
Burning Man 2019 Just Ended And Here Are 30 Photos Proving It’s The Craziest Festival In The World
This summer has been far hotter than usual and plenty of us have been practically melting in the unseasonable heat. However, this did nothing to stop fans from attending the epic Burning Man festival. In fact, it seemed that the heat only spurred them on — this year, the gathering was even crazier, wackier and more off-the-hook than usual!
Burning Man 2019 took place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada and lasted from August 25 until September 2, and just like every year, this famous festival was fantastic. But then again, does Burning Man ever disappoint? Because autumn rains are already upon us and we’re in need of some of that glorious Nevada heat, Bored Panda brings you this sizzling list of the coolest photos from this year’s festival. So keep on scrolling, share with your friends, and drop us a comment about which Burning Man pictures you liked best and why. Once you’re done, have a look through Bored Panda’s lists about the Burning Man festivals from 2018 and 2017 as well. See how they compare with this year’s festivities for yourself and let us know which year’s gathering you thought was the most impressive so far. Be sure to scroll down and read our exclusive interview with Travis C. who was at this year's Burning Man festival in 2019 (you'll find his photo down below, he's the one in the stunning pink dress).
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So Burning Man is basically Comic-Con for the uber-wealthy? Although, some of the art exhibits are incredible.
Bored Panda talked to Travis C. who was at the Burning Man festival in 2019 and wore a fabulous pink tutu.
“Burning Man 2019 was amazing in so many ways. It was my third year and likely my favorite so far as each year you start to better understand the parameters and limitations of the experience. For example: which fabrics to choose for your Burning Man costume that repel dust and which attract it. Which foods reheat well and which do not. Can I wear heels while in drag or will I sink? The entire experience is not only a social experiment but also layered with smaller experiments of life in an alternate universe.”
The desert makes for a beautiful gallery for these mirrored sculptures. I mean look at this photo, wow
Travis said that his “primary attraction in attending is the level of extreme creativity you see from both those amazing people around you and within yourself.”
“Where else can I wear the wild and highly creative costumes you see there? I will spend the year sewing my coats and clothes and then sharing those I have made in previous years with others if they want them. Outside of just aesthetics, anything goes as long as you are trying to uphold the Ten Principles which emphasize community, kindness and gifting among other things.”
“My camp as a larger group build a massive sheep shaped art care with full sound system to host parties that are a truly inclusive place for all LGBTQ individuals,” the festival-goer went in-depth about Burning Man 2019 with Bored Panda.
“We also let anyone ride our car and ensure it is a place of inclusivity. Overall, the community of Burning Man avoids the discriminatory pitfalls of the default world and is a true alternate universe and example of what the world would be like if we valued each other more than the things we personally have. The week is full of kindness and excitement. Sure it is dusty, but that environment is simultaneously useful in its ability to disarm even the fanciest of attendees.”
Great use of 3D printing technique to achieve the layers on this fantastic sculpture.
“My husband is an engineer and loves the urban planning and engineering aspects of it. If you could rebuild NYC once a year from the ground up, would you change the road names? What about the street directions? Where would you locate the most important facilities like the ER? Burning Man gets to redesign itself each year and it is super fun to watch urban planning get a second, third, etc. chance. That just doesn't happen in regular life.”
“The most memorable moments are rarely the loud ones. They are the trips home in the crisp air at dawn with your partner just reflecting on how crazy the world can be,” Travis revealed the more romantic side of the festival. “Wondering what it would have been like if you never knew this pocket of fabulously cool people even existed because you never were persuaded to come years ago.”
“The one consistently memorable moment we have had though is our Temple walk. The Temple is one of the only sites where there is no party. No loud music. Occasional singing and acoustic sounds like a guitar/sitar but nothing caustic. It is where people go to say goodbye to a marriage and leave their certificate after their divorce. One of the most heartbreaking items and reflections left this year was the hat of a man who had attended and died. There was a note accompanying it from his parents who had come to the festival just to leave it behind, say goodbye and then watch it burn to the ground along with everyone else's heartaches and disappointment. It is honestly impossible to walk through that space and not tear up.”
