The white coveralls arrived, I can begin disassembly in order to make a pattern for the Furlow outfit. That's a lot of gathered shiny grey fabric, orange piping and dark blue polar fleece to assemble.
No bites on the books, they're still available. I'll bookcross them if no one wants them.
To begin explaining my willingness to gift, here are two of the ten principles of Burning Man:
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
5 comments:
oprah should do a show on burning man
I hope you're joking, burners tend to shun mainstream media and coverage. Oprah would be welcome to attend, but she'd have one heck of a time getting permits for her cameras. The Discovery channel did a special, and that caused a lot of hate and discontent.
ah. i didn't realize. sorry about that.
maybe she could send in lisa ling(?) & she could just talk her experience?
No, that's even worse. One of the Burning Man mantas is "no spectators." So if a burner happens to talk about the event, that's one thing, I talk about it all the time. But going to the event just to tell people who will never go all about it, well, that's not very cool.
Of course, the worst was the girls gone wild type of guy who went and took videos without asking and sold the tapes. The B-Man lawyers went after him big time. Yeah, the lawyers are volunteers too!
mantra. Not manta!
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