theflyingexecutive posted:

real fuckin rainy rn, everyone is shelter in place overnight and probably longer

Weed Wolf posted:

54% of burning man attendees in 2022 made over 75k a year.
40% in 2022 made over 100k a year

Stereotype posted:

so far it seems like everyone is super stoked that it got even crazier and more difficult to live here. honestly these are the real doomsday preppers for real.

Mr Hootington posted:

Lmao I bet the cspam goons will have zero introspection about the type of people who go to this event

Stereotype posted:

reality is just sort of normal and fine.

Cuttlefush posted:

Stereotype posted:

so what I’ve learned from this thread is that burning man makes people not at burning man go completely insane and turn into fanatical bloodthirsty monsters.

Lacrosse posted:

Thanks buddy. Without us admitting to coming to this ya'll would be missing out on a gently caress ton of free entertainment. I didn't have to come here to get dragged by goons, I chose this.

I've got some pretty rad photos but I'm trying to be mindful of our satellite bandwidth so I haven't been posting any.

Lacrosse posted:

It's the cops fining people, not the org.

Lacrosse posted:

I was here on site for over a day before that happened also I didn't travel that route.

theflyingexecutive posted:

yeah that was cringe and factually wrong.

you can also do 16 hours of volunteer shifts for a ticket, which works out to ~$40/hr

theflyingexecutive posted:

that'd be cool as poo poo yes

Wolfy posted:

https://twitter.com/grovernorquist/status/1698191440852250775

looks like our buddy went to the ancom festy again this year

theflyingexecutive posted:

my camp got an official reprimand for leaving behind three pistachio shells and a couple stands of plastic fiber (from a tarp that had shredded)

someone please find me a cleaner gathering of 80,000 people, because most of them look like this

Vox Nihili posted:

The report you linked says things got much worse in 2022, announced a call to do better in the future, and noted that burners left behind over 1,000 metal stakes.

HallelujahLee posted:

this sounds like it was decent a decade ago when it wasent packed to the brim with garbage hedge fund losers and others

Coolness Averted posted:

Yeah late 90's was still mostly kooky art folks, like obviously there were still rich people involved, but it hadn't hit the point where there were airports and whole camps ran by hired help thing.
By 2013 the overt corruption was totally there, but if you ever pointed it out, you'd get told "you don't understand the spirit of radical inclusion things are different on the playa," and they still would pretend it was a tiny art fest.
Now there's literally branded stages and pavilions, so burners can have a little commodification as a treat.

sitchensis posted:

can you explain this more

Pentecoastal Elites posted:

pollack especially largely had his work bought by wallstreet and ny media figures, who were either close to CIA or who essentially comprised and ran the CIA, on or off-book, who used it less for promoting contra-soviet art expressions (which they did, sure) but more to launder vast sums of money and transfer it between their opposite numbers in europe, then vice vera later in his career.

its not so much the CIA invented modern art, which is a claim I've seen made a lot, but that they took a new, sort of niche, anti-(soviet)-realist art movement and blew it the gently caress up so they could move around their drug and nazi money, a thing that they still do constantly to this day, although art is probably less of a vector now thanks to bitcoin etc

aw frig aw dang it posted:

swat team busts in and absolutely annihilates my painting of Naruto

Feels Villeneuve posted:

im glad the OP decided that Antarctica was full of republicans and chuds, and instead went to the influencer festival with Grover Norquist, Elon Musk and the "rich men north of richmond" guy

Virtual Russian posted:

This bigtime. Multiple artists I know are pretty honest about trading sex for career advancement, not even big advances, just like a solo show. Or for art sales from collectors. It can be pretty predatory. The high-end art world of course is infamous for being money laundering all the way through, that shouldn't be news to anyone though.

I would partially contest most art movements being about wealthy people. 99.99% of art that has been made has never been written about. Even today, most art never becomes "important". It is still meaningful and beautiful, it just didn't become "important". Clement Greenberg, who is at the center of all this, crafted a masterful narrative about art and how art developed and progressed through history. If you ever were taught art history, even in highschool, you were probably taught Greenberg's theory, though it would never have been named. In short, he posits that the development of art is linear, always progressing from movement to movement, like a baton, and that with the emergance of modernity art began to progress into increasing levels of abstraction. That theory implies, and it is also often outright stated that abstract impressionism was the end result. All art history led to that. The notion of a linear progression to art history, that centered european art, had existed since much earlier, but Greenberg codified it, making sure the world understood art belonged to new york now. Long story short, art is so much more than what you were taught good art is. It most often is the exact opposite. Go check out some local art shows, there are likely some amazing artists you'd love. No need to buy, just go see some art. Also art doesn't have to be for sale!

tl:dr - Your entire conception of art, and art history, was a CIA op. Ab Ex being CIA funded is nothing compared to the art history you learned in HS being made up by the CIA middleman.

Stereotype posted:

back to civilization! I had a lot of fun. stayed to see the man burn and could see temple burning from the exodus line. seems like everyone posting in this thread is gullible and stupid, not a big surprise really. I’ll probably go again next year