“The night the man burns is a party. The night the Temple burns there is silence,” he said. “50,000-60,000 people just sitting their silently letting things go and heading home to reflect and focus. Our first year we sat next to a woman who had met her second husband at Burning Man after the passing of her first nearly 25 years prior. He had also passed away. She brought some of the clothes she had met him in to watch burn as she said thank you for the years spent together.”
“The festival is often misinterpreted by those who don't have the opportunity to go. Sure, there are parties. Sure, I do see drug use. Never anything hard or massively troubling (at least not with those I hang out with), but many of those perceptions are the minority experience. The families aren't there for that. Nor is the often older demographic group that has been coming for years and helps to keep the festivals message on track. Nor are most of the young people. People go to spend time with each other.”
“During the day you can ride your bike around and just make random stops at all the camps giving things out. A typical afternoon might include a corndog, being launched in to a pool of stuffed animals, a freezer truck with hot beverages, the very gay "bear shower happy hour," a Madonna dance party with snow cones, and then a touching communal dinner back at camp.”
“You just never know what is out there and you can only see about 2% of it anyway so you give up and learn to just go with the flow. The place is unique but in a way that you would wish everywhere could be. The people seem freely themselves,” Travis told Bored Panda. “The hardest part about leaving is knowing there will be a loss of these freedoms. And, with those loss of freedoms is often what makes it hard to be the nice and expressive person you wish you could always be. Burning Man is an experience for sure. How you categorize... there aren't really words for that in any language. I think this is why it is so universally appealing.”
this is probably very heavy... would give me a headache 5 minutes in
How in the world does a 747 make it to the desert AND who has the $$$ to do this?
The very first Burning Man festival was held on Baker Beach in San Francisco, in 1986. And every year since, the gathering has attracted what seems to be the most creative (not to mention peculiar!) people on Earth.
When I saw photos from the Burning Man for the very first time, I thought I was looking at some alternate post-apocalyptic timeline where Mad Max somehow got crossed over with Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was mesmerizing. It was confusing. But nobody can deny it was a feast for the eyes.
Ugh, this picture reminds me of the conversation we had last year about Burning Man - how many of the attendees are legit and how many are models that just dropped in for pix. Yes, I'm talking to you, lady with your butt sticking out.
Note: this post originally had 151 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
But what does the festival stand for, and what are its core values? Well, back in 2004, the festival’s co-founder Larry Harvey came up with the Ten Principles that encapsulate what it’s all about. Among these are the ideas that absolutely anyone can be a part of the festival, that we should all give others gifts unconditionally, and that the festival shouldn’t become exploited by commercial sponsorship.
What’s more, the festival promotes radical self-reliance and self-expression, as well as communal effort and civic responsibility. Lastly, the Burning Man respects the environment, calls upon everyone to participate as fully as possible, and values immediate experience, which helps overcome our inner barriers.
I would love to experience Burning Man for myself — what about you? What do you love most about the festival? Is it the quirky costumes? The supernatural art installations? Or the marvelous atmosphere?
Burning Man, the festival for trust fund kids.
Nobody calls a standard vacation to Hawaii something for trust fund kids. Burning man is not that expensive when compared to normal trips people take all the time.
Your perspective of normal is skewed from what is reality to the average family in the USA.
Yeah, all this unnecessary travel needs to stop like, yesterday.
It's exactly what the name implies : Burning man. (or burn out man.) 👉 😉
Trust fund and upper middle class for Hawaii.
EXACTLY 💯✔️
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They do offer a number of Low Income tickets, so if you can come up with around $500, you can get to Burning Man, but it's absolutely true that this is not an event that the average family living paycheck to paycheck can normally afford.
Yah a completely transient friend of mine just went. She has no fixed address right now and travels around the world staying with friends or in hostels. She saved up some money serving and dancing to be able to go to Burning Man. She must've missed the trust fund kid memo.
None of these people look like they're having fun... To be stuck in the desert with pretentious attention seekers would honestly be what purgatory would look like for me.
