Burning Man Pictures
USA Photos 2005

Natives of the asteroid Burn, Black Rock sector, performing an explosive ritual night-fire watch.
Click on the image for more Burning Man Pictures, Nevada nebula.

Captain’s Log, Starship RV Fatimama, 9:4:2005

We are now leaving the asteroid Burn in quadrant 3 of the Nevada nebula. We believe we may have been permanently altered by our experiences on this planetoid and are consequently going into voluntary isolation until the effects of our exposure to these life forms have been stabilised, analysed and reconstructed.

Asteroid Geography: Burn is small, perhaps only 10 cu. miles, and proximity to its sun has baked the asteroid into a hard, white, alkali mass. The Burner's small city was known in 2005 as Psyche, but the name changes yearly.
Due to the inhospitable climate, poor soil condition and frequent dust storms nothing grows and there are no life forms present other than a race of mutant humans that live a short, strange, hard but fabulous existence.

Fatimama’s extra terrestrial psychologist conjectures that Burn’s inhabitants, known as Burners, are descendants of the HipE Tribe that left Earth’s San Francisco launch point on the Starship Freedom in the 1960’s and disappeared off NASA’s screens in the mid 1970s.
Burners exhibit remarkably similar traits to the original HipEs, including a love of self expression, sensuality, bodily freedom, loud music, outrageous garb, spirituality, individuality, mind expanding substances, non-conformism, sharing, caring, and lots of hugging.
They dislike any formal establishment, particularly political, military and religious, including their own governing body, BMorg, but save their greatest disgust for distant Earth’s Fat Controllers.

The Burner’s temporary town, Psyche - actually a collection of ready-for-lift-off space ships and scout craft - is vaguely organised in a crescent, with curved avenues named Amnesia, Bipolar, Catharsis, Delirium and so on up to Hysteria, and straight boulevards that run from 2pm to 10pm and point at the iconic Burning Man, in the centre of the large and more-or-less empty ‘Playa’ [plaza].
Starship Fatimama docked at Delirium and 5:30.

Burners, have, due to harsh conditions combined with technological progress, developed some unique non-human characteristics.
They depend primarily on liquids - water, caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine, lemonade and ice are the only products on sale, everything else has to be ‘gifted’.

Basic outdoor wear includes masks, goggles and big furry boots to deal with alkali storms, though some Burners sport tribal outfits, and others nothing at all except umbrellas.

Burners have an inordinate love of EL wire, LEDs and fire, and decorate their mutant ground vehicles accordingly, each to his own, no two alike. Only moderately impressive by day, Psyche comes alive with twisting, kaleidoscopic colour and heavy, pounding tribal rhythms after dark.

With a total absence of other stimulation such as Earth’s TV, radio, cell phones or internet access, Burners spend their evenings embedded in cushion-packed, thumping geodesic domes or large, thumping, two story MVs [mutant vehicles] that slowly cruise the Playa, spouting flame, trance and strange herbal odours. The fastest MV seen was a 20ft neon snail.

Burner’s favoured music is Pyrocussion, a heavy, breathy boom caused by exploding propane, and groups such as the Moth Killers drum on wires that open propane tubes, blasting out sound and flame with the same breath.

Burners are fundamentally relaxed, friendly, generous and peace-loving, though the exception proved the rule. Fatimama’s psychology officer was attacked by a giant penis on one occasion in the Centre Camp, but with great presence of mind showed no fear, and in fact gave a stunning facsimile of enjoyment, thus defusing an inherently dangerous situation. See Exhibit A, Burning Man Pictures.

SOME TRIBAL GROUPS:
The Mad Max tribe, located beside the Thunder Dome, wear replicas of Prophet Mel’s road warrior kit, and drive gothic, pumped up MVs with massive propane jets that throw out huge gouts of flame, usually upwards, but not always, so space travellers learn to keep a good distance from these chariots of fire.
In fact, the entry visa to Burn states categorically that by visiting the asteroid travellers accept the risk of death or serious injury.

The Irrational Geographic Society, who are primarily involved in stuffed animal mutation, sometimes hold group hugs with the Billion Bunny Group, but nobody knows how many Bunnies make it back home afterwards.
The Bunnies suffer picketing by the Carrot Liberation Front who interrupt mating rituals with cries of ‘down with the furry oppressors!’

The Santa Claus Tribe, on the other hand, decry sex but believe in marching and zen chanting:
“What do we want?”
“Christmas!”
“When do we want it?”
“Now!”

Critical Tits believe that naked, painted, female chests and massed mutant two-wheelers are the way of the future. Fatimama’s contingent explored this tribe and will continue to give it our fully underwired support.

Orgasmateria provided erotic tickling, G spot workshops and apparently possess a sacred Orgasmatron that we have been unable to verify due to limited access.

Panty Camp offers chilled underwear to passersby, with enthusiastic fittings.

Other groups ranged from - Image Node, Asylum Village, Ascension Tribe, Cirque Berserk to the Sacred Space on the Corner of Uranus, The Enlightened Beings of Leisure and many, many more.

We recognise the value to the Solar System of Burn’s social structure, zero commerce and trash ethic, mutual support system and free condoms for all. We trust that Earth's governing bodies will take note of the inarguable success and eco-care of this type of self-supporting organ.

The Burn study is now complete and the work of SS Fatimama is done. We will return - if we are able to locate that elusive hyperspace portal again.

Signed,

Captain Magnoon, SS Fatimama.

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Burning Man Pictures USA Photos 2005

Natives of the asteroid Burn, Black Rock sector, performing an explosive ritual night-fire watch. Click on the image for more Burning Man Pictures, Nevada nebula.

Burning Man Pictures
USA Photos 2005

Natives of the asteroid Burn, Black Rock sector, performing an explosive ritual night-fire watch.
Click on the image for more Burning Man Pictures, Nevada nebula.