Much of the nightlife for the nearly 70,000 attendees of the upcoming Burning Man 2018 is inspired by DJ sound systems in portable venues, resulting in open-air raves raging into the morning hours amid Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

These music events can be found in temporary structures and tents, on bicycles and even aboard a jet plane; a 747 jetliner will serve this year as a "moving art experience."

One of the festival's most memorable attractions has a fascinating provenance; it all started when one of Mexico's young tech entrepreneurs brought together a collective of south-of-the-border artists and created the Mayan Warrior.

This year, the Warrior's seventh, brings new, Mexican Huichol art and for the first time, a tour around the United States, with stops in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco for fundraisers that will benefit the arts nonprofit Create Now, which provides art programs to at-risk youth.

Pablo Gonzalez Vargas, 40, who created the Latin American electronic payment system Sr. Pago, orchestrated the creation of the Warrior. "I’m a big fan of the Mayan culture," he said.

"It’s grabbing those two elements, ancient art and modern technology, and putting them on this platform," said Gonzalez Vargas.