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#1 Foy

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 08:02 PM

Both for giggles and amazement, I tune in to the ustream live feed from Burning Man a couple or three times a day during the week preceding Labor Day weekend.  Never been much of an art lover and crowds normally send me in the opposite direction, but I love a spectacle. Burning Man appears to be a Class A spectacle, hence the interest.  Plus, it beats working.

 

Anyway, the Burning Man live cam @ Gerlach, aimed north to the playa, showed thunderstorms as the place was due to start filling up with attendees yesterday (Monday 25 August).  I thought---"Hmmm,  that's not going to be good for business on the playa".  Sure enough, the Reno TV stations and loads of other outlets are full of video from the ground and the air showing tens of thousands of burners stranded along 447 and in Reno and surrounding communities, as the entrance to the playa surface had to be closed until it dried out, which apparently it did earlier today.  Sure proof of the spectacle unfolding is a Reno Channel 2 reporter, apparently at Pyramid Lake, concluding his story as a woman in the middle distance background drops her skirt to the ground. Film at 11?

 

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 08:07 PM

Both for giggles and amazement, I tune in to the ustream live feed from Burning Man a couple or three times a day during the week preceding Labor Day weekend.  Never been much of an art lover and crowds normally send me in the opposite direction, but I love a spectacle. Burning Man appears to be a Class A spectacle, hence the interest.  Plus, it beats working.

 

Anyway, the Burning Man live cam @ Gerlach, aimed north to the playa, showed thunderstorms as the place was due to start filling up with attendees yesterday (Monday 25 August).  I thought---"Hmmm,  that's not going to be good for business on the playa".  Sure enough, the Reno TV stations and loads of other outlets are full of video from the ground and the air showing tens of thousands of burners stranded along 447 and in Reno and surrounding communities, as the entrance to the playa surface had to be closed until it dried out, which apparently it did earlier today.  Sure proof of the spectacle unfolding is a Reno Channel 2 reporter, apparently at Pyramid Lake, concluding his story as a woman in the middle distance background drops her skirt to the ground. Film at 11?

 

Foy

 

Thanks, Foy.  I've been a fan/viewer of the Gerlach cam for many years, but wasn't aware that BM had a stream going...but of course they do.

 

For those who want to look:

 

ustream live feed from Burning Man  

 

What a scene!  Reminds me of something from a post-apocolypic, road-warrior-type movie... 

 

 

Gerlach Cam


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Posted 26 August 2014 - 08:36 PM


ustream live feed from Burning Man  

 

What a scene!  Reminds me of something from a post-apocolypic, road-warrior-type movie...

 

 

 

Oh my goodness, there goes my day. :o 

 

Any way to zoom in? Maybe move the camera around to other views?


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Posted 26 August 2014 - 08:48 PM

Oh my goodness, there goes my day. :o

 

Any way to zoom in? Maybe move the camera around to other views?

We Right Coasters might say "Only in California (or nearby parts of Nevada)"

 

OK, now back to work.............on at least one of my two monitors..........

 

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 09:17 PM

Burning Man?

Not only no, but HELL no! There is no need to spend time with 70,000 of my best friends.
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#6 Casa Escarlata Robles Too

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 09:20 PM

That live stream view looks like something from"Star Wars" episode 1 or 2.

And to think I am sitting here on our own Plya on Monterey Bay and missing all that fun.

Maybe next year we could hold a pop up meeting there!

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 10:50 PM

Burning man was a wonderful event to us single  people who lived and worked around that country :huh: -why you say-all the nice looking girl hitch hikers/campers and all the local bars filled up with wild women on the way up and back :D . A single mans dream-and that usually what it was to :P , most had boy friends, but they usually liven'd up the local bar seen a few days anyway  Seems to me we also did allot of field work up there around that time of the year--- the even and a few fly overs never hurt- :)!  Memories :wub: !

 

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 11:18 PM

Flash floods in Tahoe. Man it sure seems I had good timing on my trip. Amazing how fast the playa dries out. And yes, its like watching a car crash, you know you shouldn't gawk but you just can't help yourself :)


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Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:34 AM

Now I am hooked on the live stream.

Quite an interesting place. And the audio from the radio station with the announcements ,what a strange place. But fun to view.

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Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:49 AM

I've never been to Burning Man, though I've been tempted in the past.  And now that it's sooo huge I probably never will.

 

I'm not crazy about 10s-of-thousands of tourists occupying a portion of the Black Rock, mainly because it has made the Black Rock too well known.

But I've always admired and been amazed by the incredibly cool art installations that the real Burners (the ones that aren't just there to party) contribute.  Stuff that I can't imagine how they could think of such coolness.  Check out the website for examples in their Galleries pages.

With most art I can take-it-or-leave-it...not a big part of my life.  But I marvel and wonder at the best of the Burners creations. :)


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