BurningMan Prankery! Another disturbing trend is the erosion of personal freedom at BurningMan. This is especially ironic because the event alleges to be ABOUT personal freedom and 'radical self-expression'. For 1999, cameras had to be registered with the BurningMan Gestapo! This was a little too '1984'. The response, naturally, came in the form of a prank.

Our Larry Harvey look-alike was used again, to make the stickers shown below. 'biganimalfarmbrother' came about because, like in Animal Farm, the characters creating the utopia have come full circle. By their own hand, BurningMan has degenerated into exactly the stale oligarchy it sought to escape.

SMILE! biganimalfarmbrother is watching you.