"Burning Man: A Journey Through The Playa" BURNING MAN ORIENTATION 

Watching this Film and reading adverse comments like i see in the videos about Burning Man i actually feel great sorrow for you. For you'll never get it...you'll never understand what life is about. You think your vain selfish existence is the way to live when in all actuality your life hasn't even left the starting point. Life is experiencing as much diversity and sharing love and simple pleasures in the short time we have been given. It doesn't mean a life of debauchery or constant partying but a healthy balance to enable you to know the differences. I was fortunate to learn this simple lesson when i was 12 years old standing with my grown cousins at Woodstock listening to Richie Haven singing "freedom" knowing that when it was all over my cousins would be leaving for Vietnam and i might never see them again. And i didn't. Live your life to the fullest and stop judging others and join them in life. Peace.

I noticed that the 88 year old man who's been going to BM for 11 years says without hesitation that he'll return as many times as he can. This man knows what's important in life.

You don’t have to go to burning man to practice these principles. You can do it in your everyday life, and it is far more meaningful.

I’ve never been. This morning my curiosity was sparked. I began with a cup of coffee and a search of “burning man” and the list of videos I began watching. This video helped me understand another aspect of what the human receives at the festival. Along with the fun, creativity, freedom it is an opportunity to cleanse the spirit. One solid thing the festival stands on: love. The way a human wants it and gives it will never change. At the temple part of this video is where I got choked up.

Thank-you for taking the time to create this presentation. Enjoying the after glow of this whole event & all of the new ways of documentation..... Burning Man Festival is everything - thanx for filming the 10 Rules of the Event, as well maintaining a solid follow-up through-out your presentation of the folks attending. excellent job! 100% :) in trust, Matthew Pretty, Collingwood, Ontario. Canada. 38 years old.

Thank you . Yours is the first video that talked about the Temple. I love that idea. I thought you did a awesome job of sampling the whole experience . Peace

What a great production. Well done Todd. I'm 55 and live in Australia. I'm adding this to my bucket list right now in the hope that the world settles down again soon.

Went last year for my first and was blown away by the overall generosity of everyone there. At the same time, everyone follows radical self reliance so no one expects or relies on the kindness of strangers yet it is given so freely.

Thank you for sharing this! I feel this really captures the spirit of the event, more than any other video I've seen :)

I don't usually fuck around, but when I do...I don't fuck around!

"Virtual reality manifested" proved to be a prophetic description!

The guy who made the dome with all the beautiful art seemed like he has a real genuine way about him!Id love to sit down with a cat like him and learn some of his positive outlooks on life

The artwork is amazing! Really enjoyed watching the entire video, definitely on bucketlist to visit.

This was such an amazing documentary! I've been to the last 11 Bonnaroo's in a row, and have always wondered what Burning Man was like??? You really captured the energy, spirit and vibe of the event! I reallly hope to someday make it there myself! Thanks for your work on this production and for sharing!

Iv watch a a lot of these burning man videos and this one is probably the best one I've seen. Great work Tod

The guy at 9:21 is exactly why I go to Burning Man. He gets it entirely, and the world needs more people like him -- and the greater community of BRC.

Todd: Thank you for what seems to be a fine description of one of the items on my bucket list. Please ignore the deplorables; knowing they won't be there makes it even more attractive.

This video is absolutely incredible!!!! I feel like I just had my brain turned back on. Awesome can't describe this and the message within....

Great video! Thanks for sharing... this is something my boyfriend and I have wanted to experience for years now! I hope we can make it this coming year!

Unfortunately... very unfortunately... I’ve never been to a burn for a very important reason. My experience watching this incredibly well crafted video was moving. “Burning Temple,” I loved the proposed rename. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time, creating energy, and determination to withstand the dust storm. So fuckin intense! I look forward to opening my art students' perspective with Android Jones. What a beautiful artistic perspective. 🙏🏼&❤️

Thanks for the video, I liked what I saw ! I immersed myself in the amazing atmosphere! ))

Excellent video! Enjoyed the interview with Android Jones, is 3D video in the 2016 burn was one of the coolest art pieces I've ever seen!

