#Burning man

[steampunktendencies]

The Playa Crawler: A Kinetic Walking Chair for Burning Man

In 2017, engineer Mark Ellis designed an innovative kinetic chair called The Playa Crawler to navigate the vast expanse of Burning Man. Inspired by the Strandbeest sculptures of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, this unique chair is specifically crafted to withstand the alkaline terrain of the Black Rock Desert.

Mark Ellis wanted a personal vehicle that was both functional and original for getting around Burning Man. This led him to create a chair that walks using a system of articulated legs. This mechanism, invented by Theo Jansen, allows the chair to move similarly to Jansen's giant sculptures, which are propelled by the wind along the beaches.

Built from laser-cut aluminum and steel, The Playa Crawler is equipped with two electric wheelchair motors, batteries, and is controlled via a wheelchair joystick.

Video by Jessbeegood

[disteal]

The burning man debacle is rly captivating to me in the ‘convention dumpster fire poetic irony’ sense. Like ur telling me these silicon valley crystal guys are stuck in a flooding lake bed after calling the cops on climate change protestors holding up traffic into the festival? By telling the cops these unarmed protestors had a gun? Fantastic. And they’re dying from exposure- oh they’re scaring the shit out of each other with a fake ebola scare??? Of course. I’m sure they’re handling that normally. Just saw a video from a guy at the festival saying folks need to stop being ‘negative’ about the people who didn’t survive the night. And they can’t leave the flooding lake bed because nobody can move their cars- It appears Chris Rock and Diplo have escaped the lake bed by walking out, as it was only a few miles until they hit regular traffic. We do not know the state of the burning man sex plane, the plane at burning man you book to have sex in, which exists. Never before seen cataclysmic impact to the ‘white women with $5k veneers and box braids’ community.

[53v3nfrn5]

Rainbow Runner, 1995.

[shiftythrifting]

I'm not the step da , I'm the dad that epped up

Burning Man directory from 2017

Classic drugstore romance

Bizarre photoshop mug that came with me. What's why I go to NYU?

Aunticorn

All found in NY, USA 🗽

[bethanythebogwitch]

Between musk losing tons of money and his reputation, the submersible, the strikes, and now Burning Man, 2023 really is turning into the year of stupid rich people fucking around and finding out

[odinsblog]

[vaxolang]

"Burning alive"

Acrylic painting on canvas

Size 50x35 cm

[voluptama]

Burning Man

[dontforgetukraine]

This Ukrainian wartime art installation is at this year's Burning Man. Despite Russia's war and aggression, Ukrainians remain resilient and their spirit unbreakable.

The installation, composed of shrapnel-torn signs and other war artifacts, is a visual representation of life in Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion.

Sources: Ukraine.ua, Ukraine

[nevver]

Black Rock City, EMSH

[greatcombinations]

[opendirectories]

[photomatt]

[weareagitated]

[van-goghs-smoking-skull]

2023 is such an interesting year for Burning Man. 70,000 (depending on the source, otherwise it's 'tens of thousands') people are stranded, finding out that deserts and rain are messy af. Environmental activists from Europe protested Burning Man, but were removed by Tribal Police due to trespassing on Piute land and disrupting traffic on the Rez. The protestors were trashing the place and while it's unsure as to whether they were going to start a fire (NOT a great time for fires, considering how dry it had been - brush fires spread like crazy with that much dry creosote everywhere), but they did not bring water.

It's like Mother Nature said she's sick of everyone's shit, and Paiutes said they are sick of white people making a mess on their land and fucking up their traffic flow to protest other white people damaging the environment at Black Rock.