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Saturday, January 28, 2012

WARHOL INTERVIEWS THE FUTURE PAST AND PRESENT

THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS 1989

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

THE WALKING GARDENS OF CHERNOBYL

THE LEANING TOWERS OF WORLD TRADE

THE HOLLAND TUNNEL

THE COLOSSUS AT COLUMBUS

THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AT THE LOUVRE

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.