Burning Man is annual festival radical
self-expression in the black rock desert
also known as thousands of dirty naked
hippies fest but it’s a fun kind of a
festival taste
express yourself and and show the world
and everybody else who you are without
really caring what the real things about
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today is
installment we’re counting down the five
most insane things we could learn about
this deliberately bugged-out festival
why the reason I keep coming back is
every year there’s something I see that
blows my mind
number five goods are acquired through a
gift economy why my path they all say
take a number the culture of Burning Man
we’re told is the sort of thing that you
just have to experience to understand
and once you do you’ll never be the same
given how accustomed most of us are to
consumer culture
one of the biggest culture shocks is
that there is almost nothing for sale
here there’s no money exchanged accepted
by your brother I was getting into the
man yeah get money that’s that’s playing
the game participants or burners as
they’re called bring all the food and
water they’ll need for the week plus
extra things to gift unlike in a barter
system these gifts are unconditional and
could be anything from a shiatsu massage
to banana
of course anything you are gifted or any
garbage you create must come back out
with you as the Fest follows a strict
Leave No Trace policy what happens in
Vegas stays in Vegas now what happens in
Black Rock City you take home with you
number four burners get around in art
cars art is our public transportation
said Larry Harvey creator of the
festival if you want to drive a car
around Black Rock City you need to apply
for a permit from the Department of
mutant vehicles and your ID will need to
meet certain standards of sound lighting
safety interactivity and mutation of
course art cars aren’t the only
impromptu interactive canvas
impressive structures spring up every
year including an actual observatory the
temple is an annual installation where
burners create memorials for loved ones
and at the end of the week along with
the giant wooden man it’s cathartic we
burned to the ground
number three activity titles alone are
interesting enough for an entry here’s
just a small sampling of the thousands
of radically expressive activities and
events at the festival which in the
spirit of gifting are completely free
tea and porn
spankings and cookies angels aliens and
outlaws hip hop water gun fight porn
Ogami bad advice booth magic pancake
project I wish I could make these kind
of pancakes for a living make a fortune
ask a Buddhist human powered obstacle
course hot sex fire Jam biochemistry of
psychedelics sketchy the clown drinking
contest
knife-throwing class and finally
thankfully 12-step meetings I feel
completely comfortable missing that
party number two
tech billionaires chill in entitlement
camps come check out my tent I worked a
bunch of crap off SkyMall I got my TV my
xbox DVD awesome bed right there
DJ rumors in the mix it’s like I’m not
even camping the average burner pays a
few hundred dollars for a ticket and
stays in a camp of people in RVs tents
and DIY shelters in fact creating your
own DIY experience is kind of the whole
point campers in London yeah in recent
years though super rich folks among them
Silicon Valley billionaires like Tesla
Motors Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
have been upgrading themselves into
exclusive luxurious air-conditioned
accommodations that reportedly cost up
to $25,000 per personal gotta keep the
riffraff out no offense everybody
festival organizers have been cracking
down on concierge services that offer
prepackaged plug-and-play luxury Burning
Man vacations saying that it erodes the
festival’s culture I am
to a certain level of comfort in my life
and I didn’t want to sacrifice at number
one you might die and that’s your
responsibility in fact it says so right
on the ticket it’s hard not to see why
people are exposed to fairly extreme
weather climb on big interactive
sculptures zip around on mobile art
create massive walls of fire and do most
of this on drugs the specific numbers
might be somewhat confounded by the fact
that serious accidents are treated
off-site in nearby Reno Nevada and so
burners who die there aren’t technically
dying at the festival but one of the
principles of Burning Man is radical
self-reliance this may account for the
fact that on average there’s less than
one death per year and the majority of
the 4000 plus injuries reported tend to
be simple cuts blisters and dehydration
it is the desert after all so how about
you do you like the idea of Burning Man
for more flaming hot top tens and burnt
out top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you gotta go okay yeah
have a good one try not to die
