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Watch Trans Europe Express
- Red White and Blue Kraftwerk & Bicycles
- how can you Americanize this
Innsbruck 76
- ICON - the Bergisel Ski Jump
  - Poster
  - Towers
    - Tower, at night, POIGNANT see the colors – cool dark what kind of neon is this
    - Kind of like the Sunsphere
- Dorothy Hamill wins the gold for figure skating
- Inspired by the Olympics BETTER LOOK HERE
  - He says skiing works
    - scroll down
  - It’s called sport disco – I said SPORT DISCO
- a portrait of the skiier as a bobblehead
strudel, spatzle, a fry up and a lot of beer
- mascot
- Denver, Colorado had wanted to host it but the taxpayers were concerned about potential environmental damage
Disney
- Experimental Protocol – a dream of tomorrowland (how to adapt plastics)
  - they never made it. it’s still a swamp. and a bunch of blueprints.
  - Andrew notes that this looks like Soviet planning?, which it does, which suggests the penetration of America by socialism, and in the end it’s hyper-American. What’s more US than Disney? Oh well it’s soviet….
  - spaceship earth the geodesic dome made out of alucobond – a plastic….hung up on plastic….
- Walt Disney first worked up some pavilions for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. the first use of ANIMATRONICS.
  - the fair’s themes are “universal international” and “peace through understanding here is its unisphere
  - Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and “It’s a Small World” debut WATCH THIS DISTURBING VIDEO
- Epcot is Eden with a Monorail
  - Looks to me like they’re copping of New Urbanism – an architectural movement against brutalism and government modernism to bring down building scale to the human form and making buildings mixed-use to up the density of the urban fabric and avoid urban sprawl.
    - brutalism
    - Government modernism? in your backyard and also in Detroit
Cold War: because it is design: Cold War Modern are the late 60s the birth of modern graphic design?
- Reagan and Gorbachev
- Words: containment, Warsaw Pact, detente, Marshall Plan, Non-Aligned Movement, and lots of rockets and another because we all know what rockets really mean
- we’ll all have hover cars and junior will have his own atom bomb
Fitness but somehow different from The Royal Tenanbaums
- we all wear latex
- it is a victory for all Europe
Modernist architecture
- skyscraper airport
- space race
- the dog will take us into space
  - and then we’ll bring teh kittehz to space
Futurism
- biodome and other crazy organic shapes
- Maybe look at Logan’s Run? (image 1 image 2)

Revised on October 28, 2010 15:32:07 by Shawna? (71.58.108.196)

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