intothefire's podcast

intothefire's podcast episodes:

• 06.21.2024

  Burning Man Hive

  : An Online Learning Space by Burners, for Burners Created by the nonprofit Burning Man Project, Burning Man Hive is a digital space for Burners and Burner-curious folks to learn, share, and connect.  Anyone is invited to explore, learn, and...

  
• 06.11.2024

  Renewables for Artists Team aka RAT

  Have you wondered if your BRC or regional camp/Village/HUBS or art installation can transition from fossil fuels to solar?  Then meet the Renewables for Artists Team - RAT. Bruce Cooper and Ken Rehor from the team share about how RAT...

  
• 06.01.2024

  Snarklefarker’s Nightclub at unSCruz, Santa Cruz Regional

  Meet Baron Snarklefarker, aka Brian, and Jim from Snarklefarker’s Nightclub, a Burning Man Regional Theme Camp at unSCruz near Santa Cruz, CA.  Heavy on the swanky decoration themed in black, red, and marble, it’s the type of club vampires might...

  
• 05.02.2024

  Updates from the Magic Lantern Society

  We meet up with Monica Wu, co-founder of Magic Lantern Society, a wonderfully curated, old-timey space inside a beautiful, big tent.  It’s where many burners find enchantment and tell stories, share experiences and co-mingle.  We talk about the many places...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Meet Chelsea Bronson aka Catalyst

  Meet Chelsea Bronson, aka Catalyst.  Founder of the Tea Carp, volunteer for Burning Man for over ten years, and seasonal staff member at Burning Man. For the past 4 years she has been the Leave No Trace Compliance Special Ops...

  
• 03.29.2024

  Miss Conception, aka Sara Nicole Glass

  Miss Conception, aka Sara Nicole Glass Musician, Performer, Volunteer, BWB Burner! With Kate Robinson from Tenderloin Community Benefit District, San Francisco Meet MissConception aka Sara Nicole Glass who is an amazing musician, performer, and volunteer for Burners Without Borders. Miss...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Dylan Hogan, aka Major Trouble! DJ and Producer

  My guest is Dylan Hogan, aka Major Trouble - The founder of BRC Snow Club, resident DJ for Disco Donutz (Heavy Petting Zoo), and former board member of Airpusher and Sextant Camp. I talked with him in March, 2024. To...

  
• 03.04.2024

  Meet Blondie

  Meet Blondie!  She’s an avid volunteer at Black Rock City, owns an art car, and volunteers to help produce Burnal Equinox and Decompression in San Francisco.  She camps with Dustfish at BRC and always comes to the party looking...

  
• 02.17.2024

  Meet Megan Wood

  Meet Megan Wood  Burner, Volunteer, Publisher and Author of Children’s Books Megan Wood is the author of Farm Day Adventures, a children's book series. She was inspired by her experiences working with children and volunteering as a burner and working...

  
• 02.10.2024

  A Visit with Lysa Joy, aka Dazzle! How to feed 700 artists/builders in 4 days

  A Visit with Lysa Joy, aka Dazzle! How to feed 700 artists/builders in 4 days Dazzle was a guest of the podcast in 2017 when she talked about BRC Wheels on Meals. 2024 will be her 11th  year since she...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Playa Weddings - a Talk with Ranger Beauty

  Playa Weddings - a Talk with Ranger Beauty Learn about the variety of BRC wedding options  Meet Ranger Beauty, an ordained minister who has been providing wedding officiant services to couples at Black Rock City and other Regionals for many...

  
• 01.06.2024

  Tod Johnson, Curator at BRC Playa Artifacts Museum

  We love to gift and receive swag!  We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection!  We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection! There are some really creative burners making small art that sometimes magically shows up in...

  
• 01.08.2023

  Gearing Up for 2023, Setting Goals and Intentions for the New Year

  This was recorded live in January, 2023 on a live, Shouting Fire online  radio show.  Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for 20 years. His weekly podcast "Hug Nation" has been influential and motivational...

  
• 11.15.2022

  Benjamin Langholz, Artist of Beam at BRC, 2022

  Meet Benjamin Langholz, interactive sculpture artist, who brought Beam to Black Rock City, 2022. Made of steam I Beams, the art installation called Beam spanned 150 feet long and was meant to be walked from start to point and then...

  
• 08.05.2022

  Meet Black Rock Philharmonic Conductor, Maestro Eric

  The Black Rock Philharmonic is a group of professional and amateur musicians from different camps that performs classical music for the ever-growing Burning Man community.  Meet Eric, or Dr FireTuba, conductor and organizer, who talks about their beginnings, their 2022...

  
• 07.02.2022

  Camp Kitchen Leads Tell Us Tips

  Camp Kitchen Leads Tell Us Tips Big or small camps and villages as well as pre-build crew care teams can learn from three kitchen leads sharing their knowledge and experience to make it easier for us to set up our...

