EPICANTHUS

Combine northwestern Nevada’s desolate Black Rock Desert, Labor Day weekend and what’s left of ’60s counter culture with mutants, satirical mobile sculptures, dusty dancing, sex and hallucinogens of every kind and you basically have Burning Man. Though it may have lost a bit of its original vibe to scenesters and the glare of mainstream media, it’s the coolest, most subversive thing anyone’s doing nowadays. Of all the shooters who flock to Burning Man each year, Jesena’s photos are the best, evoking innocence, psychedelic menace and a sense of loneliness. See for yourself at LAist and Flickr. And read more about Ryan, the artist with the three P’s—Pilipino-poet-photographer—here and here. And thanks, Ryan, for letting me live vicariously through you another year.