

4:00 & D – Blood Bath and Beyond – come have a Bloody Mary and play on our giant twist mat!

4:00 & E-G – Barbie Death Village , 3 acre camp

4:00-4:30, A & B – BLACK ROCK POWER CO-OP: This year our Village has a unique and diverse selection of camps within its’ boundaries. This includes the following camps: And then there’s only love, (it doesn’t get more interactive than this camp) Espresso Camp, (bringing espresso to the masses each morning) Saints & Sinners (they joined us from Silicon Village and have the same sex positive attitude as ATTOL) Hookah Lounge (bringing hookah and food to the Playa each and every day) Exposure Vault, (they will be arriving very early and perform time lapse photography for the Event. This is sanctioned by the ORG) Particle Camp (this is a new and very unusual camp. They will be handing out equipment to capture and define what is in the air we breathe out there. This will be done on a real time basis.) East Bay CORE Camp. (This group is building the EB CORE project)  Dan & Lindsays’ Wedding Camp, (Dan Das Mann will be getting married on the Playa and he will be building and burning a beautiful wedding chapel for anyone to use and enjoy)  Brain Freeze / Got Stickers Camp. (Again this year we will be handing out the most popular stickers and we will attempt to beat our record of last year of giving out 175 gallons of frozen margaritas. Once again we will also be the home of the Worlds’ Most Dangerous Bar, Old Sparky (just ask Sweetthang) the Worlds’ Most Dangerous BBQ and new for this year will be the Worlds’ Most Dangerous Pinball machine. Careful if you win, it will send fire high into the night sky.) The members of Brain Freeze and Espresso Camp will also be putting on the fireworks with DaveX on Monday night. BLACK ROCK POWER CO-OP is centered around a couple huge whisperwatt generators and a interconnected power grid

4:10 & B The Burning Cult of Bottled Thoughts will be at approximately 4:10 and Biggie, capturing your soul and putting it into a bottle to the outside world daily from 4 to 6 pm. Stop by and send a message adrift across the great Black Rock Sea! We are part of Particle Camp, and will be right next to the Particle Bar.

4:15 & Esplanade – A – Playa Surfers  We’ll have the brand new tiki island art car on the Esplanade along with the lifeguard tower and our usual Thursday afternoon beach party. For your A side enjoyment we’ll once again have our 18×36 ft tiki lounge tent. Tiki happy hour starts at 8-ish each evening, so please come say hello

4:15 & C Ignited States Outpost. Excited to be back in the neighborhood this year, and hoping to visit with and serve ski shots to you all!

4:15 & E – Black Rock Bass and Brews – Home brewed beer, hot dogs, and tunes!

4:15 & J – Ron’s Log

4:30 Portal – the Black Rock Cabana Club is an oasis of hospitality and friendship. Come by for an Afternoon Delight (or any time for that matter). Our Cabana Boys and Cabana Girls will be serving serve up tasty treats and cocktails while our guests lounge in our comfortable cabanas, cool off in our Aluminet shade structure, or go for a spin in The Spa with our DJ’s.

Daytime Afternoon Delight events: (M-F 4:00-6:00) A refreshing array of nosh, tasty treats, and cocktails all set in a cool and comfortable space to recharge and escape the ravages of the traveling the playa.

4:30 Neighborhood – The Long Lost, Now Found BRC Ski Patrol ski Lodge is all about the “ahhhh” – from the “ahhh’ you feel when you get an unexpected shpritz of cool water on a hot day, to the “ahhh” you feel when you let go of a negative thought. The Long Lost Now Found BRC Ski Lodge will be a place for the weary to re-energize, and for the energized to celebrate the moment. Next to the Lodge entrance, you can drop off your unwanted emotional baggage at Jerry’s Complaint Desk – and we’ll in turn take it to the temple where it will be burned Saturday night. Inside the Lodge, we’ll have a variety of games to play, and ski shots to share with fellow travelers.

4:30 & A – Coo Coo Camp

4:30 & B Camp Cohesion – We plan on building a velcro wall that you can launch yourself onto with a mini trampoline

4:30 & B – Incendiary Intent – if you like spicy things, or watching other people terrorize themselves with spicy things, stop by and say hello!

