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Unfortunately, Global X was not able to go to Burning Man this year. Again.
Many things seem to be getting in the way around the first week of September, like back to school day or This Thing Called Work. Apparently, launching a billion dollar company gives you more free time, as it was reported that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of search-engine-company-turned-advertising-conglomerate Google, were again making their pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert, along with another 38,987 people.
Rather than drive all the way to Nevada, Global X just sat in front of his Apple computer and visited the scene remotely. He first went to Mickipedia’s Flickr, where he was shocked (and envious) to discover that his friend didn’t drive to Burning Man --she flew there in a private jet. Seeing this picture, another friend said: “Not very ‘burning man’ like. But very Micki.”
Then Global X looked at some of the 56,000 pictures on Flick tagged “burningman.” He had to go through hundreds of pictures of men wrestling in the nude to find what he was looking for: a series of pictures taken by Fabrice Florin, a digital media entrepreneur currently leading NewsTrust. Fabrice Florin asked fellow “burners” (as they are called at Burning Man) this burning (!) question: "What's your wish for the future?”
The 75 pictures he posted on his Flickr tell us more about the world as it is now than the way it should be. Burners want an end to hate, a regime change, more love and clean air, more regime change, joy, free ice cream, more money and fewer things, more scalable toolkits for sustainable communities, perpetual hapiness, red skys (sic), true love, more love, to be loved, AIDS eradication, world peace, freedom from fear, felicidad, a new religion, happy dogs.
Simply put, burners want to be happy, to have a future and more future and even more future. Some even want to be blinded with beauty. Global X couldn't have said it better.
Global X also keeps a wireless mobile photo blog.
Many things seem to be getting in the way around the first week of September, like back to school day or This Thing Called Work. Apparently, launching a billion dollar company gives you more free time, as it was reported that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of search-engine-company-turned-advertising-conglomerate Google, were again making their pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert, along with another 38,987 people.
Rather than drive all the way to Nevada, Global X just sat in front of his Apple computer and visited the scene remotely. He first went to Mickipedia’s Flickr, where he was shocked (and envious) to discover that his friend didn’t drive to Burning Man --she flew there in a private jet. Seeing this picture, another friend said: “Not very ‘burning man’ like. But very Micki.”
Then Global X looked at some of the 56,000 pictures on Flick tagged “burningman.” He had to go through hundreds of pictures of men wrestling in the nude to find what he was looking for: a series of pictures taken by Fabrice Florin, a digital media entrepreneur currently leading NewsTrust. Fabrice Florin asked fellow “burners” (as they are called at Burning Man) this burning (!) question: "What's your wish for the future?”
The 75 pictures he posted on his Flickr tell us more about the world as it is now than the way it should be. Burners want an end to hate, a regime change, more love and clean air, more regime change, joy, free ice cream, more money and fewer things, more scalable toolkits for sustainable communities, perpetual hapiness, red skys (sic), true love, more love, to be loved, AIDS eradication, world peace, freedom from fear, felicidad, a new religion, happy dogs.
Simply put, burners want to be happy, to have a future and more future and even more future. Some even want to be blinded with beauty. Global X couldn't have said it better.
Global X also keeps a wireless mobile photo blog.
