Posts Tagged ‘hippie’
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Arcosanti, designed by Italian-born architect Paolo Soleri, is an experimental architectural complex perched on the side of a gulch in the Arizona desert, about 70 miles north of Phoenix. Arcosanti was begun in 1970 as a multi-stage project, but it is not—and perhaps may never be—finished.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, Arcosanti, Arizona, concrete, Cosanti, cypress, desert, Frank Lloyd Wright, hippie, human settlements, Italian, Lindisfarne, minimalist, Paolo Soleri, planned community, round windows, utopian, wood
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
At Beckwoman’s, an old Vancouver institution on Commercial Drive. DON’T PRAY IN MY SCHOOL AND I WON’T THINK IN YOUR CHURCH. And lots more where that came from, if you want slogans. More photos here. Photo below by waferboard on Flickr.
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Tags: Beckwoman's, bumper stickers, Commercial Drive, graphic design, hammocks, hippie, politics, Vancouver
Posted in British Columbia, Canadian design, craft, DIY, favourite, graphics and signage, humour, politics, Vancouver | No Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
These photos of The Dome Show, an exhibition by art collective Intermedia at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1970, are all from the web archive Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. (See another post on this absolutely amazing site here.) The Dome Show was an experimental art show involving architecture, sculpture, performance, music, improvised happenings, a giant public dinner party, bonfires, public home movie nights and many other things over the months of its exhibition.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970, 1970s, 60s, 70s, Al Neil, architecture, art, Bingo, Carole Itter, City Feast, Dome Show, fashion, Garry Lee-Nova, geodesic dome, Gerry Gilbert, Glenn Lewis, happenings, Helen Goodwin, hippie, Michael de Courcy, sculpture, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, why are things so boring now?
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Vancouver curator Scott Watson’s essay Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos and Squats is part of the impressive and totally compelling Vancouver Art in the Sixties website project. It’s a well-organized archive of Vancouver’s 1960s art production and it’s far too large a topic for one post.
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Tags: architecture, art, artists, brutalism, corporate architecture, decor, demolition, Edwardian, granny chic, hippie, history, inner city, interior design, Intermedia, Intertidal, Michael de Courcy, modernism, politics, post and beam, protest, radical, Ruins in Process, style, suburban, urban planning, Vancouver, Vancouver Art in the Sixties, Victorian
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
UPDATE: This Guardian article on the 1972 visit of Led Zeppelin to India contains a reference to the supposed restoration of this ashram. Anyone heard anything else? Please leave links/information in the comments. Thanks!
Paul Prudence, author of the blog dataisnature, took these photographs of the abandoned Rishikesh ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—celebrity yogi to the Beatles and a central figure in late 60s counterculture.
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Tags: 60s, abandoned, architecture, ashram, building, bygones, counterculture, dataisnature, decrepit, design, disillusionment, eastern spirituality, favourite, hippie, hippies, India, Indian, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, meditation, overgrown, Paul Prudence, Rishikesh, temple, The Beatles, Transcendental Meditation, yogi
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
If tumblr is a bellwether—and it may not be—then the sixties & seventies are back, in style if not in substance. So many of tumblr’s weird little blogs, each of them a kind of eclectic personal bulletin board, feature this kind of rock and roll Hair: The Musical meets back-to-the-land handmade-house thing.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, aesthetics, alaskaneyes, back to the land, blog, blogging, bree apperley, breeapperley, cosmic dust, cosmic_dust, decontextualization, decor, groovy, handmade house, hippe house, hippie, hipster, interior design, photographs, photography, photos, please make the 80s go away, politics, sexy, tumblelog, tumblr
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