John Law (artist)

Originally from Michigan, Law has lived in San Francisco, California since 1976,[4] and has maintained the signage and clock face of the Tribune Tower in Oakland, where he also has an office, since 1996.

[7] Law owns and maintains three of the 12[10] remaining Doggie Diner heads, which were located above the restaurants of a small fast food chain in San Francisco and Oakland.

[15][16][17][18] John Law is one of the early members of the Cacophony Society, a Culture jamming group with open membership, inspired in part by his earlier participation in the Suicide Club, which was in turn influenced by dadaists and situationists.

In 1990, a separate event was planned by Kevin Evans and John Law on the remote and largely unknown dry lake known as Black Rock Desert, about 110 miles north of Reno, Nevada.

He asked John Law, who also had experience on the dry lake and was a defining founder of Cacophony Society, to take on central organizing functions.

Thus the seed of Black Rock City was germinated, as a fellowship, organized by Law and Mikel, based on Evans' idea, along with Harvey and James' symbolic man.

The three most well-known founders and present partners in ownership of its name and trademark (Law, Michael Mikel, and Larry Harvey)[23] were known as "The Temple of the Three Guys".

The last year John Law attended Burning Man was in 1996 when his friend, Michael Furey died in a motorcycle crash[24] while setting up the event and a couple were run over in a tent by an inattentive driver attempting to get to the distant rave camp.