: An Online Learning Space by Burners, for Burners Created by the nonprofit Burning Man Project, Burning Man Hive is a digital space for Burners and Burner-curious folks to learn, share, and connect. Anyone is invited to explore, learn, and contribute to Hive. We all create Burner culture together when we do. Engage in online, digital conversations…

Have you wondered if your BRC or regional camp/Village/HUBS or art installation can transition from fossil fuels to solar? Then meet the Renewables for Artists Team - RAT. Bruce Cooper and Ken Rehor from the team share about how RAT has helped dozens of artists on playa exchange their generators for renewable power. The same concepts can be used in…

Meet Baron Snarklefarker, aka Brian, and Jim from Snarklefarker’s Nightclub, a Burning Man Regional Theme Camp at unSCruz near Santa Cruz, CA. Heavy on the swanky decoration themed in black, red, and marble, it’s the type of club vampires might hang out. It’s meant to be sexy, sensual, dark and stylish. And is it ever! Think old timey playground th…

We meet up with Monica Wu, co-founder of Magic Lantern Society, a wonderfully curated, old-timey space inside a beautiful, big tent. It’s where many burners find enchantment and tell stories, share experiences and co-mingle. We talk about the many places and events that their lovely, intimate space has participated in over the years since they were…

Meet Chelsea Bronson, aka Catalyst. Founder of the Tea Carp, volunteer for Burning Man for over ten years, and seasonal staff member at Burning Man. For the past 4 years she has been the Leave No Trace Compliance Special Ops and for the past 3 has been a MOOP Scribe for Playa Restoration; DPW. Before going to Burning Man, Catalyst created an accred…

Miss Conception, aka Sara Nicole Glass Musician, Performer, Volunteer, BWB Burner! With Kate Robinson from Tenderloin Community Benefit District, San Francisco Meet MissConception aka Sara Nicole Glass who is an amazing musician, performer, and volunteer for Burners Without Borders. Miss Conception produced a community-empowering event supporting l…

My guest is Dylan Hogan, aka Major Trouble - The founder of BRC Snow Club, resident DJ for Disco Donutz (Heavy Petting Zoo), and former board member of Airpusher and Sextant Camp. I talked with him in March, 2024. To introduce him to you, I am using the words of Joel Kristopher, Zookeeper at Heavy Petting Zoo, who recently posted about his friend, …

Meet Blondie! She’s an avid volunteer at Black Rock City, owns an art car, and volunteers to help produce Burnal Equinox and Decompression in San Francisco. She camps with Dustfish at BRC and always comes to the party looking blingtastic! Suz and Blondie both volunteer with San Francisco Community Events Team for Burning Man and want to encourage b…

Meet Megan Wood Burner, Volunteer, Publisher and Author of Children’s Books Megan Wood is the author of Farm Day Adventures, a children's book series. She was inspired by her experiences working with children and volunteering as a burner and working with farm animals. Passionate about children, big art & animals (currently goats), we talk about her…

A Visit with Lysa Joy, aka Dazzle! How to feed 700 artists/builders in 4 days Dazzle was a guest of the podcast in 2017 when she talked about BRC Wheels on Meals. 2024 will be her 11th year since she first started this project delivering hot meals to art build crews of Black Rock City during build week. Armed with a generator and a microwave on a f…

Playa Weddings - a Talk with Ranger Beauty Learn about the variety of BRC wedding options Meet Ranger Beauty, an ordained minister who has been providing wedding officiant services to couples at Black Rock City and other Regionals for many years. We talked about the many types of playa weddings for couples, and even individuals. We included informa…

We love to gift and receive swag! We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection! We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection! There are some really creative burners making small art that sometimes magically shows up in our hands as a gift.Meet Tod Johnson has made it his project to curate and collect beautiful, miniature…

This was recorded live in January, 2023 on a live, Shouting Fire online radio show. Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for 20 years. His weekly podcast "Hug Nation" has been influential and motivational for thousands of listeners. Mr. Arash produces the longest running burner podcast on Burner Podcast. This is a…

Meet Benjamin Langholz, interactive sculpture artist, who brought Beam to Black Rock City, 2022. Made of steam I Beams, the art installation called Beam spanned 150 feet long and was meant to be walked from start to point and then down to the other end while walking across its 14 inch-wide girth. Benjamin talks about his past art installations incl…

The Black Rock Philharmonic is a group of professional and amateur musicians from different camps that performs classical music for the ever-growing Burning Man community. Meet Eric, or Dr FireTuba, conductor and organizer, who talks about their beginnings, their 2022 concert music program on the Playa, some wonderful shoutouts to other acoustic gr…

Camp Kitchen Leads Tell Us Tips Big or small camps and villages as well as pre-build crew care teams can learn from three kitchen leads sharing their knowledge and experience to make it easier for us to set up our own kitchens. If you have a camp that has a camp kitchen, if you are thinking about setting one up for the first time, if you cook at al…

Last time Suz and Dave Keane talked, he and his crew were making The Folly in 2019 and Dave was lead builder of Temple, 2018. Most recently, his crew is ready for their next big-art build called Paradisium, aka the Folly Forest. We hear from crew member Paul Franke. With 20-26 iconic trees making up a forest at Black Rock City in 2022, it’s meant t…

