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Burning Man Project
Meet those who make Burning Man happen, beyond the desert and out in the world. Artists, activists, and innovators. Builders and Burners, freaks and fools. Burning Man floats on a sea of stories, and the Burning Man LIVE podcast is a plucky little boat with a microphone.
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Jun 24, 2020 • 46min
Dark Angel of Black Rock & Restoration Destiny
Stuart Mangrum and Logan Mirto talk with DA (aka Dominic Tinio) about Playa Restoration, the team that returns the desert to a pristine state after each Black Rock City, and the meditative pride that comes with it. They recount launching a burning piano from a trebuchet at the world’s largest Leave No Trace event.They discuss environmental sustainability, MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) and DA’s Black Rock MOOPATHON, an 85-mile desert clean-up starting this week. Coyote shares about losing his car under a massive pile of garbage.Caveat shares about how socks - Civic Responsibility socks - provide a comfortable step, and a fun and functional democracy. https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/moopathonhttps://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/moop-maps/https://burningman.org/event/volunteering/teams/playa-restoration/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
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Jun 17, 2020 • 48min
Duncan Trussell and the Multiverse
Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk with Comedian & Podcaster Duncan Trussell about the show The Midnight Gospel, the secret sauce of Black Rock City, the BRC art theme and temple, alternate realities, death, mourning, gurus, absinthe, “Drunk History,” and Terrence McKenna... and the Tibetan Book of Dreaming and Sleep… and some other stuff too...duncantrussell.comCaveat Magister shares about how Decommodification can lower your car insurance, even if it doesn't.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
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Jun 10, 2020 • 40min
Regionals Out-Weirding the Pandemic
Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk to leaders of the Burning Man Regional Network about creative ways organizers around the world are out-weirding the pandemic. Iris Yee, Head of the Burning Man Regional Network Steven Raspa, Associate Director of Community EventsThe Burning Man Regional Network plays a key role in the year-round extension of the Burning Man experience, supporting it as a global cultural movement. regionals.burningman.orgClovis Buford shares about being the keeper of the hat - Burning Man founder Larry Harvey’s iconic Stetson hat. Caveat Magister sprinkles Radical Self Expression on his salad, and suddenly he’s putting all of his childhood doodles on the wall to make a museum of his unconscious.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
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Jun 10, 2020 • 46min
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Temple
Stuart Mangrum and Dicky Davies talk with three temple builders of Black Rock City. What does “temple” mean in the context of Burning Man, a secular culture based on humanist principles, where ritual is a vector for culture, not really a religious thing..?Lawrence “Renzo” Verbeck is an architect, contractor, and sculptor. Sylvia Adrienne Lisse collaborates on large-scale, interactive art teams at Black Rock City, Regional events, and festivals. For Black Rock City, they worked together on the Temple of Direction (2019) and are co-creating the Empyrean, the 2020 temple, now being developed in virtual space, to be unveiled in real life in 2021. Arthur Mamou-Mani is an architect and director specializing in digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He was the Temple builder for Galaxia in 2018 and designed the Catharsis project for the next Black Rock City.Empyrean: Meet Your 2020 Temple ArtistsGalaxia: The 2018 TempleVR tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatreSimon of the Playa shares his story of how a little girl grieving her mother, and burning embers raining down, taught him how to be human again.Caveat Magister shares about the principle of Gifting, and teddy bear profanities.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
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May 31, 2020 • 44min
Creative Solutions to Mass Destruction
Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk with Tom Price, a Founder of Burners Without Borders, and its current leader Christopher Breedlove. They discuss BWB's creative solutions to crises, from Hurricane Katrina to COVID, and how Burning Man is a permission engine for people to develop new attributes and expressions, have fun, and surf the chaos. Pyrotechnics Expert DaveX makes the impossible possible - and fires up a jet engine under a bridge…Caveat Magister signs up for a subscription box of Radical Self Reliance, then immediately cancels it because he’s radically self-reliant. Burners Without Borders is a grassroots, socially innovative, community leadership program whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems. https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
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