Happy May Day! No snowstorms so far this year.
“A sudden snowstorm buffets May Day revelers during a stroll through Helsinki’s Kaivopuisto Park in 1967.”
Elecktroids: ‘Midnight Drive’ (1995)
Footage from 1999 A.D. (1967).
Habitat 67, designed by Moshe Safdie for Montreal’s Expo 67. It’s like Nakagin Capsule Tower meets Barbican Estate.
Lots of original Expo 67 postcards archived here.
(detail from strange tales #163, 1967, by jim steranko)
steranko called his style “zap art”, and it’s a perfect term: it recalls pop art, while the “zap” carries the “low art” connotations of comics—which is just about what steranko did. he put the silver age aesthetic through funhouse mirrors of cinema, pop art and psychedelia; indelibly kirby-influenced but infused with a sharp graphic sensibility. his panel design was particularly brilliant. as above, they often eschewed conventional sequential technique for visual dynamism—to the point where, at his peak, each page can practically stand as a work unto itself.
Legowelt: ‘Into The Storm’ (2003)
Footage taken from Viy (1967).
The Prisoner - Episode One: “Arrival” (1967)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_%28The_Prisoner%29
