Pop Art
Plaid Stallions
Endless hours of browsing at this blog dedicated to 70s culture.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 30, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Culture and Civilization, Customs, Pop Art, 1970s
The First Buck Rogers Film
Explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 05, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Pop Art, Science Fiction, 1930s
RIP Carolee Schneeman
Her obit.Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 08, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Pop Art, Body, Obituaries
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 20
It seems many of the public sided with Khrushchev's tastes for old-fashioned stuff in this case.
Source for article.
More pix at this link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 20, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, 1960s
WattStax
This documentary has it all: great music, great interviews, great cinematography, ongoing thematic relevance to today. But we feature it on WU mainly for the clothing, both of performers and of the audience. Viewers might also empathize with the director's fascination with hotpants.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 10, 2018 -
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Category: Drugs, Ethnic Groupings, Fashion, Music, Pop Art, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Pop Art
"Vital Capacity" by performance artist William Lamson, in which he battles black balloons. There's a longer, larger version of the video here (but not embeddable).His website
Brief wikipedia article about him
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 01, 2018 -
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Category: Performance Art, Pop Art
Stereopticon
Let us know when you bail. The visuals start after 45 seconds.
“Stereopticon treats sense data or phenomena as the root of structured
thought. It is not in the line of experimental films which present
visual and audial phenomena as matter directly perceived. Instead
Stereopticon delineates its own structure by means of a moving interposed
view point and counter viewpoint : by continuous motion it implies or
circumscribes a complete cosmology. The structure is musical and circular,
rather than dramatic and linear, and is constructed of six movements and mood cycles...”
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 24, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
THE TRIP
We hope you make it back!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 27, 2018 -
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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Movies, Music, Pop Art, Surrealism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Dali’s CHAOS AND CREATION
I would like to find the whole 17-minute video of Dali's CHAOS AND CREATION, especially after reading the description in the newspaper article. But I can only find bits and pieces. The second clip shows a brief image of the motorcycle in the pigpen.
Original article here.
Foto source.
Foto source, more at site.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 14, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Motorcycles
Joe Bailon, RIP
The inventor of "candy apple red."
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 29, 2017 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Pop Art, Obituaries
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