I do know one person who says that he won't be returning. Only one. He attended in 2000--the year of extremely bad weather (heh, one of my favorite burns.) One thing I find repeatedly when discussing burningman with other's who have attended is that we all seem to agree--the experience has this pervasive quality that can't be described. It has to be experienced.
My friends that go to burningman know the experience of trying to explain what it was like. Frustrating. No matter how you try to describe it you can't seem to get across what it's like. They just look at you and say: "you did what?"
When I come across someone that is bagging on burningman I ask them: "so, you've been to burningman?" The answer is almost always no.
Been reading through some of the comments about burningman. Pretty typical. There's a tendency for people that haven't been there to blather on about it having become "commercial" or how it's just a big drug party/orgy whatever. When the truth is that the person complaining is too lazy to get out to the desert to see for themselves. Burningman is extreme by design.
If you haven't been to Burningman I strongly urge that you check it out for yourself. As others have pointed out, you don't have to go to the desert to find many of the things that are there. For those who will seek it though Burningman is about much much more. I have been for 5 years now. There is nothing quite like Burningman. I wouldn't miss it for world.
Pretty common mistake, but a cartoon is a comic that has motion --a moving picture. Take a look at Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" for a detailed explanation of the difference.
Nice comics. I like the one about the credit card esp. Hey, where's the rest of the comic?
I have been "spinning" using mp3s on a computer for a couple years now. Two sound cards and a mixer. Unlike the guy with the iPods I can [and do] beat match. I understand where you're coming from as far as questioning whether it is dj'ing or not, but the answer is: "damn straight it is". The thing that makes a dj _is_ the ability to play the music that people will respond to --the stuff that pulls them onto the dance floor. It's quite the other way around actually --anybody can learn to mix and beat match vinyl but not everybody that does so will make a good dj. I've seen plenty of DJ's that can beat match, scratch and mix very well [using vinyl] --that play very boring music. DJ'ing using a computer, it's possible to do a lot of things that you just can't do with two turntables. Stop and think about it for a moment --that's what the digital revolution is all about. You can do stuff with digital that you just can't do with analog. Products like "Final Scratch" are great as a means of allowing turntablists to integrate digital technologies into their mixes, but they are also a type of deterent to the digital scene. At some point though we're going to move into the pure digital realm of dj'ing. A world of enormous possiblity. We're a little hung up getting there right now because we're looking for ways to emulate the analog method. Trying to use a computer to "scratch" for instance. As if the artifacts that come out of the medium used (vinyl records) are what make you a dj. [For me] it's time to start looking for and doing the things that you can't do with vinyl. Like mixing from 5 sources at the same time [for instance.] More and more dj's will be doing their thing digitally. Someday we'll look back on this and wonder what all the fuss was about.
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I do know one person who says that he won't be returning. Only one. He attended in 2000--the year of extremely bad weather (heh, one of my favorite burns.) One thing I find repeatedly when discussing burningman with other's who have attended is that we all seem to agree--the experience has this pervasive quality that can't be described. It has to be experienced.
My friends that go to burningman know the experience of trying to explain what it was like. Frustrating. No matter how you try to describe it you can't seem to get across what it's like. They just look at you and say: "you did what?"
When I come across someone that is bagging on burningman I ask them: "so, you've been to burningman?" The answer is almost always no.
Been reading through some of the comments about burningman. Pretty typical. There's a tendency for people that haven't been there to blather on about it having become "commercial" or how it's just a big drug party/orgy whatever. When the truth is that the person complaining is too lazy to get out to the desert to see for themselves. Burningman is extreme by design.
If you haven't been to Burningman I strongly urge that you check it out for yourself. As others have pointed out, you don't have to go to the desert to find many of the things that are there. For those who will seek it though Burningman is about much much more. I have been for 5 years now. There is nothing quite like Burningman. I wouldn't miss it for world.
Pretty common mistake, but a cartoon is a comic that has motion --a moving picture. Take a look at Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" for a detailed explanation of the difference. Nice comics. I like the one about the credit card esp. Hey, where's the rest of the comic?
I have been "spinning" using mp3s on a computer for a couple years now. Two sound cards and a mixer. Unlike the guy with the iPods I can [and do] beat match. I understand where you're coming from as far as questioning whether it is dj'ing or not, but the answer is: "damn straight it is". The thing that makes a dj _is_ the ability to play the music that people will respond to --the stuff that pulls them onto the dance floor. It's quite the other way around actually --anybody can learn to mix and beat match vinyl but not everybody that does so will make a good dj. I've seen plenty of DJ's that can beat match, scratch and mix very well [using vinyl] --that play very boring music.
DJ'ing using a computer, it's possible to do a lot of things that you just can't do with two turntables. Stop and think about it for a moment --that's what the digital revolution is all about. You can do stuff with digital that you just can't do with analog. Products like "Final Scratch" are great as a means of allowing turntablists to integrate digital technologies into their mixes, but they are also a type of deterent to the digital scene. At some point though we're going to move into the pure digital realm of dj'ing. A world of enormous possiblity. We're a little hung up getting there right now because we're looking for ways to emulate the analog method. Trying to use a computer to "scratch" for instance. As if the artifacts that come out of the medium used (vinyl records) are what make you a dj. [For me] it's time to start looking for and doing the things that you can't do with vinyl. Like mixing from 5 sources at the same time [for instance.] More and more dj's will be doing their thing digitally. Someday we'll look back on this and wonder what all the fuss was about.