What happens when a collection of Black Rock Juplaya camps decide to fund art by getting permits and selling tickets? Meet the board of Everywhen Project, 2022 is working towards a week-long event at Black Rock Desert, 2022. With over 2.5K members of their FB group, interest is growing and they are just getting started. The board and the event grew…

Meet Tree Jay Lee from The Temple Builders Guild. It’s a new group of temple builders who got together and figured out a way to handle temple build tools and to keep a collection of tools for the next temple build. This involves transportation and even Airstream made into a kitchen that is ready to deploy meals to a large build crew for years to co…

Super Suz talks with Caveat Magister, Burning Man’s philosopher laureate. He’s the author of The Scene That Became Cities: what Burning Man philosophy can teach us about building better communities, and Turn Your Life Into Art: lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground. His newest book is a synthesis of the San Francisco underground…

Some have said that 2021, besides being a virtual burn year, was all about the art cars. That’s debatable, I know. Instead of debating, we hear from two art car owners who called in to one of my Tuesday night shows on Shouting Fire online radio. We talked about their experience at the Renegade Burn with their art cars. This recording was made on Au…

Super Suz spoke with Sunshine Daydream in the spring of 2021. He’s the Chief Radical Instigator of Playatech. He’s one of the most prolific artists in Black Rock City that nobody knows about. He created Playatech in 2005 to spoof Decommodification, and it’s been used all these years in thousands of camps. Learn how you and your campmates can turn p…

Super Suz spoke with Dave X, Fire Art Safety Team Manager at Burning Man Project, to find out what are some of the things Burners need to be aware of when burning an effigy. Many burners are gathering together this summer and this is the podcast that will help burners know about fire safety, fire awareness and other important things to think about …

Super Suz spoke with Tex Allen back in 2019 and he’s back. This time, his new project is his TTITD website for NFT’s that features honoraria artists and helps them fund new projects and earn income for their existing art. “Patronage IS Participation!” is Tex's new mantra. A portion of the NFT purchases will go towards a donation to Burning Man Proj…

7-year burner, Matthew Shapard, aka Shap, is a San Diego based burner who has created several wearable performance art pieces to bring out to Black Rock City as well as his local Regional. His camp “Yes, And” hosts performance space and serves cheesy treats at San Diego’s regional YOUtopia. His recent project, Personal Space, is something that is v…

Meet the Keymaster. Have you ever wondered if aliens or dimensional beings ever visited Burning Man? I have. My guest, Eric Steven Rankin, first became interested in the possibility of other worlds and dimensions in the 1970’s. This led him to his work on Sonic Geometry, which is his theory and study of geometric symmetry found throughout our unive…

Justin Katz aka Paradox has golden fingers that have touched many Bay Area burners and we don’t even know it. He gets things done and makes things happen. Sometimes he’s center stage and sometimes he’s behind the scenes. He’s the founder of PARADOX Media and The Edwardian Ball, member of longtime Bay Area bands Rosin Coven and Dr. Abacus, and works…

Super Suz and Professor Pickle explore Camp Envy, the "largest theme camp NOT on playa”. As the burner community shifts to a socially-distanced online experience this year, we are all now in Camp Envy. Since 2009, CE has been a welcome online home to burners who aren't able to attend the annual gathering in Black Rock City. CE is populated by veter…

DJ Celeste Lear, music producer and visual artist, first went to Burning Man in 1999. She has a deep love for art, music, community and rave culture. She brought her family to the playa, and a brought large-scale, metal sculpture for 9 years. She has performed there as a music producer & DJ. This last year, she has been exploring various discipline…

It’s April, 2020 and we just found out that Burning Man Black Rock City, 2020 is cancelled. Now what do we do? I invited Molly Freedenberg, known as Molly Free on the Playa, to chat about what she thinks this can mean for burners. What does it mean for us burners- not only the burners who would have gone to BRC this year, but for burners all over t…

Atticus Wolf, owner of M0xy in Oakland, invited Danny Beesley, founder of IDEA BUILDER Labs to talk shop. Danny helps learning institutions develop their creative spaces. Both have knowledge and experience over the years supporting artists and developing a maker space. M0xy just recently survived a fire! Both are well suited to suggest how we move …

Nicole Bloss, aka Alpha Pussy, has been designing for over 2 decades and burning since 2005. In 2016, Alpha was offered the commission to design the participant maps when the opportunity opened up and has designed all of them since DaVinci’s Workshop. She has helped many artists design for their projects as well. We hear her talk about her passion …

Burner Hacks is a group on Facebook with over 23,000 members. Melissa Kirk, the group’s originator and one of the admins, has made it into a “Troll-Free Zone” with all questions valid (mostly) and radical inclusion practiced (with the exception of unnecessarily mean people). Find out how to make the best potty for your camp, the best swamp cooler a…

Simon Gold, aka Simon of the Playa, has been attending Burning Man since 1996. Upholsterologist by day and ePlaya poster by night, Simon has been bantering with the best burners since 2007 on ePlaya, the online forum for burners to post about all things Burning Man related and a little beyond. Find plenty of open discussion there with a whole commu…

