1970 - Blog Posts
Farewell Astrodome
Farewell Astrodome. You will be remembered for hosting a kickass social-satirizing, "Bullitt"-parodying, Shelley Duvall-introducing, existential modern-Icarus-mythologizing Robert Altman film. At least that's what I'll remember it for. They held sports events there, right?
Stills from ITV Saturday Night Theater’s “Married Alive” (1970)
an assortment of polish beatles-related posters i could find!
A Hard Day’s Night, Waldemar Swierzy (1965) / A Hard Day’s Night, Unknown, (1965, as it looks to be a poster used by polish movie theatres to dictate individual showtimes) / Help!, Eryk Lipinski (1967) / Yellow Submarine, Zygmunt Bobrowski (1970) / Unknown, Waldemar Swierzy (1978) / Yellow Submarine, Waldemar Swierzy (2009)
BONUS: VERY STRANGE poster from 1985 by Waldemar Swierzy. i wish i knew the context.
Hippie
Flower power
25/01/2025, saturday 25 january 2025, 09:32 a.m, indore, madhya pradesh, india.
“I remember an incident from my own childhood, when a very close friend of mine and I, we were walking down the street. We were discussing whether God existed. And she said he did not. And I said he did. But then she said she had proof. She said, ‘I had been praying for two years for blue eyes, and he never gave me any.’ So, I just remember turning around and looking at her. She was very, very Black. And she was very, very, very, very beautiful. How painful. Can you imagine that kind of pain? About that, about color? So, I wanted to say you know, this kind of racism hurts. This is not lynchings, and murders, and drownings. This is interior pain. So deep. For an 11 year-old girl to believe that if she only had some characteristic of the white world, she would be okay. [Black girls] surrendered completely to the master narrative. I mean the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness. She got it from her family, she got it from school, she got it from the movies — she got it everywhere; it’s white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction, history, it has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that’s the master narrative speaking: “This is beautiful. This is lovely, and you’re not it.”
Toni Morrison on what inspired her to write her first novel, The Bluest Eye.
Fort Courage, Arizona. July 14, 1970. Taken by my great-grandmother.
Flowers at Disneyland, July 1970. Taken by my great-grandmother.
July 1970. Taken by my great-grandmother on vacation.
The Grand Canyon. July 14, 1970. Taken by my great-grandmother.
1970 Vikings at Bears..Alan Page intercepts a pass and runs for a TD. Gale Sayers chases...Roy Winston blocks
Carl Eller - 1970 Monday Night Football against the Rams
Natalie Wood and her newborn daughter Natasha photographed by Orlando Suero, 1970.
OMEGA (1970)
Summary: An experimental film, composed almost entirely of special effects, which deals with the death and rebirth of mankind.