4:30 & D – Darwin Fish Tank

4:30 & G – “Dr. Realz mysterious wheel of uncertainty and mystical inclusion?” . We are hoping to get our spot at 4:30 and G. We are planning a couple of events one is a virgin sacrifice (well virgin is a stretch we are sacrificing our resident porn star) but we lost our DJ I have no shortage of people wanting to DJ but none are will or able to bring equipment dose any one have equipment that we could use for one night

4:45 & Esplanade

4:45 & A – Steampunk Saloon

4:45 & B – Poly Paradise with the famous Human Carcass Wash.

4:45 & D – Spank of America

4:45 & E – Firedrop

4:45 & F – Fluffy Clouds – Please swing by our camp Tuesday between 4PM & 9PM for our Sunset Appreciation Party

5:00 & G – Elliot’s Bicycle Service and Chardonnay Tap, with two bicycle mechanics and just a few more people, next to Figjam and company. We are too small to be registered as anything. We are shooting for a spot on the 5 spoke, on the 4:59 side, just outside G, as last year. We repair bicycles, lend bicycles, and otherwise fool around with pedal-powered vehicles. Chardonnay and other beverages served. Storm shelter in Millicent The Bus.

5:15 & B – The Cradle of Mir

6:00 & G I Call This One ‘Old Gregg’ ! We are dedicated to the beloved scaly man-fish that is Old Gregg. We enjoy water color painting, preventing fishing, wearing and giving away tutus, and drinking creamy Bailey’s. Stop by on Tuesday late afternoon for our party, and bring a cup (or a shoe) for some of the creaminess.

6:00 & Rods Road – Swagmart

Rods Road & Esplanade – BRC Weekly/Bootie BRC Headquarters will be in roughly the same spot as last year – Rods Road @10 (basically where Rods Road & the Esplanade meet, on the 10:00 side). First time we’ve ever gotten the same spot twice – I think Placement liked our new lights at night, because it’s not like the paper suddenly became any better

Rods Road & D The Lost Penguins are at Rod’s Road and Desiderata for daytime snowcones, lemonade, couches and obstacle course and evenings with live music, weird shows, wine and chocolate. Chocolate Martini party on Tuesday Night. Blues Jam Saturday afternoon

6:00 & H – Skyler’s Esplenade. We are a memorial camp dedicated to loving memory of Skyler Switzer, who died in February. We are family and friends. We have art cars, ambient fire art, and lemonade on days when life gives lemons.

6:15 & D The Gods’ Vending Inc : Our Cargo Cult style vending machine (a functioning machine built from wood and bamboo) Is the main focus of the camp. It will be vending objects of desire to all who choose to chant a short prayer to the Gods. As Cargo Cult was a big thing on South Sea Islands we also have a shade shelter where Burners can get out of the sun and strum a ukulele just for fun. If the “OUT OF ORDER” sign is posted don’t worry, it just means we are out having fun on the Playa. The vending machine will be in operation every afternoon until The Gods’ run out of cool stuff for the day

7:00 & Esplanade – Tectonic will be at Esplanade and 7:00! Our structure will be a giant red, orange, yellow, and purple volcano. We will also have a chill dome off to the side if you need to get away, but don’t want to leave the city. We will have a bar, live music from our house band The Shrike, DJs, Gluten Free and Vegan pizza slices to give away, aerial performances, and we will be sacrificing virgin burners to the fire gods!

7:00 & Center Camp – BRC DOA – Dimension of Accessibility, assistance for the Mobility Challenged

7:00 & Inner Circle – Pickle Joint is thrilled to be back in Center Camp, on the inner circle around the back of the cafe (Inner Circle at 7o’clock). We’re pretty sure this is our 11th year as this camp and 15th year on playa. The first decade is kind of a blur.

7:00 & Inner Circle – Black Rock Beacon. Come by and get a paper.

7:00 & A – Camp Upsie Dasium

7:05 & I – The Porch Monkeys “Bloody Mary Breakfast Bar” will be returning to the playa for the 4th year running. With a choice of 4 unique flavoured vodkas and 13+ different hot sauces and condiments, as well as a new and improved pink parachute shade structure! Open from “when we wake up, til when we leave”

planet earth7:15 & Esplanade – Planet Earth, Black Rock Cities 80s indoor nightclub. Come join us every night from 8pm to 4am as we play all the top hits and videos of the 80s with two themes per night.

