
Spark: A Burning Man Story
[no sound]
[mysterious drum and flutes, ]
[Drum and flutes continue, ]
[MICHAEL MIKEL]
I drew a line on the ground.
And I said, "On the other side of this
line, everything will be different."
And everything has
been different.
[ "Feel the Love" by
Rudimental]
To a lot people who aren't here,
this is just a big party
in the desert.
you can explore
the possibilities of what we
would create on this world
if we weren't so busy with
our 9 to 5's.
[TOM PRICE]:
The place is an idea.
And that idea is that people have
permission to be whomever they want to be.
That's so powerful
and so alluring,
that people go to the
worst place in the world,
just to get a little
taste of it.
[WOMAN]:
Burning Man is all about"Why not?" overwhelming "Why?"
Why not dress differently, act
differently, think differently... why not?
[LARRY HARVEY]:
We use the wordethos, and ethos means a way of life.
This is all about identity.
It's hard to belong.
And that's really, in creating a city here...
talk about a powerful sense of place.
[MARIAN GOODELL]: We had drawn all
these people like moths to the flame.
They were having these
transformative experiences.
But what if they were more
than we could handle?
[HARLEY DUBOIS]:
People say, "What,you do Burning Man all year round?
Which is insane, of course, because I feel
like I do five or seven people's jobs.
And if we do our job well,
no one even knows we exist.
They don't see
the infrastructure.
[CRIMSON ROSE]:
There is no book on
how you do an event called
Burning Man.
We sort of made it
up on the fly.
Is this going to work?
Let's try it.
[WILL ROGER]:
I did have someadvice from circus carnies
and designers and architects
and people like that.
[GOODELL]:
The ten principlesare guidelines.
You know, it's
something to work with.
It means...
Everyone is invited to come
and play and build and do.
Helping each other find that
little spark of creativity.
It means being responsible for
yourself,
and also being
responsible for others.
I am holding the
decommodification.
Gifting.
Pick it up,
even if it's not yours.
You brought it in,
you can take it home.
[GOODELL]:
You know, we have very intimatepartnerships, you know, the six of us.
Michael Mikel met Larry in 1988.
And then Larry briefly
dated Harley.
And then Crimson came along
and brought Will in.
And then I came along and was
brought in by dating Larry.
So then what you have are, you
know, intimate relationships.
[LARRY HARVEY]:
I'm not really a joiner.
And I like to stand off
See I never had to
join anything, people join me.
You know, that was
my solution to that problem.
[TV static]
[Man]:
Your first...Well, I've had enough!!
[man laughing]
[HARVEY]:
I really wasn't an artist.
I had a very, very modest, small
landscaping business.
I was hanging out with
a lot of people,
all of whom were,
writing novels or painting
pictures or playing music.
So it was sort of a
Bohemian scene.
We had a friend who was
a carpenter, you know, and uh...
I just called him one day and said,
"Let's burn a man on the beach."
That's all it amounted to.
to repeat my statement.
[drumming and jingling]
And along the way,
we called a few friends.
[drumming and
jingling continues]
[people chattering]
[woman] Stay back!
[MIKEL]:
In 1988, I heardabout a group of people
who were going to go
down on the beach
and burn this wooden figure.
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