Burning Man Festival 2016 Panorama 360 VR Concert
Black Rock City 9:00, Nevada, United States 2016
Burning Man 2016 takes place August 28 – September 5, 2016 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Participants join in the effort to co-create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to art and community. Burning Man isn’t your usual festival. It’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience. Some 70,000 people ventured to Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this year's Burning Man festival, which ended September 5. And they certainly did it in style. Burning Man fashion often looks like characters from "Mad Max" meet those from "Star Wars." Many "burners" this year sported things like rainbow goggles, neon shorts, and unicorn horns — that is, if they didn't go naked. To protect their eyes from the Black Rock Desert's sandstorms, people often need goggles.
This year's Burning Man – a gathering of more than 70,000 people in Nevada's Black Rock Desert – had the theme of "Da Vinci's Workshop," as organizers asked participants to explore the similarities between 15th-century Florence and the 30-year-old festival in their giant, temporary city. And while the artists and enthusiasts may not have succeeded in starting their own Renaissance, they were able to create a beautiful and imaginative community, if only for a few days. Here, a look at some of the most impressive pieces and scenes from Burning Man 2016.
The Space Whale
The Space Whale is a 50 foot tall full-scale crystalline humpback whale mother and calf diving through the sky built from steel and stained glass. A monumental testament to family, our relationships with nature, time and space and our responsibility to preserve our environment. First appearing at Burning Man and then traveling to 6 countries around the world. The Space Whale is a monument meant to inspire people to create the change needed to herald in a future of environmental balance and space travel.
Praising the Sun / Night sandstorm / The Space Whale
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The Lighthouse Project / 6 hours in traffic / Circle Parade
The Lighthouse Project - what an amazing and complex piece of art! For a week thousands of people visited it and it stand proudly and safely! Bravo architects!
Glowing Dome
Wooden Fort / Hands Sticking Out
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Awakening
The skull and hands, created by Ryan Elmendorf and Nick Geurts of Denver, Colorado, incorporated one of Da Vinci's favorite devices: the camera obscura. Participants could enter the skull, a darkened room, where lenses in the eyes projected what was happening in the outside world on the wall.
A crystal like cluster of Lighthouses ranging from 6 to 60 foot tall and some leaning as much as 20 degrees. Inspired by the juxtaposition of creating a destination of fun and shelter by something that is meant to warn you of danger. This adult jungle gym aims to become a destination where participants come to seek shelter, play, meetup with friends and navigate the inland sea that is the Playa. At night the Lighthouses will truly come alive with fire, light, and a few other surprises.
Inside A Fort / Lynx & Michael / Suspension Bridge Car
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GPS Coordinates / 40.7890606,-119.1929839 / 40.7839507,-119.1927294 / 40.7833466,-119.1908882
Road Warriors
While traditional motor vehicles aren't allowed on the playa, self-built "art cars" are encouraged.
Giant weta are endemic insects native to and only found in New Zealand. Their genus name, Deinacrida, is Greek for “fierce grasshopper.” Larger weta can be up to 10 cm (4″) long not inclusive of legs and antennae and it is one of the heaviest documented insects in the world. Due to introduced mammals the weta is now an endangered species.
We are making a 50:1 scale model of real life giant weta and making it shoot flames.
It is being built in Auckland, New Zealand, taken to Black Rock City, returning to New Zealand for Kiwiburn and then finally being installed somewhere in New Zealand as a permanent installation.
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TangentialDreams
Tangential Dreams is a climbable sinuous tower made from off-the-shelf timber and digitally designed via algorithmic rules. One thousand “tangent” thin wooden pieces are held in position via horizontal pieces rotating along a central axis, gently moving in the wind like leaves of a giant tree. The pieces are stencilled with inspiring sentences, and dynamically lit by LED strips during the night time. In line with this year’s theme, the piece is reminiscent of Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man’s movement and helicoid inventions as well as his deep, systematic, understanding of the rules behind form to create art. From a wooden flame all the way to a giant desert cactus, the complex simplicity of the art piece will trigger many interpretations, many dreams. The audience will read and discuss the poetry written on each tangent coming from the Burners’ community itself via our crowd funding campaign like a collage of sentences creating a serendipitous “cadavre exquis” of thoughts.
Firmament
A vast, overhead canopy of LEDs displays celestial, playful, psychedelic, majestic images while classical music emotionally supports an enveloping, comforting, communal environment below.
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