I highlight my ten favorite experiences on the Playa this year – not necessarily the greatest objects d’art, but the moments that shaped my stay. All 10 projects unite on a common theme: mastery of execution. With expanding art budgets, it’s getting easier to bring out to the desert trucks …
I have attended the Great Dusty now fifteen times, each visit quite different from the one before, less because the hot flat desert changes and more because the adventurer – me – grows so much from the experience. Burning Man stretches, shapes, and tempers me more than perhaps any other …
A few years ago, I stopped taking pictures at the Burning Man festival. A camera distracted from the people and presence of the event. Furthermore, although intending to shoot so much film, I often swam too tired, excited, hot, or pre-occupied to take any tourist snaps. This year, I tried every …