Oh it's loads of fun. You just kind of ignore the silly people, as you would in any city. Or you can try talking to the silly people, becuase some of them are actually pretty cool humans. But in a city of 80,000 of course you're going to find people and things that aren't your cup of tea.
The people smiling? the people looking at beautiful art? Are you the arbiter of facial expressions that mean fun or something?
Do You Think Any Of These People Have A Real Job?
I could have done without the majority of the photos of "influencers" just standing in the desert looking like attention starved jackasses. Some of the art installations like the school bus converted into a neon lit space shuttler were cool.
With the same damn 5 poses....way to be "original"
Maybe they don't care about being original? Maybe they're just trying to have a good time?
So influential. Much brand. Wow.
Guess only people with amazing figures are invited?
The people with normal bodies don’t get photographed.
Yes they do. This is 30 photos that were hand selected. I'm sure there were thousands taken. I even know someone who took a disposable camera and will develop the film herself when she gets home. Don't be stupid ladies.
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That's because obese is the new normal.
Oh there are all kinds of humans there, ranging in age from baby to 90+. Some of my closest burner friends are schoolteachers, lawyers, archaeologists, neuroscientists, programmers, welders, there's such a huge range of people there, and I assure you most of us look nothing like 18 year old Insta models.
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Fat people don't like hot deserts where there is no AC, concession stands, shade, pools or buffets.
I feel like there's a yeast infection somewhere in these photos.
Just seems like torture to me....bright hot sun beating down on you in the middle of a dry ass dusty desert...no thank you.
It actually looks like a lot of fun to me, but then I see a pregnant lady and a few kids (including a toddler) and I'm thinking "this isn't the best environment for them, to be in out in the burning sun all day" I really hope there are places where they can cool off
If you go prepared them it's not that difficult even with kids. There's all types of people that go. Not just the "pretty" ones that this slew of photos is showing. Young, old, fit, not so fit, normal people and the oddballs. But it has become more of a mainstream thing instead of how it was before. It's a little sad but kinda cool bc more people can know about it and be involved if they want. Not just the select ones "in the know"
I prefer more sustainable things.
Please explain. Do you dislike snow sculptures? Does the barren desert get harmed? Not sure what you are trying to say.
I'm amazed by the size of it and the lack of ugly, old, fat and/ or mediocre people.
It's full of mediocre Instagrammers but you're right for everything else.
There is no lack of them there....it is just what THIS photo set showcased, not what is exclusively at the festival.
Over 51,000 people got to Burning Man every year. This was 30 pictures, just try to have a little perspective. There are ugly, old, fat, and mediocre people. There are people with tattoos and no tattoos. There are people of every religions. There are babies, pregnant women, people who hate pictures, people without facebook pages, these 30 photos don't represent all of Burning Man.
Some of this is really fantastic. However, I don't find the dust, distance, and exhibitionists appealing. Also I had no idea how spread out it was. I think I'll settle for the photos.
Good. You're not part of the scene, and you should stay home.
I absolutely love the creativity and massive group effort it takes to create the big installations, sculptures, and rolling art. I freaking HATE that a bunch of vacuous instagrammers think that wearing sexy costumes and standing in front of the art suddenly makes them creative and important.
You don't know they think that at all. You're making it up off the top of your head. Do you feel like making assumptions about people makes YOU creative and important?
People taking vanity photos affect you directly how exactly?
I don't know, it's a simple observation of the irritation I feel when I see idiots posing in front of really cool art. I guess it affects me as much as my comment here affected you - i.e., important enough to waste your time commenting on it.
so what I am getting from this is you have to be young,very beautiful and a total show off to go. Well Im none of those things so that'll explain why I have never been.
No, you just have to be all those things to have your pic featured on this site...there are PLENTY of normal looking and older folks there. They just arent the ones that are being showed off in this photo set.
Then you have a comprehension problem. This is 30 photos at an event where millions were probably taken. Don't be an idiot.
Oh and rich, don't forget rich.
There should be a separate section for the 'show girls'
More art, less rich Instagrammers next time please.
We don't know if any of these are rich instragrammers. How would you know unless you're on instagram a lot yourself and know who the top people are?
