A People's History of Burning Man - Volume 3
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12/24/24 • 59 min
Back again by popular demand: more tales from Burning Man’s oral history project, an ambitious endeavor to track down and talk with people who helped shape the culture as we now know it.
Hear stories of early technology on the playa, in Silicon Valley, and on the internet.
· Andie Grace, aka Actiongrl, interviews from the vantage of having co-created Burning Man’s world of communications, from Media Mecca to this very podcast.
· Brian Behlendorf - technologist and open-source software pioneer. He developed Burning Man’s online presence and connected people through the Venn diagram of luminaries from SFRaves to Wired Magazine to the Apache Software Foundation.
· David Beach - designer, creative director, and instigator of the impossible with early dynamic content on the web. He helped create Burning Man’s first live streaming and web presence.
· Scott Beale - documentarian, founder of Laughing Squid, subculture super-connector of various tentacles of the meta-scene.
· Stuart Mangrum - zinester, cacophonist, billboard liberator, Minister of Propaganda, Director of the Philosophical Center, publisher of the first on-site newspaper of Burning Man (the Black Rock Gazette), and always in the same place at the same time as Burning Man’s media experiments.
Laughing Squid: Burning Man 1996 Netcast
journal.burningman.org/philosophical-center
burningman.org/programs/philosophical-center
Burning Man Live: A People’s History of Burning Man - Volume 2
Burning Man Live: A People’s History of Burning Man - Volume 1
Back again by popular demand: more tales from Burning Man’s oral history project, an ambitious endeavor to track down and talk with people who helped shape the culture as we now know it.
Hear stories of early technology on the playa, in Silicon Valley, and on the internet.
· Andie Grace, aka Actiongrl, interviews from the vantage of having co-created Burning Man’s world of communications, from Media Mecca to this very podcast.
· Brian Behlendorf - technologist and open-source software pioneer. He developed Burning Man’s online presence and connected people through the Venn diagram of luminaries from SFRaves to Wired Magazine to the Apache Software Foundation.
· David Beach - designer, creative director, and instigator of the impossible with early dynamic content on the web. He helped create Burning Man’s first live streaming and web presence.
· Scott Beale - documentarian, founder of Laughing Squid, subculture super-connector of various tentacles of the meta-scene.
· Stuart Mangrum - zinester, cacophonist, billboard liberator, Minister of Propaganda, Director of the Philosophical Center, publisher of the first on-site newspaper of Burning Man (the Black Rock Gazette), and always in the same place at the same time as Burning Man’s media experiments.
Laughing Squid: Burning Man 1996 Netcast
journal.burningman.org/philosophical-center
burningman.org/programs/philosophical-center
Burning Man Live: A People’s History of Burning Man - Volume 2
Burning Man Live: A People’s History of Burning Man - Volume 1
Previous Episode
Chip Conley - Unexpected Gifts
He is a celebrated author, entrepreneur, leadership maven, and a founding Board Member of Burning Man Project. He’s a serial contributor to the culture and the cause.
In this episode, Chip and Stuart explore how to use the 10 Principles to make conversations interesting and how a description of Black Rock City always becomes a riddle.
They resist the urge to quiz newbies on the 10 Principles, while they also say that Burners should not take themselves too seriously.
They try on the notion that nothing matters and everything’s humorous.
They make sense of big ideas like collective effervescence, emotional equations, and the need for aesthetics and beauty.
They talk about a deep diversity of ritual gatherings around the world, and the influence of the global community emanating from Regional Burns.
They tell stories about all this and more, and somehow it all flows.
Next Episode
Will Heegaard and Footprint Project - From BRC to NGO
Disasters happen. Communities come together to recover and rebuild. Governments and NGOs help however they know how.
Will Heegaard sees every disaster as a chance to build back greener. His non-profit provides power and water from nature.
· power from the sun – instead of gas generators
· water from the air – instead of plastic water bottles
He helped with disaster relief from hurricanes in Florida, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico.
He helped in West Africa, in the Philippines, and with the Maui Fires.
He helped with the LA Fires.
And he taught himself to create power and water from nature while serving as a paramedic in Black Rock City.
These adventure stories include laughter and levity in learning.
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