Saturday, January 28, 2012

WARHOL INTERVIEWS THE FUTURE PAST AND PRESENT




THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS 1989
1
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
2
THE WALKING GARDENS OF CHERNOBYL
3
THE LEANING TOWERS OF WORLD TRADE
4
THE HOLLAND TUNNEL
5
THE COLOSSUS AT COLUMBUS
6
THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AT THE LOUVRE
7
SILICON VALLEY

THINKING SMALL
Dr. Kim Eric Drexler
Master of molecular nanotechnology
Photography: Mark Trousdale
coined the term "grey goo"

from Love In A Colder Climate
JG BALLARD
The science fiction of "the body's dream of becoming a machine"
"Ballardian" Photograph: Geoff Spear

from Yuppie, We Hardly Knew Yee
CHRISTOPHER WOOD AKA TIMOTHY LEA
Photography: Geoff Spear

Yuppie, an 80's word used to identify Young Upwardly Mobile Professionals, perhaps coined  as a modern alignment  to "Yippie," the term created by Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the mid-sixties to identify "members" of the Youth International Party (YIP!) - a loosely organized collective dedicated to merging a new left-wing activism and the hippie counterculture during the time of America's involvement in the Vietnam war. That decade's youth-centered ideology was to spark a revolution to end the war in Vietnam, promote peace and love, and reject all -isms; including socialism and anarchism - although, with the movement's advent of free love, unity in dress and thought, extreme rebellion against authority blended with a propensity toward a communal lifestyle and collective political demands -  true followers of the yippie movement shared all, and in doing so, created and adhered to a rather socialistic and oft-times, anachronistic environment. Two decades later, the Yuppie, shared keys to a BMW and tips on their individual portfolios.

THE THREE STOOGES - HAVE ROCKET WILLTRAVEL
Kobal Collection

FUTURAMA
General Motors Pavillion
New York World's Fair

BRAVE NEW CITY
LEBBEUS WOODS
UNDERGROUND BERLIN
LEBBEUS WOODS

from Goodbye to Earth
ISAAC ASIMOV
Painting: Robert Yarber

from Into The Mystic
ANDREW HARVEY
Photography: Wist Thorpe

TOWER OF POWER
Architectural concept of the year 2050
Kisho Kurokawa
This "super" high-rise building, with its height of 6,714 feet, planned near Mt. Fuji, in the district where a high possibility of earthquakes is predicted in the future, is a challenge to high technology. A buttress supports the main tower to support the stability of the building. The "dumper," which is a shock absorber, is placed at the foundation to maintain this stability by means of a computer that controls sway during earthquakes and typhoons. The buttress also contains the elevator and staircases.  On the roof of the building is a port for vertical takeoff and landing, and at its base, a station for the motorcar, which - at 310 miles per hour - allows for a fifteen-minute commute to Tokyo.


THIS IS GOING TO BE YOU
from Letter From The Future
P.J. O'ROUKE
Illustration: David Carrino

JANE FONDA - TIMELESS
ROGER VADIM'S BARBARELLA
Kobal Collection

MATT MAHURIN

THE KING OF CYBERPUNK
WILLIAM GIBSON
Photography: Aaron Rapoport

SCORCHED EARTH, MERCURY POISONING, AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
UNTO DUST
The Devastation of the Amazon Rain Forest
Two Sides of Sympathy
RAY PFORTNER/PETER ARNOLD
MICHAEL NICHOLS  

SYD MEAD'S PARADISE PLANNED
SYD MEAD

KENNY SCHARF

Andy Warhol's Interview
Special Future Issue
January 1989




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