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Renegade Party Guide 101: Everything You’ll Need to Know Off the Grid
In the realm of raves, we all know the typical locations most dance floors tend to gather on. You have your established club venues, massively scaled festivals, the underground warehouse parties, and a plethora of other places around the city and surrounding areas to dance at. Those are good and fun as they are pretty standard these days, but they’re not the only places to party. What about for those who are tired of the city vibes? For those adventurous ones that like to blaze the unbeaten path? For those that want to get away from the typical routine of societal living in general? If you find yourself feeling like that, have no fear; you may just be a renegade, and in that case it’s about time you get yourself to a renegade party. Read more
Reservations for Burning Man Can Cost You Up To $10,000
While some music festivals are being announced to take place as soon as next month, Burning Man most likely won’t be happening this year due to COVID-19 health and safety concerns. The city is taking measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 but is planning for reduced capacity events in the coming years. However, the limited tickets are coming in at a pretty penny. Would you spend $10,000 for a chance to possibly get a ticket?
Premiere: Label Shadow Wulf Debuts & Welcomes Compilation
Shadow Wulf is the ferociously dark cub of the existing house and techno label Wulfpack. The new sister label is founded by producers Aaron Jacobs, Drew Blyther, and Erin Parisi (Crescendoll). They saw an opportunity to fill a void in LA’s underground scene.
Global Vibe Radio 194 Feat. Rony Seikaly (Live at DISTRIKT, Burning Man)
The first Global Vibe Radio mix of 2020 comes from Miami’s Rony Seikaly, who provided us with a Live recording of his 2019 DISTRIKT set at Burning Man.
The set features only his own productions, including tracks released on his very own recently-launched Stride Records label. The latest EP from Rony Seikaly, Set My Body, is out January 10th on Stride and can be pre-ordered on Beatport HERE.
Otherwordly Photos of Burning Man Courtesy of Victor Habchy
Note: Photos from 2016
The temporary world of Burning Man is nothing short of spectacular on the eye. Impressively unique, impactful and interactive, the artwork at the annual gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert becomes the subject of dreamlike photography at the hands of amateur and professional photographers alike.
One such professional is self-taught Victor Habchy, who has been attending the festival these last few years, capturing the scenes before his eyes in ways only he can. The outcome is beyond dazzling, a series of photographs that immortalize ethereal scenes worthy of the most advanced Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster.
Ensure you connect with French colorblind photographer and videographer Habchy via his Official Website and Facebook Page to stay up to date with his art.
How to Survive Burning Man: The 6AM Guide
We published this story a few years ago, ahead of Burning Man’s Carnival of Mirrors in 2015. Yet, our guide is still applicable this year as it will be in years to come. Enjoy it in its entirely below!
Another year has passed, and another year has arrived. We have departed the nomadic realm of the Caravansary last year and have entered the spectacular kingdom of the Carnival of Mirrors. This year’s Burn will indeed be the Greatest Show on Earth with 60,000 wandering souls descending upon The Playa at Black Rock City. The Man will stand atop a circus tent in all its glory, and we will see the effigy cycle through birth, death, and a grand rebirth in flames again.
Burners new and seasoned must follow the fundamental Ten Principles to utilize the true transformational potential of Burning Man. The Ten Principles are the foundational ethos in a community that values creativity, inclusion, and liberty. With Burning Man fast approaching, here’s our comprehensive survival guide to this year’s Carnival of Mirrors.
Surviving the Burn
Playa 101: Burning Man Advice Curated by David Hohme
Over the last decade, David Hohme has been captivating hearts on dance-floors worldwide. The Brooklyn-based producer dropped his debut EP Soft Landing on the world-renowned label Anjunadeep this past April. Featuring three originals, and a mesmerizing remix by Jody Wisternoff and James Grant, Soft Landing is a luminous EP that leaves music-lovers afloat.
Hohme was also recently thrilled to see his collaboration work with Francesca Lombardo and Jonnie King, entitled “MöMy” reach audiences worldwide this past May 11th with a release on Echoe.
It’s therefore safe to say that Hohme has had a prolific year thus far, but we also know that it is anything but over. As summer approaches, he is getting ready for the yearly pilgrimage to Burning Man, where he will join tens of thousands of other music, art and life lovers for the yearly appointment on the Playa.
As a Burning Man vet, Hohme was kind enough to share with us 5 key tips for a successful Burn. Enjoy the insight below.
