Sam Gross, 1973
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Sam Gross, 1973
Wacky Packages stickers - Topps (1979 reissue)
Wow, I hadn't heard of these!
"Known affectionately among collectors as Wacky Packs, the Topps stickers that parodied well-known consumer brands were a phenomenon in the 1970s―even outselling the Topps Company’s baseball cards for a while. But few know that the genius behind it all was none other than Art Spiegelman―the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novelist who created Maus." -this book
Everybody needs a third space. This abomination we call a society has been destroying third spaces for decades. We still need them, so we grab them wherever we can. The only place many people have available is inside their heads. Normally, that's where people in prisons have to keep their third space. Now we have much of the population walking around with no option but to keep their third space in their head. Does that give you any idea what we really are in this system?
That used to be a legit business strategy btw ...
Investing in people who didn't have money now, but would have in 5-ish to 10-ish years
Teahouses in Japan would give poor students years of credit, knowing that once they have a job, they not only would pay their tap, but that they would feel loyal to this particular teahouse and be a frequent patron
'Saturn' by Mitchell (1970)
The artist's full name is Horace Mitchell! I just learned a lot more about him in a fascinating article that came out today - How a Houston company got its art on the walls of stoners across America.
Here's the section that talks about this artist and poster:
Horace Mitchell was an undergraduate student at Rice University in 1968. Though he was studying physics, he was an amateur artist who loved science fiction novels and comic books. After reading about the Houston Blacklight in a local paper, Mitchell went to downtown Houston, sketchbook in tow. He sold his sketches to Jones, which would become the basis of four posters the company would publish: "The Trip," "Hassles," "Saturn" and "Chess." Mitchell was inspired by the work of the legendary Marvel Comics artists Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby, whose covers depicted towering characters set against psychedelic space-age landscapes.
"I had always sketched and drawn even as a kid," Mitchell remembered. "I got this bug that I would try to draw some big things."
The posters that went to market are different from what Mitchell drew. Some were resized, and colors were changed to be trippier under a black light. But for Mitchell, it was an exercise in representing abstract emotions and thoughts—ideas like space and time, optimism about the future—in accessible ways.
"It was sort of groundbreaking, the kinds of things they put in the posters that then wound up hanging in students' rooms because they represented ideas that really resonated with the students," Mitchell said.
That experience would serve him well in a much different role. After he finished his master's and PhD, Mitchell went on to work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, running the agency's Scientific Visualization Studio in 1991, making hundreds of videos explaining everything from Mars' magnetic fields to hurricane animations. His work has been on news channels around the nation and even appeared in Leonardo DiCaprio's 2016 documentary Before the Flood. But he has always seen his work for the Houston Blacklight as the foundation of his career.
"I always had a joke: people would ask, 'Well, are you a real artist?' And I'll say, yes, I am. I'm published, but only because of those four things that got printed," Mitchell joked.
Here's the full collection of Houston Blacklight posters, from University of Houton's digital collections.
Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely
tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !
You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
Megan talking about the reaction to W.A.P in her documentary
" In Space, no one can bother you Chill "
-Alien theme Lofi- .2024
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