Can’t make it to Burning Man 2008 this year? Here are a few ways you can experience the event remotely through the wonders of the Interweb.
The Burning Blog
John Curley has been doing a fantastic job writing updates and posting photos to The Burning Blog, documenting the construction of Black Rock City this year and on through the start of the event.
Photos
Throughout the week people will be uploading photos from the Playa. Here are all the photos tagged “burningman2008” on Flickr sorted by interestingness.
Danger Ranger has been uploading some wonderful photos of Black Rock City.
Make sure to check out the great DPW Mug Shots series by Serra.
Current & TV Free Burning Man
Current will be covering Burning Man again for the third straight year with TV Free Burning Man, uploading videos from the playa and streaming the burn live on Saturday, August 30th at 9pm EST/PST. This year they are encouraging Burning Man participants to come to the Current camp and make their own videos as part of their “Postcards From The Playa” program.
With the combination of the wi-fi cloud and proliferation of iPhones, there many updates on Twitter from Burning Man this year. Twitter Search will bring up all of the mentions of “burningman” and we recommend following our Burning Man friends @danger_ranger, @sfslim, @actiongrl, @josephpred, @tomprice, @spanktar and of course @theburningman.
Black Rock City Webcam
HyperJohnGraham is running his live video stream of Burning Man from center camp and Burning Man has also mounted a live webcam on the top of the Burning Man office in Gerlach, where you can watch as people come and go from the event.
Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR)
You can listen to a live audio stream of Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR).
IRC
The Burning Man IRC channel is located at #burningman on irc.freenode.net.
Black Rock City OpenStreetMap on Flickr
An OpenStreetMap has been created of Black Rock City using geotagged photos.
See Previously:
- Burning Man 2008: Building Black Rock City
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Wull hello thurr, DWP. Those are some awesome portraits. Thanks for letting us home-fire-tenders share.
For all those unable to attend the annual pilgrimage to the desert, take a peak at this short documentary direct from Black Rock City 2008, featuring the commentary of event organizer Larry Harvey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LZqc42-4s
If you don't know what Burning man is, check out these videos, Everything You Need to Know About Burning Man. – http://www.redux.com/playlist/burning_man_101
I first learned of Burning Man a couple of months ago. It seems really dope and compelling. I didn't know it was going on for so many years. I think I'm going to make it to next years event, no doubt. I'm also going to keep tabs on the blog. Thanks, this is a great post.
Wow… thanks squidy.
The webcam has been exhaustingly iffy.
About a 10 hour white out Monday. Setting up in that is my fave part.
Namaste to all my fellow burners <3!!!!!
Everyone's burning man experience is different. For my take on it this year or last check out
http://www.ivorytowerz.com/2008/09/return-of-ro...
or last years: http://www.ivorytowerz.com/2007/09/robins-adven...
and burn strong.
Thanks for making feel at home guys! Love and hugs to my beautiful, tenacious burners!
I can’t get the webcam to work. Any other links to a live webcam?
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