Ignite Movie: An Interview with Director Ryan Moore
Ignite is a film project that will give you a cinematic journey into what it’s like to be at Burning Man.
Featuring original music by Grammy Award winning composer Lorne Balfe (The Dark Knight, Inception, Lego Batman Movie, Ghost in the Shell, Genius), Ignite is now half-way through its Kickstarter campaign, hoping to raise enough funds to release the film in its best possible format. Although nearly $24,000 has been raised so far, surpassing its initial $20,000 goal, Ignite hopes to raise more than $50,000 in funding in order to release the film in the version that Director Ryan Moore originally envisioned.
We sat down for a chat with Ryan to talk about the cinematic project, the inspiration behind it and what he hopes to accomplish with it. Make sure you read on to learn more about Ignite and that you visit the Kickstarter page here to help Ryan raise money toward his goal of $50,000.
Ignite: A Cinematic Journey Depicting The World of Burning Man
There’s films and then there’s cinematic journeys. The first you watch and then carry on with your life as you were, but the latter literally remain with you. Cinematic journeys take over your thoughts, they influence your actions and ultimately become catalysts for real life moments, with the ultimate potential of changing everything and anything that they influence.
Ignite is one of those cinematic journeys, a Burning Man experience like no other. If you’ve been to Black Rock City for the annual pilgrimage that sees tens of thousands visit each summer, you already know that words cannot and will never do the experience any justice. And frankly, nor do any of the videos you have likely seen posted on social media depicting what are just mere isolated moments of the much bigger journey that is being at Burning Man.
Ryan has spent over $25,000 of his own money to cover pre-production and production costs to make sure he could bring the best team to make my vision a reality. He has now launched a campaign on Kickstarter to raise funding for the last stretch of Ignite‘s project. The initial and tight budget goal of $20,000 has been met, but he hopes to raise $50,000 for the team to have the necessary funding to deliver the best product possible. You can donate the campaign here.
In the words of Director Ryan Moore:
Burning Man is something that cannot be described in words, therefore I feel this is the best way of expressing it in a visual format. After all these years of attending I’ve been able to develop a clear vision for what I feel truly represents what it’s like to be there. Authenticity is really important to me. My intention is to show how people connect with one another, the art, and the community. Again, the art and mutant vehicles are wonderful to showcase, but my focus is ultimately on sharing how Burning Man makes people feel. How the event truly affects its participants and how they in turn interact within the event. Capturing the human element and connectedness within Burning Man in a non-verbal way is what I intend to illustrate in Ignite.
The Crew
Producer and Director Ryan Moore is known for directing and producing the feature film documentary Manny, narrated by Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson. The film chronicles the boxer Manny Pacquiao’s meteoric rise from abject poverty to 10-time world champion. Manny was directed and produced by Ryan and had its world premiere at the SXSW film festival.
For the project, Ignite has sought the musical prowess and genius of Lorne Balfe, a Grammy Award-winning, EMMY and BAFTA nominated film composer from Inverness, Scotland. His filmography boasts an incredible breadth and depth of titles, ranging from major studio (The Dark Knight, Inception, Iron Man, Ghost In The Shell, Terminator: Genisys and more) to independent films, tentpole video game franchises (Assassin’s Creed III, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and more) and beloved animated feature films such as The Lego Batman Movie, Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar and more.
Cinematographer Jeremy Thierry has over 20 years experience working throughout the world in almost every genre of film and television, creating hundreds of hours of programming for all the major UK networks and production companies including the BBC, ITV, CNN, MTV, Discovery, National Geographic and others.
Jeremy was joined by Neil Fernandez, a cinematographer and filmmaker who first started editing tv shows such as Paranormal State (A&E) to Emmy nominated shows like Animal Planet and Whale Wars. As a cinematographer Neil has worked on films which have premiered at the LA Film Festival while others have been featured on Netflix. Neil also films music videos using his stylish techniques with artists as Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, and Busta Rhymes.
On editing duties is Daniel Freedman, a writer, comic book colorist, film editor and director with a large portfolio of work including work for Warner Brothers, Lions Gate, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Apple, HP, Adobe, Vice, Nylon, the Cobrasnake, Dim Mak records, Roc Nation and more.
Click HERE for more information and to donate to the Ignite: A Burning Man Film Kickstarter campaign, which ends on Friday, October 6 2017.
