Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley is a world of its own, a dense shanty-like town of booths and stands packed with curios, desert junk, overgrown cactus gardens, and bright green palo verde trees. The former drive-in loud speakers broadcast a soundtrack of country music, periodically punctuated by announcements that someone's burritos or french fries are ready for pickup at the cafe.

We do what we do so we can do more of what we want to do. We’re interested in the marriage of art and design, where our approach includes conceptualizing a project, to prototyping it, to producing it. We believe good design should have a positive impact on the space it exists in and the people who experience that space. (Von Tundra excerpt from an interview with the Dill Pickle Club)

On June 28th, 2008 High Desert Test Sites presented a film by London based artist Bernd Behr, titled House Without a Door. The weekend included a Saturday afternoon panel discussion, followed by dinner at the Palms in Wonder Valley, and then an evening screening of the film in the most remote test site on Iron Age Road.
 

The video reports and dramatises a remote event in a desert setting where a light aircraft breeches the uninhabited landscape and bombards the terrain with leaflets simultaneously reporting and threatening a language bomb.

Black Propagana at Melancholy Ranch was presented as a short video, broadcast daily to the Morango Basin desert community on Channel 6, Adelphi Cable television for one month.

The project was completed with the support and cooperation of Andrea Zittel, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Jeremy Deller.