  
• 04.22.2022

  Dave Keane talks about Paradisium, 2022

  Last time Suz and Dave Keane talked, he and his crew were making The Folly in 2019 and Dave was lead builder of Temple, 2018.  Most recently, his crew is ready for their next big-art build called Paradisium, aka the...

  
• 03.26.2022

  Everywhen Project, 2022

  What happens when a collection of Black Rock Juplaya camps decide to fund art by getting permits and selling tickets?   Meet the board of Everywhen Project, 2022 is working towards a week-long event at Black Rock Desert, 2022.  With over...

  
• 01.16.2022

  Temple Builders Guild, 2022

  Meet Tree Jay Lee from The Temple Builders Guild.  It’s a new group of temple builders who got together and figured out a way to handle temple build tools and to keep a collection of tools for the next temple...

  
• 12.11.2021

  Caveat Magister Talks about Turning Your Life Into Art

  Super Suz talks with Caveat Magister, Burning Man’s philosopher laureate. He’s the author of The Scene That Became Cities: what Burning Man philosophy can teach us about building better communities, and Turn Your Life Into Art: lessons in...

  
• 12.04.2021

  Renegade Burn, 2021 All About the Art Car

  Some have said that 2021, besides being a virtual burn year, was all about the art cars.  That’s debatable, I know.  Instead of debating, we hear from two art car owners who called in to one of my Tuesday night...

  
• 08.15.2021

  Meet Sunshine Daydream, CEO of Playatech

  Super Suz spoke with Sunshine Daydream in the spring of 2021.  He’s the Chief Radical Instigator of Playatech. He’s one of the most prolific artists in Black Rock City that nobody knows about.  He created Playatech in 2005 to spoof...

  
• 07.14.2021

  Talking Fire with Dave X

  Super Suz spoke with Dave X, Fire Art Safety Team Manager at Burning Man Project, to find out what are some of the things Burners need to be aware of when burning an effigy.  Many burners are gathering together this...

  
• 06.09.2021

  Tex Allen and NFT’s for Burners

  Super Suz spoke with Tex Allen back in 2019 and he’s back. This time, his new project is his TTITD website for NFT’s that features honoraria artists and helps them fund new projects and earn income for their existing art....

  
• 01.15.2021

  Personal Space At BRC

  7-year burner, Matthew Shapard, aka Shap, is a San Diego based burner who has created several wearable performance art pieces to bring out to Black Rock City as well as his local Regional.   His camp “Yes, And” hosts performance...

  
• 11.14.2020

  Eric Steven Rankin, the Keymaster

  Meet the Keymaster.  Have you ever wondered if aliens or dimensional beings ever visited Burning Man?  I have.  My guest, Eric Steven Rankin, first  became interested in the possibility of other worlds and dimensions in the 1970’s.  This led him...

  
• 08.25.2020

  What’s Justin Katz Up To Now?

  Justin Katz aka Paradox has golden fingers that have touched many Bay Area burners and we don’t even know it.  He gets things done and makes things happen. Sometimes he’s center stage and sometimes he’s behind the scenes.  He’s the...

  
• 07.28.2020

  Professor Pickle Talks About Camp Envy

  Super Suz and Professor Pickle explore Camp Envy, the "largest theme camp NOT on playa”.  As the burner community shifts to a socially-distanced online experience this year, we are all now in Camp Envy. Since 2009, CE has been a...

  
• 06.27.2020

  DJ Celeste Taps into Virtual Reality

  DJ Celeste Lear, music producer and visual artist, first went to Burning Man in 1999. She has a deep love for art, music, community and rave culture. She brought her family to the playa, and a brought large-scale, metal sculpture...

  
• 05.23.2020

  BRC is on Hold. Now What Do We Do?

  It’s April, 2020 and we just found out that Burning Man Black Rock City, 2020 is cancelled.  Now what do we do?  I invited Molly Freedenberg,  known as Molly Free on the Playa,  to chat about what she thinks this...

  
• 04.07.2020

  Atticus Wolf from M0xy and Danny Beesley

  Atticus Wolf, owner of M0xy in Oakland, invited Danny Beesley, founder of IDEA BUILDER Labs to talk shop.   Danny helps learning institutions develop their creative spaces.  Both have knowledge and experience over the years supporting artists and developing a maker...

  
• 02.08.2020

  Meet Alpha!

  Nicole Bloss, aka Alpha Pussy, has been designing for over 2 decades and burning since 2005. In 2016,  Alpha was offered the commission to design the participant maps when the opportunity opened up and has designed all of them since...

  
• 01.12.2020

  Burner Hacks with Melissa Kirk

  Burner Hacks is a group on Facebook with over 23,000 members.   Melissa Kirk, the group’s originator and one of the admins, has made it into a “Troll-Free Zone” with all questions valid (mostly) and radical inclusion practiced (with the...

