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BMOrg 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...
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BMOrg 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...
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BURNILEAKS: 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...
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Seth Troxler Speaks Out On Robot Heart Incident
image: Rolling Stone 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:...
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Art 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...
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BMOrg’s Next Response
They’re listening. They’ve been listening for months. Their response? Continuing to sending their volunteers out online to cop the heat from the Burner community. Now it’s the turn of Caveat Magister....
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Protesting the Protestors
Over at burningman.com, Caveat Magister’s attempts to laugh off the Burner community’s Commodification Camp concerns - Why Am I Making Fun of Burners and 12 Shocking Revelations About Ultra-Rich Plug...
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Commodifying Decommodification
A guest post from our reader Pantsless Santa. It’s an eye-opener! The desire of these people to laugh at the very principles they created, and told us we had to live by, seems to know no bounds. image:...
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2013 Charity Results Released
Last weekend, Burning Man Arts – the new organization that is a merger between two of the non-profits in BMOrg’s empire, Black Rock Arts Foundation and the Burning Man Project – threw its Eighth...
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Boycott Commodification – or Just Give Us Your Money [Update]
Thanks to our eagle-eyed readers who spotted this post at The Burning Blog Voices of Burning Man. It seems they posted it, and as soon as there was a critical comment, yanked it again. Not before one...
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BMOrg Hath Spoken
image: Roadside Pictures/Flickr (Creative Commons) Finally, more than a quarter of a year after the last week-long Burning Man event ended, BMOrg has given some official answers to the many concerns...
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What’s In A Name?
Burning Man. What is it? A rave in the desert? An arts festival? A Temporary Autonomous Zone? An experiment in new ways of living together as a community, relying on each other to survive, without the...
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JT Finally Speaks
Caravancicle and the Lost Hotel It only took 3 1/2 months – and, quite probably, me spending an hour yesterday talking to a reporter from Bloomberg Business Week, then passing his details on to...
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Bloomberg On SherpaGate and Burners.Me [Update]
The sorry saga of the Sherpa and the Popsicle Camp has made it to Wall Street. Bloomberg BusinessWeek has published a lengthy article on the whole affair, titled Occupy Burning Man: Class Warfare...
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“Emotional Rollercoaster from Hell”
BMOrg’s latest post on ticketing does nothing to quell doubts about the motivations behind Ticket Hell. Taking us on an emotional roller coaster from hell, and generating and focusing a massive amount...
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Burning Man Hacked!
image from WIRED The news of hackers exploiting a “back door” in BMOrg’s new ticketing system broke last week on Reddit. We covered it last Wednesday in Ticket Hell. Now, the story has been picked up...
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Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way To Burning Man
Image: Simon Davison/Flickr (Creative Commons) “Usually people are hacking to steal things…these people were hacking just to get a chance to spend $400 to get a ticket” 89.3 KPCC radio did an interview...
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Radio Interview With BMOrg’s Jim Graham on ChocoTacoGate [Update]
KPNR has an interview with Burning Man spokesman Jim Graham about the latest controversy in the Burnerverse. https://burnersxxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/150630_burningman_web.mp3. The Twitter-verse...
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New Plug-n-Plays Coming Up With Their Own Principles
Soho Gardens is the latest ultra-luxe glamping experience at Burning Man. It is very much following the lead of previous sherpa-laden hotel experiences at Burning Man that have been highly promoted to...
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BLM to Review Chocotacos, if BM Lifts Their Safety Game [Updates]
Yesterday Burning Man bigwigs and BLM bigwigs got together to discuss Chocotacogate. According to the information leaked (by BMOrg?) to Jenny Kane at the RGJ: the BLM wanted $1 million+ in extra...
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