Social-Creature

Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

. Also awesome: wonderful and wondrous large-scale art creations shown happening absolut-ly anywhere but the desert.

NOTE: These two items are actually unrelated, I just figured I’d kill two fashion birds with one post. Stargate Outfits: Watching Hulu’s recommended shows scroll by, it suddenly dawned on me that the outfits that the cast of Startgate: Atlantis are wearing in the promo shot look incredibly familiar: Particularly the leather jacket, second from [...]

Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called: That’s right! Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me. Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier– This troupe is actually part of a whole larger [...]

To all my peeps heading out to Straight Pride next week, just wanted to say… don’t forget to hydarte.

The Do LaB’s longtime friends and collaborators Shrine and TukTuk (who built the wonderful trash teahouse at LIB this year) are the masterminds behind Basura Sagrada, the team building the 2008 Temple at Burning Man, and the name for the temple itself. This Thursday at DNA Lounge in San Frnacisco they will be hosting a [...]

i’ll admit right now that this is not what i ought to be writing about. i’ve been travelling for more of the past month than i’ve been at home, and just coming up with things to write about that i had no time to follow through on. so now that i’ve finally gotten to shower [...]

tiffa novoa 1975 – 2007 heavy shit today. tiffa (née tiffany ann snead) was not just a fashion designer, she invented an entire aesthetic style. she was not just one of the founding members of a notorious performance troupe, she helped to create an entire subculture. she wasn’t just a visionary artist, she was a [...]

a play about cross-cultural communication: burner – played by someone who is part of the burningman community. non-burner: played by someone who is not. – – – burner: OMG! the man burnt early! non-burner: what? burner: have you ever heard of burningman? non-burner: hmm… looks like some crazy festival in the desert? B: yeah. they [...]

perhaps it’s just typical to find SOMETHING to dislike about the business 2.0 article about how “burningman grows up” but i can’t help it! i bet there’s probably even distinct camps of dislike about it, in fact. camp #1 are the people who dislike that their special countercultural identity-defining ritual is being profiled somewhere so [...]