1960s
Allan Kaprow's Seminal 1966 Essay on Art and "Happenings," Translated into American
Women licking jam off a car? That's a Happening. Buying meat from a butcher? That's a Happening. A bunch of jabronis sitting down doing nothing? That's a Happening.
The Amazing Lost Legacy of the British Black Panthers
Neil Kenlock's photos give the Brixton-based group the profile they deserve.
My Cousin Joe Was a Hit Man for the Boston Mob
My cousin killed people. At least, that’s what I’m told. I never met Joseph McDonald, but word is he preferred using a handgun. He liked to get in real close so that the soon-to-be deceased could figure out what was coming. His intense, bald visage...
Sorry, Hippies: Sexual Liberation Began in the 1950s Thanks to Penicillin
A new study suggests that curing syphilis, not popularizing the pill, was what first got things cookin'.
Never Forget the Detroit Olympics
The 1968 Summer Games were held in Mexico City, but they still changed Detroit. In search of Olympic ephemera, I recently came across a video in the "Prelinger Archives":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/31/the-fine-art-of-keeping-the-world-s...
Prometheus Meets Spaceballs!
A round-up of what's been going on this week over at the Grolsch Film Works blog.
This was Europe's first home computer terminal
Back in 1967, BBC's wonderful Tomorrow's World looks at Europe's first home computer terminal, which was "cheaper to rent than today's telephones": bq. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik (pictured above), it includes an...
George Lois
George Lois was one of the primary architects of the Creative Revolution in American advertising in the 1960s--yeah, yeah, like on "Mad Men."