BURNILEAKS: Bullying the Burners [Updates]
The post-Burning Man headaches for BMOrg continue to mount. If you believe in karma or physics, then you understand that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you threaten legal...
View ArticleCritical Third
There’s not much more I need to say to introduce this story, it kind of speaks for itself. “Is she crazy? According to Tridevil, “I am crazy. But the crazy people don’t know they’re crazy, so...
View ArticleExploring the Other: 2014 Edition
Burning Man requires its Regional Events to have transparent financials, donate to their charities, and obtain a license to use their trademarks. For themselves, the requirements are not so strict....
View ArticleSafari Camps Play Burner Bingo
Just when you think the stories about Commodification Camp Caravancicle couldn’t get any worse, we get this leak from the Facebook group Sherpa Liberation Front. It seems $13,000 can buy you a room in...
View ArticleEmbattled Burners Ask Community for Support
[Update 10/1/14]: please help with the modest amount they are raising to mount a defense. Napalm Dragon, who is being sued by BMOrg who never registered their trademark in Canada, has asked for help on...
View ArticleHelp Canada
BurnBC, the non-profit collective of (some) Canadian Burners who is being sued by BMOrg for $40,000 for daring to have a legally registered trademark in their own country that they’ve been using for 20...
View ArticleSouth Bhak – Burning Man and South Park S18 Connection *Again*
Bhak Jolilcouer may have a point. He saw a lot of parallels between last week’s South Park Season 18 premiere, Go Fund Yourself, and his situation with a trademark that was in the public domain in...
View ArticleSocial Alchemist Seeks Sherpa for Startup Shenanigans
This year, just before Burning Man, the New York Times published an expose on rich people trying to one-up each other at Burning Man with luxury camps and paid employees. They featured an interview...
View ArticleBurning Man Introduces Censorship [Updates]
Did you know Burning Man has implemented a censorship policy? Me neither…until I fell victim to it this weekend. Does BMOrg really want to get feedback from the community, and listen to our concerns?...
View ArticleBurning Man’s Gift Economy and its Effect on Mainstream Society [Update]
Festpop has an article by Karli Jaenike about how Burning Man is changing the world. I’m re-blogging it here so we can then discuss it. Emphasis ours. re-blogged from FestPop It’s no secret that most...
View ArticleBackstage Flare-Up at SF Decom [Update]
Fire dancers are not all warm and fuzzy. It sounds like some shit went down backstage at last weekend’s officially sanctioned Decompression party in San Francisco – an assault, or nearly one. The Black...
View ArticleTurkey Answers, But Silence On Commodification Scalper Tickets [Poll Added]
BMOrg have published a blog post “How Turnkey Camps Get Placed”. They persist with trying to re-frame the issue with semantics – we prefer Commodification Camps to this Turkey camps idea that BMOrg are...
View ArticleBMOrg Continues to Cover for Commodification Camps
Will Chase has added to the chorus of Commodification Camp justifications we’ve been hearing from BMOrg, with a post saying “what’s all the fuss about? Nothing to see here, move along”: Virgins and...
View ArticleBMOrg Speaks to Address Community Concerns
Will Chase, BMOrg’s Minister of Propaganda, has made a statement in response to the community’s concerns about Commodification Camps. He wants us to know that he’s listening. And he told his bosses the...
View ArticleBURNILEAKS: How Commodification Camps Got Tickets [Update]
Thanks a million to Anonymous Burner for sharing this timely evidence. BMOrg doesn’t want to explain how Commodification Camps got so many tickets to an event that was sold out in February, so it’s...
View ArticleSeth Troxler Speaks Out On Robot Heart Incident
Seth Troxler is about to tour Australia, and he’s given an interview to Henry Johnstone at Pulse Radio. When asked about the infamous Robot Heart incident, he pulls no punches: HJ: The magic of the...
View ArticleArt Versus Money
At the end of last month, BMOrg breathlessly announced all kinds of exciting news. They said: (shhhh, just between you and us …) we’re working on a really really BIG project that will serve to tell the...
View ArticleBMOrg’s Next Response [Updates]
They’re listening. They’ve been listening for months. Their response? Continuing to send their volunteers out online to cop the heat from the Burner community. Now it’s the turn of Caveat Magister....
View ArticleDJ Ass Stunt Goes Viral
Australian DJ Flume, whose real name is Harley Edward Streten, is a platinum selling and Grammy Award-winning artist. He took his name from a Bon Iver song. He has remixed songs from Lorde, Arcade...
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