At the time of his death, Harvey was still board president and chief “philosophic officer” of the nonprofit Burning Man Project that now has an annual budget of some $30 million. His death was announced on the Burning Man website, which hailed Harvey as “our founder, friend and original instigator.”Larry Harvey, who founded the nation’s wildest outdoor anti-establishment art, music and exhibitionist extravaganza the Burning Man festival, died Saturday at a San Francisco hospital after suffering a stroke. He served in the Army and moved to San Francisco after he “transformed to a hipster dandy in 1968,” his brother, Stewart Harvey, recalled. His “great gift” was “seeing possibilities ... then possessing the eloquence to persuade others to come join in and make it all happen,” said Stewart Harvey. Stewart was with Larry when he “first laid eyes on the playa” in 1990 that was to become the desert home of Burning Man.

Source: Huffington Post April 29, 2018 06:00 UTC