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Summary:

Despite the very warm weather every day, I went out biking every waking hour, and barely managed to bike every street this year! That said, all in all I only biked 150 miles/240km, which is less than some other years, go figure...

This is had been 3 years since last burning man, I had time to upgrade my LED outfit to a 4 times larger 128x192 pixels. If you're interested, I wrote this page on version 5 of my LED outfit and if you'd like to know even more I've written a full article about my different LED outfits over the last 7 years, why and how.

Glad to be back

This year, I didn't bring back my 4096 neopixel matrix, it had been too damaged by playa dust and it felt too unreliable as a result. Instead I brought a new RGBPanel display that is equivalent to my wearable outfit, but with bigger pixels. See this page Putting some P5 64x32 Azerone Panels To Good Use, a Big 128x192 Matrix for build details. It looked like this:

I wrapped it up carefully to avoid playa dust damage

Anyway, let's get on with the pictures:

Black Rock City

Easy and unevenful flight:

thank you to the lovely airport volunteer who helped us tie down the plane

Flight pictures here.

Another year, another Burning Man with its infrastructure:

Center Camp:

The post offices were always fun to see:

Hillarious that they show you how to fill a postcard for those who never have :)

Also a passport office this time around:

Lost and found was super well organized:

pictures of all the phones returned

shoes, clothes, and water bottles just went in bins

and thanks for those who helped direct traffic through the hundreds of intersections by adding red lights :)

Like each year, thanks to our lamp lighters:

And yes, weather was tough this year, lost of dust storms, one was severe and lasted most of the day:

But the weather, sunsets, and sunrises are beautiful:

Some people were even camping in deep playa to avoid the crowds:

BMorg even nicely put a few porta potties for them :)

Another marked change was the amount of drones, I think there were 3 different teams this year:

Art

Glad to be back to enjoy a bunch of art on the playa:

great to see art at sunrise

Sunset is always magical:

and given the temperatures, it was a lot more fun to see art at night:

comfort and joy was beautiful

Good to see Paraluna again

Very cool to see a movie theatre in deep playa:

A cool change is burning man that has been helping some art installations by providing solar power and batteries to avoid generators:

Camps

I had 2 sets of solar panels as input, and a meter to show how much power I used

our camp had a big generator though, but happy I didn't need to plug into it

it was good to power art like this one

and my art piece which I wrapped carefully to avoid playa damage

Despite high temperatures every day (100F/37C), and dust storms on some days, I managed to go see every camp and bike every single street. Here are random pictures of camps:

Lots of camps offering food as always, thank you to everyone:

Night camp pictures:

One night was the Illuminaughty LED party:

Then, we have the sound camps. So happy to see so many camps offering lots of music.
I made 3 different pages on these:

People

it was fun to wear my outfit at BM of course, plenty of poeple liked it :)

didn't see as much wearable LED, but found this

really nice to have Rick Doblin again for an update on MAPS' research

the people you randomly find: I biked by a camp that offered to fix your bike lights with a soldering iron, and it was no one other than Bunnie Huang, famous hardware hacker

also cool to run into Louis Beaudoin, who wrote the RGBPanel library for the previous version of my outfit

It was fun to go see the Billion Bunny March and Bunnies vs Carrots:

Fire

Fire Planning:

Nice to see fire dancers as always:

Due to weather and art this year, there were fewer pieces of art that burnt before saturday, but saw a few:

Vehicles

Lovely cuttlefish:

Mayan Warrior was awesome as always:

As well as Pulpo:

And my friends' BAAAHS sheep art car:

Lots of other random vehicles:

nice plate

there is a nice shuttle system now linked to the burner express

Another fun sight is the sea of bikes at night:

Some very cool bike lights:

The Man

For this year, thanks to my friend Afik, I tried something different, and watched the burn from an art car. Unfortuantely the angle wasn't perfect, and it was hard to get good shots of the fire dancers, but it was still interesting:

Then it was time to go see the see the fire close-up:

And the fun part is going around the circle of art cars:

nice to see the nice folks who were nice enough to feed us

Temple

Always great and difficult to see inside:

And this year, I stayed for the temple burn:

Conclusion

It was interesting to stay the last day for the temple burn, definitely a low key day, and then it was time to fly home. Very glad to see the exodus line from the sky, and not be in it:

Well, that was 12th burn after a 3 year wait. It was probably the toughest weather-wise, and maybe missing a few things compared to usual, but still, it was so glad to be back.

I hope you enjoyed this report. Feel free to say thanks to me by simply sharing it with your friends, and see you on the playa in the future (or you'll see me at night with my lights).

Tips

Thanks

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List of all the videos:

Music parties: