As an artist working in the land-art movement, I was interested to read Dana Goodyear's piece on Michael Heizer's massive desert work, "City" ("Earthmover," August 29th).
Later I arrived in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, after driving across a massive desert and over the green mountains.
By all accounts one of the very strongest performers at the massive Desert Trip festival this month in the Southern California desert outside Palm Springs, Young is regarded as one of the top singer-songwriters of all time.
Where a game like Fallout 3 puts you in and around a recognizable major urban space, packed with the crumbling ruins of skyscrapers, large office buildings, and even the Pentagon, Mad Max's expansive environment is essentially a fucking massive desert with very few identifying features to inform the player about the civilization that stood here before everything went dramatically south.
Unofficially dubbed Oldchella when it was first unveiled in May, the roster seemed to cater to the Woodstock generation, a demographic not yet tapped for a show in the massive Southern California desert venue, and one largely ignored by other festival planners across the U.S. The Desert Trip website even played into that notion: Promotional videos for the event looked more like Cialis commercials.
From the massive success of desert dystopian blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, to the drought literally meaning that California's deserts are getting bigger, the year of our lord (the Based God), 2015, has been a huge year for deserts.
A massive Sahara-like desert geologists call an erg then invaded the area, covering it with 800 to 1,100 feet (240 to 335 m) of accumulated white to tan-colored fossilized sand dunes.
The main applications of a VSN are indoor and/or outdoor surveillance, e.g., airports, massive waiting rooms, forests, deserts, inaccessible locations, and natural environments [2].
Biblical scholars say this massive oasis in the desert may have been the Garden of Eden.
Azzam Alwash, who this week received the Goldman Environmental Prize, is focused on reviving the massive oasis in the desert or Iraq that biblical scholars say may have been the Garden of Eden.