self-expression in the black rock desert
also known as thousands of dirty naked
hippies fest but it’s a fun kind of a
festival taste
express yourself and and show the world
and everybody else who you are without
really caring what the real things about
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today is
installment we’re counting down the five
most insane things we could learn about
this deliberately bugged-out festival
why the reason I keep coming back is
every year there’s something I see that
blows my mind
number five goods are acquired through a
gift economy why my path they all say
take a number the culture of Burning Man
we’re told is the sort of thing that you
just have to experience to understand
and once you do you’ll never be the same
given how accustomed most of us are to
consumer culture
one of the biggest culture shocks is
that there is almost nothing for sale
here there’s no money exchanged accepted
by your brother I was getting into the
man yeah get money that’s that’s playing
the game participants or burners as
they’re called bring all the food and
water they’ll need for the week plus
extra things to gift unlike in a barter
system these gifts are unconditional and
could be anything from a shiatsu massage
to banana
of course anything you are gifted or any
garbage you create must come back out
with you as the Fest follows a strict
Leave No Trace policy what happens in
Vegas stays in Vegas now what happens in
Black Rock City you take home with you
number four burners get around in art
cars art is our public transportation
said Larry Harvey creator of the
festival if you want to drive a car
around Black Rock City you need to apply
for a permit from the Department of
mutant vehicles and your ID will need to
meet certain standards of sound lighting
safety interactivity and mutation of
course art cars aren’t the only
impromptu interactive canvas
impressive structures spring up every
year including an actual observatory the
temple is an annual installation where
burners create memorials for loved ones
and at the end of the week along with
the giant wooden man it’s cathartic we
burned to the ground
number three activity titles alone are
interesting enough for an entry here’s
just a small sampling of the thousands
of radically expressive activities and
events at the festival which in the
spirit of gifting are completely free
tea and porn
spankings and cookies angels aliens and
outlaws hip hop water gun fight porn
Ogami bad advice booth magic pancake
project I wish I could make these kind
of pancakes for a living make a fortune
ask a Buddhist human powered obstacle
course hot sex fire Jam biochemistry of
psychedelics sketchy the clown drinking
contest
knife-throwing class and finally
thankfully 12-step meetings I feel
completely comfortable missing that
party number two
tech billionaires chill in entitlement
camps come check out my tent I worked a
bunch of crap off SkyMall I got my TV my
xbox DVD awesome bed right there
DJ rumors in the mix it’s like I’m not
even camping the average burner pays a
few hundred dollars for a ticket and
stays in a camp of people in RVs tents
and DIY shelters in fact creating your
own DIY experience is kind of the whole
point campers in London yeah in recent
years though super rich folks among them
Silicon Valley billionaires like Tesla
Motors Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
have been upgrading themselves into
exclusive luxurious air-conditioned
accommodations that reportedly cost up
to $25,000 per personal gotta keep the
riffraff out no offense everybody
festival organizers have been cracking
down on concierge services that offer
prepackaged plug-and-play luxury Burning
Man vacations saying that it erodes the
festival’s culture I am
to a certain level of comfort in my life
and I didn’t want to sacrifice at number
one you might die and that’s your
responsibility in fact it says so right
on the ticket it’s hard not to see why
people are exposed to fairly extreme
weather climb on big interactive
sculptures zip around on mobile art
create massive walls of fire and do most
of this on drugs the specific numbers
might be somewhat confounded by the fact
that serious accidents are treated
off-site in nearby Reno Nevada and so
burners who die there aren’t technically
dying at the festival but one of the
principles of Burning Man is radical
self-reliance this may account for the
fact that on average there’s less than
one death per year and the majority of
the 4000 plus injuries reported tend to
be simple cuts blisters and dehydration
it is the desert after all so how about
you do you like the idea of Burning Man
for more flaming hot top tens and burnt
out top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you gotta go okay yeah
have a good one try not to die
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