"Why are all these people young and thin?" The Bored Panda commenters will ask. B/c, if you're dressed like a weird-ass when you're young and thin it's sexy, if you dress like a weird-ass when you're old and/or out of shape you look like a hobo.
Hobo or Homo ?
Is there even anyone left who isn’t there for the Instagram shots?
There are tons of us left, we just don't end up in silly photo articles like this. Which is fine with me, my friends and I are usually too busy making art happen to be posing for glamor shots.
So it's an Instagram festival now. Too bad, use to be cool and somewhat mysterious.
No it's not an Instagram festival. This is 30 pictures, there are over 51,000 people there. Some people don't even take cameras. Don't be an asshole.
Sponsored by IG..... It's a pity how the "Social Beggars" have commercialised it.
Ever since Malcolm in the Middle's burning man episode I wanna go someday.
So, it's $390, plus 9% tax, for normal tickets and then you need transportation, some place to stay (tent), your own toilet, shower, cooking equipment and your own food and drink for the entire event. There's nothing for sale there, but coffee and ice. I'll pass.
I'm from Perú, gave a look at some prices and, with a $800 fee on plane tickets, went up to nearly $5000 with all expenses paid. Too much...
They do also offer an allotment of Low Income tickets for people who can't afford the full price. But yes, there are no vendors or utilities out there so you do need to bring everything you'll need to stay alive and comfortable for a week.
Despite the instagrammers being strippers, I kinda want to go to this festival.
You should! It's fun! But you'll quickly understand the need for minimal clothing. 'grammers should be banned from like all festivals as far as I'm concerned. Their lack of respect or even any kind of knowledge at any locations is really grinding. It's all about gains for them.
I feel like Bored Panda has become really bitter and toxic lately. Anything too mainstream or any vanity at all is heavily criticized. These people may be privileged and kind of narcissistic, but we don't know whether they're actually bad people or not. Maybe lay off a little bit?
Geez, a normal person who's not drenched in disdain. Thank you.
Love these comments. Kind of like here in the state of California... we're not starving for your attendance honestly. Have fun staying at home and being boring.
YES
I think most people love to vacation in California, I just wouldn't want to live there due to politics and tax on everything but the air you breathe
So I am guessing here but not the show for autistic spectrum people with social anxiety guess its pictures for me them.
I've met quite a few people there who are on the spectrum, and I'm one of many burners who has crippling social anxiety. Everyone has their own way of working out how best o navigate such an intense and overwhelming place, but for me it definitely helps that I have a crew of burner friends who are all so wonderfully weird and crazy in their own ways. Heck there have even been a few official camps designed by people with autism for people with autism.
Thank you, Sarah, for shutting down the a-holes that come to be negative. I, too, have such anxiety that I can't attend, but I truly appreciate the art, the community, and your lovely self.
I'm surprised at how many are being so judgmental/hateful towards this. I haven't gone myself (student) but my best friends have gone twice and sure: some is posed or styled for social media or privileged because of money. But what about the Beauty it brings, the incredible artwork, sense of catharsis, and escapism from our modern world. If someone wants to go they need to save like you would any trip from year to the next, it's not just for "trust fund babies" or for Instagram. Maybe my friends are special, I suppose I haven't gone myself. but they aren't rich and they are barely on Instagram, and they are living it up. I support getting the fuck away from day to day life, sometimes.
I am so relieved someone said this.
Basically looks like a remake of Mad Max. Or any dystopian movie, for that matter. Where I live, the local Burning man has a different vibe
Burning Man is nothing like what it was. And according to a friend I have in Nevada, all the burners leave tons of trash and shit behind on their way out of the desert. They leave the playa clean and the rest of Nevada and California a shit mess. Nothing but entitled uber-hipster-rich dumb kids!
My friends that have gone aren't rich at all. So...maybe you're not the expert you think you are?
I agree. Reno is a mess. They preach sustainable and clean lifestyle, but leave their trash for the rest of us to clean after. Just a bunch of trust fund intitalists.
Ah, Burning Man... where the acid, ecstasy/MDMA flows like water.
