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7 unusual facts about Burning Man


David Starfire

A seasoned festival veteran, Starfire has performed at large scale international festivals including Coachella, Burning Man, Earthdance, Winter Music Conference, Love Parade, Shambhala, and Lightning in a Bottle.

His signature fusion of world music with hip-hop and breakbeats has led to him becoming a veteran of the international festival circuit that includes performances at Burning Man, Coachella, Earthdance, and Lightning in a Bottle.

Kepi and Kat

Kepi and Kat have headlined in clubs around the USA in such places as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle and Portland, and have performed at numerous high-profile outdoor festivals such as the Love Parade (now Love Fest) in San Francisco, Los Angeles' cult-favorite Moontribe and Nevada’s now legendary Burning Man Festival.

Nevada State Route 447

Just past where the official designation ends is the turn off for former State Route 34, which is used to access the large playa of the Black Rock Desert and the site of the annual Burning Man Festival.

Though passing through extremely remote and desolate areas of Nevada, the highway has recently gained fame as the primary route to access the Black Rock Desert, the site of the annual Burning Man festival.

Rena Jones

Jones has performed at several electronic music festivals including Shambhala, Burning Man and the Glade.

Tenzin Ösel Hita

At some point Hita gave up his monastic robes and distanced himself from the FPMT in favor of a more avant-garde lifestyle, for example performing at the 2007 Burning Man festival.


Mike Daisey

American Utopias (2012) is Daisey's monologue about the way that physical spaces influence people's shared goals, using modern American utopian models including Disney World, the Burning Man Festival, and Zuccotti Park and the birth of the Occupy movement.

MoeTar

They also performed at the annual Burning Man Decompression Festival, and played the opening slot at the final show of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Olivier Bonin

Olivier Bonin (born 1973) is a documentary filmmaker, whose first movie is Dust & Illusions, 30 years of Burning Man history.

Patri Friedman

Since attending the Burning Man festival in 2000, Friedman imagined creating a water festival called Ephemerisle as a Seasteading experiment and Temporary Autonomous Zone.

Solarflora

The Solarflora has also been used at a series of events including Burning Man in Nevada, as well as the annual Autumn Lights Festival at Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles.


see also

Burning Flipside

Flipside's location is in a private camp area in the wooded, grassy Texas Hill Country, unlike the extremely flat, very dusty dried lake bed in Black Rock Desert where Burning Man is held.

Steve Peacocke

His second feature is the 2011 film Burning Man, with Matthew Goode and Bojana Novakovic.