Black Rock Desert
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Courtesy Burning Man
- When
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Aug 31, 2010 – Sep 6, 2010
Daily
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- Price
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$300 - 360
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“The theme of this year's Burning Man festival is Metropolis. Artists from all around the world are descending on Nevada's Black Rock desert and using its ancient lakebed as a canvas. Municipal-themed artworks currently on the playa include a monorail that goes "nowhere to nowhere," and the Ghost Train — a life-size projection of a train onto which you can spray digital graffiti. A group of designers from Seattle called the Sober Free Society are taking a slightly more naturalistic approach. They've created a super-sized ant farm based on Uncle Milton's iconic green mail order toy from the '50s. You can walk through it, dig tunnels in the sand, and generally live out your ant fantasies. The best bit is its name: "Mant Farm."”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Every year a dense metropolis arises in the Black Rock Desert; every year it disappears without a trace. Tumult and change, churning cycles of invention and destruction — these forces generate the pulse of urban life. Great cities are organic, spontaneous, heterogeneous, and untidy. They are, like Burning Man, magnetic hubs of social interaction. This year's theme will function as a micro and a macro-scope, an instrument through which we will inspect the daily course of city life and the future prospect of civilization.
-Burning Man
