The Gift of Things Going Wrong

We’re back from Black Rock City, and we miss it already. If you miss it too, or you missed it altogether, here are some sounds and sentiments of being there. BRC is filled with amateurs, people doing it as a labor of love. When things go wrong, we celebrate it as a glorious opportunity to adapt, or simply as things going the way they go. When the going gets tough, and it’s tough going in the world these days, spaces like BRC allow for joy, mourning and reflection. Spaces like BRC are practice grounds of possibility for doing things together, and things going wrong — sometimes wonderfully, sometimes devastatingly, often whimsically wrong. Caveat Magister is the resident philosopher of Burning Man. From his work with founder Larry Harvey and the underground art scene, he writes books, hosts adventures, and refutes reality. Motorbike Matt produces Burning Man's webcast, and helped create the Mars Rover Art Car and the Black Rock Observatory. He works in deserts around the world, and works it in the Black Rock Desert. Kbot is a strategist on Burning Man Project's Communications team. She develops stories about culture and community, writes her own, and shares the mic on this podcast. Brooke LaValley is a longtime Burner and photojournalist, and a maven at Media Mecca (the media relations station in BRC). Michael Vav is a longtime organizer, sordid artist of sorts, and behind-the-scenester, and a producer in Burning Man Project’s Philosophical Center. This conversation is silly and serious, profound and profane. Listen between the jokes for the truth bombs… and the jokes that bomb. Oh, and see this too: burningman.org/feedback-loop And this: census.burningman.org Burning Man Live: The Gift of Things Going Wrong LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG