Full Moon Ramen at Secret Restaurant
Bob Dornberger & Jim Piatt
Saturday, March 15, 6-10pm

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HDTS is eager to welcome Secret Restaurant's newest iteration, Full Moon Ramen: a one night event that will feature a menu of Japanese ramen noodles, to be eaten under the light of a full moon in the desert night. Join us at Secret Restaurant, notoriously difficult to find, but well worth the hunt. Located in an area of wide-open desert just east of Iron Age Road in Wonder Valley, Full Moon Ramen will be open for one night only, Saturday, March 15th, and will be the site of a hybrid event of sculpture, food, and performance.

Secret Restaurant by Bob Dornberger and Jim Piatt is an experimental, irregularly scheduled, and impossibly small underground 'restaurant' that explores current trends in the underground food movement in the US. Billed as the world’s tiniest restaurant, it is only 16 square feet. Drawing inspiration from ‘secret’ menu items, underground dinner clubs (like Wolvesmouth and the invitation-only Totoraku), and the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija, the project speaks to what Mission Street Food’s Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz called the “sportification of food.”

The project aims to be aggressively marketed, but at the same time difficult to get to, to find, and to see on any satellite maps. Neither is it a comfortable situation for the diners or the cook--there are no chairs or tables to sit at, and the cook prepares food in a small bunker-like steel building. There is a gold-leafed dining room, but with only the barest hint at a structure, so as not to appear on satellite imagery.

Secret Restaurant debuted at HDTS 2013, when it served up gourmet fare to over 150 diners, and was featured in Palm Springs Life, LA Weekly, and on the Huffington Post.

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Shari Elf of Art Queen donates a portion of Sales of Don Shreves' work to HDTS
January 21–26, 2014

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Our friend Shari Elf, creator of the World Famous Crochet Museum and co-founder of Art Queen, has been asked by the brother of Don Shreves, 97 year old Joshua Tree resident, Rollie, to auction off the 230 paintings he inherited and which he had been storing in his Joshua Tree basement.

Since December, Shari has been auctioning off a selection of Shreves' paintings on eBay each week, and donating a portion of the proceeds to a local nonprofit.  We are honored to have been selected this week! 

VIEW THIS WEEK'S AUCTIONS  - auctions end on Sunday, January 26, 2014, and 10% of the sales this week will be donated to HDTS! 


About Don Shreves:

Don Shreves, WWII veteran, was born on June 15, 1918 and died of pneumonia on August 28, 1983 at age 75. He was paralyzed from the waist down after complications from a spinal tap operation when he was in his 20's and in the military. He remained paraplegic for the rest of his life. He fought for 2 years and finally received a settlement from the military which enabled him to buy a nice house in Silverlake, California, overlooking the reservoir. He was able to paint for his own pleasure for the rest of his life. He didn't like to sell his paintings but he did love entering them in competitions and won many awards, which you can see along with the paintings on Shari's website.

Because Shreves did not like to sell his works, he is not a listed artist and therefore none of the auction houses Shari contacted were interested in taking the work. She showed the paintings at Art Queen gallery in Joshua Tree, California for most of 2012.

Check out all 230 paintings and learn more about Don Shreves!

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Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050
Karen Lofgren
january 11, 2014

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Please join us Saturday, January 11, 2014 at Andy's Gamma Gulch for the debut of Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050, a new project by Los Angeles-based sculptor Karen Lofgren, followed by a book signing at the HDTS HQ in downtown Joshua Tree.

Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 is a work permanently buried and positioned to associate with archaeo-astronomical constellations visible in both the distant past and far future as we rotate on earth's axis. It is shrouded and accompanied by the earthly goods needed to guide it through the ages. Placing contemporary cultural objects in a broader history of the world, it uses extensive research and our moving stars as a guide. Giving life to the unseen object and process, an editioned artist publication encapsulates the work for consideration in the present.

The project is organized and presented by High Desert Test Sites. Contributors to the publication include designer, Willem Henri Lucas; with writing by Ben Ehrenreich; ancient language translations by Jacob Hobson; and photographs by Robert Crouch.

Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 is made possible by the generous support of The Ranch Projects, West of Rome Public Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Royale Projects Contemporary Art.

Special thanks to our installation volunteers: Bob Dornberger, Lucas Wrench, Andrea Brown, Tim Chinnock, Faith Chinnock, Robert Crouch, Chris Oliveria, Chelsey Holland, & Christopher Wormald.

Opening:
Saturday, January 11, 2014, 1–4 pm
Andy's Gamma Gulch
Pioneertown, California

Book Signing:
Saturday, January 11, 2014, 4–6 pm
HDTS HQ
Joshua Tree, California

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High Desert Test Sites: 2013 and Beyond

414 Pascual Sisto & Joey Jensen, Sighting (photo: Natasha Peterson)2013 was a groundbreaking year for High Desert Test Sites - highlights included achieving our long awaited 501c3 non-profit status, expanding our growing team of amazing staff and volunteers, the creation of our desert re

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Joshua Tree Holiday Bazaar
December 14–15, 2013

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Please join the HDTS HQ and BKB Ceramics in downtown Joshua Tree for a special Holiday Bazaar, Saturday and Sunday December 14–15th, 11AM–4PM!  We’ll be featuring great gifts from the Wonder Valley Way Station and other special guests.  Shop goods and wares by artists:
Friends & Relations, Kristin Beinner James, Emily Halpern, Marisa Haskell, Bret Nicely, Britta Van Dun, Bari Ziperstein, and more! 

Plus, stop by the HQ at 1PM on Saturday, December 14th for Kip’s Lantern Lab, where you’ll learn how to: safely light a lantern, replace damaged mantles, revive or replace shrunken pump cups, restore leaky fuel caps, install a spark lighter, and bring your hissing camping buddy back to life!

At noon on Sunday, December 15th come on by for a field kitchen demo from outdoor inventor and HDTS 2013 artist Harald Kanz!

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