Meet sTeVe Knauf, of The Mighty Zenith. It’s not just a big TV. It’s a big TV set that drives around BRC and looks just like a 1974 Zenith TV console. The 13 by 10 by 10 foot art car is a roving performance stage. When it’s at Black Rock City, the producers encourage everyone to join in on what may be a talk show one night, a game show another nigh…

The Fergusons met on the playa and married in 2012. Ever since, they have been developing their love of making playa art together and with their beloved friends. The Fergusons are well known for their over-sized, penny-covered art sculptures and their earlier-years Heart of the City series of metal sculptures. This year, the Fergusons are going pen…

Imagine a Victorian, shanty village with a clock tower, shop fronts, bridges and a windmill cobbled together and made from salvaged wood the team has scavenged from all over the Bay Area. The Folly “seaside” village will come alive with BRC residents. Bring your buccaneer, pirate and steampunk outfit and frolic at the Folly enjoying entertainment o…

Playascape is an art project coming to Black Rock City, 2019 that will be an amphitheater, gathering place and place to play on the playa. It’s designed by Artist and Architect Alex Haw. Meet fellow collaborator, Col Sturge, from a recording of a live conversation on Shouting Fire burner radio. The conversation included design, inspiration and exec…

Talk to God Phone Booth Is an art installation that started at Black Rock City, in 2002. You may have seen the booth on the Esplanade. Is it fate and destiny that operates the telephone booth? Miles Eastman, who now oversees the project, thinks it's both. He’s taken the project to various places outside of BRC, shared it with different camps in BRC…

For many burners, going to the temple at BRC to honor their ancestors is one of the most important traditions of Burning Man. Meet several people, including the lead architect and designer, Geordie Van Der Bosch, who are a part of the temple build. With an elegant, open design, Geordie and his team will give us four entrances and lots of enclosed s…

Gwen and Josh met at The Generator in Reno, NV and soon after identified as partners in art. They are two of three artists that were granted Honorariums in the state of Nevada for 2019. They sat down to talk to about their art inspiration, philosophy and even about art and money. Both artists are bringing their art out to Black Rock City this year.…

Nathan Altman lead the Temple Build in 2015. In 2016, he managed Black Rock City Dept of Public Works / DPW. In 2017, he was the lead for Man Build. In 2018, he ran for U.S. Senator of Illinois. In 2019, is bringing out The Inner Sun Project to Black Rock City and it’s one of the larger projects on the Playa this year. Nathan, aka Mary Poppins, wan…

David Normal started out going to Burning Man in 1994. Back then, he was attracted to Burning Man because of the participatory and alternative culture. He’s still around! This year, he is bringing Cathenge. Think of it like a Cat Temple with tall elegant, mystical cat statues he calls "Catoliths" that make up a temple of love energy. David talks ab…

Gamelatrons are sound producing kinetic sculptures by artist and composer Aaron Taylor Kuffner. You may have seen and heard them. Aaron brought out several gamelatron projects to Black Rock City. Gamelatrons have been inside the Man base, the temple, and Aaron has used his gamelatrons to make beautiful, peaceful sanctuary spaces at his camp. Made o…

Super Suz spoke with Tex Allen back in 2017 when he was preparing to embark on a campaign to Hug America. We are checking in with him on how he has mission has stayed the course and yet has transformed over time. You are invited to answer the altar call of the First Church of Hugs. Hugallujah! Also included - a great story about the most awesome sw…

Meet Fixer and Radar from Rootpile. They are two of the camp’s leads and talk about Rootpile as a camp, a mutant vehicle and the home of Black Rock Bluegrass music from the south. At Rootpile, find acoustic music jams, a bluegrass museum, a mullet barbershop and musician workshops. Wow, this camp is one to to check out next time you are at BRC. For…

Meet Henry Chang who makes amazing art cars made of curved stainless steel. His Valyrian Steel car is 27 feet long, weighs 3 tons and is topped by a kinetic collection of spinning wheels. Henry talks about his merging art with engineering and his home on the playa, Mirage Garage Camp. Catch his philosophy of art throughout the discussion that takes…

Meet Ascher, volunteer at B.E.D. Bureau of Erotic Discourse. It’s a group of volunteers that provide information about consent and other sexual health information so that you can get your sexy on and do it with mutual consent at Burning Man and beyond. B.E.D. passes on the message that consent is sexy and FUN-da-mental. What does that mean? Find ou…

Meet Monica and Rob of The Magic Lantern Society. You just might find what you are looking for at the Magic Lantern, a beautiful, large tent of magic and enchantment. It’s an intimate place on the playa where you can wear the bartender’s hat at the storytelling bar and listen to burners try to impress. You never know what you are going to hear. Imp…

Super Suz goes to Reno and meets up with two great build crews that are bringing out great stuff to BRC, 2018. The GREAT TRAIN WRECK is a shared project of the Sacramento and Reno Regionals. Expect to see two wood trains crashing into each other on Friday at 9 p.m. They need help on Friday. Burner, CNC, tells us how to get involved in this awesome,…