The Evening Frank Zappa Jammed With Pink Floyd … and Captain Beefheart Too (Belgium, 1969)

Latest­ly an previous­er musi­cian acquain­tance informed me he nev­er “bought into ‘Inter­stel­lar Over­drive’ and all that,” refer­ring to the “first main area jam” of Pink Floy­d’s profession and the sub­se­quent explo­sion of area rock bands. I discovered myself a lit­tle tak­en aback. Although I used to be born too late to be there, I’ve come…

Frank Lloyd Wright Thought About Making the Guggenheim Museum Pink

Picture by way of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foun­da­tion Archives Seen in the present day, the Solomon R. Guggen­heim Muse­um, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, appears to occu­py sev­er­al time peri­ods without delay, look­ing each mod­ern and a few­how historic. The lat­ter qual­i­ty positive­ly has to do with its brilliant white col­or, which we asso­ciate…

Oscar-Successful Director Frank Capra Made an Instructional Science Movie Warning of Local weather Change in 1958

In 2015, we excessive­mild­ed for you The Unusual Case of the Cos­mic Rays, a big­ly-for­received­ten 1957 edu­ca­tion­al sci­ence movie. The professional­duc­tion is notable half­ly as a result of it was shot by Frank Capra, the influ­en­tial direc­tor who had gained not one, not two, however three Oscars for greatest direc­tor. And in addition as a result of the…

Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Present, and Later Remembers, “I Hated Him Extra Than Ever” After the Present

Had Andy Warhol lived to see the web–particularly social networking–he would have cherished it, although it could not have cherished him. Although Warhol did see the very start­nings of the PC rev­o­lu­tion, and made com­put­er artwork close to the top of his life on a Com­modore Ami­ga 1000, he was most­ly enam­ored, unsur­pris­ing­ly, of TV….