The source of Paiute legends now revealed to have been events in the future of the Black Rock Desert -- predictions, prophecies, or forecasts delivered by the shamans of old.
C CJul 20, 2018 06:49 PM (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2018 06:50 PM by C C.)
(Jul 20, 2018 05:42 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: If I were an alien, I'd hover over Burning Man at night with a big flashy ufo. Do you think they'd even notice?
Would help explain why all these space-alien and time-travel birdwatchers look at old photographs of everyday scenes in search of some bystander holding a blurry, misidentified smartphone or tablet computer. Instead of also eyeballing the hopelessness of events and places which such incognito wayfarers would actually frequent... The images of extravagant Halloween celebrations and various weird festivals around the globe; technological expositions of the past (including Frank Baum's inspiration for the Emerald City); bizarre theme parks; etc.
C CJul 20, 2018 08:50 PM (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2018 08:50 PM by C C.)
(Jul 20, 2018 03:53 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Have any of you ever been before? They’re saying that it’s changed. It’s being invaded by rich parasites.
If you have never been to Burning Man, your perception is likely this: a white-hot desert filled with 50,000 stoned, half-naked hippies doing sun salutations while techno music thumps through the air. A few years ago, this assumption would have been mostly correct. But now things are a little different....
I've never been to a single one. But another journalist observer or blogger somewhere countered that the the techno-wizard aristocracy has been present there from the earliest days. Supposedly it was never a pristine circle of green-morality hipsters and painted pagans singing Kumbaya around a Wicker Man campfire.
I've never been but I'd love to go just to check out the artwork. There's a guy that lives near me that participates. This was one of his pieces. He usually ends up selling them to local wineries.