I am literally at Burning Man right now...

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TOILETLORD: Nov 13, 2012; by XyloJW

MustelaFuro posted:

I am literally sitting on my bed right now, procrastinating the overwhelming amount of work I have to do.

Also, thread is pointless without cool pics.
Edit: Pic in previous post doesn't count as a cool pic.

just get drunk and slam it out.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 14:57

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 01:03

Shasta Orange Soda: Apr 25, 2007

Bust Rodd posted:

I mean it's funny that you guys are hung up on my language choices, but I am LITERALLY (oh definition) here, so that is ok, and while I am not literally at my camp I am close by so I am basically there. You can continue to be trifllin' morons about tho, knock yourself out... Literally, please go hit yourself until you wake up.

i will pay attention to your updates if you promise to spit on a rich techie plus compliment your art if you kick them in the balls

# ? Aug 24, 2014 14:59

Tuxedo Gin: May 21, 2003; Classy.

SirEvelynTremble posted:

couldn't care less!

or could you care less? How much less could you care? Please do elaborate

trap sprung

you are a dumb gay baby

# ? Aug 24, 2014 15:00

PromethiumX: Mar 5, 2003

Unless you slip a tech billionaire some laced drugs then no one gives a gently caress where you are or what you're doing.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 15:14

BigBadSteve: Apr 29, 2009

Hobohemian posted:

You'd think "Owner's of the means of production" would be a pretty simple concept, but no.

Burn baby, burn!

# ? Aug 24, 2014 15:41

Rashaverak: May 13, 2001; "Cock'n'Balls" is a pinnacle of modern medicine.

Random pics.

All of them favorite memories of mine.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 15:43

BigBadSteve: Apr 29, 2009

Rashaverak posted:

Random pics.

All of them favorite memories of mine.

Impressive, a lot bigger sculptures than I'd imagined.

Must get very hot in the desert though, so a person'd have to be pretty keen to go.

Have any of the huge sculptures ever fallen on people?

# ? Aug 24, 2014 15:52

Rashaverak: May 13, 2001; "Cock'n'Balls" is a pinnacle of modern medicine.

BigBadSteve posted:

Impressive, a lot bigger... than I'd imagined.

...Very hot... A person'd have to be pretty keen to go... huge... on people.

Nicely put.

Yes, people get hurt. Combine dehydration, lack of sleep, and drug-induced poor decisions and you get hurt.

There's a reason everyone tells you to "read your loving ticket."

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:04

Meg From Family Guy: Feb 4, 2012

Rashaverak posted:

Random pics.

All of them favorite memories of mine.

how do you even move that thing there

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:27

TOILETLORD: Nov 13, 2012; by XyloJW

that truck sculpture looks like a good transformers porn parody.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:41

Drunk Nerds: Jan 25, 2011; Just close your eyes; Fun Shoe

OP is being really liberal with their definition of the word "art."
BM is a giant circle jerk of people who want to think of themselves as artistic, but don't want to give up their cushy lifestyles long enough to gain any experiences to actually express.
That's why you see all these art pieces that are giant eyesores and basically make no statement about anything.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:42

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

yeah you have to suffer painfully for all art to be good.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:53

Chuck Tanner: Nov 10, 2012; by Lowtax

op you sound like a pretentious twat

# ? Aug 24, 2014 16:55

Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

Negative Entropy posted:

You're a pedantic oval office and as interesting as a corpse in rigor mortis.

Nice little bit of classic GBS here. I like it.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:01

100 HOGS AGREE: Oct 13, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Drunk Nerds posted:

OP is being really liberal with their definition of the word "art."
BM is a giant circle jerk of people who want to think of themselves as artistic, but don't want to give up their cushy lifestyles long enough to gain any experiences to actually express.
That's why you see all these art pieces that are giant eyesores and basically make no statement about anything.

I like that the OP's art installation this year is a climate controlled hut that he can chill out in, safe from the hot hot desert.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:24

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bust Rodd posted:

I know I'm fagposting but my crew is passed out and my hands are sorta tied until sun up.

The truth is Burning Man is largely composed of super rich white people and no, it is not affordable. I don't make a lot of money but I make a lot of art and art grants cover the cost of getting there and sometimes even supplies.

Of the 4 times I made the trip 3 of them were on someone else's dime because I have a reputation for not complaining and never shirking my responsibilities no matter how hard I am partying. At 26 I'm definitely one of the youngest people here (aside from the minors with their families).

A component is that the further away you come from, the richer you usually are and the bigger your poo poo is. West coasters can do the drive in a day and so a ton of Cali/Portland peeps just show up to party, but I'm from the Philly/NYC area so my crew goes hog wild.

I'm phone (fag)posting so I cannot post pics of my art but I built a garden of 9 foot tall praying mantises that people were invited to paint, then is built one 25ft tall and 40 ft long (took 3 days). This year my art project is a climate controlled yurt full of body pillows and Halloween lights. It'll always be cool in there during the day and warm at night, and we have basically every amenity.
The big project my friends have that I skipped out on is converting an Air Force missle loader into a spaceship dj booth (ICARUS).

