"Burning Man: The Documentary" Pretentious title. There are MANY Burning Man documentaries. I directed half of one, "Drama In The Desert". I should "pirate" my own movie and release it (with the DVD audio glitch fixed).

Nice documentary posted 2013-01-20, apparently with footage only from August/September 2012.

@ 0:36 My former housemate of 2001-2002, Nicole, aka Technopatra hugging a couple.

@ 5:58 I miss my home. Sounds like cult mentality, but Burning Man is whatever you want it to be, so it's an un-cult cult if you must call it one.

@ 7:02 He's wearing a Skinny Puppy T-shirt.

Some of the art and fashions are not good and they're featuring that, which is sad, because there's usually sooooo much great art and fashions to showcase.

@ 11:08 I have one of those maps from 2005 or 2006. I got to know many of the folks at the airport and got many of my friends flights around. A couple even joined the mile-high club and he flew his plane up and down for a gravitational assist.

@ 14:59 Frequent temple builder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Best_(sculptor)

@ 19:21 I wonder if he drove over some rebar (used to stake down everything from blowing away).

I had a similar problem. In 2007 I rebuilt a 1963 golf cart for my girlfriend's disabled brother, but in the desert I discovered some problems recharging the deep-cycle batteries. Come prepared and be prepared to have anything fail.

Many of the same mutant art vehicles have been attending for yeeeeaaaars. Not everything is burned or temporary/disposable/ephemeral.

@ 25:14 I have 2 or 3 file folder boxes of Burning Man memorabilia, including most of the Black Rock Beacon, Black Rock Gazette, etc with editions up to 2008 plus whatever friends gave me thereafter. Some of it is like The Onion, and some is serious. Usually well worth reading, some are written and prepared pre-playa and some are written and printed on the playa (aka desert) or printed in Reno and brought in, often with several editions during the week.

@ 29:00 The metal/gothic's ThunderDome (inspired by Mad Max) always had a sign, "Days Since Last Injury: 0".

@ 30:45 Opulent Temple: one of the consistently best venues for dancing your ass off.

@ 33:22 Everything that is burned must have the proper metal foundation under the structures to catch all the hot debris and prevent the playa from being scarred. After it's burned out all the ashes, a thin layer of dirt, and of course the metal are removed from the Black Rock Desert, public land on 3 counties. In short, you aren't allowed to just burn something on the desert floor.

The best thing about Burning Man is that it's all PARTICIPATORY and INTERACTIVE. You don't pay for a ticket and expect to be entertained and whine about it if it's not up to your expectations. Everyone has a back-stage pass to Burning Man and is responsible for their own fun experience. You don't have to and can't do everything nor need to do anything you don't want to. Everyone participates in their own ways. Some dress up. Some build. Some DJ. Some perform. Some do a bit of all of them, not necessarily at the same time. Express yourself as you see fit.

@ 46:30 Burning Man was owned by BMOrg as an LLC. Larry Harvey, one of the founders was primary lead for most of the festival's span, though he died very recently. There was a feud among the BMOrg a while back when the power structure changed, the details of which I'm ignorant. Burning Man will never be sold to Disney nor any other corporation unless it gets infiltrated and corrupted. Larry Harvey was not avaricious.

@ 48:32 The people in the white togas are the Lamplighters. They're very cult-like with their daily ritual of hanging oil lamps every night that burn out by morning to be collected, filled again, and redistributed again the next evening.

The man always burns on Saturday (except 2007 partially set afire Tuesday by my former employee Paul (I have conflicted feelings about that) who went a little nuts and eventually killed himself), and the Temple always burns on Sunday. Friday and Saturday nights are the worst night because all the yahoos and drunk idiots show up to be weekend warriors (and get violent, rapey, and steal shit). The exodus begins right after the burn for those with lives to get back to but Sunday is usually the best night. I prefer to stay at least half a week after to decompress and return to "normal" while helping with the massive clean up efforts.

A photo of me at BM is on this page:
https://InfoGalactic.com/info/User:JasonCarswell/gallery

Official site:
https://BurningMan.org

The Burning Man Regional Network is likely near you!
https://regionals.BurningMan.org

Not a bad article for Wikipedia all things considered, largely because much of LA and SF attend.
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man