Zach Wise: Previous Posts

Zach Wise is Multimedia Producer for the Las Vegas Sun. E-mail Zach.

Video: The Burning Man Experience

This year’s festival featured approx. 47,000 people from Las Vegas, the U.S. and the world, who all traveled to an ancient lakebed, known as “the playa” in the Northern Nevada Black Rock desert to build a temporary, all-encompassing community defined more by its spirit, art, and gifting than the normal constraints of daily life.

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Panorama: Celtic Forest

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Celtic Forest was created by artists Laura Kimpton, Bob Hofmann and Jeff Schomberg.

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Panorama: Crude Awakening

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Crude Awakening was created by artists Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito, Black Rock FX, Pyrokinetics, Nate Smith, Mark Perez, and MonkeyBoy

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Panorama: Big Rig Jig

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Big Rig Jig was created by artist Mike Ross

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Panorama: Homouroboros

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Homouroboros was created by artist Peter Hudson

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Panorama: Steampunk Treehouse

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The Steampunk Treehouse was created by artist Sean Orlando

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Panorama: Kill the Earth

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Kill the Earth was created by Las Vegas artist Anthony Bondi

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Video: Electric Playa

When the sun goes down at Burning Man, the pulse becomes electric as burners play on the playa.

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Panorama: Sunset on the Playa

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Burners mingle near center camp looking out toward the playa at dusk on Tuesday.

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Panorama: On the Playa

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Dusk on the playa between center camp and where “The Man” used to be. Playa dust kicked up from participants forms a cloud on the horizon as art installations are being set up.

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Las Vegas Sun journalists Tiffany Brown, J. Patrick Coolican, Kristen Peterson and Zach Wise report from the 22nd annual festival. Burning Man has grown from a small event on a San Francisco beach into an eight-day celebration of life on The Playa, an ancient dry lake bed in northern Nevada. About 40,000 people are take the nomadic journey to the site in the Black Rock Desert, including some 50 to 250 "burners" from Las Vegas.

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