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| For a week every summer, the deserted moonscape of Black Rock Desert becomes Black Rock City, home to the incomparable Burning Man arts and culture festival. During this week nearly 40,000 hippies, fire spinners, tribe followers, alternative suburbanites, average Joes, Googlites and Appletons make a massive exodus to this lifeless, isolated environment at the foothills of the Black Rock Mountain. Here, these 40,000 engage in an alternative universe of primitive survival, cutting edge technology, homemade art, homespun music, and a chaotic, post-apocalyptic "welcome home" party. The pilgrimage to Burning Man is for the pilgrim's play, for the giving of ingenuity and kindess, of furry clothes and pee funnels, and ice cream in 110 degree dust storms. No guide book can tell you what to expect in Black Rock City. It must be experienced firsthand.
To imagine Burning Man is to imagine a city where the most ground breaking technology has no purpose but creative expression. Where (harmless) mushroom clouds are beautiful and LED lights become waterfalls.
Imagine a day passed by where you never see a suit or exercise clothes or briefcases, but instead elves, fairies, dredlocks, henna, touille, and pink fur-clad bicycles.
Imagine a city where everything is free, where people give freely without the expectation of return.
Imagine a city where everyone is a believer in nothing and in something inexplicably larger than themselves. Imagine a city where everyone is an idealist, where humanitarianism thrives over morality.
Imagine manmade beauty without incentive or power. Imagine a place where nudity isn't sexual.
Imagine a celebration of life that fundamentally defines all of the people who congregate there for long after they've come and gone.
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