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Burning Man 2007
By lmhall | August 31, 2007
Greetings!
Pimped Jazzy mobility chair seen at Burning Man.
The Burning Man event has evolved into a week long gathering of nearly 40,000 people who descend on the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada around Labor Day each year to celebrate counter cultural creativity.
In other festival news:
A Burning Man participant was found dead this morning, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Management.
The apparent suicide would be the festival’s first in its 21 year history, Pirtle said.
Pershing County coroners are investigating the scene and preparing to remove the body. Pirtle said the man was hanging for two hours before anyone in the large tent thought to bring him down. “His friends thought he was doing an art piece,” Pirtle said.
tip goes to Chatter
September 4th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Hmmmm- sounds like he was doing an art piece to me.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
The most successful performance art is recorded in photography to sell later to make money to make more performance art. Was there photos? Will he make art again?
Ron, your comment made me think about one of the most extreme “performance art” pieces I heard about when I was an art student in college.
Yup, I feel a blog post coming on at In Repose.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
[...] Earlier, while in the way-back machine, I noticed that this time last year I was also ready to burn. Funny, but I’ve got that same urge today. And here’s the object of my desire: [...]
March 30th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
[...] In fact, I’ve suggested that we start start our own “Burning Man” festival. Food, family, and a controlled burn. We have a retired firefighter captain and trained health professionals in the family ready to assist. [...]