A very cool Burning Man 2005 photo gallery

[ET Awful]

Warning, these ARE shots of Burning Man and do contain some risque (not obscene, just risque) images, enter at your own risk:

http://imageevent.com/pmattf/burningman/burningman2005

I love the large purple head sculpture :)

[redqueen]

1. Thanks!

I love that one of the lady with the Canadian flag on her shorts... too cute. :)

[ET Awful]

4. Hehe, I wish I'd been there, but whoever took these shots got some

might good ones :).

[kwassa]

5. Burning woman, picture #92

She is on fire.

(feeling hot, hot, hot ...)

[tigereye]

2. very very nice

is it me, or have the structures gotten really elaborate over the years? Seems that things used to be a bit more low tech in the past in pics I have seen,compared to now.

It still amazes me that people are able to cart all this stuff into the desert and also not fry themselves. Pretty impressive.

[ET Awful]

3. Yup, it gets more and more far out every year :)

I have yet to actually make it there for the event though, I have to live vicariously through the photos and stories of others :)

[Xithras]

6. *SIGH* I miss Burning Man.

I went to Burning Man in '96, '97, & '98, but "Real Life" has kept me from attending since then. I miss the ability to let yourself go, to be whatever your heart desired, and to have nobody question it.

In 1997 I took a wooden crate to the desert with me. Wearing nothing more than a pair of shorts and a top hat (no, I'm not kidding), I set my crate up in an empty stretch of dirt and started reading Shakespeare out loud. I read, I acted, but being a generally shy person, I never looked into the crowd. When I had finished King Lear and closed my book five hours later, I found myself surrounded by more than a thousand silent listeners who broke into a roaring applause when I looked out onto them and called 'Finis'. It was, and probably always will be, one of the most magical moments of my life.

I have several friends who regularly attend (not this year though), and they tell me that the festival has changed. It's supposedly far more organized and controlled than it used to be, which is a bit of a shame. Part of what made Burning Man so great was the fact that NOBODY was really in charge of anything.

[ET Awful]

9. Hehehe, nice.

Reminds me of the time I went to this little music festival out in the desert . . . about 45 minutes west of Barstow, CA.

It was kind of a Grateful Dead oriented event with a few Dead cover bands and a bunch of LA area jam bands, great music.

Anyway, the first night I just kind of snuck away from the main area and took a small hand drum with me and just walked about 1/2 a mile away and set up a small camp with my sleeping bag, my drum and me :).

I just started playing the drum not doing anything really other than just tapping out a mellow rythm . . . after about 5 minutes, I hear another drum start up way off in the distance . . . then another from a different direction . . . by the time it was done, we had about a dozen drums in the most mellow and relaxed drum circle you've ever heard, but without one drummer actually being able to see another and spread out over about a square mile in the desert . . . VERY cool experience :)

[MalibuChloe]

7. their weiners are hanging out!

i'm going next year. :hippie:

[Arugula Latte]

8. You are, like, soooooo mature!

;)

[seemunkee]

10. NICE, I have got to go sometime

[Beaverhausen]

11. WOW! I met the people who were making the pig head from photo # 125

I was on a trip to Sequoia in August and next to our hotel these crazy people were building a large pig shaped structure on a pick-up truck. We HAD to meet them and found out they were building it to drive up to Burning Man.

I want to go there one of these years!

thanks for that link! :hi:

[magnetism]

12. how cool!

that looks really fun. definitely just got placed on my "have to do sometime" list.