We didn't complete the story of the hair festivals. There are beard festivals and even an Eyebrow Festival which has a Browista Championship. What is something called Hairstroke? It is a permanent makeup technique that mimics the look of natural eyebrow hairs by depositing individual strokes of pigment beneath the skin. Isn't this a bit more information than we would like?
And there are lots of festivals about the human body. Lots with the word Body in them. And Fat - that is popular festival name - take FAT FAT Festival - a black music festival that features funk, soul and jazz. Or Fat Joy about body acceptance. There's a Fat Girls Summer Festival. All of these festivals include music if you ask me.
I think of the Burning Man Festival when I think of these festivals. It has e biggest effigy of a body that they burn down at the end. It is in the desert 120 north of Reno in Nevada. It finished up on September 1st week with headlines of a murder, a birth, and a medical evacuation costing $50,000 for the helicopter. Why does an art festival that concludes with burning a giant effigy of a man? That burning is supposed to be an act of "radical self-expression." It is not to be associated with "Wicker Man" - the ancient Celtic practice of human sacrifice.
Here's this year's burning man. Looks primal to me.
Here's a picture from the "burnt bin" - some kids had set fire to a bin behind a gas station in 2012 and I got some great rust and grunge images.
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