El Pulpo Magnifico lit up the night Friday at the 14th annual unSCruz at San Benito County Fairground in Hollister. With a theme this year, “Absurdia,” the four-day gathering drew thousands of people for colorful acrobatic exhibitions, dazzling eateries, obscure sculpture constructs and nutty roving vehicles.
With many staying the night in tents, unSCruz mostly takes its shape and direction from the principles of Burning Man, “a community and global cultural movement,” that began in 1986 in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
BM started at Baker Beach in ’86 before transitioning to Black Rock in 1990