Ironwolf

10-minute Time Lapse Sequence
Includes the “early burn” during Monday’s total lunar eclipse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEdZpoWTBBw

The Monkey Chant
I wasn’t at this year’s Kecak, but got to participate last year when it was in Center Camp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeGMjeLFY4I

Homoroborous By Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsI1FYC6B_Y

Homoroborous By Night
As the monkey swings, the serpent approaches holding an apple… the monkey eats the apple and the serpent. I thought that […]

ALBINO! is a San Francisco-based Afrobeat band that I was introduced to at this year’s Burning Man. They’re quite fun— I love the “wall of saxophones” sound.
Puppet Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGlZ52tIL0k

No Go Sell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9CBSUpKGew

Live at Mystic Hot Springs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbPaeZseqDI

I’m off to the playa! I hope to post a few photos from there. If I can, you’ll see them magically appear in the slide show below. There is also an RSS feed here.

I first saw the Extra Action Marching Band live at Burning Man about three years ago. They have a habit of showing up in public out of nowhere for impromptu performances, and their unique combination of serious musicality and bacchanalian revelry is truly intoxicating.
Enter the Dragon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pszsuhS9s1k

Black Chicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytBcCHUfcNY

Guanguango

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYCybnlGhg

CNN Money reports on why high-tech talent hunting often happens at the supposedly anarchic and bohemian Burning Man festival.

An actual Google holiday logo.

This is a massive photo! (15.6 megapixels) IKONOS captures the scope of Black Rock City in all its glory.

Here are some select videos from Burning Man 2006. No-one can see everything at Burning Man, but these are all installations I did get to see. I’ll be posting more about my experience in coming days.
15′ Walking Giraffe Robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mD-S1hzag0

Fire Dancing at the Burn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip4weq-xohY

Serpent Mother
By The Flaming Lotus Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-i43zkxq8

The Burninator
A 1,000-foot long string of computer-controlled propane […]

Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters is an amazing, well-produced video (45 minutes) that should be required viewing for all U.S. citizens above the age of about 14. During routine traffic stops and other encounters, police often ask questions that amount to “idiot tests,” and which can easily lead citizens to unknowingly waive […]

Abraham Lincoln famously said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” [He was, as one commenter points out below, quoting the Bible.] Does Christianity hold a consistent world view, or is it a mass of contradictions that can be (and is) used to justify any number of obviously contradictory positions? How long can Christianity remain […]

Black Rock City is what Burning Man participants call their temporary dwelling in the desert. Each year it is rebuilt— a nurturing place for the simultaneous release of the creative energies of thousands— and then it is taken down and the playa meticulously cleaned by those same participants, leaving once again only the windswept lake […]