I've been in and through some sex domes, but the big pile of flesh thing isn't my scene, so I'm usually there to do what's called rangering. That is basically where you go to heated or weird situations (consent violations, overdoses, tripping out too hard) and you try to defuse it before the cops get involved. The last time I was in an orgy dome was to clear out some woman who was just grabbin' handfuls without asking. She was too spun out to be there so I put a blanket over her and took her to medical for a nap.

There are tons of other countries and ethnicities there, but because regional festivals in other countries are blowing up now, I am personally seeing fewer and fewer internationals and by extension, it is mostly white people, but I have camped with Palestinians and Ghanaians before, but that is just anecdotal.

Between the OPs posts describing how awful that poo poo show is and hobohemians meltdown over vocabulary I voted 5

# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:34

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

I like that the OP's art installation this year is a climate controlled hut that he can chill out in, safe from the hot hot desert.

It'll basically have all the amenities youd expect, literally

Its pretty rough out here... We don't even have Xbox live

# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:35

Meg From Family Guy: Feb 4, 2012

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

I like that the OP's art installation this year is a climate controlled hut that he can chill out in, safe from the hot hot desert.

And that he's bragging about using art grants to pay for it

# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:55

Hesh Ballantine: Feb 13, 2012

rushbo was right about one thing, NEA is a waste of taxpayer money

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:05

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

They could've given the art grant money to someone taking photographs of war ravaged central Africa, or starving kids in indonesia. Maybe a guy who wants to paint an inner city mural etc

Instead it's the rich white dude who wants to make disposable praying mantis installations in the middle of the desert for other rich white people to paint and enjoy

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:07

fuck the ROW: Aug 29, 2008; by zen death robot

Hesh Ballantine posted:

rushbo was right about one thing, NEA is a waste of taxpayer money

He's right 99.98 percent of the time

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:15

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

Drunk Nerds posted:

OP is being really liberal with their definition of the word "art."
BM is a giant circle jerk of people who want to think of themselves as artistic, but don't want to give up their cushy lifestyles long enough to gain any experiences to actually express.
That's why you see all these art pieces that are giant eyesores and basically make no statement about anything.

Counterpoint, starving artists wanking off about suffering are also pretentious and bourgie as gently caress. Surely only people dying of ebola in Africa can make real art, as everyone else has it all right comparatively.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:15

fuck the ROW: Aug 29, 2008; by zen death robot

Post more of the pictures and sad descriptions of limp shrimp tables or whatever is happening. Its all pretty hilarious to me

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:18

100 HOGS AGREE: Oct 13, 2007; Grimey Drawer

I think it's ok to make money off of art. If you can get someone to give you cash to work on whatever stupid bullshit you like you should do that because working all day is poo poo as hell.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:32

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Can u imagine how awesome one of those "flesh pile hippie orgies" smells after 4 days in the desert filled with ppl w questionable hygiene to begin w

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:32

Modus Operandi: Oct 5, 2010

how many token minorities b there.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:36

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

a creepy colon posted:

Can u imagine how awesome one of those "flesh pile hippie orgies" smells after 4 days in the desert filled with ppl w questionable hygiene to begin w

and all the lube mixed w/ dust and sand particles for a nice sticky rough texture in addition to those rad scents

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:36

Sponge Baathist: Jan 30, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

OP what's the trip report on getting Malcolm laid?

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:46

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

I think it's ok to make money off of art. If you can get someone to give you cash to work on whatever stupid bullshit you like you should do that because working all day is poo poo as hell.

Are you retarded? No one is making money off art here. The op is milking govmnt grants and probably his trust fund to party in the desert w rich yuppies

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:53

Modus Operandi: Oct 5, 2010

what is the most prevalent STD at burning man.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 20:54

a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

haha is it called burning man because everyone has a sunburn

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:23

Tuxedo Gin: May 21, 2003; Classy.

a starwar betamax posted:

haha is it called burning man because everyone has a sunburn

everyone has syphilis

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:26

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

I literally didn't read the OP or thread. Literally.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:31

rubbe: Jul 19, 2008

the Gaffe posted:

i am literally burning a man right now please discuss

hosed up if true.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:33

Tuxedo Gin: May 21, 2003; Classy.

fuctifino posted:

I literally didn't read the OP or thread. Literally.

lucky

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:36

Panamaniac: Jun 18, 2007; HEROES NEVER DIE

Modus Operandi posted:

what is the most prevalent STD at burning man.

Gay.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 21:57

BigBoss: Jan 26, 2012; by Lowtax

Drunk Nerds posted:

OP is being really liberal with their definition of the word "art."
BM is a giant circle jerk of people who want to think of themselves as artistic, but don't want to give up their cushy lifestyles long enough to gain any experiences to actually express.
That's why you see all these art pieces that are giant eyesores and basically make no statement about anything.

Hey everyone look at this dumb baby who doesn't know anything about the art world post WWII.

# ? Aug 24, 2014 22:01