Are any of these instagrammers? Can good looking people not take photos without being on ig? Pretty sure this festival is older than instagram. This event is more of a weird culture than it is attention seekers.
i like number 8's skirt
Apart from the booty shots it looks like a neat place.
This festival looks like it's straight out of a Mad Max movie! It's so nice to see people enjoying themsevles and the people around them; it looks like a lot of fun to be honest.
Agreed! Those complaining about the people are forgetting the art! I'm amazed at the level of organization. I'm curious (will Google later) if they leave it as clean as they found it. If so, kudos to them!
Exactly, the art is amazing and very well done! I love the idea of the 3 storey maze inside the giant head!
Burning Man is a dusty, expensive festival that does not even provide water or sell food. If you bought a ticket you should consider a trip to Hawaii instead. Fortunately, if you contact me at: donald@grindking.com I will purchase those tickets at full price from you and you can walk away from that big mistake you made and head towards the islands instead;)
Burning Man is very dusty and hot and expensive. You should definitely go anywhere else like Hawaii or Costa Rica . Anyone who made the mistake of actually buying a ticket should please contact me ASAP . I will take them off your hands and you will get a full refund for those rip-off tickets. DM me at : donald@grindking.com
WaiT!! who is "travis c."? No last name... LOVE THIS QUOTE: “You just never know what is out there and you can only see about 2% of it anyway so you give up and learn to just go with the flow. The place is unique but in a way that you would wish everywhere could be. The people seem freely themselves,” Travis told Bored Panda. “The hardest part about leaving is knowing there will be a loss of these freedoms. And, with those loss of freedoms is often what makes it hard to be the nice and expressive person you wish you could always be. Burning Man is an experience for sure. How you categorize... there aren't really words for that in any language. I think this is why it is so universally appealing.” ... sums it up perfectly.
You naysayers are creeps. It's fun. It's meant to be fun. You stay home with your Instagram.
They need to rename it from Burning man, to Burning money! What an absolute waste of it.
If you enjoy yourself how is it a waste of money? Maybe you're into something I don't enjoy - does that mean you're wasting your money? I think weddings are a lot of money; go to the courthouse. I think cars are a lot of money; I ride a bike. Does that mean it's a waste for people who want to use those things?
This looks so interesting and cool to go!! I wanna go so bad!!
'Absolutely anyone can be a part of it' and 'Overall, the community of Burning Man avoids the discriminatory pitfalls of the default world' - so what would they do if Donald Trump turned up, or some Neo-Nazis? Is this Universal Tolerance, or just tolerance of people who think the same as them?
According to what I have seen, i would feel like a wierdo there because I wouldn't look like a wierdo there.
Dumb f#cks, dumb f#cks all around. I lived in SF for six years. We loved Burning Man weekend because all the insufferable @ssholes were gone, it was so pleasant that week.
Wow calling people you don't know dumb fucks. I know an eight-year old child who went to Burning Man this year. I'll be sure to pass off the message that you think she's a dumb fuck. Nice.
Love the Sculptres ❤️😎🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🍀🌺🍀🌺💝🍀🌺👌
How and why did it go from free admission to a ticket price range $1500-$4500 ?
It takes a good deal of money to build a city for 80,000 people, pay all the vendors (Like the folks who clean the porta-potties), and pay millions to the BLM each year for use of the land. And only the very top tier ticketsw cost $1,400, and part of that money goes into the art grants that are awarded to certain artists. The standard tickets are about $400, plus taxes and fees and such, then a vehicle pass, and then they offer a certain number of Low Income tickets at $190 each.
Makes me think of the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where they ended up at Burning Man. Lois had the time of her life
With the Amazon rainforest burning, do we really have to burn more shit?
Not my 'cup o' tea'...
Kind of like my home state of California, we're honestly not starving for your attendance at Burning Man. Have fun staying home and being boring AF folks. Much love.
Fantastic constructions and images! I've never heard of it before, it's really striking! :O
The sculptures get better every year. So much creativity! Personally...I’d have to have a nice RV with AC to escape the heat.
