Just a quick note here. Burning Man Media team is opening up a dialogue about digital rights and has invited people from within the community to expose their views about photography at the event.

A few weeks ago, they sent me a prompt to react to. And here’s my take they posted on their blog:

http://blog.burningman.com/digital-rights/photography-can-also-be-art/
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Operation Restore Defenestration will bring back a welcomed visual to the neighborhood where locals and visitors flock to this playful destination. With your support you can help put the magic back into this beacon that brightens its surroundings and is so deeply loved by the community.

Tonight concluded the 21st Post-Yule Pyre on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The 1st one occurred on January 1990 on the initiative of the Cacophony Society and more specifically Micheal Mikel. The group has started many other events other the past 25 years, including Santacon

In 1978 David, along with Gary Warne, Adrienne Burk and Nancy Prussia had a wild experience where they clung desperately to a heavy barricade chain atop the seawall under the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Point as thirty foot waves crashed down on top of them. Later, in the early hours of January 3 over hot chocolate the four friends decided to start a club where they would encourage members to “live each day as though it were their last” by creating events and experiences that would challenge their deep personal fears, expand their knowledge and understanding of their world and those in it AND be hella fun. This group became the San Francisco Suicide Club.

Thin Line Film Festival just announced that Dust & Illusions was selected for their 2010 sessions. This is a good news. Thin Line happens in Denton, TX, just north of Dallas. I will try to set up a video link to do the Q&A as I will be away from the country during that period of time.

An article by CineSource Magazine (October 2009 issue)

Bonin’s film supplies a historical perspective on how the Burning Man event became associated with a counter-cultural movement in America. Perhaps more importantly, the film looks critically at how the meaning of the festival has changed over 20 years, from an existential form of expressionism to a more commodified ritual of indulgence.

Nov 5th, 7:30pm

This is the 4th selection for the film and counting! Hamburg is located in the Northern tip of Germany (2 hours northwest of Berlin). I won’t be able to attend as I will be at the screenings of the film in New-York, Philly, Baltimore & Boston, b/w Nov 1st and Nov 6th.

20 years ago… 1989. The Wind Sculpture Festival was being organized by Mel Lyons, a Berkeley artist during the Labor Day Weekend on the Black Rock desert. Some people from the Cacophony Society attended the event then.

If you plan on taking pictures like 40,000 people at Burning Man, it’s a good idea to read this. Burning Man has a strict set of rules so participants can feel their privacy won’t be violated, and their image won’t be abused. The Burning Man organization (Black Rock Limited Liability Corporation) requires all journalists, and [...]

Dust & Illusions was the first film invited to the Rough Cuts series that opened back in June 2008. Rough Cuts is an important tool and time for filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.