  
• 12.22.2019

  Simon of the “e” Playa

  Simon Gold, aka Simon of the Playa, has been attending Burning Man since 1996.  Upholsterologist by day and ePlaya poster by night, Simon has been bantering with the best burners since 2007 on ePlaya, the online forum for burners to...

  
• 11.19.2019

  The Mighty Zenith TV Show at Black Rock City

  Meet sTeVe Knauf,  of The Mighty Zenith.  It’s not just a big TV.  It’s a big TV set that drives around BRC and looks just like a 1974 Zenith TV console.   The 13 by 10 by 10 foot art...

  
• 08.11.2019

  The Fergusons Are Penniless in 2019

  The Fergusons met on the playa and married  in 2012. Ever since, they have been developing their love of making playa art together and with their beloved friends.  The Fergusons are well known for their over-sized, penny-covered art sculptures and...

  
• 07.20.2019

  The Folly at BRC, 2019

  Imagine a Victorian, shanty village with a clock tower, shop fronts, bridges and a windmill cobbled together and made from salvaged wood the team has scavenged from all over the Bay Area.  The Folly “seaside” village will come alive with...

  
• 07.12.2019

  Play Time with Playascape at Black Rock City, 2019

  Playascape is an art project coming to Black Rock City, 2019 that will be an amphitheater, gathering place and place to play on the playa.  It’s designed by Artist and Architect Alex Haw. Meet fellow collaborator, Col Sturge, from a...

  
• 06.28.2019

  Talking to God at Black Rock City

  Talk to God Phone Booth Is an art installation that started at Black Rock City, in 2002.  You may have seen the booth on the Esplanade. Is it fate and destiny that operates the telephone booth?   Miles Eastman, who...

  
• 06.01.2019

  Our Temple for 2019- The Temple of Direction

  For many burners, going to the temple at BRC to honor their ancestors is one of the  most important traditions of Burning Man. Meet several people, including the lead architect and designer, Geordie Van Der Bosch, who are a part...

  
• 05.17.2019

  Gwen and Josh, Partners in Art

  Gwen and Josh met at The Generator in Reno, NV and soon after identified as partners in art.  They are two of three artists that were granted Honorariums in the state of Nevada for 2019.  They sat down to talk...

  
• 04.22.2019

  The Inner Sun Project at Black Rock City, 2019

  Nathan Altman lead the Temple Build in 2015.  In 2016, he managed Black Rock City Dept of Public Works / DPW.   In 2017, he was the lead for Man Build. In 2018, he ran for U.S. Senator of Illinois.  In...

  
• 04.06.2019

  David Normal Brings Cathenge to Black Rock City, 2019

  David Normal started out going to Burning Man in 1994.  Back then, he was attracted to Burning Man because of the participatory and alternative culture.  He’s still around! This year, he is bringing Cathenge. Think of it like a Cat...

  
• 03.14.2019

  Aaron Taylor Kuffner, Gamelatron Artist

  Gamelatrons are sound producing kinetic sculptures by artist and composer Aaron Taylor Kuffner.  You may have seen and heard them. Aaron brought out several gamelatron projects to Black Rock City. Gamelatrons have  been inside the Man base, the temple, and...

  
• 02.14.2019

  Tex Allen is STILL Hugging America

  Super Suz spoke with Tex Allen back in 2017 when he was preparing to embark on a campaign to Hug America.  We are checking in with him on how he has mission has stayed the course and yet has transformed...

  
• 01.21.2019

  Rootpile Brings Bluegrass to Black Rock City

  Meet Fixer and Radar from Rootpile. They are two of the camp’s leads and talk about Rootpile as a camp,  a mutant vehicle and the home of Black Rock Bluegrass music from the south. At Rootpile, find acoustic music jams,...

  
• 12.22.2018

  The Mind and Machines of Henry Chang

  Meet Henry Chang who makes amazing art cars made of curved stainless steel. His Valyrian Steel car is 27 feet long, weighs 3 tons and is topped by a kinetic collection of spinning wheels.  Henry talks about his merging art...

  
• 10.27.2018

  Get in B.E.D. with Bureau of Erotic Discourse

  Meet Ascher, volunteer at  B.E.D. Bureau of Erotic Discourse. It’s a group of volunteers that provide information about consent and other sexual health information so that you can get your sexy on and do it with mutual consent at Burning...

  
• 09.15.2018

  The Magic Lantern Society

  Meet Monica and Rob of The Magic Lantern Society.  You just might find what you are looking for at the Magic Lantern, a beautiful, large tent of magic and enchantment.  It’s an intimate place on the playa where you can...

  
• 08.13.2018

  The Great Train Wreck and ANAHAD

  Super Suz goes to Reno and meets up with two great build crews that are bringing out great stuff to BRC, 2018.  The GREAT TRAIN WRECK is a shared project of the Sacramento and Reno Regionals. Expect to see two...