In his downtime, Weller remixes electronic music and attends the annual Burning Man festival.
Those who have been to both agree Burning Man is the lesser fire hazard.
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Check out the article and imagine how you can inject some Burning Man ethos into your organization.
As with the Burning Man doodle, there's often an air of mystery as to what is being depicted.
Morgan Healthcare Conference, happening this week in San Francisco, has become the Burning Man of biotechnology.
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His three favorite items: a Prada suit for work, leather pants for shows, and a kilt to wear to Burning Man.
Top leaders from organizations including DreamWorks Animation, Fast Company, Zappos, Inkling and Black Rock City (aka Burning Man) participated in the project.
At Burning Man, perhaps in an ode to his fighter-pilot days, he can be seen in Mad Max industrial-style leather outfits with leather goggles.
In fact, one of the most awe-inspiring things about Burning Man is the sheer scale resulting from the collective creative imagination of 40, 000-plus people.
Burning Man 2013 will take place 26 August through 2 September.
Morgan Healthcare Conference, like Burning Man, is just coming of age.
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But like Burning Man, I can easily see it going from a small group participation event to a household name, becoming a global phenomenon, maybe as early as by next year.
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Nostalgia reigned, and so did the status game among attendees as to what year they lost their Conference virginity (mine was the same year I went to my first Burning Man).
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Like Burning Man, the Conference in 2013 is mainstream.
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The designs were also inspired by Villareal's previous experiences in the Bay Area in the 1990s, when he worked in a research lab in Palo Alto and attended the Burning Man festival.
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But when he posted shirtless pictures of himself on Facebook having fun at the Burning Man Festival (no sex or drugs involved), some objected, leading to a barrage of media attention.
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In August 1998, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to adorn the company logo with a symbol of Burning Man, a festival held annually in the Nevada desert that they were attending.
Black Rock is the site of the Burning Man Festival ( FORBES, Oct. 4, 1999), where thousands of neo-hippies converge each Labor Day weekend to bang drums, walk around naked and consume massive doses of drugs.
Was it true, the only socially acceptable reason to wear a top hat is if you're a Central Park buggy driver, an ersatz hippie at Burning Man or Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in "Dumb and Dumber"?
The Mojave Desert and the Black Rock Desert are both featured in the film, the latter known in recent years for being the site of the annual Burning Man festival, a week-long event during which thousands of people camp out in the desert with the goal of creating a temporary city based on principles of community and self reliance.
The burning of a disabled man in a bath at a care home was "criminally negligent", the Health and Safety Executive said.
On Wednesday, October 28, a trial is scheduled to begin in Independence, Virginia, for Emmett Cressell, one of two white men accused of burning alive a black man who was later beheaded in July 1997.
And several witnesses said a bag the man was carrying started burning, pouring out thick black smoke that enveloped him.
Four men have been released on bail by detectives investigating the death of a man found in a burning car near Southampton.
Jurors at the Zoe Nelson murder trial have been told that the man accused of killing the teenager and burning her body is guilty of "an atrocity".
Detectives investigating the murder of a man whose body was found in a burning house in West Sussex are returning to the area to seek potential witnesses.
Nitrous oxide, emitted into the atmosphere from natural and man-made sources, including biomass burning and fertiliser use, was 323.2 parts per billion in 2010 - 20%higher than in the pre-industrial era.
Cicero was a political outsider from a small town near Rome, but he was a brilliant man and gifted speaker, with a burning desire to gain the highest office in the ancient republic.
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For millennia man has been changing the landscape, hacking and burning forests and ploughing up grasslands.
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