The temple looks so awesome with only a clear sky to frame it and no other structure to interfere with our appreciation of those beautiful arches. The desert landscape makes every thing you look at so well defined and meaningful. It must be absolutely incredible to bike around at night with all those brightly colored objects flying around.

This is a beautiful documentary! I’ve never been but I can feel through this video so whole heartedly and deeply. Especially during the end. This is definitely a sacred place and a place to feel, release, and also take in all of its beautiful energy. Thank you for making this

Great documentary. I love the meaning behind the temple and just "living" for a week.

This is now on my list of things i must do, before leaving this existence. I've always heard of/about burning man and always knew kinda about...just as like a 3rd party in a convo/word of mouth or of course social media, whatever it may be. I've "known about" burning man for probably a decade now. Known of is maybe a better phrase to use. Anyhoo, I've been binging BM videos right now and I'm in awe 😶😲🤩😍🤗🥰😶💗. I myself, have a genetic, progressive illness in which there is no cure called Ehlers Danlose Syndrome. I am only 28 and upon just/first looking at me, you'd think I'm perfectly healty...yet just under the surface, I am actually incredibly ill... and only get sicker as i age. In the "invisible" illness community, we're known as zebras. If you hear hoof steps, you'll immediately think a horse is coming...you'll not be on the look out for a zebra. Anyways... haveing EDS sometimes makes me feel like an alien lol. Sometimes in the most amazing, self empowering yet very humbling ways! All of which im tremendously thankful for. And in also, ways in which can be very frustrating, isolating and very lonely. And truthfully, I am also grateful for that as well...in which without I'd not appreciate the good nearly as much. So something about this festival just makes me feel this undeniable sense of peace... and this is literally just from watching maybe half a dozen videos on it (including this one. Which is my favorite). To me its just seems like all of us people, celebrating life and love and the present...the right now...and also is all about celebrating YOU and what makes you uniquely who you are and were meant to be (before the worlds society brought ya down) but at same time VERY MUCH celebrating what makes you exactly the same as everyone else around you... and everyone else in this world...or even more! Everyone is an outcast, yet completely and unapologetically belongs! If that makes any sense at all lol. In my mind it does... not so sure if it correlates lol. But it just seems absolutely magical and so very real and vulnerable at the same time. It is kind of the embodiment of complete freedom but with personal responsibility. When people are intrusted with good...with a sense of goodness...to be kind, to be self reliant, to be selfless, to be very giving and generous and very open, ect... yet in all reality you are entirely free to do as you please, you'll find that.99.99% of the people will do good. Its about expectations...of others...but of yourself first and foremost. And when everyone has that same selfless, inclusive and self reliant mind set...it just makes for this crazy amazing society of SOOO many different type of like minded humans... coming together for a common purpose of love, life, growth and giving. I can only imagine that you leave this week long event, feeling as if you've been gone, to an alternate reality for like a like year! lol. Though the beauty is that it isn't an alternate reality... it IS our reality! Just goes to show ya, your reality is what YOU make it. YOUR brain creates your reality. Just the same as when you're dreaming (most often) you don't realize it and the world around you is just as real as anything else you've ever experienced when you're "awake". So then, who's to say this life, this existence isn't anything more than a dream. Bottom line though, control your mind...create your reality. It seems to me as if Burning Man is a week long, great, huge physical manifestation of a reminder of just that! You are the Universe...we are all yet a small part of it and entirely it at the same time. You DO have the power and ability to create your own reality. BM reminds us of our unlimited abilities and capabilities...seems to help us learn, grow and explore them (explore your YOUniverse in depth and freely). To then bring back with you more of those awakened aspects and ideologies and apply them to your every day. ...just wow. Beautiful! I hope to be able to attend at least once, one day. Because of my chronic and progressive illness it'll be quite tough! But in a way, its one of the more reason to go! I want to challenge myself in all aspects...physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. ✌ & 🤟

wish the organizers would abide to what they preach about gifting at their events. those ticket prices are flippin ridiculous

Enjoyed this again tonight. So appreciated the effort put into artist attribution! Bravo!

This is a BADASS documentary!😁 I've been so interested in this place!

Thank you for this gift. Loved it and love you... Love Unbound.