7:15 & A – Dr Le Tawdry’s is back for our 6th year! Stop by on Wednesday night to check out “Dark Side of the Rainbow”.

7:15 & C – Debocceri – Tuesday & Thursday afternoon we are hosting the Annual Debocceri Bocce Ball Tournament! Bocce Ball, Music, Liquid Entertainment and lots of fun to be had.

7:15 & D – Whiskey and Dust – Daily yoga @10:30 – Belly Dancing & Pole Dancing classes Monday! Followed by a Whiskey tasting @ 7pm. Juggling & Lyra ring Showcase Tuesday! Followed by “Playa De Los Muertos” a Day of the Dead party hosted by yours truly, Zombie drinks, Tequilla, and Sugar skulls oh my!! @ 7pm. Polynesian, Belly, and Pole dancing Wednesday! Followed by a fun freaky Euro-Love wedding and reception. ; More Belly dancing @3 & 4 Thursday! and an Arial Silk Showcase @ 5; Our Argentinan Tango class is on Friday @ 3; Closely followed by Milonga @ 5

7:15 & F – Mush Love

7:15 & G – Camp WhoofARTed just heard, we’ll be on GDP, at 7:15. We’ll have a sweet patio from where we’ll be servving Homebrews, Bacon Bloody Marys, Infused Vodkas and the occasional Grilled Cheese extravaganza! Also, late in the week, be sure to attend the “sideBall” competition!

7:15 & H Camp Cats! Cats! Cats!

7:30 & Esplanade – Black Rock Roller Disco for the third year in a row. Come on down and have a funky good time! Come celebrate good times, roll with us in a disco inferno, and turn the beat around then skate or crawl up to the bar for a frozen marg. Breaking bones since 1999. Open almost all day and night from saturday to saturday.

7:30 Plaza Abstininthe   1-6 am and pm. At least 40 flavors of absinthe – take a chance.

7:30 Plaza – Celestial Bodies Stop by for a refreshing Playa Cosmo and enjoy a variety of events and activities.

7:30 Plaza -GLAMCOCKS – Enjoy the awesome view of BRC from the top of the Roost! Also: cock-glamming services to get you ready for the Naked Pub Crawl; dance parties and CockPunch served most evenings & Thurs afternoon; and a drag show Friday at 9pm!

7:30 & A – Tarwater

7:30 & B – Suspended Animation

7:30 & E – Interaction Cafe We serve interactions, not food.

7:30 & E – Sun Guardians is looking to be near 7:30 and E and will be offering Yoga, Art clinic and a party for “Come as your favorite Deity” which should be amazing fun.

7:30 & E – Camp Frisco Disco @ Comfort and Joy

7:30 & E – Camp Wakanda @ Retrofrolic

7:30 & E – Looking for a play partner? Join the ribbon party at Retrofrolic ALL WEEK LONG! The ribbons are an invitation to flirt, negotiate and play with each other. They show that you are seeking a play partner tonight and what kind of play you are interested in. Wearing ribbons gives permission for others to approach you with play invitations and lets you see at a glance who might be interested in being approached by you. If you are a DOMINANT/top, wear your ribbons on your LEFT wrist. If you are a SUBMISSIVE/bottom, wear your ribbons on the RIGHT. Switch? Slutty? Wear them on BOTH sides! No one is obligated, consider this a color coded ice breaker. This ribbon code is loosely based on the famous “hanky code”, but we have made some changes (to make it easier).

We offer refreshing beverages, cocksucking certifications, impact play spaces with multiple crosses, benches, massage tables and chair, foot washing and bottom washing stations for a refreshing foot bath and massage, sex swing, hard point suspension, semi-private fetish area with our famous PONY and horizontal cross for more intimate activities. We offer a plethora of on-site toys, equipment, cuffs, paddles, floggers, canes, blindfolds, hoods, gags, collars, violet wands and estim! You want to use a vibrator? If you need it vibrated, we’ve got the machine for that! Condoms, gloves and cleaning supplies are available along with lotions, vinegar water and baby wipes. During the afternoons, we will be enjoying icy non-alcoholic drinks of luxurious flavor. So bring your cup! If you do not bring a cup, dire consequences are in store for you! Our infamous trio of famous phallus will stand at the ready for your sucking pleasure. Superman rewards those who engage his cock with Kryptonite 140 proof Absinthe! Batman has Chambord cum that Robin never appreciated! Santa Clause, who has pent up frustrations from all the lap-sitting he has to tolerate and, after jingling his balls and sucking hard, provides you with Limoncello! Those who complete the trio satisfactorily receive an official Cocksucker Certification! Our dungeon and play spaces are available. Aftercare spaces of cushions, mattresses and HOOKAH DOME are available for your leisure. We will also offer specific places for voyeuristic viewing of vicarious visions of vices. During the evening hours, the bar will offer delicious alcohol and non-alcohol beverages. Lights of color, art of goth and kink will treat your eyes. Music of something for everyone will tickle your ears. There’s much more of our scheduled events through the week, but this provides a general gist of our offering.

