Black Rock Roller Disco 2014 Videos: Olympic Skater and Synchronized Segways
Today’s Burning Man 2014 videos feature the Black Rock Roller Disco which hosted some celebrities at Black Rock City in 2014.
Yes, Black Rock City has its fair share of wealthy luminaries and they tend to travel by Segway. In fact the past two years I’ve seen Paris Hilton ride by on a Segway–not once but several times over the week. And no I don’t have photos to prove it–I was too busy doing my own Burn to interrupt hers. However, when I pointed her out to one of my neighbors, he chased her down and got her on video where she neither denied or confirmed her identity. I can say that the Airport folks say that when she was a Birgin she rolled in the dust and clanged the bell like a good sport–even though I guess a lot of celebrities by-pass this and other Burning Man traditions. Read more…
Burning Man 2014 Videos: Closed and Open
Because the news that Burning Man was “closed” went viral, a number of people have asked me about it and these videos from David Hill (including footage of me dancing!) gave me a great reason to post about it. Read more…
People’s Climate March: It’s not over
Yesterday’s climate march was the biggest protest so far about the need to take action about climate change: 400,000 people participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City alone. Photo thanks to Mother Jones Magazine; read more from Mother Jones here.
But just because the march is over doesn’t mean we can stop protesting. Until we slow down the amount of carbon we are consuming we need to put pressure on to put on the brakes. With numbers like these mobilized, we have a better chance than ever, because
People’s Climate Marches happened in other cities, too, including mine, Ventura CA (see photos below).
#peoplesclimate #ClimateChange #Climate2014 #climatemarch #ventura join us now city hall pic.twitter.com/H8ZLBnhAjV
— Gwendolyn Alley, MA (@ArtPredator) September 21, 2014
Do Something: Be A Pathway to Peace on #PeaceDay Do #ClimateMarch
Today is the International Day of Peace and The People’s Climate March. It’s a Global Day of Action.
So do something.
The ways that we are destroying our planet does not make me feel peaceful; in fact it makes me angry. But anger doesn’t change as much as action does.
Here Are Some Actions You Can Take. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Every day. Any day.
Sunday: Create peace, climate awareness
Hatred never ceases through hatred
in this world;
through love alone they cease.
This is an eternal Law.
Dhammapada -Verse 5.
Sunday September 21 is a Day for Action–it’s the International Day of Peace AND the People’s Climate March — a day for YOU to take action to make this world a better place for all of us to live in.
“a weekend to bend the course of history”
It’s Time to Speak Your Peace: Where, How
While I was reading student papers this morning, a flash of orange caught my eye: the first monarch butterfly of fall.
The maps say I live in Ventura on the edge of Prince Barranca on the bluff above where it dips down to join San Jon Barranca and then the Pacific Ocean.
But the Chumash lived here before I did. For the Chumash, as for me, the return of the monarchs was also a sign of the equinox–of the days getting shorter and the nights longer, and for the Chumash, the time for the Harvest Festival to give thanks to Hutash.
For the Chumash, this is also the start of the new year.
With the arrival of the San Buenaventura Mission, the Festival for Hutash became San Miguel Days as San Miguel Day is in late September. As Ventura became more secular, the celebration of harvest took place in late September or early October at the county fair starting in 1874 and held concurrent or immediately after San Miguel Days until commercial and tourism interests dictated the fair’s move from late September to early August.
As you can see, Ventura has a many centuries old tradition of celebrations timed with the Fall equinox, and this weekend is no exception with events here tied to global events including:
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE and events 9/11-9/21
CALIFORNIA BEER FESTIVAL AND VENTURA COUNTY BEER WEEK 9/14-9/21
PEDAL POWERED ACTIVISM 9/18-21
BEACH CLEAN UPS 9/20
PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH 9/21
Details on all of these activities follow: Read more…
Doors to Dimensions: celebrating and remembering gauvin
Be Here Now: Burning Man 2014 Video
Published just yesterday, here’s the latest Burning Man video from KJ + Stefan Spins.
This is the duo who, with the help of a cast of a thousand, made one of my favorite Burning Man videos, 2011’s Home, using the song from Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros.
This year’s video Read more…
So you’re missing Burning Man? Were you out in BRC last Saturday night and tonight you’re wishing you were back on the playa? Well…here’s how to recreate what you’re missing! Start the video, put on BMIR, and
Recreate & Enjoy the Burning Man experience!
1. Pay an escort of your affectional preference subset to not bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig, dance close naked, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the night.
2. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When they leave, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things.
3. Stack all your fans in one corner of the living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them. Dance for six hours. Sleep in your clothes Read more…
Burning Man 2014 Re-entry: Burner and Kid Friendly Event at Art City Gardens, Ventura
How’s your re-entry going post Burning Man?
Don’t be surprised if it’s a little rough–that’s normal!
While tonight’s event at Art City isn’t exactly like being at Burning Man or at a BMOrg sanctioned event (which is why I can’t call it a Decompression Party!), it is a chance to dance around a fire under the moonlight and disco ball–and roast some food too!
Trippers Hollow and Art City Ventura present Las Saucetronauts, cooking up globetronic saucedelic hippy-hop sounds TONIGHT Sept. 5, 2014 Read more…
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