""The entire ladder pulled away from the wall, and swung out about 3 feet," Law said. "If I'd gone any further, the ladder would've folded and I would've fallen 40 feet to my death ... That was a near miss.""
""We were trying to make fun of commercialism. We went through Macy's chanting, 'Charge it, charge it.' And it blew up, and away from us.""
""Burning Man is the least interesting thing I've been involved with," he says."
John Law occupies a cramped office on the 22nd floor of the Oakland Tribune Tower and regularly climbs old building ladders to reach the roof. A decades-old ladder failure nearly cost him his life and exemplifies the physical risks tied to his practice of exploring abandoned urban spaces. At 66, he has co-founded SantaCon and Burning Man and participated in the Suicide Club, San Francisco Cacophony Society, and Billboard Liberation Front. SantaCon began as a satire of commercialism, while Law downplays Burning Man's personal significance compared with his broader countercultural pursuits.
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