: Through hundreds of groovy photos, Alastair Gordon’s book explores the tripped-out buildings of the age of Aquarius. This history of hippie homes chronicles the rise of architecture inspired, in some cases, by LSD: geodesic domes, DIY crash pads, and counterculture communes, among others. Spaced Out shows how ambitiously experimental, hallucinogenically colorful, and at times laughably impractical the designs were — from a waterbed prototype to a house that changed colors in response to human touch. Gordon, a New York Times contributor, highlights the technologies in use today that were pioneered during the era’s kaleidoscopic revolution. Turn on, drop out, move in.: Eighteen years ago, a ragtag band of extremely untalented actors and filmmakers gathered in the town of Morgan, Utah, to make Troll 2, a horror movie that had no trolls in it. (The non-scary baddies in cheap plastic masks were called Nilbogs, “goblin” spelled backward.) The straight-to-video excrescence, […]
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