{"id":17780,"date":"2009-09-09T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17780"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T18:31:04","slug":"view-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/burning-man-2009\/view-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"View from above…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Rock City as seen by satellite in 2005, taken from NASA World Wind. Personal creation from NASA World Wind program, zoomed in and centered on Black Rock City. Photo from Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An overview is often a helpful thing: this is what we’re talking about with Black Rock City. About 43,000 people filled the city at its peak this year, though I need to confirm that when the Burning Man office settles down to business as usual in a couple of weeks. “The Man” — the neon and wood effigy of a man from which the event takes its name — is at the center of the C. Center camp is that darker black dot along inside rim of the C; the line going from that black dot to The Man is called 6:00. All streets leading to the playa are given time time of day, in half hour increments. This establishes a crude address system by which mail can be delivered, to addresses such as “4:30 and Chaos.”<\/p>\n

The center of part of the playa is one mile from end to end; that open space in the middle is a mile in diameter. Many other art installations are put in that space, but The Man stands tall, a glowing point of geographic and spiritual reference night and day. I’ll have photos of that Thursday and in Friday’s edition of Astrology News<\/em>, where I’ll look at the symbolism of burning a man in effigy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An overview is often a helpful thing: this is what we’re talking about with Black Rock City. About 43,000 people filled the city at its peak this year, though I need to confirm that when the Burning Man office settles down to business as usual in a couple of weeks. “The Man” — the neon … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1562],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}