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This place is in my heart forever, the home of the playa of Burning Man... in dust we trust... a city that exists for only two weeks, full of magic, wonder like you will not see anywhere else, explosions of art, sculpture, beautiful people, kind hearts and everything else to set the senses alight.
Magic place pre/post burn for a overland mountain bike excursion. Don’t get stuck in the mud!
The best little city in the middle of a desert ever. It’s like going home to 80k of your closest family. 🔥
It's a dry toxic lakebed in the Nevada desert until it's a wet toxic lakebed. Best place to buy ecstasy or LSD in Aug/September if you're in the area.
The black rock Desert is home to the 4th largest city in Nevada, Black Rock City. The city is unique in that it only exists for 2 weeks out of the year. Voted number 1 for creative self expression and hedonistic extremism rivaling and surmounting Las Vegas in visual stimulation it is markley less luxurious due to temporary nature of the infrastructure.
The city was unintentionally founded by Larry Harvey when his San Francisco bonfire party's were shut down by the San Francisco police for being UN-permitted gatherings and he joined forces with a group called the Cacophony Society to bring a large wooden structure shaped like a man to the desert to burn.
As The population grows at a almost exponential rate with 80,000 temporary residents as of 2019 so do the questions of commodification , gentrification and overall direction of the city. Like many small artsy community's in western united states, the fear of long term residents of having their individualistic bohemian aesthetic compromised is fully epitomized by the invasion of a bland uniform army of Rental recreational vehicles.
While one of the principals of self-reliance is exemplified by this invasion many residences lack adhering to the principal of Participation choosing to isolate themselves from the (other residents) and admittedly harsh elements of the desert. Instead choosing to enjoy the luxury of a self contained rectangle on wheels with the occasional 10min excursion out for a photo shoot.
What will the future hold for Black rock city one can only calculate. Will the wealthy residences eventually push out the artistic expressionistic population like we see modeled in San Francisco or will the city managers attempt to control the weed of gentrification? Only time will tell.
-From Local sol -3 google guide @ Black Rock City
