The Art Nouveau movement was started in response to a rapidly-changing — and in the eyes of artists, ugly — world. So it makes sense that the San Francisco artists designing rock posters, album covers, and the like in the 1960s would crib Art Nouveau's distinct style. They were responding to their own rapidly-changing, and ugly, world. While these free-spirited designers took heavy inspiration from Art Nouveau, they made their art their own by popping the colors to be vibrant and high-contrast, according to this Vox video.
How Art Nouveau influenced the psychedelic art of the '60s
New Netflix movie about the Chicago 7 trial, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman
In 1968, political activists and Yippies Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner were charged with conspiracy to incite riots and other alleged crimes during protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Their months-long trial was one of the most bizarre, hilarious, upsetting, and theatrical… READ THE REST
Enjoy the boss radio sound of KHJ 93 Los Angeles
Here's an item from the latest issue of my weekly Recomendo newsletter: One of my favorite things about Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was listening to clips of 93 KHJ, a radio station that pioneered the "boss radio" sound in the 1960s. The DJs were all vocal virtuosos, and the most talented of the bunch was… READ THE REST
This video for "Classical Gas" debuted on The Summer Brothers Smothers Show (1968)
From my favorite subreddit, r/ObscureMedia: "Classical Gas – 3000 Years of Art in 3 Minutes." I think I saw some Lascaux cave paintings in there so it really should be "20,000 Years of Art in 3 Minutes." From Mason Williams YouTube page: During the time that CLASSICAL GAS was a hit I was also the… READ THE REST
Ditch the binoculars and travel light with this high definition monocular telescope
With everyone looking for increased portability from all their necessary items, it's a surprise monocular telescopes haven't eclipsed binoculars yet. But it may not be too long before these lightweight marvels are nudging their way past their big, bulkier brother as the instrument people reach for to get a quality view from a distance. While… READ THE REST
No kitchen is complete with a great molcajete and this one is on sale for under $55
There are few tools in the history of humankind that stretch back as far as the molcajete. Going back thousands of years to the ancient Mayans and beyond, the process of crafting stone mortar and pestle instruments to grind up spices is a staple of Mexican and South American food preparation. There are also few… READ THE REST
Train to become a Google Cloud engineer with these online classes
Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? Those two titans are often the center of every question when considering cloud-based web platforms. While Amazon and Microsoft are the absolute 1-2 in that discussion, how about some of the other contenders in the cloud services space? That inevitably leads to the 3rd largest cloud platform Google Cloud.… READ THE REST
