Monthly Archives: December 2009

POINT TAKEN

“How you get there depends on where you’re at”.  The tagline says it all in Italian movie master Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film about American counter culture set in the California Desert.

THE FOLK ART OF ’76

Now existing as relics of another time, communities around the US painted fire plugs as figures of the revolutionary war for the American Bicentennial.

128 MILES EAST OF LOS ANGELES

Video by Los Angeles artist Steve Harrington

GOING ALL THE WAY FOR THE USA

Hotel stationary sketches by Brooklyn artist  Wes Lang.

INTO THE WILD

Proof that misanthropy can produce beautiful things, this 1973 film documents George Greenough on his quest to get away from the world and into the water while making breakthrough developments in underwater photography. Equal parts surf movie, diy instruction manual, and psychedelic escapade, Crystal Voyager‘s most memorable scene features twenty-three minutes of epic waterscapes set to Pink Flyod’s Echos. See below.

WELCOME TO ONE TRIP PASS