This will be a post about Blind Burners’ plans for Reno/Nevada. How we will work with the local community to share our camping equipment and bikes, for trekking etc. How we are getting to know Reno and its community. And how the community have supported us. About Reno – first impresssions and peeling back the … Continue Reading
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Blind Burners Brighton: Develop 2023
Develop: Brighton Each year in July, the UK games industry and international friends gather in the seaside town of Brighton. Develop:Brighton prides itself on bringing together the entire game-making industry, ‘from global superstars to micro indies, to learn from each other, share ideas and experiences, network and do business in a friendly and inclusive environment’. … Continue Reading
Our Vision: 2020-2023
Blind Burners really began to become a thing in those months of mid-2020 when much of the world was in lockdown, and fierce creative spirits across the world found each other and began re-imagining their culture online. Evolving from an imaginary campfire hosted by me and Adil from our flats on opposite sides of London, … Continue Reading
A Child, A Father, and the Power of Empathy
‘Imagine you see a baby lying in the street, and the baby is crying. What do you do?’ asked Richard Tait, a Microsoft hiring manager back in 1992 to the then unknown young man from India. The young man answered that he would dial 911. Tait, who went on to co-found Cranium Games, walked the … Continue Reading
A Blind Date with Banking
For me, 2019 was a year of many firsts. I travelled to North India, experienced the thrill of bungee jumping, endured real cold climate and most importantly, moved out of my 17-year hostel life. Moving out of my comfort zone signalled something. A thirst to change the way I live gripped me. A thirst to … Continue Reading
Bare Bones
So, it went like this. We went into lockdown, and I thought we would be equal. All of our activity restricted the same, our freedoms curtailed similarly. All permitted one exercise a day, all directed to stay away from friends. But quickly, too quickly, it became apparent that we were not equal. Some still had … Continue Reading
Blind Burners read the 10 Principles of Burning Man
Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception. Here, we offer our … Continue Reading
Losing our Breath
We’re losing breath. Black lives matter, how could they not. He says I can’t breathe, and my throat closes in sympathy. How have we ignored the numbers stacked against those with darker skins than mine for so long? I think of the campaigns and reports written over the years, of the hundreds of hours of … Continue Reading
Transforming Digital Art & Experience In The Multiverse
How do you dive into the Immediacy and Serendipity of the Burning Man Multiverse when your eyes function differently? Burning Man culture invites us to place ourselves in strange situations and crazy constraints, to express ourselves with immediacy and a spirit of gifting and communal effort. How do these principles survive when our community’s magic … Continue Reading
Catharsis & Sound
Blind Burners was conceived in 2019 as we planned our trip to Black Rock City, Nevada. Our ideas really began to take shape in Spring 2020. On April 20th, our friends at Burning Man Project (‘BMP’) announced that Black Rock City in 2020 would not be built in the physical world. It would, however, be … Continue Reading