Burning Man 2015 wrapped up on Sunday, and while we don't yet have a tally of how many dust-caked bicycles got left behind this year (last year it was 2,000), we have gotten some photos and videos and many Twitter posts from the playa. It was, by many accounts, an especially windy and dust-stormy year, but such is the territory of the Black Rock Desert and veteran Burners know that dust and wind are preferable to extreme, inescapable heat.
And, once again, Burning Man was very largely attended by white people, and festival founder Larry Harvey (whose wife is black), made a controversial statement that he defended for The Guardian over the weekend, after he said, "I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks." According to the last Black Rock City census, 87 percent of Burners were white, and only 1.3 percent were black.
Live from #burningman2015 30-50MPH winds. Continuing the is it worth it series at #burningman.
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— Alexis Neely (@AlexisNeely) August 29, 2015
Pretty much all we saw on Thursday and Friday! #duststorm #burningman2015 pic.twitter.com/abz1zmVv8P
— Logan Eldridge (@logan) September 5, 2015
A dust devil towers over #BurningMan participants on Thursday. Cc @yourtake pic.twitter.com/YtywZ5wLF4
— Trevor Hughes (@TrevorHughes) September 3, 2015
But it wasn't dusty and windy the entire time...
Your friends and neighbors are just barely functioning back in the Default World today, and likely they have the day off.
ABC 7 hung around at the Divisadero Touchless Car Wash on Monday where the price for hosing down a Burning Man car is an even $100 this year. And, "The $100 price does not include any special treatment. The added cost is just to run the vehicle through the wash three times to get all the grime out."
In case you hadn't seen it, here was this year's Temple of Promise.
The temple #burningman2015 pic.twitter.com/s83YfpOeOU
— Logan Eldridge (@logan) September 1, 2015
And here it is aflame.
#BurningMan is coming to a close as a guard stands watch over the burning Temple of Remembrance. pic.twitter.com/4gNug5nZWw
— Trevor Hughes (@TrevorHughes) September 7, 2015
Susan Sarandon once again had a hell of a time on the playa here are her posts.
More of the art, including the third towering female figure by artist Marco Cochrane, and the aforementioned Blunderwood Portable outsize typewriter.
The woman #burningman2015 pic.twitter.com/pErr5ahI5R
— Logan Eldridge (@logan) September 5, 2015
The #BurningMan dust storms continued today. pic.twitter.com/nCkRdLQMos
— Trevor Hughes (@TrevorHughes) September 5, 2015
The memorial castle was built in Petaluma. #burningman2015 pic.twitter.com/LO5kwgklHq
— Logan Eldridge (@logan) September 1, 2015
En el pie de varias ... pic.twitter.com/Rmtwj5dwOS
— Miguel Hilo de Media (@marctronico) September 4, 2015
And, finally, Katy Perry was a playa virgin this year, and she posted a video to Instagram on Sunday of herself, during a dust storm, trying and failing to work a Segway.