7:45 & A – Bouncy Bouncy club

7:45 & C – Sextant Camp. Come hang out in our Dome, listen to DJ Walks WithBeats, browse our Sculpture Garden, or even possibly get your body molded on-Playa by the artist himself, Richard Smith! Then GTFO on our zip-line after ascending to 35′ in the Crow’s nest!

7:45 & E The Mudskipper Cafe is excited to be back at 7:45 and E serving root beer floats on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and a special Costume Appreciation Party on Thursday all from 2-4pm. Come by and bump to cool tunes by DJ Kelly Kidd, have a root beer float amd meet some awesome people!

7:45 & G: Camp with a Twist – 2 bowling lanes, giant twister and art

7:45 & G – the Paradise Motel. Stop by for a snow cone

7:45 & G Camp Anita will be back again this year and likely requesting 7:30ish placement, as that’s where we’ve been the past several years. Top shelf cocktails from the time the first camper awakens until night falls. Plus yoga, our “Well Hung” art car (the giant coat hanger), and too many Australians to count.

7:45 & H It Still Stings Camp at Mama Kabuke’s Big Tent. We have a big jellyfish lounge with water, lemonade, and gaytorade as well as Connie the Baby Blue Whale. 

7:45 & I Camp Pot Luck – We feed and water stray passers-by, and host a pot-luck dinner Friday night at Sunset where you can eat our food or bring some to give to someone else.

8:00 & Esplanade: DUSTFISH :big show is Thursday night. Sexbombe cabaret! A mega-huge burlesque show. All week we will feature a huge variety of live music with a few very special djs in the mix as well. DUSTFISH is no slouch when it comes to bringing it on the Playa. Stop by for a drink and enjoy the show.

8:00 & A – Lost Lounge/Temple Crew camp

8:00 & B Orphan/Endorphin Camp is looking for placement around 8:00 and E street. Come on by and hang out in the Asylum pub and sample some fine homebrewed ales and ciders. We are also hosting Daddy Warbuck’s Cigar Lounge, Captain Ron’s Fishing Shack & Hoist, Baron Oink’s Latex Vac & Pac, Punjab’s Infused Vodka Luge, and the Orphan Radio Station (105.9 on the playa). Special additions to all that are in the works too!

8:00 & E – Hailing from the desert wastes of New Mexico is Camp Red or Green! We will be at 8:00 and Extraterrestrial serving red or green chile tamales at random times throughout the week! We will be roasting fresh New Mexican green chiles, providing the Heat for your Burn in the way of salsas, hot sauces and other assorted hot things! Stop by our Tamales, Tequila and Tutus Fiesta on Tuesday from 5 to 8 pm for red or green margaritas, tequila shots and the best tamales the playa has ever seen. Camp Red or Green will also be hosting The Museum of Cultural Appropriation and Dead Things. Come gander at our unique selection of unfortunate creatures, freaks and cultural cargo!

8:30 & Esplanade – The Automatic Subconscious will be returning to this side of the City after a few years of exploring the Berlin side.
We’ll be anchoring the Boston Hive at 8:30 and Esplanade!

8:30 & Esplanade – Eridu Society I’ll go first, the Eridu Society will be back and is aiming for the area of 8:30 and Esplanade. Last year we built the Fertile Minds Idea Deli and had a lot of fun serving up good ideas, bad ideas, crazy ideas, rubber stamps, and the occasional deli pickle or cold drink.

ImageThis year we’re building a mighty ziggurat and altar to honor the Annunaki, who came down from the heavens and bestowed ancient Sumerians with the gifts of written language, counting, civilization, and the brewing of beer (among many other things). We’ll also display some of the curiosities and artifacts that we’ve collected in our travels through time, space, and several of the better dimensions…ImageStop by, say hello, see the remarkable things, enjoy the rubber stamp bar and other tributes!

