Happy Birthday, Larry Harvey! Burning Man Tickets for “Metropolis” Go On Sale 1/13

Did you know that Larry Harvey (the guy who is credited with starting Burning Man) and I share a birthday? Yep, Larry Harvey and I were both born on January 11 aka 1/11–along with a lot of other Burners I’ve discovered!

Unfortunately, Larry hasn’t chosen to use his special dispensation to grant those of us who share his date of birth with tickets to his grand event that happens every late August out in the Black Rock desert.

So those of us special enough to share his birthday will be inline and online with the rest of you trying to get through and buy the cheapest tickets to Burning Man on Weds. Jan 13 at 10am. Why? Because the first tier of tickets is “only” $210 and there’s only 9,000 tickets available. The second tier is $240 and there’s another 9,000. You can only buy 2 tickets. I repeat: You can only buy 2 tickets. A human being examines every order to make sure you don’t get more than 2 tickets. (That human says please don’t f*&@ with me!)

Now for those of you who are really struggling (and I mean really really struggling) there ARE low-income tickets available at $160 as well as scholarship tickets. That means if you just can’t scrape together the bucks for your ticket by Wednesday, you can write up a little essay and answer their questions and send it in when they say you can–NOT NOW but starting January 25 and closing May 31–unless they run out!

What do you need to do to get a ticket on Wednesday? Well, read on!

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According to the Burning Man org, tickets go on sale Wednesday January 13 at 10am PST.  In the past, the site has crashed and all kinds of frustrations have been vented and ugliness has abounded.

So, to prevent this being YOUR experience, Burning Man has once again pledged the SITE WILL NOT CRASH when every Burner in the world tries to buy their ticket at the same time on Weds. Jan. 13.

They say “All the info you need to know to prepare yourselves for that auspicious day of glory can be found on our ticketing page: http://tickets.burningman.com” and they recommend you study it steadily from now until Weds at 1oam so you will know how to prepare your computer, your web  browser, your payment method, your psyche, and more …  to GET READY for tickets to go on sale.
They’ve even got a TEST for your web browser to make sure it’s configured properly to purchase tickets through their system.

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While we’re all trying to get through to get our tickets, the Burning Man ticket team celebrates with PAJAMA DAY! That’s right, they sit around the office in their pajamas eating waffles to fuel them for the on-slaught. To find out even more intimate details of what’s going on, follow Burning Man on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/burningman or checkout the Facebook Discussion http://bit.ly/6gmZXB. Just so you know, here’s the Black Rock City Twitter Account http://www.twitter.com/blackrockcity

And there’s lots on flikr like this one: Burning Man 2009 KeyNote by Michael Christian, Oakland, CA 09 Originally uploaded by light_bloom

Oh, and Larry Harvey has a twitter account too and so does Danger Ranger and…yep, it’s all the rage. As you probably know by now, I even have one. Just wait until you see the iPhone app promised for last year which should be out for this year–if you can stand to have your phone out there with you and on.

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The photos in this post, except the one of Larry Harvey, came from the BURNING MAN 2009 PHOTO GALLERY FROM ALES PRIKRYL of the Documentation Team
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colorstream/sets/721576223639825

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