Entries from May 2008
Remember the bike-powered swinging monkey installation
that was on the playa last year? You know, the thing that turned
under a strobe light so it looked like the monkeys were swinging from
branch to branch?
With all the elaborate gears & light effects?
No?
Well it’s pretty great:
As you may have heard, Homouroboros, the monkey sculpture from [...]
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Tags: Art · Events · Off Playa · VOLUNTEERING
(thanks for sending this in, eddie!)
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Tags: Burning Man · Video
Comfort & Joy presents a Memorial Gay Weekend Experience.
INFO + TICKETS HERE
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Tags: Events · Off Playa
One of our favorite daytime discos at Burning Man just released their fundraiser schedule for the summer. Mark your calendars!
Saturday, May 31st @ The Endup
Saturday, July 26th @ The Endup
Get more info (and download live dj mixes) at www.thedeependcamp.com
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Tags: 2007 · 2008 · Burning Man · Events · Getting Political · Off Playa · Video
A new ballot initiative designed to reduce permit paperwork for cultural event producers got overwhelming support at a recent Entertainment Commission hearing last week. A large crowd of people and long line of inspiring speakers (including $teven Ra$pa, one of the organizers of the Burning Man festival), brought quite a bit of positive atttention to [...]
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Tags: Getting Political
More and more creative faggots from the Burning Man community are starting to participate in spiritual gatherings at radical faerie sanctuaries. Fresh back from such a gathering in Tennessee, Leo Herrera (of Burning Marys) is organizing a reunion next Monday in the Castro with an open bar (!), where he’ll be unveiling his “Portraits [...]
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Tags: Events · Video
A beautiful cast of characters send their love from Burning Man 2007.
Video by Jaime Nelson, who says “Life is magical” (and makes us believe it). Music by Waldeck.
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Tags: 2007 · Burning Man · Video
Ken Vulsion’s latest mix is dedicated to little butts. “Cupcake ass, the kind that fits in a man’s hands. Reform school pass around party bottom. What the writer Dennis Cooper calls ‘The flat, no big deal ass.’”
Sweet.
Listen / Download here.
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Tags: Music
Chickpea (aka Brian Busta), the main force behind Comfort & Joy’s blacklight art installations, has a fabulous new project!!
Our boy has been painting up a storm! And he’s put together a show of his latest work in a laundromat!
Do your laundry, look at fabulous art. What more could you possibly want? [...]
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Tags: Art · Events
We are proud to annouce that the World Naked Bike Ride will return to Burning Man in 2008! As is now tradition, Comfort & Joy will host the climax reception at the end of the ride before we all head to the Deep End to dance the late afternoon light away. Your Thursday afternoon at [...]
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Tags: 2008 · Events · Video