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Events - Spaced Out
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Tuesday, November 16, 5:00PM to 8:00PM. Have a Hippie Holiday. Earth Pledge: FutureFashion Extravaganza. Barney's, New York at Madison and Sixty-First. Meet Alastair Gordon and pick up a signed copy of Spaced Out. 2009 Alastair Gordon • Overview.
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Spaced Out - Excerpt: Infinity Machines - Chapter 2
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The September 9, 1966, cover of Life magazine carried the image of a half-naked man wearing bug-eyed goggles, leaning back in a chair, his face and body streaked with reflected color. The caption read: LSD ART: New Experience that Bombards the Senses, but what was this strange man doing on the cover of America's family magazine, assuming a place normally reserved for presidents and astronauts? Chapter 1 - Enchanted Loom. Chapter 2 - Infinity Machines. Chapter 3 - Crash Pads. Chapter 4 - Soft City.
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Spaced Out - Alastair Gordon Biography
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Is an award- winning critic, curator and author of numerous books including Weekend Utopia. And Beach Houses: Andrew Geller. He writes about design and the built environment for several different publications including The New York Times. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children.
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Spaced Out - Excerpt: Unsettlers - Chapter 5
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Once the multitudes had left the cities, how would they survive? Top: The Domes of Drop City, Colorado, 1969 (photo: Clark Richert). Middle Left: Patchs, painted bus (photo: Jane Lidz). Middle right: woman chopping wood: (photo: Irwin Klein). Lower left: hand-built cabin at Wheeler's Ranch commune, California (photo: Bill Wheeler). Lower right: Fern on rocks with guitar, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, 1972 (photo: Paul Dembski). Chapter 1 - Enchanted Loom. Chapter 2 - Infinity Machines. Chapter 3 - Crash Pads.
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Spaced Out - Overview
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There are no limits to creativity. There is no end to subversion. Raoul Vaneigem, 1967. The music and drugs have been well documented, but the fractured sense of space, the softened corners, the communal élan are less easily reclaimed. Where are the landmarks and monuments of the psychedelic revolution, and how do we go back if we don't even know where to begin? 2009 Alastair Gordon • Overview.
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Spaced Out - Enchanged Loom - Chapter 1
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Chapter 1 - Enchanted Loom. Chapter 2 - Infinity Machines. Chapter 3 - Crash Pads. Chapter 4 - Soft City. Chapter 5 - Unsettlers. Chapter 6 - Magic Circles. Chapter 7 - Frontier Mystics. Time Chamber, International Federation for Inner Freedom, Newton Center, Mass., 1963.
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Spaced Out - Excerpt: Magic Circles - Chapter 6
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Cocoon Dwelling, Aleksandra Kasuba, Whiz Bang City East, Woodstock, NY, 1972. As within, so without. Chapter 1 - Enchanted Loom. Chapter 2 - Infinity Machines. Chapter 3 - Crash Pads. Chapter 4 - Soft City. Chapter 5 - Unsettlers. Chapter 6 - Magic Circles. Chapter 7 - Frontier Mystics. 2009 Alastair Gordon • Overview.
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Spaced Out - Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties
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Spaced Out] is a rare coffee-table book indeed: both beautifulan explosion of vibrant images of psychedelic structures, with half-naked commune dwellers blissfully flying the freak flagand intelligent. Mr. Gordon is a wonderful writer, graceful, energetic, knowledgeable, and he brings to his exploration of Aquarian living a sympathetic heart and a coolly appraising head. The New York Observer. Visit the Spaced Out MySpace page.
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Spaced Out - Excerpt: Crash Pads - Chapter 3
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Above: Galahad's Pad, the East Village, New York, NY, 1967 (photo: Ben Martin). Topless women (above) and painted house, Haight Ashbury (photos: Gene Anthony / Wolfgang's Vault). Chapter 1 - Enchanted Loom. Chapter 2 - Infinity Machines. Chapter 3 - Crash Pads. Chapter 4 - Soft City. Chapter 5 - Unsettlers. Chapter 6 - Magic Circles. Chapter 7 - Frontier Mystics.
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Spaced Out - Excerpts from the Book
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Hand-painted glass slides by Tony Martin for the Trips Festival (SF 1966),. Fillmore Auditorium (SF 1967) and the Electric Circus (NYC 1968.). 2009 Alastair Gordon • Overview.
