All About the Artists – Bitter Pie Comix

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1. tena

   March 19, 2011 at 5:02 pm

   thanks for the review susan! have to tell you though, the burning man is for yuppies button was born out of watching people (who never would have gone to it 12 years ago) spend over $5000 buying costumes and crap for their big escape from the real world. it just made me think, “if people spent this much time, energy and money on improving their Own Neighborhoods and Communities, how much better off would we all be!?” ya know!? and now…i couldn’t afford to get in even if i wanted to, so there’s that.
   anyway, thanks again!

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   • Susan

     March 26, 2011 at 8:29 pm

     For nearly 10 years I went to Burning Man for free by working for the Department of Public Works; I got them to pay me (a mere 5’2″ bottle-blonde female) to learn about and then drive 40,000 pound rough terrain forklifts, rig 38,000 square foot tents, operate 80′ aerial boom lifts and do major construction for art projects. I got my job because I spent 3 months making a documentary on the building of Black Rock City with funds I earned while working construction to put myself through college, and I lived in the desert with a bunch of construction workers, road kids, amateur (and real) scientists, military men, train travelers, naturopathic hippies who existed on nothing but vegetables and cigarettes, and circus punks who spent all year earning a living on the festival circuit.

     As for yuppies, there are some at Burning Man (there are yuppies everywhere!), but characterizing the entire event by what I think is an uneducated (by circumstance) opinion — without fully exploring the Eleusinian background of the event and all of the positive things that have come from people at Burning Man coming together after an event that changed their lives to improve their communities (I can send you a list of public works projects and charities started because people met at Burning Man that NEVER would have gained traction had the participants not met there) — is sort of like someone saying they hate all comic books because they read stuff from Marvel and DC Comics that totally made them blow chunks once.

     For more information on me, I maintain a website about my previous work in the desert and my documentary here: http://www.angelfire.com/film/quietgirlproductions/
     I’m happy to send you a copy of my doc on building BRC for free — as I love your comics — and I think it’ll give you another side of Burning Man that goes far beyond some fancy yuppies who use it as an excuse to blow money on tutus and get away from their purebred dogs for a week.

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