# virtual tourism in the ambient desert of drifter consider some virtual tourism in the beautifully ruined ambient desert of drifter by j leyba - a fantastical abstract encounter with the video real featuring glorious illusions of depth like "hello commander" one feels it almost possible to explore such a place forever far outside of time > we'd have to replay it all from end to end at home in a darkened room rediscover the magic of the freeways and the distance and the ice-cold alcohol in the desert and the speed and live it all again on the video at home in real time not simply for the pleasure of remembering but because the fascination of senseless repetition is already present in the abstraction of the journey. the unfolding of the desert is infinitely close to the timelessness of film > ~ theorist jean baudrillard america (1986) deeply artistic experiences like these seem somehow truer expressions of the strange imaginative meanings of the worlds **update patch** suggestions for tweaks in drifter **+** day / night cycle **+** piles of sand in the corners **+** the music could play once slowly fade out and be replaced by nothing but quiet desert winds and the sound of the pulsating colour-creature **+** such a research space brings to minds ideas of procedural infinity (/make drifter a wraparound planet?) - and off-world ship breaking // republic of bob