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Mutant cars from all over Black Rock City formed an outer ring around the towering effigy of the Man at Burning Man 2018 -- from the USS Nevada clipper ship to the 40-foot-tall marionettes to the Mayan Temple music car. Within the car circle, tens of thousands of people gathered on the playa in a series of smaller circles, waiting to watch the Man burst into flames and collapse to the ground. Rangers and medical staff created a lattice between the spectator circle and impending fires, ready to tackle anyone who might come forward. “If everyone is sitting, we can all see someone running or see that movement,” said a man who goes by “Land Cruiser.” He had attended Burning Man for 11 years and had volunteered as a ranger, the team that provides security, before. Rangers yelled at anyone who stood up and convinced other burners to chant, “If everyone sits, everyone sees.” Security had been stepped up after last year, when Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, fatally ran into the Burning Man e

#Burners #BurningMan  #BlackRockCity So you wanted to go to Burning Man this year, but didn't feel like being dehydrated and stoned out of your gourd? Then you missed some magnificent structures, statues, kinetic sculptures, LED light shows, et cetera. But luckily for you, a chap named Mark Day shot them and edited the footage into a quick, easily-digestible two-minute chunk: By  Rain N oe - September 12