8:30 & Rod’s Road – Playa Jazz. Live jazz, every night till dawn.

8:30 & C – Temple Guardians Camp

8:30 & E – Snowflake Village- Snowflake includes Videogasm, Clevian Circularity, The Shack of Sit, LOLA, Burning Band, Camp SPF, Confederacy of Dunces and Black Rock Fun Jet. Videogasm’s Burning Jeopardy and giant skittle bowl should complement Pleasurefist’s games. Be sure to check out the 48 Hour Film project
and Rocky Horror Friday at midnight.

8:30 & E – Our camp is called THE NEIGHBORHOOD. We come from all over the global community and cannot wait to be HOME. We will have plenty of shade, a play ground, daily happy hour, and a blow out BLOCK PARTY on Wednesday night! Come play in THE NEIGHBORHOOD!  Come to The Neighborhood, where it’s Recess all day! Dance, drink and play your cares away. You can swing on our swings and slide down our slide, from our super dank bar, you simply can’t hide. Dance to some beats, no need to be discreet. We got your back covered from this whimsical heat. Do us a favor…Won’t you be our neighbor?

8:30 & I – Manta Camp. Cargo Cunt bar open as long as someone is there. Check out our Manta Car as we parade around spreading the word of the sweet tender baby Jesus. We will be sea creature-thememed and featuring the CargoCunt Bar with blood mary’s noon to 4pm daily. Come by and say helloooo….check out our flicker photos of the build.

8:45 & Esplanade – Pink Heart

8:45 & B Tender Heckles Porch – come on by for acoustic jam sessions, erotic foot-massage, and take a turn heckling passers-by from the porch.

8:45 & D – Shadyvil

8:45 & D – Raised by Wolves – Just a short jaunt from the 9 O’Clock plaza. Come visit us from Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 1pm at our Cafe. We will have delicious Fair Trade coffee from Extracto in Portland, OR and Burn After Reading Magazine Issue No. 2! Actually, come visit us anytime! We will have a heated Wolf Dome at night, Tigre Bailando’s effigy “Lobo Madre”, propane burn barrels, yoga classes every morning at 9am and amazing pack energy and howls all of the time!

8:45 and D to E- Camp Enchante! We will have a super size bowling alley, cornhole, possibly horse shoes, bar n music! Just your friendly neighborhood camp

8:45 & F – Stag Camp 7

845 & f – luna roots (bacon chunk pineapple) fire flow, hoop workshop, and much more!

8:45 & G – the Seven Deadly Gins – ice-cold Gin + Tonics and chill house tunes, every day from 3.30pm till 6.30pm-ish.

8:45 & I – White Trash Oasis – Stay Ready for the fight against moop, come craft your own moop pouch or portable cigarette ashtray. (and bluegrass music.. duh)

8:50 & A – Le Kafe will be at 8:50 and A this year. Come by Tuesday through Saturday morning/afternoon for coffee, tea and any other random offerings we feel like serving.

9:00 & Esplanade – SK8 Camp

9:00 Portal – the Crossroads Live Music Experience will be back this year. We have a three hour live music extravaganza with a 30 piece band every night Tuesday through Friday! Start your night with us! For info on our themes each night see: http://igg.me/at/XRLive/x/1754036

9:00 Portal & A – ACME will be at 9:00 Portal and A this year, minus The Walking Beast, but we will have some new fire toys. Stop by we may let you push the button!

9:00 & B-C – Rising Arms Pub

9:00 & D Miso Horny (Formerly Future Roots) will be serving miso soup, sake, and aphrodisac blends at 9 + Desiderata in 2013!

9:00 & D-E – We will have parties and Giant Games…including a garbage can-sized beirut (beer pong) tournament game and nighttime parties on Tuesday and Thursday. many of our games are alcohol inclusive or related, so 21+ to drink. (many of the games could potentially be played w/o booze, just ask)

9:00 & E – Duckpond

9:00 & G – Distrikt

9:00 & G – the Flaming Merkin

9:15 & A – Ego Trip

9:15 & F Camp Rack em Up. This is our first year as a Theme camp and we are super excited :D We are setting up a mini pool hall, with 3 tables and a couple couches with a small bar. We are hoping to see all of you lovely Burners there!!! Stop by on Tues, Wed, or Thurs from 2:00pm-4:00pm for topless tournaments and knock some balls around. (Nifty gifts for the top 3 players on all 3 days). We also have yummy coffee or tea for those who want a nice drink without alcohol.

