Tuesday, 6. January 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on January 6, 2004 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Burning Man, the Simulation
Every year, in the week leading up to Labor Day, 30,000 artists, musicians, clowns, Santas and other counterculturalists converge on Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the annual Burning Man festival.
To many of the people who attend the bacchanalia -- which takes place in the makeshift Black Rock City, replete with roads and complex infrastructure, full-scale pirate ships, 100-foot dragons, roving bunny slippers, 25-foot tall chandeliers fallen from the sky and people in costumery of all kinds -- there is no place like it on Earth. To the denizens of Black Rock City, this place, lovingly referred to as "the playa," is home.
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