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Burning Man 1999
The Burning of the Church of Holy Fucking Shit!

Sept 4, 1999

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a short number of hours before the man went up in flames, a group of crazy motherfucking priests came forth bearing the church within which they lived for the previous week. chanting "holy fucking shit" they set their precious home on the playa desert floor and proceeded to go at it with military grade flame throwers. the man on the right, known in the priesthood as leonardo bastardo, is probably the main perpetrator in this travesty.

a body of a small humanoid was found after most of the church had burnt away but the remains were unidentifiable. holy. fucking. shit.

shot on kodak pj800 (pushed to 1600) using the eos-3 and 28-135mm is lens. leonardo flashed with an off camera speedlight 380ex using a lumiquest bouncer with a gold insert.

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photographs ©1999 J.Cisek