This is one of the best burning man videos on RU-vid. Thanks for making it!

Good coverage of a glimpse in time, of Burning man! All of us have personal journeys and it's just nice to unite with others crossing the path of life and rekindle one's own spirit! Thank you!

Holy sheeit! I just checked for tickets to 2022. It's $2500 admission and $700 for vehicle pass.

This is most reverential Burning Man video I've watched, and there's a zillion out there. :)

Best Burning document of all time. Watch many time. Thank you Todd, you catched the spirits essence of human temporal existence ~

It’s mid August2021 now watching this and dreaming of RenegadeBurn... I miss my Home 🤗

Really enjoyed the whole video, especially the section with the dust storm. Dust storms can be seen as a pain or something super surreal and unusual... one of a kind experience.

Wow i would love to experience this it seems so open and people are real im an introvert and this looks like somthing im putting on my bucket list

Amazing video of The Temple Burning ….such a poetic way you shined light on this place

Todd, you did the best Burning Man video! I haven't Burned yet but I dream of it. And your vid is one of the few which really make me feel like participating to BM.

Dude the dust storm images are amazing. The art and crasyiness too

I have never heard of burning man. The art is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for creating this! I look forward to being back on playa 🙏

Very good video! This Burning Man event is for Rich People only. It is their way of giving back to other Rich people. High Class Rich People. Gotta Luv them.

good film, todd. one of the better ones i've seen. it's thoughtful, and well done. thank you.

This is a great contribution. Thank you for your perspectives. And for documenting what Burning Man is for those that may never experience it.

Awesome! Best burn video I've seen, trying to get my old man to go next year! I was playing a uke on The Front Porch at 18:33, small world lol!

This is such a great video Todd. I watched the whole thing twice. I'm a RU-vidr myself and I'm going to burning man this year. I hope I can make a video half as good as this. Keep up the great work.

I want the car wash concession at the first exit out of there ...

Great video Todd, I heard one of the ladies (Hong Kong) say there was one in Southern Africa. I must find out more about it.

Really great summaries from people about what it is and how it feels to be there. I’ve been through a dust storm or two in my 4 burns though none for a whole day. Also a heavy downpour of rain followed by very muddy shoes for a while. It was amazing how little any of that mattered; the vibe of the experience is so congenial, comforting and inspiring. One year i was there for a full week; watching this city rise up out of the desert and fold back in again. Very meaningful though very ephemeral. The art installations are not to be missed. The mountains rising out of the flat horizon. For two months after i get back home, little things that annoy and irritate me the rest of the year just don’t bother me. Is it like being in a Mad Max movie? yes but combined with Carnavsl and Fellini movies. The playa - the ancient lake bed - just gives us a nice spread out area to experience and share it in. It’s more about being there than the philosophizing - this video just happens to be about the philosophizing aspect. It’s more like being a kid again and seeing the world with eyes of wonder and surprise. And each time it took me a day and a half to really get into it. But so worth it and each year very very different from each other year!

Emotionally stimulating even watching this video. Being there would be a life changing experiance

We have a nephew the loves going to Burning Man I had a concept that was a little off on the event. It is way larger than I thought it was and also didn't know you have to buy a ticket to go to it. Also, one fella was talking nothing for sale? The tickets are for sale and I am sure the wine bar is not free. Anyway, seems like a nice way for people to connect and just simply drop all the "supposed to be's" and just enjoy meeting new people. and seeing different artwork although seems like the dust storm would ruin a lot of art. If I went I would definitely bring an RV in case of the dust storm wouldn't want to be inhaling that for a week. If there is a lot of drugs wouldn't like that - people high on drugs usually have no idea of what they are saying lol!

Thank you for this beautiful gift 💝🔥🔥🔥

I love watching the Burinig Man videos the Art Installations are Incredible if I ever get the opportunity it would be my No one priority thanks to all who put all these videos together.

The more I learn about this event the more I realize this is someplace where I can truly thrive at. This is the best documentary I have seen of the event throughout my research of this. Thank you for making this video. Also the people you have interviewed were really amazing! I hope I will run into you on the Playa in the next couple of weeks. :)

What a brilliant documentary! Would love to get to Burning Man sometime :)

The 8th rule was don't leave any trace. Well after this event is over there is garbage everywhere along both sides of the road.

