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start Getting There The Playa Our Crew Making Camp Life in Camp Black Rock Rangers Black Rock City Merchant Camp The Man The Obelisk Toast Camp Sushi in the Desert West Stage Shower Camp Shampoo Camp Hula Camp Rave Camp Other Scenes Denizens of Black Rock City One Couple on Parade Newton's Balls Camping Out The Happy Couple In The Air Art Cars On the Ground panorama
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Burning Man 1996: Denizens of Black Rock City
Our neighbors, the three naked guys on a trampoline.
Our other neighbors; such nice people. She spent such an amount of time doing the body paint. What a card.
Seth and I showing off our nipple clamps, once we finished using them to hold the structure together.
Beer run! These guys had a pretty typical camp. Not much was tied down and it got trashed whenever the wind picked up. They did keep tidying it up, rather than putting most of it away.
A photographer takes a photo of a woman and her iguana.
The shark car! A very cool thing to see on the playa, its tail swinging from side to side.
The former poses in front of the latter. Actually, the hardest thing about taking photos on the playa is to make sure that the
Someone in seiza with a parasol.
Folks walking into the sun. Sunglasses are an important thing to bring to Buring Man.
Wedding dress costume party, evidently.
Playa croquette anyone?
The croquette twins are here to help!
It's leopard-skin flamingo man, at your service.
The full moons of jester.
Strolling along I came across these great handmade animals. Each in a different style, but somehow suited to the playa.
Here's the artist, laying out an animal park. Unfortunately, I never made it back to see how it all turned out.
Participants doing - I kid you not - the Hokey Pokey.
Tattoed man in a sun mask.
I'm not sure this was his intention, but is that a Citgo sign on the back of this guys shirt? (Ever since I've lived in Kenmore Square (in my Boston University years) I've liked the Citgo sign. Reading about it in Neal Stephenson's book The Big U didn't make it any less exciting.)
Dreads and a silver bikini.
Someone taking off their shoes and giving their feet a rest in camp.
Inside the chai tent, perhaps the best hairdo and general look of the night!
Here's the Angry Postal Workers, going, umm, postal.
More firepower for the postal workers.
Homage to the beduoin desert dwellers. They must know something about keeping cool.
And the exact opposite, Tribal Guy. I think he's more appropriate to a rain forest environment.
Tribal Guy's friend is Spear Guy.
Spiral bellybutton design. You are feeling sleepy, sleepy...
Another take on the beduoin thing.
And yet another, although this seems more central African than Arab to me.
Nothing cooler than being sprayed with water. Thanks! Hit me again!
Three guys in drag.
Here's a welder at McSatans. I think he was making some of the propane-belching animals.
What a great billowy parasol.
It's that guy with the water gun again!
Another kind of parasol, an idea whose time has clearly come on the playa.
Of course there are other ways of beating the heat and the sun's rays, this modified automative window shade seems to work, especially the tin-foil hat.
Water Jug Hippy Guy. Happy guy taking care of himself in style.
Playa mud makes a popular costume, although it's mostly men who choose this route. There were a few mud women, but almost all as part of the wandering mud people group.
Our neigbors doing their own shower camp. They asked that I email these to them, but the address they gave wasn't working, and all the permutations nearby didn't work either. I'll leave them here on the off chance they stumble across them.
A close-up.
How would you like to wear grease-paint camouflage during such a hot event? How would you get it off? Yeech!
Some happy beer drinkers from Pride Camp wandered on by.
More interesting adaptations to the heat and sun. One clothed in black, the other bare-chested.
I think this was one of the earth-moving machines used to tidy up the remains of the Man after the burn, but I might be wrong.
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