9:15 & F – Pretty Pickle Camp

9:15 & G Pickle Back Mountain. Come enjoy a Pickle Back at our Cowboy themed Pickle Bar. And for the more daring, ride the large manual “mechanical” pickle! 

9:15 & G Seattle Rogue Regional Effigy (SeaCORE) camp ‘Cult Of POSIWID’ is part of the ‘Rogue Nation Village’, also including ‘Dazed & Confused’ (for projects ‘Puha Pool’ & Spines’), ‘Kreme Burners’, and ‘Come Again’.

9:15 & I JaXXXson JunXXXion will be back for our 2nd time :) We’ll be at Interstellar & 9:15 yay!

9:30 & Esplanade – Sacred Spaces

9:30 & B – Camp Larry Owes me $5

9:30 & J-K UnHoly Grail camp will be at roughly 9:30 and J or K…we will have a fun set up with mugs/bottles for you to create your own 2013 momento…spray paint a BM 2013 stencil (design in progress) on a “playa” mug/bottle that we provide you or spray the image onto your own cup/mug …we will also have a larger version for you to spray onto your shirt or jacket…one of my favorite shirts that I own is a t-shirt that I brought to 2008 burn and in the center cafe someone was silk screening images of the man onto whatever shirt you were wearing…it always brings a smile to my face when I wear that shirt and I figured I could do a mini version of that for our “neighbors” this year. Plenty of shade…should have some couches and chairs…cooler full of cold beer…margarita on request…stop by, say Hi and create something simple that will bring you smiles for years to come

9:45 & A – Jake’s Tent Charcuterie Camp will be at 9:45 and A this year. Come on by for some cured meats, cheese, and fine wine. We should have happy hours on M, W, F daytime (usually afternoon).

10:00 & A – Celtic Chaos

10:00 & B – Digital Apex

10:00 & C – Heart Deco

10:00 & G – Nexus

10:00 Osiris

10:00 White Beach

Temple Burns: Not Just for Burning Man any more

At Burners.Me, we’re very supportive of Burner culture diffusing out into the wider world. We try to live Burning Man every day, not just pretend to be someone else for one week a year. Burning Man makes an impact that can affect your whole life, and I make a conscious effort to maintain and develop relationships that begin at Burning Man out in Meatspace as well.

We were recently honored to be invited by Che of the Space Cowboys, to a Temple Burn at Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa, California. The Temple was built by Burning Man art supremo David Best, who is taking a break from this year’s Cargo Cult Temple, and instead building a more permanent structure in Sonoma County. Paradise Ridge is hosting “The Spirit of the Man“, an outdoor exhibition of sculpture art including a Spirit-logo-H-colornumber of pieces from Burning Man. The exhibition is dedicated to Che’s late father Al Voigt, and it showcases 38 major works by sculptors based in Sonoma County and throughout the US. Most of the sculptural works are available to purchase.

A visit is highly recommended, as the San Francisco Chronicle said “this place has the feel of an insider’s secret…it’s well worth the effort to find”. Actually not much effort required in these days of GPS, 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr Santa Rosa 95403 , (707) 528 9463.

Che observed that no-one needed instructions for the Temple:

“people just came up, and started writing messages on red and gold ribbons and tying them to the Temple. We didn’t have to say what it was, everyone just knew what to do”

 

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Space Cowboys go back to the days when Distrikt was called the Deep End, and they are famous for their Unimog ATAVAV at Ghost Ship on Treasure Island and the Breakfast of Champions party.

The Space Cowboys are a San Francisco based collective that began its exploration of the cosmos over a decade ago, as a diverse group of talented individuals who came together in the pursuit of the creation of unique entertainment events, mechanical contraptions, and art projects. The group consists of members from all walks of life and vocations – engineers, doctors, programmers, massage therapists, designers, architects, nurses, video editors, producers, corporate executives, animators, and financial advisers. Mostly in their thirties, Cowboys reside not only in San Francisco, but Los Angeles, Sacramento, and even Laos. The collective serves as an outlet for the members and their friends and family to creatively and socially express themselves beyond their “day jobs”.