Wow you got Android Jones at burning man. He’s my favorite visual artist 😭

Android Jones I loved your work on display at the Art of Burning Man in Cincinnati, OH. ♥ Happy to put a face to it. Peace.

Just seeing all the dust is suffocating! Awesome that most seem to enjoy it.

awasome work mate! loved the whole thing! amaziing! congrats

I have to put this event on my bucket list. Living in Arizona I am not too far away. Looks awesome

The algorithms just brought this to me.....you done a great job on this, truly enjoy it!

thanks for the great vid ....cheers

This is so beautiful. Really cute when the people in the pink march were shouting 'I love you'. :')

Thank you thank you yank you . My dream to go there will never materialize , so your award winning video brought me there and then some. THANK YOU!!!!!!

I WILL experience this one day! THANK YOU 🙏 FOR GIFTING THIS TO US!

Android Jones in the house, one of the greatest digital artist around

I was there last year it was freakin awesome. Really hope to go back this year!

Awesome vid. Thankyou for creating and sharing this.

Awesome video and journey through this wonderful life-changing experience.🙏🏼🤙🏼

I got the chills with the ending portion of him explaining the temple . It’s another way of personal growing and releasing energy inside a flame ❤️ amazing .

Definitely on my bucket list ❤️

went with friends a few years back, had a great time! Rolled in at night from out of the desert lol, weren't paying the insane ticket prices! It's not allowed but yes it's possible! Had a GREAT time! It's just about showing up and freaking out, letting go, having fun! There's nothing about this place that isn't fun! Best vacation I've ever had!

I'm glad I grew up in the 60's and 70's.

I´ve seen this movie, it is called Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

I've seen a few Burning Man videos, but I think this one gives me the best perception of what it really is.

I was there in 2015. I love so much to see the storm of friday. I can remember that day specifically... Woke up earing David Bowie in the neighbord camp ... Mimosa... Hula hoop... Dance and STORMMMMM ❤ Thank you xxx

Found out about The Burning Man in quarantine and I've been manifesting to go ever since

Great edit Todd!

Thank you for this movie. Gives a much clearer idea of what it is really about ... Could you tell me what is the loop at 6:45 ? Feels good to listen to

Awesome Documentary..Alot of time dedication..WELL DONE..GOD BLESS

Cool event! Now all you have to do, is learn how to clean up after yourselves! A Big Fail on Principle #8

Going to Burning Man is on the top of my personal bucket list. I don't wanna go there by myself, however. I intend to find a woman who's mentally strong enough to attend it with me.

I would love to do this at least once!

Love that Old dude. He's right, just take your time to LOOK, and you'll find something for yourself.

thanks Todd, great orientation video! It was fun to see our "Misfortune Teller Trailer" in turquoise at :52 seconds. :-)

Great video! Thank you for capturing the love and dust of the Playa....

This is incredible. I love that something like this exists, thanks to everyone who participates in it. I hope that I will be part of this one day, even if it's just for once.

This place seems like a completely different dimension from where I live. I want to experience it.

I remember going to the first couple of burning man's and I can tell you that it did change my life

I need to do this before I die...

I love when a large group of environmentalists get together and destroy the environment. SMH.

It’s nice to see all the people driving their solar and wind powered campers to the event

🙏✨💜💫🍀💐 Bravo! Thank you for the time at burning man! Blessings in the new age of Aquarius!

That was great, really enjoyed the interviews, good selection of subjects, good questions. 2016 was my 16th consecutive burn and even though it's now become very familiar, it was still wonderful. The "how many more burns do you have in you" is a good one - there's a thousand different ways to experience the event and every slice is different - next year I'm not going to run a camp and instead do something very simple/portable/lightweight; maybe one year I'll try being a ranger.. Ahhh can't wait for 2017 already... )*(

Good Job Todd. I miss the playa so so much. This was a nice little taste.

Beauty vid, presentation... thanks 🙏🏼 🔥👍🏽🇦🇺

Best thing I've ever watched .. really wanna experience this journey