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Throwing theme parties like this is what the Burning Man people must do during the rest of the year. When they’re not doing photo shoots with people like Maki Kawakita or David Lachapelle.

The Compact: refugees from consumerism or Amish-like cult?

The Compact started two years ago when Perry and a group of his friends, who were tired of devoting so much of their time and money on items they don’t need, vowed to go six months without buying anything new.

American consumerism, they say, has led to global environmental and socioeconomic crises, and the only way to reverse it is to stop buying into it.

I guess it really is art after all. See also 76 blowjobs and the late-night talk show triad.

“It’s often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs are real.”