"Don't put up yor burnable effigy up early" Topic

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He's a happy looking arsonist! Funny, they didn't think his act as proformance art.

Can you really charge someone with arson for burning something thats built for the sole purpose of arson? It's like being arrested for lighting someone's campfire.

"It's obviously a pretty selfish act, and people are disappointed about that, but spirits overall are pretty high," she said.

Yeah, that would be the massive amounts of drugs in their systems, but good thing they got the illegal fireworks out of there. They could be dangerous!

Also you'd think the cops would of removed the face makeup before taking the mugshot. It makes all the other Mexican wrestlers look bad.

Pretty uncool of him. Why ruin everyone's good time?

What's all that burning man stuff about, then? Around here we burn effigies of Catholic conspirators and the Pope.

Burning Man is an art festival held in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert. It's a bit hippy and slightly pretentious, but the one time I went there were at least a few original art ideas, some of which were serious and some which were very funny. People set up booths promoting unusal ideas and others wander around in outragous costumes. The festival ends with setting a large effigy on fire, thus the burning man.

I'm of the opinion that current recognised artists like Turner Prize winners are all crap. This festival at least has new ideas and for the most part doesn't take itself too seriously. It's also one of the few public events I've been to where I wasn't worried about fights or drunken idiots ruining my good time. There was drug taking going on, but no one was out of hand so it is not unlike the Glastonbury festival in terms of mood.

It's amazing how people keep lowering the standards. All my life I've thought of mimes as being the lowest form of performance. Yet in the past 10 years or so these "performance artists" have managed to establish a new low.

Performance artists… "I have no talent except the power to offend".

If your art as byproduct offends someone, it might still be art. If your offensive action as a byproduct might seem to be art to someone, it probably is still just an offensive act.

Just my highly subjective opinion.

Another highly subjective opinion… Burning Man has, lots of intoxication…. but so do most sporting events, at least they do this in the desert, no one has to go and witness it if they don't want to, so I have no problems with the festival itself.

Sort of funny though, all that free-will, free-spirit stuff at that festival…. this guy was just acting on his :)

Chalfant

I agree wholeheartedly with Scott. Typical selfish, narcissistic $%!*head. "Performance artist" is another excuse for a person who behaves badly.

Bruce the Grumbling Dice Monkey

If by performance artist he means selfish jerk than that what he is. Also it was mentioned that his little masterpiece damages some of the other stands.

Given that "radical self-expression" is one of the 10 principles of Burning Man, then they shouldn't be suprised.

Hippies. Are they slow learners, or what?

Just make sure Nicholas Cage doesn't get out….

Most of the folks I know who are involved in it aren't hippies, they're tech-geeks… web designers, game designers, programmers…
If I wanted hippies I'd have much better luck going to one of the Rainbow Gatherings.

Lazy bums … You've still got 4 days, build another one.

Oh, I see they did. Oops.

So, let me get this straight…

In essence the festival celebrates individuality and non-conformance through art and other means. Some guy decides to express his own individuality and non-conformance by destroying the "idol" of non-conformance through the same means the other non-conformists do but does so an an unapproved time. Then at least one of the other non-conformists criticizes him for being "selfish"?

Hello pot, this is the kettle – you're black.

"All my life I've thought of mimes as being the lowest form of performance."

Never watched an Australian soap then?