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5a) Daily Zen
5a1) Sean Connery in Zardoz (1974)
5a2) Zardoz (1974) Trailer, Director: John Boorman
Zardoz is a 1974 Irish-American science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling, and featuring Sara Kestelman. The film, Connery's second post-James Bond role—after The Offence—was shot by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth on a budget of US$1.57 million as it depicts a future world where a stone image called "Zardoz" instructs the "Brutals" to kill each other for eternal life.
5a3) Zardoz forces us into a muted state of cognitive dissonance, a background hum of confusion and disbelief that intensifies the longer we watch. How did this thing ever get made? And yet it was made. It’s right there in front of us. The images are flickering over the screen: Connery’s ponytail sways across his back; a handlebar moustache frames his grinning mouth; the BDSM gear he’s wearing is very real. Was taking on this project some grotesque fit of hubris? A senseless cry for help? Or is the man a genius?
4a) Warp Rider
4a1) “Ready to drop now.”
A sonic blacklight full of warped orbits, exploding nebula, and melting suns.
Cover illustration by Mike Hinge with Neal Adams
From “...Rears Its Ugly Green Head," Heavy Metal Magazine, July 1979
Island People - From the Sky
Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck - Stardust
Kevin Richard Martin - Weightlessness
Sunroof - 1.4 - 18.6.19
Mugstar - Low, Slow Horizon
Expo Seventy - The Slow Death of Tomorrow
Bong - Find Your Own Gods
4a2) Warp Rider Cover
4a3) See 070421_3b
3a) Make American Posters Great Again
Poster for the July 4th celebration at the DuPage County Centennial in Downers Grove, showing a firecracker.
Created / Published
Ill[inois] : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1939]
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