When I got back the talk of the campsite was that one of the people that spent a lot of the day drowsing around the shade lounge had been busted right there for smoking marijuana by the Nevada Police (or somebody like that). The ticket's damage amounted to something like $500. That's twice what it was when my campsite learned that lesson almost a decade previously. Nevada is MUCH more strict about that then California is.

     

After dark I crashed out for a while. I woke up much later and was drawn to the stage across the road, where Larisa Stow and Shakti Tribe were making music.

  

After they finished their set they gave me a CD with the URL www.shaktitribe.com on it. I put that in my tent and went out taking pictures for an hour or so.

  

  

  

What's missing from these pictures is the music. A lot of these sights were at least as noticeable to the ear as they were to the eye. Lots of dance music with rhythmic thudding bass lines.

  

  

  

  

I'm wondering if "sustenative illusionism" is an existential thing...

   

These cards were pinned to a wall in the Burners Without Borders camp.

  

  

There were many more, but these were the ones I caught.

The above I saw wandering around. The following was part of an art gallery like part of center camp. I'm not sure why it grabbed me, it just did.

The card below this explained that it had been part of a bigger piece of art at some previous burning man.