Spark: A Burning Man Story Page #5

go back to couch-surfing

and living out of

the back of my car,

I feel like I'm stronger

and I'll be able to do that.

Yeah, this is, this is, uh,

it's difficult to talk about

my fears around her.

Just that...

She's gone through

some scary things.

And she's gone through sheer

terror and loss of everything,

and, um, is still doing it.

And, I don't want her

to get hurt.

[LA GRACE]:

Listen... listen, you guys.

The existential threat

that we face as a camp,

is the fact that we are... we're

marked against the ten principles.

And the one principle that we

got really, you know, raked on

was leave no trace.

So, anyway, put some thought into it and

let me know when you have a short list.

- [Man]:
Okay.

- [Woman]:
All right, guys.

[Man]:
Take care, everyone.

Alright everybody, bye.

Oh my god.

You know, and it's like,

I get anxiety.

I get, like, really... like, here's when,

like, I get all the crazy anxiety happens.

Because I realize, like,

holy sh*t, you know, like,

we have this

massive thing going on.

That's global with

people everywhere

and so many moving pieces and,

you know, I do, I, like... I get,

like, tightness in my chest,

because, you know,

there's just so much to do.

[DUBOIS]:
You know, there's this camp out

there that kind of did it all wrong.

And I kept hearing about it from this

place and that place and the other place.

And I pieced together that...

that it was one camp.

So I'm convincing myself

that I'm ready, yes, I'm ready.

[DUBOIS]:
When I met Jon, he was

really open and I thought, you know,

he could really help me

get a leg up

on something that could ruin us.

Really, honestly,

this could ruin us.

And there has been a regular stream

of actual... concern is the word

about plug and play camps,

that it is eroding our event.

You know, I think for us, you know,

Playa Skool was an experiment

in what plug and play really is.

We had 200 people,

they wanted to come with a RV,

have everything that requires that

most people that come to Burning Man

to really think through,

they wanted it ready for them.

[CHIP CONLEY]:
I have been

there seven times.

I had my

50th birthday party there.

I decided to do

a gift economy to my friends.

And so I invited 110 friends and

we did have a vegan caterer.

We heard Chip liked

dark chocolate,

so we made aged balsamic dark

chocolate truffles.

Our client asked if we could

pre-decorate their bikes,

not because they don't want

to be creative,

it's they want to get

out of their car and...

They want to get on that art car

and they want to get...

go do that sunrise, you know, photo shoot

in the buff with all their friends.

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