Burning Man. The festival for loaded people, who usually spend their time flapping their hands about the environmental impact of your average sedan, spending a week wearing enough plastic between them to cover a small country, creating excessive pollution carting all the exhibits, and exhibitionists, out into the desert, and leave a mess behind for others to pick up. Yeah, great.
You know nothing about it or the 51,000+ who attend.
Sometimes I'm wondering if some of those people don't forget what is all about The Burning Man Festival. I mean that some of them rather looks like come there only because the event became famous. Quite sad.
How do you know that though? You are assuming something about them...why? Do you know them well enough to assume what their facial expressions mean?
Some of the models honestly have no idea what Burning Man is. Sometimes they have a huge Instagram following so one of their sponsors will buy them a ticket and send them off to get modelling shots. Or sometimes some rich dude will offer free tickets to young models if they'll come and be decoration for his fancy camp.
So many pictures of young, thin, good looking people. I KNOW there are older, bigger, less model-like people there. Why no pics of them?
Rich wannabe hipster kids posing for the Instagram accounts. How dreadfully boring. It's a shame Burning Man has been ruined.
It hasn't! All the same stuff still happens. They don't force you to stand around and watch the kids you don't like take photos. You can still enjoy the music, the art, and the experience.
Burning Man..... let's go out in the dry dry dry earth and pretend that we are super talented artists that happen to be stunningly beautiful naked. Push go if you are rich and have a nice little trust fund.
You...think the people who made the art were PRETENDING to be talented? Let's see your sculpture. Also - people who go don't have to have a trust fund. I know people who have no fixed address who saved up to go.
Why does it always look like there are only thin people at Burning Man? Once your BMI hits 26, you're not allowed to be creative?
I'm endlessly annoyed at the photographers who will only shoot perfectly clean teen models, and ignore the tens of thousands of other beautiful humans who build the city, build the art, perform, create, etc.
Apparently pants are forbidden, but boots are required...
All I can think of, is how many people went home with massive sunburns
I guess their attempts to keep the instagram kids and trust fund babies out this year didnt work. What was the point of their exhaustive ticket application process then?
Lol - how would they do that? Do you think they just ask....are you an instagram kid or trust fund baby
Good lord, what a bunch of insta assholes.
Do you know these people? Why are you calling innocent statues and pieces of art names?
TBH never been a fan and don't understand why people want to be covered in layers of dust! At this point is just hipsters trying to post on IG the "coolest" photos - meeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh I'm going to pass.
Just go and leave your judgements at home and enjoy the wonder...
I Would Just Like To Know What Planet These Creatures Came From?
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What a lot of work and talent and greenhouse gases to create interesting backdrops for photo opportunities for scantily clad rich kids... A lot of the photos remind me of car advertisements from half a century ago. Is this how far we got since then? At the same time, I do see that it must be amazing to live the experience of this far-out festival, but, still, no thanks, not buying.
Unfortunately these stupid photo articles give people a completely skewed image of what Burning Man is. The vasy majority of attendees are everyday folks with wrinkles and cellulite and they give zero f***ks because they aren't there to impress anyone. Well, okay, we definitely impress people with the art we build, but we're worried about the art, now how grimy and unfashionable we are.
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Fuckin white people lol
awwwwww.........you can go now
Burning Man, the festival for trust fund kids.
Nobody calls a standard vacation to Hawaii something for trust fund kids. Burning man is not that expensive when compared to normal trips people take all the time.
Your perspective of normal is skewed from what is reality to the average family in the USA.
Yeah, all this unnecessary travel needs to stop like, yesterday.
It's exactly what the name implies : Burning man. (or burn out man.) 👉 😉
Trust fund and upper middle class for Hawaii.
EXACTLY 💯✔️
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They do offer a number of Low Income tickets, so if you can come up with around $500, you can get to Burning Man, but it's absolutely true that this is not an event that the average family living paycheck to paycheck can normally afford.
Yah a completely transient friend of mine just went. She has no fixed address right now and travels around the world staying with friends or in hostels. She saved up some money serving and dancing to be able to go to Burning Man. She must've missed the trust fund kid memo.