Our story begins with wrangling good times in the wild west of Black Rock City. As one of the first large scale dance camps at Burning Man, the group essentially constructed and ran a nightclub for a week each year on the playa, providing free beats and beverages to all nightly. As one of the oldest, continually existing Burning Man camps, the Cowboys have constructed a variety of other playa art projects as well. The collective is responsible for the creation of a mechanical horse, mechanical wagon train (the Beast) consisting of a chopped-down 1963 Valiant with a welded steel superstructure and 4 tow-able wagon cars, SCTV versions 0-3 (various forms of video art structures with the latest being a fifty-foot wide video wall comprised of five CRT projectors and 5 acrylic screens measuring eight feet square supported by over 2 tons of steel), and a range of other art cars including a duck, horseshoe, peapod, turtle and two ponies. In 2003, the Cowboys inherited Martha, a deconstructed Toyota minivan from their sister camp SpaceLounge (now defunct). Martha has since been fully rebuilt and dutifully serves as a transport for the troops and a mobile lounge on the playa and off.

Since 2001 the Space Cowboys are perhaps most well known for their UNIMOG All-Terrain Audio Visual Assault Vehicle (ATAVAV). Originally a 1973 Mercedes German Military vehicle, the Space Cowboy’s UNIMOG is the largest off-road sound system in the world, completely self-sufficient with lights, video projectors, screens, radio transmitters, on-board generators and wireless network. The UNIMOG has gone where no other sound system has gone, from the desert of Black Rock, to the snow covered slopes at Squaw Valley and the urban canyons of San Francisco as to the lead float in the city’s LoveParade since its inception.

To fund these activities the Space Cowboys produce a series of fundraisers throughout the year in San Francisco. The parties have become legendary events in their own right. Over the years the Space Cowboys have developed an international reputation for producing the finest underground events, including the annual Breakfast of Champions; a party beginning at 6am on New Years Day, it has even had a full-length album named after it.

No one but the greater community profits from the activities of the Space Cowboys. Each Cowboy pays yearly dues and any additional monies from fundraisers are used to create future art events and projects for the greater community. For us it not about the money, but rather creative expression, community, and something called a good time.

The world’s largest off-road sound system, and one of California’s largest sculpture gardens. Dope! The exhibit will run for another year. You can also catch the Space Cowboys on April 11 at Yuri’s Night at Nightlife at the California Academy of Sciences – another highly recommended tour.

Entrance to Paradise Ridge

Entrance to Paradise Ridge

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Help us Alpha Test New Site

Burning Man have changed their privacy policy, and are asking Burners to create Burner Profiles in order to apply for tickets. The data is owned by the multi-entity hydra which is the various Burning Man for-profit and non-profit organizations, and it is shared amongst any of their “affiliates”; if they suspect you of violating any of their many legal contracts or other things, they can sell your information to anyone they like. Oh, and if someone takes over Burning Man, the policy could be changed at any time.  At least that’s how I read the contract – I call on any legal eagles out there to correct me.

Although this news is a couple of weeks old now, I missed it while on vacation at the beach. I think they’re going in the wrong direction – this is a 1990’s Internet approach, not a 2013 one. A quarter of the world are on Facebook now, more than a third on the Internet: 2.4 billion people, up 566% since the year 2000; 4 billion email clients. 634 million websites, increasing at 51 million per year. More than 5 billion people with mobile phones, more than 1.1 billion on the Internet with smart phones; more than a billion people a month using Facebook. Facebook processes 2.7 billion Likes per day. People are sharing data, not trying to own the content created by others.

Think about this.

Burners.Me is just one of 60 million WordPress blogs. A few times, we’ve made the Top 100 WordPress sites in the world.  Right now, our Alexa ranking is consistently in the top million websites in the world – ie the top 0.15%. Here’s how we stack up versus the official sites, funded from the $24 million a year at the gate, the $12 million a year non-party budget, etc.:

  • Burners.Me – # 145, 865 in the US; #924,682 in the world; 87 sites linking in – we’re top million, have been almost top half million at our peak
  • Burningman.com #15,665 in the US; #59,555 in the world; 5,552 sites linking in
  • Burningmanproject.org too small for US data; #3,455,512 in the world; 60 sites linking in 
  • Blackrockarts.org too small for US data; #1,431,325 in the world; 293 sites linking in

And we’re not doing anything to make money from this. Just sharing our opinions, about a culture we love, and feel like we’ve been a part of for many years. You don’t have to agree with us, we welcome for you to comment here and disagree and share your own thoughts. We respect freedom of speech more than anything, definitely more than Burning Man’s 10 Principles.

