Costumes and Wind Socks

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A man catches the wind in a giant tube at the Burning Man Festival. Elaborate, colorful and clever costumes are part of the annual weeklong fest held in Black Rock Desert, northwestern Nevada's Conservation area. For the week of Burning Man, the counter-culture celebration to art and experience becomes one of Nevada's largest cities, attracting tens of thousand of revelers.
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A man catches the wind in a giant tube at the Burning Man Festival. Elaborate, colorful and clever costumes are part of the annual weeklong fest held in Black Rock Desert, northwestern Nevada's Conservation area. For the week of Burning Man, the counter-culture celebration to art and experience becomes one of Nevada's largest cities, attracting tens of thousand of revelers.
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