Title: Peace, Love and a little bit of Weirdness
Location: Black Rock City, Burning Man, Nevada Desert
Photographer: Tim Charody
Location: Black Rock City, Burning Man, Nevada Desert
Photographer: Tim Charody
Title: Portable Stereo
Location: Black Rock City, Burning Man, Nevada Desert
Photographer: Tim Charody
Title: me (right) and two new, awesome friends in our furt.
Location: Black Rock City, Burning Man, Nevada Desert
Photographer: Gene
Title: Alien Landscape
Location: Black Rock City, Burning Man, Nevada Desert
Photographer: Tim Charody
To explain it in one word. I would have to say ‘Utopia’. It
is by far the most free, accepting, bizarre and down-right awesome place I have
ever been to.
Time and money doesn’t exist in the land of Burning Man,
judgement, stereotype and preconceived ideas are left at the front gate and for
one whole week at the end of August each year, a gathering of mind-boggling
creativity, free love and radical self-expression occurs in the dust-bowl of
the Nevada Desert.
Like any first-time burner, I had my questions and doubts. I
knew I had to go, but that was it. I didn’t know why, I had no idea what to
expect, in fact my entire decision to turn my life upside down (literally..)
and take off to the hostile deserts of Nevada from my home in Sydney Australia
for a single event, was based purely on a hunch; I just knew I had to go. And
I’m f**king glad I did!
And I knew once I put pen to paper that it would be hard to
explain what I saw and experienced at Burning Man and it really is, but Ill try
to sum it up in one long-winded, unpunctuated sentence:
I left my old life back in Sydney on a hunch flew to San
Fran / bussed it to Reno / hitchhiked from Reno with supplies / sat in traffic
for hours / enjoyed every second of it / realised that this was going to be the
most amazing experience of my life / felt at home among the smiles laughter of
fellow burners / got in / slept on the dust / woke up in a wonderland / helped
set up our impermanent zero-impact community / walked thru the desert / met
countless amazingly open-minded positive souls / day turned to night / got
abducted by a UFO / driven to a crazy party in the middle of the desert / scene
out of madmax / danced for hours / jumped on a cruise-liner / dropped off at a
wooden pier / went fishing with hippies / walked thru the desert / felt like I
had left earth all together and landed on another planet / ended up at another
party / danced with a flock of zebras / met more awesome souls / watched the
sunrise / fell asleep / woke up on a giant pool table in middle of desert / got
stuck in a dust storm / sought refuge in a giant shell / walked in on two
stories of people doing yoga naked / walked back into the dust storm / saw
someone running towards me from the other side of the desert / kept walking /
person got closer and closer / kept walking / person arrived puffing and
panting / handed me a bottle of water because he thought I looked thirsty /
person ran back in direction he came from / rested under a giant Tyrannosaurus
Rex / shared a drink with someone else who I thought looked thirsty / arrived
at another party / took a lollypop from someone wearing a shirt that said 'candy
from a stranger' / enjoyed the lollypop / walked into another tent / watched two
beautiful girls dancing while small percussion band played / talked for hours
with complete stranger / hugged complete stranger / gave massage to complete
stranger / realised they weren’t complete strangers but just people I hadn’t
met before/going back this year.... and probably every year after that.
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