View from space?

Burning Man was crazy
7 days a chaos of beauty, art and music. no rules, no limits and pure sensation! Impressions and expressions on a scale I didn’t think was possible… here is how it started:

“Burning man”. I heard about it before and read about it in magazines but I encountered a real “burner” for the first time during my travels in India. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a rooftop restaurant in Darjeeling where I started talking with a random American who was just like me enjoying the view over Darjeeling. We both agreed that India was a crazy place. He didn’t agree when I said the craziest place on earth. Close, he said, but there is Black Rock City. He talked about Black Rock City as if it was mythical city, or at least that was how it sounded to me. It was the biggest, best, craziest and insane city on earth where anything is possible, really anything. He went on and on about it.

Black Rock City is the city that gets build up in 3 days in the Nevada desert. The City layout is that of a clock with in the center of the clock a big structure called “The Man”. The Burning Man. People make artworks of themselves or put their artwork in the desert or even better, make artcars and drive them around. Every day the party and craziness grows till the man burns. The moving artcars make the scenery surreal and ever changing. Non stop things are happening everywhere. Art, performances, music and people doing their thing collide under the desert sun. Things are happening everywhere, non stop, you can not even imagine but they do. And then, after 7 days, the city disappears again without leaving a trace!

Intrigued by his story but still a bit suspicious about what he said. He was American so of cours its biggest, best, craziest and insanest thing on earth. Americans also say that Budweiser is probably the best beer in the world… not! So yeah, I didn’t really believe him that much

But the more “burners” I encounter the crazier the stories became. And yeah, of course almost all my American friends from CS are burners too. So when the plan was to go to Alaska I was thinking about going down the lower 48 to see SF, Burning Man and New York. I had to see it because everybody said the same thing:

‘I can’t really tell you what BM is like, you have to experience it yourself to grasp what is going on.’

So with that line my story in my blog stops because I simply don’t know where to start about it.

Also, I just arrived in New York and I’m not really in the mood for spending more time online at the moment. I’ll let the pictures talk for themselves. Also I don’t have too many pictures… Strangely I took less than 100 pictures probably because I didn’t want to feel like a tourist hiding behind the camera…

You can find the rest on my flickr account

Morgen verdwijn ik voor een hele week van deze aardbol want vertrek naar…
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