Twenty Years On The Playa
BM05 — Furnishing BRC
The year we furnished Black Rock City and found out plywood could do it.
BM06 — Fire in the Belly
Fire, and the furniture brave enough to stand next to it.
BM07 — Green Home
A whole home from sheets, proving the point about landfills.
BM08 — American Dream Home 2.0
The dream, rebuilt in half-inch ply and rather more honestly.
BM09 — Radical Evolution
Five years in, the designs stopped being furniture and started being architecture.
BM10 — Feed The Artists, Burn The Art
A hundred artists, dinner on the playa, and seating for all of them.
BM11 — Playatech At The CORE
Our work at the centre of the city, where everyone tripped over it.
BM12 — Lightning Casbah & Jozi
Two camps, one build crew, and a great deal of lightning.
BM13 — UniFire!
A fire stage, a DJ booth, and two twenty-foot effigies that burned on the Friday.
BM14 — Our 10 Year Caravansary
Ten years of Playatech, marked with a caravansary.
BM15 — Friends Of The Art: FOTA!
The friends who kept showing up, and what they built.
BM16 — The Tree Of Light
A tree that wasn't a tree, lit like nothing else on the playa.
BM17 — ZaVinci Labs & Burning Booth
The Man asked for a confessional. Our ultra-secret labs obliged.
BM18 — Splinter the TransPlayaBot
Part robot, part plywood, entirely unreasonable.
BM19 — Rapidly Deployable Shelters
Shelter that goes up fast, packs down flat, and leaves no trace.
BM2020 — Burn Night: Live From Home!
The year the playa stayed empty and we burned at home instead.
Build Daze
Before the art, the sawdust. What the build week actually looks like.
Seating The Street
Taking plywood seating off the playa and onto the pavement.
Playatech Motors: The Flaming Castle
Plywood was never meant to move. It moved anyway.
The Art Paradigm of Burning Man
Why art made to burn changes the people who make it.
Spoofy Proposal
Not every proposal is a serious one. This is one of those.