![]() He said Burning Man allows individuals to express themselves, and for those working in industries based on technology and science, who may be more introverted, it offers them a chance to show people what they can create and have them appreciate them for their skills. And, somehow, you come in abundance," he said. Instead of worrying about money and putting all these resources into finance, counting money and making sure everything is fair, everyone just agrees to give what they can and as much they can. He said that he believes tech individuals are drawn to Burning Man because of the opportunity to showcase their talents and capabilities. Kamkar said he camps with several Google employees, and the camp has both an art car and a zip line this year. "You kind of get a rush from building, and you get a rush from seeing other people seeing what you built and their reaction to it." It's about making something happen," he said. People who like to build just like to build it's not about getting something. "Everyone thinks that you come here, do drugs and consume, but really it's based on nerd culture, building and contributing. It's cool and just for one week," Kamkar said. Everyone has been putting in all this work for months to make this happen, and now it's coming together. "It's more of a construction feel right now. He said he had arrived several hours before and found a desolate city, but was impressed with how fast it had transformed in the time he had been there. ![]() Second-year Burner Mathew Kamkar, a software developer for a Bay Area startup, was standing near a fence with dozens of other Burners watching as artists added finishing touches to Reno's art project, Embrace. The Reno Gazette-Journal arrived on the Friday before the event and discovered a quiet city about a quarter filled with theme camps, early access Burners, half-built art projects and midnight construction zones. "What we did then is what we do now: take people out of normal environment and put them into a strange environment, where they look at what is happening to them and find their own experience."īurners and crews were working on projects on the playa beginning in early August and putting in 12- to 16-hour shifts to complete them for the event. I have been so far inside it for so long, but every year is different, completely creative and pushes me to rethink everything," Dubois said. "My involvement started naively and created my own processes as I went. Today, she doesn't do as much with the event anymore and instead focuses on the organization's outside global Burner events. She said 15 years after coming to the event, she was overseeing 18 departments with about 10,000 volunteers. In 2000, the Burning Man Information Radio was introduced, and Dubois began overseeing the event's safety departments, including rangers, medical, fire, communications and the Department of Mutant Vehicles in 2002. That was the beginning of street names within the city and creating safety and information spaces so people could find what they were looking for." "Since I came up with the idea, I ended up doing it. "I came up with the idea of naming theme camps and placing them so we could define the infrastructure of the city," she said. We should do it with cool stuff people are doing," Dubois said. "I thought we should be defining space, and we might as well define it with what we had instead of the way it's done in the default world, with shops and commerce. ![]() She said the layout of the city became a necessity when it grew from 250 people that year to a couple of thousand around 1994. Harley Dubois said she came to her first Burning Man during its second year in Nevada in 1991. Throughout a week in the Black Rock Desert, participants encounter thousands of interactive art pieces, flashing light installations, mechanical wonders and design-intensive structures and art cars.īehind the scenes of these engineered masterpieces, thousands of individuals have collaborated, raised funds and worked for months to bring their creations to life for one week out of the summer.īurning Man is an engineered mecca created by artists, scientists, technology gurus and project managers. ![]()
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