Burning Man Bucket List
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1. To promote art, art community and art awareness.
2. To practice creative expression through prankism, hypocrasy illumination and irony celebration.
3. To produce vehicles for forward thinking, idea expansion and conceptual explorations.
This post is part of all three. I hope it helps.
INSPIRA
One of the best things about Burning Man is all the amazing unexpected things you encounter at random and the way it changes you. great ideas are not always original ideas, they are just great ideas. The following is a list of some concepts ideas and projects that have been inter inspired with me and mine since our time at Burningman. It's sort of a Burningman Bucket List that keeps growing as the years pass. Maybe it will inspire you to add to it's pool.
Make some temporary art ~ it could be anything. Make it out of cardboard and string. Make it out of a old chair. paint it, write it, glue it, burn it, step on it, bike over it. Engage yourself in the experience of building something meaningful for you, and let it go.
Meet five people on the internet and then try to hook up with them on the playa. The experience may not be all positive, but it will make you grow more un afraid of strangers.
Sit down, anywhere, and listen. Just listen to it. The thumpa thumpa mixed with,, well you hear it for yourself.
Find a very tall structure to observe from, put some ear plugs in and try to describe the patterns you witness. Try to see what connects everything, what separates. What are the rhythms of movement , design and character.
Burn something. Something valuable. Something symbolic. Something that needs to be burned.
Tell someone how you really feel. Tell the truth, the whole truth. Tell them exactly how much you love or hate them. They may not feel better, but you will. (do yourself a favor and warn them first).
Do something that makes you venerable.
Throw a fit of rage and scream and cry for as long as you physically can. (also a good idea to warn others first)
Do something that expresses thanks. Any act of gratitude that is sincere and heartfelt will do.
Pull a prank. Become playfully expressive with others. The only way to build trust is exercise it.
The only way to exercise it, is to play with it.
Interview People~ Literally , take a notebook, a camera, anything and go up to people and tell them you want to interview them for no other reason than for the sheer experience. No art project, no news paper, no internet or anything for reprint. Just pure curiosity meets discovery.
The You-Know-What Petition ~ start a petion about " You- Know -What" . and when people say, " no, I don't know what " you say " yoouu know" with a big smile. And when they say , ' what? like sex?, drugs?, midgets? " you smile, shrug your shoulders and say " well , yoouu know" wink wink". just keep it up.
Hundred Pennies Contest ~ Try to give a single penny to someone. When they accept the penny , take their picture.
The first person to give away all their pennies, wins " You know what."
Participation Police~ A lot like the Fashion police only you give ticket to people for various "Participation Infractions"
Biking without a bullhorn. Driving and art car without a raver. Shirt no pants. 10 feet without a hugging a stranger and the famous "You know what you did." ticket
Stand in the street with safety traffic sign, vest and whistle and direct traffic into other people's camp's.
Years ago, Audacity Camp used to wait for the Port o pottoes to fill up,
and then quicky run over, set up their chairs (around 10 ) and when people came out,
they would hold up dismount score cards.
They even had a MC with a bullhorn and would give out cirtificates for perfect ten scores.
Get yourself a wagon and a coller.
Attach it to your Bicycle and roam about the playa giving cold carrots to people.
Dress like a bunny.
Dress Like Darth Vader and roam from camp to camp
asking very politely for the whereabouts of the rebel base.
Try to get around the Playa on a wheelchair.
Fill ballons with propane and tie long string to them.
Lite the string and stand back.
Find a burn barrel and shoot it with white gas from a squirt gun.
Build a catapult that will throw flamming debris into the air.
Teams of people stand in the drop zone with giant metal shields.
Teams to capture the most flamming stuff win.
Wrestle a giant 10 foot tall penis out in the open playa.
Carry a blow up sex doll dressed like a raver to all the parties.
Push a cart around camp sunday Morning yelling " Bring out your dead"
Bring an amp and a microphone and play happy "birthday to you" every morning on a kazoo.
Set up a parachute with a TV inside it that playa nothing but vintage sex education tapes.
Bring a Leaf Blower.
Get one of those two person donky suits and walk around trying to get someone to operate it with you.
Wear a giant sandwich board sign that reads
" I am MOOP"
Build an art bike.
Make day long documentary.
Baby-sit someone so they can get super high.
Walk around with a blindfold for a few hours.
