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The Burning Man Ethos: Gift Economies On and Off the Playa (Part One)

In this clip from the Evolver NYC "Give It Up" Spore, Daniel Pinchbeck talks with Costume Jim and Not That Dave about how the Burning Man ethos is migrating off the playa and infiltrating the everyday. They share the stage with Larry Harvey, the co-founder of Burning Man, who will be featured in the next video installment of this important conversation about the central role gifting has to empower people who come into transformational culture.

This video, which I directed and edited, celebrates the joy of "unlocking a little piece of yourself" at participatory, Burning Man-inspired art events such as Figment, which take place this weekend at Governors Island in New York Harbor. See you there!

Click here for more information about Figment:

http://figmentproject.org/2010/

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Submitted by l3al3arian on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 03:57.

AS they continue they should feel better, and then they become more creative. Communal dancing is a great healer. Because of westerners terrible self-consciousness (not talk bout Burners)--I mean introducing it to the suburbs etc. Have people also all blind folded, and ask them to sense the others as they dance so theres no TOO โหลดmp3ลูกทุ่ง

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Submitted by DESERTDWLLR on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 16:31.

I think Larry Harvey should win the biggest hypocrite of the year award as it seems convenient to me to talk about gifting after you charge $300-400 for a ticket and dont pay any talent while pocketing a few million each time and not even having to show your face at the party. Dancing in the outdoors has been around long before burning man and if it introduced it to some newbies who dont mind getting ripped off and reading articles like this about a fake burning man ethos which ultimately just lines the pockets of a multi-millionaire. Profit is the main motivation and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves creating a police state in the desert while completely ripping people off. This is another case of people trying to profit off the psychedelic culture with a corporate mentality of utter greed and do burning man inspired events mean weak parties where you get overcharged and find yourself among a room full of newbies from the odd corners of the country who dont know what they're doing there. BURNING MAN is a candy rave for the new generation of posers, the only difference is the trends are now white boys and girls with dreads, cookie cutter guys in Fedoras with feathers in hats and vests with no shirt on, and a whole new breed of fake hippies who are being brainwashed into thinking you have to look and act like everyone there to fit in, oh and pay the $300 for the ticket (probably $500 at the door). AGAIN BURNING MAN AND ITS ORGANIZERS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.