I would really love for any readers of this blog to be able to post their own videos, photos, and stories. Some of the more adventurous Burners have been doing this anyway, and have been rewarded by the promotion of their project to tens of thousands of people per week. We promoted at least a dozen kickstarter projects last year, for example.

I use wordpress.com and I haven’t found an easy way to integrate the ability for anyone to upload their own photos and videos yet.

So today I’m trying a new additional platform where you can start your own discussion topics and share your own content, burners.ning.com. It’s rough and it looks like crap right now – that’s why we need Alpha Testers. Help us with ideas about how it can look and work better. Do you have any photos or music mixes from your times at Burning Man, that you’d like to share? Burning Man related stuff you’ve posted to YouTube? Post ’em, tag ’em. The ones on Flickr are too hard to find and discuss, in my opinion. Tribe had a moment of blossoming but died some years ago. Anything on ePlaya is clearly owned by BMOrg. And Reddit – who served 37 billion page views in 201injury infographic2 – has now seemingly been Tar’get’d by the Cop-y-Right Wing.

Let’s make this an online community for Burner content, that is more in line with the free and open spirit of the Internet. We ask anyone who is interested to please help us out, create yourself a free profile at burners.ning.com. Share as little or as much data as you want, hell make up a fake name, we don’t care – it’s the Interwebz! Upload some of your Burning Man photos, share some of your stories and music.  We will use the Creative Commons Attribution License – the content you choose as shareable can be used by other Burners for whatever they want, as long as they’re not profiting from it without acknowledging your ownership. The license does not erode your copyright ownership over your own digital information, it just describes a way that others can share your stuff on the Internet if they like it – without everything being red tape and a huge pain in the ass.

Whether this idea works or not is up to you, Burners. There’s nothing in this for us, in fact it’s only going to take more precious time and effort to administer; but it seems to me like the right thing to do. Or at least, to try…”there is no try, only do” – Yoda.

Information wants to be free! The world has benefitted so much from Open Source licenses and the philosophy of sharing and mutual benefit that underpins it. Not so much so from the Patent Trolls, suppressing brain-children because they want to own everything. These digital robber barons want to retain exclusive use of the invention, and restrict others from using it; this is the philosophy that led the world’s greatest scientist Nikola Tesla to die penniless, and is the opposite from that espoused by the Pirate Party about our obligation to share our culture heritage with others (for example).

Bruce Sterling? Now that’s a Burner from WAAAAAAY back. Is it a coincidence that Burning Man has eerie similarities to the sorts of things going on in the second video above – while it is being discussed as one of the similar events to the Davos World Economic Forum?

this infographic is from Russia...not sure what it all means!

this infographic is from Russia…not sure what it all means!

We search images.google.com for photos related to “Burning Man”, we share them under the Fair Use provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. We’re allowed to do this, because we’re discussing an event in popular culture. Wherever possible, I attribute photos, and always if we get requested to by the photographer. Sometimes we have taken photos down – being polite will get you further than threats for this one. But that’s for this blog, burners.me – me and some of my friends commenting and sharing our opinions about Burning Man.

burners.ning.com is for everyone – please post everything, share everything, let’s have a Burner repository independent of the BMOrg…because we all have no idea who is going to be running the BMOrg in 5 years. Criticize us all you want, open dialog with a view to progressing to better solutions is what’s going to make this community better – but don’t be hurt if we defend ourselves from your barbs.

If any Burners have graphic skills and an inclination to make this easier for the whole community to use, please help us make it look nicer. And anyone with Burning Man related mixes, please post it in Music, let us know what year and camp it’s from as well as the DJ name if possible.

If it’s meant to fizzle and fails, then it fails… no skin off our nose, at least we tried something; but if you can help all of us by using your graphics, Internet and Social media skills to help build the global community of Burners: join our free alpha trial and share your ideas about how we can make the Burner world a better place. And please post all your Kickstarter projects there.