Category Archives: 60s

Smash Everything

October 5, 2014 – 5:58 pm

I grew up in New England. People had lived underneath Big Blue Hill or Massachusett for hundreds of years. Behind my house on the South Shore was a small woods. Old mounds rose from the dirt. Tipping pits filled with trash from the 1800s and further back into time. Some Indian. Some colonial. History. We […]

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Yesterday’s Children – Hunter’s Moon

October 5, 2014 – 5:16 pm
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XKE Jaguar In Reverse

September 20, 2014 – 7:37 pm

The XKE Jaguar convertible was the epitome of 1960s British cool, but upon seeing this photo I somehow recalled two motorhead brothers in 1968 attempting to rearrange the sleek convertible’s configuration in reverse. The twins from the South Shore of Boston switched the transmission and the steering to the rear. The adults on Anderson Street […]

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Yves Klein’s Leap

September 6, 2014 – 10:17 am

Yves Klein was a pop minimalist genius. In 1960 he staged the photo SAUT DANS LE VIDE or LEAP INTO THE VOID from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. His friends caught him in a tarp. The photo was then published in a fake newspaper at Paris news kiosks. I love Yves Klein. […]

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Michelle Phillips YOU BET I WOULD

June 13, 2014 – 2:47 pm

According to Wikipedia In 1986 she wrote an autobiography, California Dreamin’: The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas, released just weeks after her former husband John Phillips’ autobiography Papa John. In it, Phillips describes such events as the first meeting between her and fellow Mama, Cass Elliot, winning 17 straight shoots at a […]

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