Black Rock City

It’s Summer time… my favorite time of the year. Parties, dancing, camping. It’s the best. So combine all those things and what do you get? Well, Burning Man. But it was June and I had no clue that 10 weeks later, I would actually be at the 2021 “Not Burning…

Gino Borges’ path led him from a California dairy farm to earning a Ph.D. in Communications from Purdue University, from Nevada desert quests to family ranch stewardship. And now from conventional real estate investing to impact investing. Gino is a Partner at OpenPath Investments, transforming ordinary apartment complexes into thriving…

A UX Case Study Job search: I’m in the market looking for a job as UX Designer. If you find my work interesting, you can reach me through Linkedin. Project Overview Tools & techniques used: Desktop Research Usability Tests Desirability Tests User Personas User Journeys Sitemap Interviews Tools: Figma for design and prototype. Constraints: Two weeks to…

Little Something I Wrote On My Way Back from My First Burning Man 2019. Impermanence. I admire her, yet still working on embracing her. My intuition led me to attend Burning Man. I felt like I was born a playa girl, like a fish being thrown into water for the first time, with a bizarrely strong sense of familiarity. Every second in this magical lucid…

Excerpted from BUILT TO BURN: Tales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man by Tony “Coyote” Perez Listen to the audio version of this story: We turned off the highway onto gravel and rolled to a stop. My headlights were now pointed out into nowhere, their beams fizzling into…

Part 1: Black Rock City Few people were surprised to see that Burning Man would be cancelled this year. I’m disappointed but people are suffering because of COVID-19; health care workers, those who lost their jobs or those who are sick themselves or have lost someone. Right now is time…

didnt realize what id wed that dark evening while we can be heroes playing in the lamplight stars flying through the midsummer night sky bottomed out dreams bottled like fireflies diving into the flames desert bloooming boom boom boom gold-limned lacewing fluttering sputtering from a portal door landing in the…