guy burns art installation created to BE burned. So who's "property" is the art anyway? I'm mostly poking fun here, but when is a community project "someone's property?"
okay, I have mixed feeling about this. My MAJOR issue is IF the BM community was a FUNCTIONAL community, then WHY did they have to get the local law enforcement involved? Isn't the symbol of "the man" burning suppose to mean breaking away from conformed society? I don't know all of the ins and outs because I was not there, but this issue has once again reinforced the fact that the BM community is full of hypocrisy. Also, setting an exact time for the man to burn is creating a conformed community. Why does it matter if the man burned on a different day than saturday? It is not like no one could see it. Oh another thing that is hypocritical!
well, it's sort of a ritual, perhaps of letting go of "my art." and it is the pinnacle of the gathering. But BM is also a mega bux corporation.
Good question, and it will likely be part of his defense if he actually goes to trial as charged. Sounds like he was just being a butthead, and that hardly deserves 10-20 hard time. Wouldn't hurt to let him think about that 10-20 as being possible for a while, though, which may be the idea.
It's kind of fucked up that someone did that, I mean it's supposed to be about respecting each other. But, I agree that it belonged to the community and it will be hard to prove that it was someone's sole property. Good to see they built a new one for saturday.
the legality is, I believe that BM INC "owns " everything on site. So that'd be the legal defense, but this was originally a pack of folks wanting to change things like ownership
The sentiment at Burning Man regarding the arson was quite positive. People had a sense of humor about it, and celebrated the unusual turn of events. The crew built a new man, complete with neon, in just a couple of days. This allowed many to witness how the man is constructed which normally happens before people show up. Some offered to keep the "Charred Man" in a San Francisco museum, and the Burning Man organization considered burning the rest of Charred Man in a second burn ceremony. As it turned out, however, is that Charred Man did not have enough structural integrity and it collapsed while being lifted off its stand.
