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		August 29 - September 12 What began as an intimate ceremony on Baker Beach in San Francisco has grown into a annual event attended by over 25,000 participants in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Each year, Burning Man participants create a temporary city, complete with its own Department of Public Works, communications systems, and airport. Large-scale art installations and theme camps as well as creative solutions to harsh environmental conditions highlight the dual tenets of self-expression and self-reliance. After the weeklong festivities, participants are expected to leave the desert with no trace beyond their footsteps and tire tracks. www.burningman.com In cooperation with David Van Brink, Steve Lerner creates geometric living structures all based on a minimalist aesthetic. They began creating the shelters for their participation in the Burning Man festival and these structures are now replicated and used widely by the various artists and participants in Burning Man. These structures rely on the principles of geometry for their strength and use ordinary and inexpensive materials for to create shade and wind protection. Steve Lerner Steve’s life changed in 1977 when, at age 7, he discovered the pleasing sounds of the imperfectly formed squarewave using an analog synthesizer. Since then he has traveled the world bringing the latest technology for the creation of sound, film, and video to hungry media makers. In 1991 he teamed up with David Van Brink to form Weird Blinking Lights, a collaboration that creates music, instruments, and living structures. WBL creates music using only analog synthesis, lighting controls using simple circuitry, and structures using simple parts with no pre-fabrication. Steve studied Electronic Sound Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Japanese Economics at Joochi University in Tokyo, and is currently doing graduate work in business at Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. He holds the position of Vice President of Media Technology at a Silicon Valley company. How to build your own geometry dome.