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#MeToo #BurningMan #BurningManCulture #Burners RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Me Too movement is making its way to Burning Man. Organizers are reminding attendees that just because the counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert is known for occasional nudity and kinky landmarks like the "Orgy Dome," it doesn't mean it's a free-for-all when it comes to touching or nonconsensual sex, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. This year's event started this weekend. While the festival doesn't have official guidelines, it does have a set of informal rules. Tex Allen, a 13-year Burner, doubts many newcomers to the playa are reading those. The festival's on-site Sexual Assault Services department receives five and 20 reports of alleged sexual assault each year, said Burning Man spokesman Jim Graham. Many of those reports involve leering or grabbing, which aren't considered sexual assault under Nevada law. A few reports each year require involvement from la...

#Burners #BurningMan #BlackRockCity #BurningManCulture A dust storm overwhelmed the road to Burning Man this week. Clouds of  billowing white dust  obscured the caravan of cars snaking through the barren Nevada desert, according to  recent news reports . Travelers parked in ditches and covered their faces with kerchiefs until the squall passed. The drive is an August ritual for more than 70,000 attendees who have descended upon Black Rock City for nearly three decades and are gathered this week to build colossal art installations and dance nude in the scorching summer heat. (You can  watch it live  here.) First came  the artist hippies  in the 1990s. Insanely rich tech moguls  arrived on their private jets  two decades later. Models and celebrities followed. Last year,  politics seeped into  the parade of whirligigs and hat-festooned cyclists when a group of President Trump impersonators arrived, and booths were set up fo...

#BurningMan #Burners #BurningManCulture #BlackRockCity I traveled over 200 miles exploring Burning Man art, and I still didn't see it all. Here's a taste of what was out there. Click link  to follow   Shalaco   on  YouTube

Detail of Shane Evans, Robot Resurrection, 2014m at the Maker Faire, San Francisco. Courtesy of the artist. #BurningMan  #Art  #Artists  #BlackRockCity  #Burners  In late August, some 75,000 people are expected to descend on seven square miles of Nevada desert to build Black Rock City, the annual, temporary home to  Burning Man . Within this massive footprint known as the Playa, artists, designers, technologists, and their creative collaborators mount dozens of otherworldly and ambitious art installations—recent years have included everything from a 55-foot-tall steel sculpture of a woman lit by 3,000 LEDs to a group of massive rainbow mushrooms made from corrugated plastic. A core part of  Burning Man culture , which celebrates art, community, and self-expression, these works are feats of creativity, collaboration, technology, and critical thinking. Not just awe-inspiring installations, they become sites for gatherings, meditation, merrimen...