at least it wasnt ebola this time
I remember looking up one time that it costs like $7000 to go to burning man
I’m seeing $550 - $3000 on their website. They do means-tested (of course) half price tickets. I’m getting brain damage thinking about this so have to stop my investigation here.
Not to contribute further to your cerebral trauma, but you have to also consider the cost of gas, food and water, shelter, recreational substances, and whatever you put into your art project/installation/doodad thing that you’re supposed to bring with you.
Tickets started at $550 this year, plus $125 if you want to bring in a car or RV (that’s there to encourage carpooling or taking the bus). You could probably get away with just $100 in food if you really knew what you were doing. If you volunteer for a few shifts helping out around the city (working at the gate, doing mediation, helping build, etc.) they’ll give you a free ticket and feed you. It’s very very expensive if you want to do it luxuriously and not give anything back, which unfortunately a lot of tech bros and the like do.
It’s very very expensive if you want to do it luxuriously and not give anything back, which unfortunately a lot of tech bros and the like do.
four tech bros in particular ruined burning man for me and before i even got a chance to try burning man for myself.
each one of them tried to get me fired because i was a contractor at the start of my career decades ago and the company’s employees reacted VERY NEGATIVELY to the introduction of contractors working alongside them.
there was never an issue with the contractors when they were cleaning their bathrooms or cooking their food; but all hell broke lose when they starting doing the same technical work they did and all four of them went through extraordinary lengths to get me and others like me fired for the mistakes that others had made when i jumped in to help resolve their issues.
the death knell for the dream of one day going to burning man came to me when i learned that all four of these tech bros were well known and highly respected members of the burning man playa community. the independently produced documentary i saw about it painted them as celebrated artists who were engaged in and gave back to the community that would cease to exist without their contributions; i realized then that burning man is a farce and decided to never go.
there used to be an artistic picture from one in the main campus of the company. it had a nude man in it dancing with fire at burning man and seeing it every day made me roll my eyes at how much the company washed itself with such egalitarian ideals, but never lived up to them. watching them now help further trump and the gaza genocide feels so much realistic to me.
Yeah, there’s a lot of assholes for sure. I try to camp out in the boonies with lots and lots of first timers in tents around. I still think there’s a lot of great stuff there, but a lot of the leadership and “upper crust” absolutely fucking sucks. I’m sorry all that happened to you and that it left an bad taste in your mouth (understandably). There are lots of volunteers walking away for very similar reasons.
watching them now help further trump and the gaza genocide feels so much realistic to me.
My wife almost got the cops called on her for throwing a beer bottle at someone flying the
out there yesterday lolthey’re flying the isreali flag at burning man?!
Zionists gonna zionist
🤦♂️
I’ve been many times and never spent nearly that much. I never did an rv. People think they gotta do all that shit which makes it very comfortable but they don’t
Damn these techbro loonies who want to drop acid and fuck in the desert just can’t catch a break, huh? First the mud, then ebola, now mad max?
Techbro tripping balls, wandering into the storm to scream “WITNESS ME” but getting sand all up in his shit uncomfortably
These are the special techbros that are too good to just go to Palm Springs.
Oh what a day!
What a glorious day!
I’m a public safety/community mediator volunteer out there. Been going for 22 years. Worst whiteout I’ve ever seen. I took this picture inside something with 3 walls on Saturday.
Woah that looks insane. Stay safe, comrade!
good. i hope all those upper middle class dorks have a bad time in the desert
Why do you hope that?
Because we have to pay them 1100 dollars a month to live in their spare bedroom and have “partial access” to the kitchen
nerd
because fuck em
they all sought hedonism ,they found a duststorm , its funny.
the Ticketprice is about 750$,
My friend that goes every year for the past 15 years said it was the worst wind storm he’s experienced out there
Oh there’s already having another one of those? Didn’t the last one get rained on?
MUDPOCALYPSE
Two years ago; BM happens every August
Damn, time flies
Crabtriops rave!What a strange life they must have. They come to life with water. They reproduce. But the water dries up. And then they die. It’s like if a human existence was to be born and become an adult within days. We reproduce. We live a few weeks or months. And then we drown to death.
Take what time in the sun life gives you and leave the rest to the next generation, I suppose.
bonnaroo got rained out this year
i remember in the video of those brave protestors last year (or the year before?) who blocked the highway into the festival and one guy got out of his car saying that “we’re liberals” and that they are the good guys lol
The gods are clearly sending a message
“Please trap an uptight cop in burning man before ignition, these empty effigies aren’t doing it for us”
seems like divine punishment to meI sold some stuff on Craigslist to someone going to Burning Man. It will not work during a dust storm lol.
Nature is healing
