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Purple Haze

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In his book The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps (1992), Marshall Savage argues that building floating cities above tropical oceans would be a good first step to learning how to build space colonies. These floating cities—or “arcologies” as they are sometimes called—would preferably have to be constructed near the equator, where the ocean is relatively calm.

“Accordingly, the design […] must harmonize with nature, minimizing material requirements, while maximizing volume, usable surface area, and dynamic stability.”

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New ICL headquarters atrium, in my hometown Maarssen (!), 1990. Scan

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Karim Rashid: Superblob (2002)

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Karim Rashid’s renders of a proposed design for the University of Iowa Pool Pavilion (2009)

Scanned from KARIMSPACE

[insipit]

Jan van der Kooi (1957, The Netherlands)

Interior scenes

Jan van der Kooi is a Dutch contemporary figurative painter. His work has two main focuses: painting light, often in the same location during different light and seasons (in the manner of Monet or Hammershøi); and traditional drawing in a manner influenced by Michelangelo and other old masters.

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[thenovemberissue]

THE NOVEMBER ISSUE

How to Set Goals and Actually Achieve Them: Breaking down all the planning techniques you should adopt for a successful year ahead. CLICK HERE to read the full article.

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The many looks in Lee Jung Hyun’s (이정현) Wa (와) (1999)

The song was featured on DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX Plus

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Selections from Dom Sebastian’s ongoing art project, Gel Futures (2017- )

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In light of recent events regarding Tumblr, we have other research platforms.

Hi everyone, This is a reminder that we have an instagram , and an are.na board dedicated to researching the Y2K Aesthetic! Right now, I am currently backing up our posts. We are in the process of launching a Y2K-specific twitter, and a website containing our research of aesthetic periods beyond just Y2K (Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute), with our scope widening and cataloguing consumer ephemera from the 1970s-today. If you would like to connect and hear more updates, follow me on twitter. – Froyo 

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Levi’s ‘Spaceman’ ad (1995)

Song is ‘Spaceman’ by Babylon Zoo

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“Y2K Princess” – DollTheRage (2017) “My main inspos for this pic were classic early 2000s europop music artists like Alice Deejay, Aqua, Toybox, as well as modern artists that take inspiration from the early 2000s such as SOPHIE, Hannah Diamond, and Liz Y2K!” Background image is from our post on the Dream Temple by Mariko Mori!

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Bar Maddalena - Prato, Italy (Dec. 1989)

Designed by Stefano Giovannoni & Guido Venturini

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M-Zone (Samsung Brand Shop) (2005) Schmidhuber + Kaindl Seoul, Korea

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‘Sci-Finery’ - Mademoiselle (April 1999)

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‘Space Concepts 2001′ house at the Toronto Interior Design Show, by design firm II BY IV Design (2001)

“Designed as a exploration of what living in the new millennium might look like, space age references are mixed with contemporary materials and technologies.” Of course it wouldn’t be a Y2K art project without video monitors showing creepy eyes that follow you around the room 😂

Scanned from the October 2001 issue of Interior Design Magazine

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‘Double Date: The Street, The Club, and The Bedroom’, an interesting 🤔😂 series by artist Micha Klein (1998)