Burning Rome like Nero: Christmas Fireworks at the Coliseum by the Italian Burners

A Christmas Burn in Rome with fireworks by the Italian Burners!


Orseolo and friends organized last Friday an amazing party in Rome, and we had Italian Burners coming from all over Italy to celebrate a Burning Christmas together! Check out some pictures from the RED party, just click on the image to get to the proper Flickr.com photo album.


The party started at 8pm on a tram that normally hosts a restaurant - but we are burners, we prefer drinks and djs!!! So the Roman posse of Burning Man Italy rented the tram to go for a crazy ride across Rome, ended at the Celio Park, just behind the Coliseum, where the party grew, getting more and more people involved.

After a while, fireworks started - of course we had no permit to play fireworks in the center of town and next to the major Roman archaeological highlight, but one clever guy (aka Nutella) approached the Police and told them we were a group of co-workers from ATAC (the Roman tram company) who were celebrating Christmas, so we had an on-the-fly permission to launch the fireworks!!!

Here is a video of the fireworks performance - of course it was better live, but we want to share this moment with the rest of the Burning world....

Burning Christmas and a Flaming New Year from the Italian Burners!!!!
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I missed London Decompression 2007 =(

Damn, I travel too much, and I end up being on the other side of the world when I want to be somewhere else. Or to be in the right place, but at the wrong moment. As for London...

I was in London on November 15, for about a week. I spent 4 days in London, then rent a car to drive all the way South-West to Stonehenge, and then South to Portsmouth. Nice trip - a lot of rain, though... and when I tried to get in touch with my London campmates from Quixote Camp, I couldn't find anybody... =(
A couple of weeks later when I'm stuck somewhere else, all of my friends from Quixote, Nowhere, and some fellas from Burning Man Italy met in London for a fab London Decompression 2007 Party!

Here are some of my Euroburners friends such as Kittykaat, Claudi, Dario, Santi e Michael, cut'n'pasted in this photo composition from the amazing shots of NK Guy, who did a photo session at the London party, with great results. The pictures below and many more from NK Guy are available online at Burningcam.com, of course in their full view.

Photo credits: PK Guy at Burningcam.com

You all look good, fellas - keep burning!

Ok guys, I'll definitely make it for Decompression Paris in May, and of course for Nowhere 2008!

In the meanwhile, my wishes for a Burning Christmas, and a Flaming New Year to all of you!!! See you in 2008!
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Quixote Cabaret Camp and Green Man Pub

It was inevitable - after hanging out with the Euroburners at Nowhere 2007 I ended up camping this year with the Euroburners. Well, after all, I'm European too, and a burner! I guess this makes me an Euroburner too...

It really has been a chance, my friend Paul decided not to set up the Hammock Hangout this year, Flaming Lotus Girls were too tired from an entire year traveling the world with the Serpent Mother and the Hand of God, and decided to just hang out this year, with no big artwork commitment. At the same time, I was hooked with the Euroburners newsletters, reading about these Eurofellas actually setting up a nice thing: the Green Man Pub!

I couldn't resist so I got in touch to join the Quixote Cabaret Camp, and I really had a great time. I have also met great people that now belong to my Burning Man family, with which I hope I'll be doing more stuff, starting with Nowhere 2008, for example!

Yes I had some scratches with a couple of campmates - it never happened to me before on the Playa, but I know this is pretty normal, and it happens all the time at all BM camps. Hey, screw that! I really enjoyed my campmates, and I had a great time!

Here are some pictures of my campmates, and some Euroburners friends and Green Man Pub guests - click on any image to be magically teleported on Flickr.com, where I created a Quixote Cabaret Camp and Green Man Pub dedicated photo collection!














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My Burning Man 2007 pictures on Flickr.com

Check out the 8-set, thousand pictures collection of Burning Man 2007 pictures I created online to share my Playa shots.


I also prepared this Euroburners photo collection for my campmates at the Quixote Cabaret Camp & Green Man Pub.


Enjoy Burningmax's Burning Man pictures!
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NOWHERE 2007 pictures and videos!!!

Well, actually video, not videos - just one video, as I accidentally deleted other videos and pictures by using an old, corrupted smart card for my camera. Shit happens....

Anyway, I'm pretty happy that this silly video survived - this was one of the nicest moments, with an impromptu small Jamon party threw by a group of cool Euroburners from Madrid, that immediately grew with many people, silly dances, photo sessions, and of course a lot of fun! After this I loaded a group of half a dozen people on my truck, and we all headed to the river!!!

I have saved from the bad smart card also some pictures, I though I was going to lose more.

The 200+ surviving NOWHERE 2007 pictures are now all in a safe place, a Flickr.com album of course!

Click this link or the picture above to browse them all!
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NOWHERE 2007 Google Maps!

After several summers spent in California, this year I finally managed to spend a beautiful European summer, hanging out in Italy, France and Spain - and of course, since I was around, I couldn't miss NOWHERE, the European Burning Man event managed by the crazy posse of the Euroburners, with which I finally hooked up after many BM connections in California and United States.

NOWHERE rocks. There are a lot of rocks, too... NO WHERE, NOW HERE, NOWHERE. The place really is in the middle of nowhere, check out the Google Map here below...



OK, that was a joke, but to an extend... as a matter of fact, this other map here below is exactly the same map, only that I switched from "satellite view" to "map view" using the tab on the map - try on your own, you'll see...



Still looks like in the middle of nowhere? Of course, what were you expecting? The difference with the US nowhereness of Black Rock City is that while the European burn camp really is isolated, you can drive just 12 km (less then 10 miles) to get to small villages with pretty much everything you need. Yes, at Nowhere decommodification still is up, and still there are dust storms, but how about diving in the river nearby during the peek heat hours?

I really loved NOWHERE, and also the people that I've met, coming from all over Europe, some of them also from the US, including Burning Man Vip celebrity $teven Ra$pa! Of course I will return to Nowhere in 2008...

If you look at the map below, you will realize how central Nowhere is in Europe - North of Zaragoza, easy access and driving distance from Spain, France, Switzerland - and cheap flights from Italy, Germany, Netherlands, UK and all over, I flew Ryanair to Zaragoza from Rome with just 48 Euro total (60 bucks)!


Click for a larger map on Google Maps

Now that you know where Nowhere and Nowhereland are there are no more excuses - get your Nowhere 2008 tickets at www.goingnowhere.org and stay tuned with the Euroburners site!
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