None of these people look like they're having fun... To be stuck in the desert with pretentious attention seekers would honestly be what purgatory would look like for me.
Oh it's loads of fun. You just kind of ignore the silly people, as you would in any city. Or you can try talking to the silly people, becuase some of them are actually pretty cool humans. But in a city of 80,000 of course you're going to find people and things that aren't your cup of tea.
The people smiling? the people looking at beautiful art? Are you the arbiter of facial expressions that mean fun or something?
Do You Think Any Of These People Have A Real Job?
I could have done without the majority of the photos of "influencers" just standing in the desert looking like attention starved jackasses. Some of the art installations like the school bus converted into a neon lit space shuttler were cool.
With the same damn 5 poses....way to be "original"
Maybe they don't care about being original? Maybe they're just trying to have a good time?
So influential. Much brand. Wow.
Guess only people with amazing figures are invited?
The people with normal bodies don’t get photographed.
Yes they do. This is 30 photos that were hand selected. I'm sure there were thousands taken. I even know someone who took a disposable camera and will develop the film herself when she gets home. Don't be stupid ladies.
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That's because obese is the new normal.
Oh there are all kinds of humans there, ranging in age from baby to 90+. Some of my closest burner friends are schoolteachers, lawyers, archaeologists, neuroscientists, programmers, welders, there's such a huge range of people there, and I assure you most of us look nothing like 18 year old Insta models.
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Fat people don't like hot deserts where there is no AC, concession stands, shade, pools or buffets.
I feel like there's a yeast infection somewhere in these photos.
Just seems like torture to me....bright hot sun beating down on you in the middle of a dry ass dusty desert...no thank you.
It actually looks like a lot of fun to me, but then I see a pregnant lady and a few kids (including a toddler) and I'm thinking "this isn't the best environment for them, to be in out in the burning sun all day" I really hope there are places where they can cool off
If you go prepared them it's not that difficult even with kids. There's all types of people that go. Not just the "pretty" ones that this slew of photos is showing. Young, old, fit, not so fit, normal people and the oddballs. But it has become more of a mainstream thing instead of how it was before. It's a little sad but kinda cool bc more people can know about it and be involved if they want. Not just the select ones "in the know"
I prefer more sustainable things.
Please explain. Do you dislike snow sculptures? Does the barren desert get harmed? Not sure what you are trying to say.
I'm amazed by the size of it and the lack of ugly, old, fat and/ or mediocre people.
It's full of mediocre Instagrammers but you're right for everything else.
There is no lack of them there....it is just what THIS photo set showcased, not what is exclusively at the festival.
Over 51,000 people got to Burning Man every year. This was 30 pictures, just try to have a little perspective. There are ugly, old, fat, and mediocre people. There are people with tattoos and no tattoos. There are people of every religions. There are babies, pregnant women, people who hate pictures, people without facebook pages, these 30 photos don't represent all of Burning Man.
Some of this is really fantastic. However, I don't find the dust, distance, and exhibitionists appealing. Also I had no idea how spread out it was. I think I'll settle for the photos.
Good. You're not part of the scene, and you should stay home.
I absolutely love the creativity and massive group effort it takes to create the big installations, sculptures, and rolling art. I freaking HATE that a bunch of vacuous instagrammers think that wearing sexy costumes and standing in front of the art suddenly makes them creative and important.
You don't know they think that at all. You're making it up off the top of your head. Do you feel like making assumptions about people makes YOU creative and important?
People taking vanity photos affect you directly how exactly?
I don't know, it's a simple observation of the irritation I feel when I see idiots posing in front of really cool art. I guess it affects me as much as my comment here affected you - i.e., important enough to waste your time commenting on it.
so what I am getting from this is you have to be young,very beautiful and a total show off to go. Well Im none of those things so that'll explain why I have never been.
No, you just have to be all those things to have your pic featured on this site...there are PLENTY of normal looking and older folks there. They just arent the ones that are being showed off in this photo set.
Then you have a comprehension problem. This is 30 photos at an event where millions were probably taken. Don't be an idiot.
Oh and rich, don't forget rich.
There should be a separate section for the 'show girls'