Burning Man is over for another year and all the wonderful pictures taken this year are gradually surfacing across the internet. We’ve gathered a few of our favourites, plus some videos.
The Burning Man Project takes place in the middle of the Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, USA. For 7 days, Black Rock City is a place of community, art, self-expression and self-reliance. Participants at this festival enjoy a transformative experience unlike any other on the planet. The night that they ‘burn the man’ is akin to a New year’s Eve celebration.
The event runs almost entirely from social capital. Art projects are mostly crowd-sourced, music stages are self-funded and all the performers and visitors volunteer their time and give away free stuff to everybody – the gift economy. Of course the organisation behind the event BMOrg (Burning Man Organization) does a huge amount of work to set up the city which becomes home to 70,000 people for a week.
Below: The Candymen – visitors from the Bay Area, San Fransico, contributing to the “gift economy” by handing out sweets.
This year there were plenty of climbable art projects including a huge Xenomorph alien queen fortress, a metal spinning globe and a massive tower with a globe on top that required basic rock-climbing skills to reach the top.
The most talked about art was undoubtedly the Embrace Art Structure. Both of the human structures had passage ways and windows and you could climb to the top. The male had a heart with gears (showing logic) and the female had lightbulbs inside her heart (showing creativity).
The electronic music stages were filled with some great talent including Skrillex, Major Lazer, Above & Beyond, Robot Heart and many more.
The fireworks at Burning Man are some of the best in the world and this year an art piece called Nuclear Dream was detonated. The huge mushroom cloud explosion was heard across the whole playa. Take a look at the video below.
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Nuclear Dream – Burning Man 2014
Below: Neon Trees – a computer-controlled sculpture by Mark Lottor, which created amazing psychedelic light effects.
Below: Super Pool – Jan Lewin’s interactive light installation was a very popular dancing venue!
Below: Pulse and Bloom – interactive LED sculpture and very popular chillout zone made up of 25 mechanical lotus flowers with changing colours.
Below: Lara and Bar – two friends from New York – it did get very windy and dusty this year!
Below: The Temple of Grace – an installation by artist David Best and crew – a spiritual zone for many visitors. It was burned on the final night.
Below: The Voice of the Man – by Stephan Douris, participants could relax and fill their minds with Burning Man ‘propaganda’.
Below: El Pulpo Mecanico – a fire-shooting mechanical octopus by scrap artist Duane Flatmo
Below: Dragons of Eden – inspired by the mythological Greek monster Hydra by fire artist Lucy Hosking.
Below: Pyramid of Possibilities – by artist Douglas Taphouse – the best place to take in the sunrise.
Below are a few random shots of participants that were particularly groovy. There are so many amazing costumes to see!
Burning Man 2014: Caravansary
To Fly Burning Man 2014 – A Drone’s View
For more information on Burning Man, check out their website.
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