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Monday, 28 August 2000 Black Rock City Population Count: Every Single One of Us Gate Edition, Volume IX • Burning Man 2000 to e Welcome NO er … h FIND W Waldo! Each day, a participant will be randomly selected (without their knowledge) to be Black Rock City’s “Waldo!” If you see him/her in the crowd, shower them with gifts, hugs, food, invitations, and your best Jerry Lewis impression. Make Waldo! happy. If you can find our Waldo! and have made him/her truly happy, drop by to tell us. The post-apocalypse is no place for tree-hug- (Bring us a melon.) We might even give you gers. In fact, there are no trees to hug. In Black a prize: Waldo’s Angel Wings, a beer, or a Rock City, there are no facilities that billow toxic hug or something like that. gases on the masses. The only fumes here are from artifacts we ignite in the name of psychic release. Yet, here where there are no endangered species to protect, lies a clarity beyond the buzzwords of A Message from contemporary environmentalism. Media Mecca Here, true modern environmentalism All film, video and DVD (motion-capturing) makes us radical deserters, for there truly is HMS Love Boat, 2:00 playa, Burning Man 1999 (WHO TOOK THIS PHOTO?) cameras must be tagged, and a use agree- “nothing” here to protect. Removed from force- we are forced to confront our own stream of also call the desert playa home, then only with ment signed, whether for public or private fed consumerism, we decompress in the stark waste, and must choose to take responsibility, hypocrisy might we expect our freedom to use. Use agreements are available at the openness of a nature where our bodies remind or let it become a crippling threat to the fabric return to be respected. Within this framework, Greeters, Check Point Salon and Ranger us that the difference between life and death is of our city’s life. Yet, through this reflection at environmentalism means we're all in this Outposts. Professional media must report a gallon of water. Choosing each item we carry our selves and our surroundings one heartfelt together. One need not be a tree-hugger to to the Recovery Room at Media Mecca for to this clean slate, we become keenly aware of message sprouts: this is our home. The blank appreciate this simple requirement of our con- proper probing. (See "Why We Tag what is for our survival and what is for “color" canvas that invites our ephemeral existence is, tinuing existence. One only needs the desire to Cameras" in this issue of the Gazette.) on the social palette of Black Rock City. We in its barren nature, the seed of Burning Man's return to nowhere; to understand the strange celebrate the simple triumph of a head of let- future, our survival, and hope. passionate yearning the wide open emptiness tuce in our cooler, keenly aware of our depend- If we want to continue to exist here, we instills. In order to be welcomed back among ence on ice, and the combustion of fuels. must take care of our home. If by our sheer the migrating tribes of the Black Rock Desert, we BRC GRC EMP GRC BRC BUS Removed from the coddling grid of civilization, numbers we trample the rights of others who must absolutely vanish without a trace. Again, this year, Burning Man will provide — shibumi public transportation on a loop from Black The laser man The “Beaming Man” uses solid state optics Rock City to Gerlach and Empire and back. was conceived and designed specifically for harsh desert condi- Bus tickets will be sold just prior to the designed by Larry tions (such as entanglements with stray thongs departure of each bus; no “advanced MUMBLIN REVEREND Harvey, and Russel and boas). At the core, three lasers are split into ticket sales.” Tickets are $5. Please note: Man in the Sky The centerpiece to this year’s playa bac- Wilcox, a physicist two beams each, tracing a luminous, familiar • Each person must present a BMAN tick- canal will be a mile-long elevated laser scribed currently at Law- form; another temporal body of the Man. Laser et stub to purchase a bus ticket; one tick- pictograph of the Burning Man logo. Etched rence Livermore sources at each hip generate an arm and a leg, et per customer. You must be dressed into the night sky and representative of this National Lab. The with the laser’s energy absorbed by six-foot appropriately for town, and be not obvi- year’s theme, “The Body”, this colossal figure concept and creation of a construction of his targets at the hands and feet. Another laser ously under the influence of intoxicants. will be a