Its vision of desert tribal people struggling to survive in one of the most hostile climates on earth is, in a word, timeless.
The UNLV house, which we featured when it won the market appeal contest of the decathlon, is a pragmatic vision of desert modern, partially wrapped in rusted steel screens with the pixilated pattern of a mesquite tree.
"Our goal was to create a house and techno haven that was influenced by a single block at Burning Man," Mikey Lion explains about the musical vision of Desert Hearts, the festival he's a founding member of.
Once seen, his apocalyptic visions — of deserted megalopolises, gigantic dams in dizzying mountain settings, and abandoned cities, half destroyed, flooded or disintegrating and disappearing beneath the slow-motion onslaught of forest and vegetation — are not easily forgotten.
He felt bored there, constrained by dull conformity; a vision of fierce desert freedom had come over him.
She thinks it might have been during her childhood, as she played on her native island of Antigua and imagined the landscape absent of azure water, as if she had pulled a giant plug and drained the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, that the vision of a desert first struck Jamaica Kincaid.
With Coachella already established as the seeming festival gold standard in the USA, visions of another Desert Trip began to fade when Irving Azoff gathered his roster for four nights of legacy artists.
Since then his imagination has roamed the world in search of desert visions, and his work's eclectic taped accompaniment extends from a bit of Bach to pieces by Brian Eno and Dead Can Dance to examples of Native American and Australian aboriginal music.
Traversing an acrid landscape populated by floating crystal balls, disembodied heads, and neon skies, the video unspools like the wild visions of a desert-dwelling mystic (or someone on a lot of ayahuasca).
WITH a vision of magenta and golden desert flowers in full bloom, I picked up the phone in frozen mid-February to make late March reservations for a family romp in the warm, dry air of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
This year, "Sunrise at the Oasis," an idyllic desert vision of beasts roaming among cascading waterfalls, palm trees and tropical flowers, won the coveted Sweepstakes Award.
