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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
    • Bernhard’s sunglasses
    • He says skiing works
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    • 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)