living art gallery. Upon and within scale in the desert was a technological chal- source at the top of the head directs a beam to • The bus ticket is only your boarding pass this body, many artists will position their lenge ideally suited to Russel’s skills. Wilcox, each ear, where they are deflected from six- to get on the bus. Your BMAN ticket stub hyper-real interpretations of the body parts in who holds four patents in laser technology, is inch mirrors to the chin to form the Man’s dis- is your re-entry ticket to Black Rock City. pieces they’ve created in the spirit of our event. also the designer of a subsystem for a billion tinctive diamond-shaped head. Upon the playa, welcome to NOWhere The bus will make only scheduled stops, so Stretching out in the concave arc that is dollar laser project, and has invented new we will be like cells continually (JUMP TO PAGE 2) to re-board the bus, riders must show one the map of Black Rock City, this giant form will methods for generating light pulses used in of the following combinations: be projected from a series of thirty-foot towers. laser fusion research. He is also an avid video (a) a BMAN ticket stub and bus ticket, or The familiar outline will become our communal cinematographer, and former film grad student (b) a BMAN ticket stub and Gate in/out Black Rock City playground, as much as our of San Francisco State University. Mr. Harvey token. NO EXCEPTIONS. bodies are the theme. is known for his hat. Center Camp Café might • For schedules, locations, additional rules, be described as an urban jewel regulations and more, ask for the book in adorning the body of Black Rock City. Twenty- Center Camp at Check Point Salon. four hours a day for the duration of the event, you can get a world-class latte or a chai, hear music and see diverse performances in the 911 café’s four different environments. This is the In the event of an emergency contact a place to meet your friends or make new ones in Black Rock Ranger; or contact the Rangers some welcome shade. Check your daily Dispatch Center with a CB or HAM radio. Gazette, or tune into Radio Free Burning Man CB: Channel 9 (99.5 FM) for updates. The Center Camp Café... HAM: 2m:144.400 100 PL/CTCSS tone “Isn’t this a lot of work for just one erection?” in the center of the center. No reservations. burns with fire unseen elsewhere > HAM: 70cm:444.400 “ Dispatch monitors all three channels, 24 hours a day. Be prepared to state your Over the years, we have learned to supply journalists with plenty of context, for it is sto- name, location (theme camp, landmarks, Attention ries without context – movies, videography or intersection), and the nature of the emer- WHY WE TAG CAMERAS Citizens!!! Do you feel: Confused? articles that focus on sensational and superfi- gency. Try to remain in radio contact with — a message from Media Mecca Alone? Not-so-fresh? Want to make a the disptacher until the Rangers arrive on Burning Man is radically inclusive. This cial features of the event – that have the power difference (but don’t know how)? Well, scene. For more information, visit the means we never prejudge people. It is not nec- to harm our community. We require all jour- can’t help you with those things (sorry). Ranger Headquarters in Center Camp. essary to belong to some particular clique or nalists to learn about Burning Man. We ask But what I can do is offer a place where subculture to gain acceptance in Black Rock them to live here, and experience Black Rock you can say/do/be anything — kind of City. This is a place to do and be; and anyone City for themselves. We are also ready to like the playa itself, man, only this is a can be a part of our community. This same exclude the media. In 1999, MTV proposed to playa of the mind. Only, it’s in, like, a somewhere the desert > Burning Man Archive basic rule also applies to members of the film at our event without cooperating in this corner. I’m talking about poetry; This year we’ll have Official Playa media. We have always welcomed the partici- process. $10,000 in legal fees later, and through brilliant, brutal or beautiful. We need Collectors walking around to collect sam- pation of journalists because we think we have the threat of law, we prevented MTV from your best… (can I take that back?) We deMANd ples of the unique and bizarre creations a story to tell to the world. broadcasting a show they had touted on your best burning poetry for the Gazette! you have made for your Burning Man 2000 national television.
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