Digital Detox’s Device-Free ‘Disconnect To Reconnect’ Spot at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

The folks behind tech-free event Camp Grounded, Oakland-based organization Digital Detox, offered a place to power down in the woods of Outside Lands 2013. Festival attendees stepping into their roped-off spot could “disconnect to reconnect” by first turning off their phone and then hammering out notes on manual typewriters, kicking off their shoes, stepping into a yurt to sip some tea, contributing messages to a communal chalkboard and bulletin board, and other ways to have device-free fun. The area was packed with (mostly digital native millennial-aged) people who appeared to be enjoying a slice of a simpler, unplugged world.

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

Digital Detox at Outside Lands 2013

More photos from the Digital Detox area at Outside Lands can be found at my Flickr page.

photos by Rusty Blazenhoff

Rusty Blazenhoff
Rusty Blazenhoff