Build a costume from creative item reuse( cds, records, tapes, legos, shoes, etc)
Take up a bunch of 2x4s nails plywood and a saw~ build some art thing as you go.
Take a puppet that can only speak the absolute open and honest truth.
Design a harmless prank that exposes a hypocrisy.
Drink deep the colors of the playa
Boogie with your mouth open.
Wrestle an imaginary enemy.
Fuck yourself silly.
Kiss a not so well known friend passionately.
Hold hands with a stranger as you are walking somewhere.
Stand in awe.
Yell at the top of your lungs something that only makes sense to you.
Sing a song you invented.
Hug a stranger in thanks.
Burn something valuable.
Blow up something delicate.
Lie.
Tell a secrete.
Admit a difficult truth.
Reach out for help.
Let your memory do it's job.
Intervene in a way that makes someone happy.
Be affected.
Some more ideas~
~ irony exploitation ~ excessive survival ~ mockery art camping
~ furniture cars ~ art car demolition ~ temporary brilliance treking
~ foam parties ~ klownology ~ radical backpacking
~ disorder planning ~ insane spectacle ~ mobile self expression
~ decorated naked people ~ fetish illumination ~ tent gallery
~ dangerous bonfires ~ flash art mob ~ backpack a go go
~ unexpected sights ~ 24 hr art ~ pirate radio rave
~ moment liberation ~ alternative energy ~ canopy camping
~ outdoor canvass ~ interactive performance ~ mystery orienteering
~ purposely blurred vision ~ art rave ~ sex doll rafting / surfing
~ bike chariots ~ extreme chef ~ critical campsite
~ portable expressive living ~ recycle costumes ~ port o party
~ innovative inner dialogue ~ armature designer jewelry ~ micro culture jamming
~ boundary technology ~ billboard liberation ~ irony campout
~ physical indulgence ~ nonsense graffiti ~ nonsense portage and haulage
~ celebration explosion ~ body art ~ cavebration
~ mankind on brainstorm ~ kinetic csound ~ theme camp of one
~ sobriety tripping ~ massive moment sculpture ~ silliness expedition
~ flammable arts ~ collective consciousness ~ DIY rave
~ dance naked ~ unauthority ~ High Adventure Formal Dining
~ extreme decomodification ~disposession ~ backpack disco
Some Burningman experiences often require more a state of mind that a set of rules. Read between the lines and find yourself.
Ÿ Some Burningman DJ's use a...... Bullhorn
Ÿ Some Burningman Artist take their trash home and Burn their art.
Ÿ Some Burningman Participants don't make REAL BURNINGMAN LIST (beat ya too it hahahaha)
Ÿ Some Burningman Organizers pay for their own ticket
Ÿ Some Burningman DPW build things that make no sense in an area of no usefulness.
Ÿ Some Burningman Reporters are too high to report actual news.
Ÿ Some Burningman Radio is an assault to one's comformity. (comfort / conform)
Ÿ Some Burningman Sports is trying to sleep in that fucking heat.
Ÿ Some Burningman Advice is never mentioning Burningman.com
Ÿ Some Burningman Love is coping a feel off everyone you hug.
Ÿ Some Burningman Is painting your ass red and having your friend chase you around with two rubber horns duct taped to their bike.
Ÿ Some Burningman Means trying to see how much you can feel like that person, who when afraid, is afraid who you will become if set free.
Ÿ Some Burningman Makes no Clear sense!
Ÿ Some Burningman Wants you trying not to be affected by anything around you for as long as possible and being grateful when you fail.
Ÿ Some Burningman Clothing designers use fire retardant materials to make G string undies.
Ÿ Some Burningman Chefs Cook better on the Playa than they do at home.
Ÿ Some Burningman Has a soundtrack...whether music is playing or not.
Ÿ Some Burningman Faith is knowing the point is to interfere.
Ÿ Some Burningman People not only maintain a sense of humor and irony, they can hear the terms of endearment in an insult.
Ÿ Some Burningman Consumers know it's ok to SHOP for "BURNER" shit, it's just lame to SELL or MARKET.... "BURNER" shit.
Ÿ Some Burningman Advocates know to DO more and CRITICIZE less... unless it's funny to do more criticizing or the criticizing is funny.
Ÿ Some Burningman Students are audible dyslexic, vision repaired and especially misabled.
Ÿ There is no such thing as Burningman.
