Meh.
Maybe it's the mood I'm in tonight but when I browse through it I just see a bunch of mostly white middle class Bay Area types very purposely being different and ending up quite ... the same.
Get enough individualists together and they all look alike.
What is the yearbook? The Black Rock Yearbook is open for shooting on the playa in center camp circle and at LA Decom every year.From the newsletter. I never knew about it. That's no surprise. One thing about Burning Man is it's very hard to know more than about five percent of what's going on. A big clean photo studio in the very center of town would be easy to miss.
Besides, who has time to stand around and get his picture taken? I mean, the best experience is to go get experience. To spend more than a few seconds now and then seeking to record the fact you were there runs kind of counter to the whole thing, my opinion. MY opinion. Important point. My opinion is but one. Still, it's mine.
And of course I always look for pictures of me. I just react to the fact of a photo studio as if we were in high school again and I missed the big group shot in front of the school cafeteria. Oh. Gee. Shame, that.
It is full of ideas, though. I gotta get one of these women to teach me how to apply hair color.
Rats.
I looked in it some more. It's starting to look like fun. And there are group shots of theme camps. A few of them. Not ours. Our neighbors, though: Brave New Mellon Camp was a few feet away from my hut. They served melons. And yes, they were called John Cougar Mellon Camp a couple years ago. Nice people. Who isn't?
OK, my shitty attitude is gone now. What month is it? Six and a half to go.
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I am very anti-group these days (not criticizing anyone else's groupiness, just describing my mood). I joined a local meetup for coffee and chat and don't even want to go now. Why? Because after the first one (which I missed) they posted this dorky pic with a sign and it turned me off. I don't need to feel part of a coffee club group thing. I just thought it'd be fun to hang out. Why does everything have to be "official?" Exclusive. I guess it's our cave mentality. Us in the cave ... you outta the cave! We have this. You don't. Nyah. Idk.
Groups often look exclusive when they aren't. I am still learning that.
You know, looking at the few photos available on that link, I I gotta say the ALL Burning Man photos I have ever seen look like that. Not saying anything about the actual experience but it looks like everyone there more or less does the same thing, in much the same way, and it all comes out like a bunch of mostly middle class white people from teens to 60s all trying just a little too hard to be different. It reminds me heavily in that respect of the Ren' Faire.
Still, if they're having fun then that's great.
There are many types that go. I think these are the types that like to get their picture taken. I noticed no one I've ever interacted with is in this so-called yearbook.
Out of 50,000 you're like to get massive numbers of just about every personality type available. So, yeah. The thing is to pursue what you personally feel compelled to pursue and ignore the rest.
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