Burning Man 2018...

[HOUSTON RICK]

No, they did not.

The death of Aaron Mitchell was officially ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.

He eluded multiple layers of security personnel and ran into the flames, killing himself. He was only 41-years-old. He was actually rescued from the flames and taken to the hospital, but died the next day.

Now, I guess if you want to get technical, you could say he "sacrificed" himself, but since he died, no one will ever know why.

No one forced him to do it, nor was he tied down on some weird altar and cut open with stone knives and stuff, and it wasn't part of a Satanic ritual, either. It was no sacrifice initiated by other parties.

He was married. No further explanation required.

 

[Czechvar]

These are by far the two largest projects at BM...The Vortex looking thing on the left is pretty impressive. I wonder if they plan to light it up too...

The Vortex thing is named Galaxia:

Galaxia celebrates hope in the unknown, stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams. A superior form of Gaia in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Galaxia is the ultimate network, the fabric of the universe connecting living beings into one entity.

Galaxia is shaped of 20 timber trusses converging as a spiral towards one point in the sky. The triangular trusses form different paths towards a central space holding a giant 3D printed mandala, the heart of Galaxia. The timber modules start large enough to hold small alcoves in which people can write in peace. As participants walk through the path, the timber modules lift up and become thinner and thinner towards the sky as people reach the central mandala.

Artist Rendering of the design:

 

[Ozark Marine]

When are they going to set it on fire?

 

[Czechvar]

When are they going to set it on fire?

The Man Burns on Sept 1st, and that is worth watching...About 22 hours and 45 minutes from now...Here’s the Countdown:

Burning Man Countdown | Burning Man

 

[Czechvar]

I don’t know if they’re actually going to pull this off, but “The Great Train Wreck” might be interesting if it happens tomorrow:

The Great Train Wreck is an artistic interpretation of railroad history when outdated locomotives were ceremoniously destroyed in head-on crashes for public entertainment. The California State Fair staged wrecks from 1913 to 1917. For Burning Man in 2018, the two full scale trains are constructed from wood that will ultimately simulate a crash-and-burn using pyrotechnics in the finale.

Each locomotive, with tenders, is 40′ long, 8′ wide & 11′ tall, resting on a 120′ standard gauge wooden track. The trains will initially be sited at the distant ends of the track, and on the day of the burn pulled together into a fiery exploding end. In addition a train station will stand beside the track to provide shade and railroad history.

 

[500SNW]

If I went there, I'd probably last ten minutes before I got into an argument and beat the s+++ out of someone. Not my crowd. My guess is that "Burning Man" is where ANTIFA goes for vacation...that is when they are'nt attacking law-abiding citizens in public.

 

[soFlaNative]

It's gonna be a mess....
Bad enough a planned train wreck with pryo effects, the whole
Galaxia thing (nice build by the way) along side the Burning Man
finale? Hope no one is in the "quiet" reading nook when the sparks fly.

 

[Ozark Marine]

I've never seen or heard of Burning Man till I read this thread.
If drunk & stoned idiots are having train wrecks and massive barn fires streaming live for my entertainment, with the chance of a few of them running into the fire, I'M Watching.
9pm Central I'm going to enjoy the show.

 

[DeathGrip]

I was happily watching the youtube live stream and it stopped.

Dang it, I wanted to see the burn and train wreck.

 

[DeathGrip]

The Man Burns on Sept 1st, and that is worth watching...About 22 hours and 45 minutes from now...Here’s the Countdown:

Burning Man Countdown | Burning Man

That clock ran out an hour ago.

 

[DeathGrip]

I've never seen or heard of Burning Man till I read this thread.
If drunk & stoned idiots are having train wrecks and massive barn fires streaming live for my entertainment, with the chance of a few of them running into the fire, I'M Watching.
9pm Central I'm going to enjoy the show.

Nine Central? I keep missing it.

 

[Czechvar]

I think it might be Pacific Time...it’s still light out there. I think last year the fireworks started about 10 PST. But not 100% sure so keep watching...

 

[Ozark Marine]

Hurry up.
Battlestar Galactica starts in 5 minutes.

 

[Czechvar]

Shouldn’t be too much longer. They raised the Burning Man’s arms over his head...Lots of ropes and pulleys built into the construction...

 

[soFlaNative]

Just curious, did the smoke clear yet?

 

[Czechvar]

Just curious, did the smoke clear yet?

Quite the Fireworks/Firebomb Show, wasn’t it...I wonder what they used to make those giant Fireball explosions? It looked like Napalm...

 

[darmtn1917]

Quite the Fireworks/Firebomb Show, wasn’t it...I wonder what they used to make those giant Fireball explosions? It looked like Napalm...

You have to wonder what the concussion feels like, standing next to all of it, going off for 30 min.
I was impressed they shot that many fireworks off.

 

[DeathGrip]

I couldn't stay awake that long but caught the same thing in the morning. That was a big fire!

 

[oneounceload]

Back when I lived in the Reno area, it was a cool event having moved from the SF peninsula area. No hi-tech billionaires or motorhomes with executive chefs, it was truly a cool counter-culture event that cost a mere pittance and was more like an eclectic Woodstock. Like everything else, the originators sold out and the promoters treat it more like a Rolling Stones concert

 

[Czechvar]

There is another side of this...and a bit of the hypocrisy of the ‘Burners’. A bunch of the attendees fancy themselves as environmental types, and the entire event likes to use eco friendly themes. However, the carbon footprint of all the cars, buses, airplanes...not to mention the enormous ‘Final Burn’...must be staggering.

Eliminate 4,000 Burners’ Worth of Emissions by Slowing Down | Burning Man Journal