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: Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comBLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -- From mind-bending art cars to crazy, tricked-out bicycles, there's more than one way to get around at Burning Man.
And sometimes the journey's all in your head. Left:Adrian Selkowitz rides shotgun as Anela Bence drives Boss Hog across the playa.
They're just two of the five creators of the huge hog. There's a fine line between a good acid trip and a bad one, and Boss Hog snorts that line up for breakfast. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comBikes of all shapes and sizes grace the avenues at Burning Man.
The amount of energy people waste trying to figure out why someone would build these bikes actually makes them less fuel-efficient than a Hummer.
: Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comMaya Peer peers through a kaleidoscope created by "Ivan Idea" while Micha Biterman takes a snapshot of her multiple images.
The sign is both instructive and a cry for help. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comA forklift is brought in to move The Beast from Camp Apocalypse after the monstrous machine's hydraulics failed, causing a mammoth roadblock in the streets of Black Rock City. In accordance with Burning Man's archaically inhumane robot policy, The Beast will be put to sleep and thrown in a Dumpster out back, and its creators will be told that it was for the best. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comA burner turns heads as she cruises through the streets of Black Rock City on a motorized skateboard.
Not pictured are the thousands of angry 13-year-olds from whose fantasies she just escaped. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comAfter a blazing day on the playa, burners Adam Al-Harbi (left) from California and Loren Geenberg (center) from New York come out to play in the Zorb, a hamster-wheel-type contraption powered by Logan Jackson and "Dr.
Dave" from camp And Then There Is Only Love. Shortly after this photo, the Zorb became what one onlooker described as a "vomit washing-machine." : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comIt's love at fur sight: A playa moment between "friends." : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comLighting the night on fire, Katrina McFerrin, a fire dancer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows off her talent for the Crazy Horse Camp.
McFerrin later suffered minor burns when she remembered she hadn't set up her out-of-office auto-reply and lost concentration.
(Just kidding.) : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comA spectacular, pedal-powered, fire-spouting vehicle operated by burners from Camp Department of Spontaneous Combustion blazes a trail up the esplanade.
And they say cars are dangerous. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.comBurners dance to sounds spun by Doug LePre, aka Big Daddy Doug, at Big Puffy Yellow Camp beneath the "air star" by Jim McGuire.
Four 50-watt bulbs and helium create the full-moon effect, but there can be no explanation for the mumu. .
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