Once every summer, a city rises in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada. Artists, musicians, performers, DJs, and wild adventurers head out and join in the communal space. Surreal structures erupt — meditative mirrored Coliseums, fiery sculptures, and, of course, the Temple of Transition. This year, our favorites included Dalek’s robotic art car, the Steampunk Octopus, and a giant stroboscopic zoetrope by Peter Hudson. To say what happens here is “art” isn’t exactly accurate, as the spectacles, happenings, and experiences are so removed from society, it transcends labels. It has to be experienced… or spied, voyeuristically. Here are the photographic highlights from those that ventured out this year and came out Burning — a group that included Flavorpill co-founders Mark Mangan and Sascha Lewis.
Photo credit: Maura Anderson. All images compiled by Natasha Blank.
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Great to see the installation here! To learn more about this piece of art, please visit: http://www.RobertBengtson.com/Collective.
Wow, I haven’t really found a lot of pictures that capture this event like you have! Amazing, amazing, amazing. The picture of the Temple gave me chills! It was an amazing burn this year :)
It looks very pretty. I’d totally go if every Burner I knew wasn’t such an obnoxious d-bag.
@Jack: hope you will one day like to break the spell of every burner being an obnoxious d-bag..
Burning Man sucked this year. Overcrowded and definitely filled with d-bags. I hear it’s going to be way worse next year.
There is a Burning Man for everyone – from Kidsville to Penetration Village. If you are a d-bag, you will attract d-bags, just like ordinary life.
Burning Man was AWESOME this year! I guess you get what you give…:)
It was fan-tastic. I am pretty over seeing chicks butts in photographs from the Burn, it gets pretty old.
the golden dragon is Abraxis! The website is http://abraxasdragon.com/
Yes, we are a city of 50,000+ D-bags. Please stay home.
Nice photos – but, disappointed you featured girls butts – kinda missed the point there and made you so typical…
Hm, out of 17 photos, 2 featured girls’ butts… meanwhile, on the playa, there were girls’ butts wherever you looked. Woulda been nice to see a naked guy thrown in for good measure (ahem), but otherwise, I’d say this small selection isn’t overly buttful.
why is everyone so mean? I LOVE EVERYONE SO MUCH!
No pics of the “Trojan horse”???
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