Burning Man 2008

Ranger Beauty, center right, marries Alberto "BBoyB" Trevino, center left, and Vera Napoleon, of Chicago, on Aug. 27, 2008, on the playa at the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man festival near Gerlach, Nev. Burning Man is an annual art and cultural event which starts on the Monday before, and ends on Labor Day.

Burning Man participants ride an art car on the playa at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. Creativity and self-expression are encouraged with few rules governing the week-long event, which draws almost 50,000 people.

A Burning Man participant hits a fireball during a fire baseball game on the playa at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Burning Man takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening.

A Burning Man participant walks back to camp at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, during the Burning Man festival. Participants must take along everything they need for survival for the week. Only ice and coffee is sold at the site.

Burning Man participants walk across the playa at the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man festival on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, near Gerlach, Nev. Playa, the Spanish word for beach, is the hub of the make-shift community.

A hang glider lands on the playa at the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man festival near Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Each festival has a theme; this year's theme is the American Dream.

Burning Man participants watch the sun rise over the playa at the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man festival on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, near Gerlach, Nev. The desert is about 120 miles north of Reno.

Burning Man participants visit "The Man" on the playa at the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, during the Burning Man festival. It is a 40-foot-tall human figure, erected atop a pyramid. The pyramid will be set aflame Saturday in a ceremony that gives the week-long festival its name.

A fire dancer performs on the playa at the Burning Man festival on Wednesday morning, Aug. 27, 2008, at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev. The festival began in 1986 when Larry Harvey and some of his friends set fire to an 8-foot-tall figure of a man as a summer solstice ceremony on a San Francisco beach.

Alberto "BBoyB" Trevino prepares to kiss Vera Napoleon, of Chicago, on the playa at the Black Rock Desert after getting married during the Burning Man festival on Wednesday evening, Aug. 27, 2008, near Gerlach, Nev.

Burning Man participants ride on the playa at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during the Burning Man festival.

Burning Man participants walk on the playa at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during the Burning Man festival.

A Burning Man participant sleeps on a trampoline on the playa at the Black Rock Desert during the annual Burning Man festival near Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.

"The Man" casts a shadow on the playa at the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, during the Burning Man festival. It is a 40-foot-tall human figure, erected atop a pyramid. The pyramid will be set aflame Saturday in a ceremony that gives the week-long festival its name.

A fire dancer performs on the playa at the Burning Man festival on Wednesday morning, Aug. 27, 2008, at the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev.