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We were to be rounded up and imprisoned in 10 barbed-wire prison camps in some of the most desolate places in America: the blistering hot desert of Arizona, the sultry swamps of Arkansas, the wastelands of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and two of the most desolate places in California.
1976, Air France was hijacked, taken to Entebbe, and the Israelis not only did an extraordinary rescue, they did it partly because they had practiced on a physical model of the airport, because they had built the airport, so they built a model in the desert, and when they arrived at Entebbe, they knew where to go because they had actually been there.
Imagine, in the empty desert, you come upon a huge wheel ringed in skeletons, and someone invites you to come pull a series of heavy ropes at its base, so you walk to one side, where a team is waiting, and you all throw your backs into it, and you pull in turn, and eventually, the wheel roars to life, lights begin to flicker, and the audience cheers, and you've just activated Peter Hudson's "Charon," one of the world's largest zoetropes.
It's a year-round community, and every August, for a single week, 70,000 people power down their technology and pilgrimage out into the desert to build an anti-consumerist society outside the bounds of their everyday lives.
So this is me on the desert playa last year with my brother, obviously hard at work.
I'd been studying the art of Burning Man for several years, for an exhibition I curated at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, and what fascinates me the most isn't the quality of the work here, which is actually rather high, it's why people come out here into the desert again and again to get their hands dirty and make in our increasingly digital age.
Though there is certainly a Burning Man aesthetic, pioneered by artists like Kate Raudenbush and Michael Christian, much of the distinctive character of the work here comes from the desert itself.
But in the desert, there are no gatekeepers and no placards explaining the art, just natural curiosity.
Every year, something compels people from all different walks of life, from all over the world, to go out into the desert and make art when there is no money in it.
Look over there, in the southern hemisphere, the Atacama; Namibia and Kalahari in Africa; the Australian desert.
This quadrangle was supposed to be a desert.
You can see the river covering that region which, otherwise, would be a desert.
If there is a desert in the continent with a nearby sea, evaporation's greater on the sea, and it sucks the air above the desert.
The desert is trapped in this condition.
On his way, Hercules was so annoyed by the Libyan desert heat that he shot an arrow at the Sun.
And she and her family fled Syria through the desert into Jordan and she's been living in this camp for the last year and a half.
Here's Ze talking about Las Vegas: (Video) Ze Frank: Las Vegas was built in the middle of a huge, hot desert.
Contrasted to the scorching desert that surrounds this place, so are these people.
As I walked around this morning, I noticed most of the buildings were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert.
And if that's true, it means that we're hard-wired for music, that we can find it anywhere, that there is no such thing as a musical desert, that we are permanently hanging out at the oasis, and that is marvelous.
So people continue to flee into neighboring countries, and we build refugee camps for them in the desert.
For those desert lizards, the answer is easy.
Except for the Emperor Number, which they threw into the mouth of an ancient nesting creature in the desert.
You might think that it snows all the time at the Poles, but Antarctica is so dry, it's considered a desert with annual precipitation of only 200 millimeters along the coast and far less inland.
But come the spring rains, you get this: flowering of the desert.
The problem with this map is that its inks and pigments had so degraded over time that this large, nearly seven-foot map, made the world look like a giant desert.
Now imagine being given the same choice again, only this time, you're not on a game show, but dehydrated in the desert after wandering for days.
On the game show, you were thinking about each item's exchange value, what you could obtain for them at a later time, but in an emergency, like the desert scenario, what matters far more is their use value, how helpful they are in your current situation.
After all, it doesn't matter how much you could get from selling the diamond if you never make it out of the desert.
Now, imagine yourself back in the desert, only this time, you get offered a new diamond or a fresh bottle of water every five minutes.
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