expo67 postcards

“Water Bloom” Cheryl Fair, 2020, photography #fairsworld #art #artistsoninstagram #photography #mercerarboretum #waterlilies https://www.instagram.com/p/CFBaRMjBuZT/?igshid=1amidw5ovzpno

infomart (dallas)

og crystal palace post-relocation: *gets destroyed by fire*

crystal palaces after it:

some promo art for the united states science pavillion at expo 62 in seattle, currently the pacific science center (designed by minoru yamasaki)

ive swung back to being a sufjan stan due to my recent interest in worlds fairs/illinois and michigan. so it goes. anyways this is the top song to me right now

Oh great intentions I've got the best of interventions But when the ads come I think about it now In my infliction Entrepreneurial conditions Take us to glory I think about it now Cannot conversations cull united nations? If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients Cannot all creation call it celebration? Or united nation. Put it to your head. Oh great white city I've got the adequate committee Where have your walls gone? I think about it now Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion Oh Columbia! From Paris, incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented The Ferris Wheel! Oh great intentions Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience? I think about it now Oh God of Progress Have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your laws gone? I think about it now Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific Typically terrific, busy and prolific Classical devotion, architect promotion Lacking in emotion. Think about it now. Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say? Oh Columbia! Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures Like the Ferris Wheel! Cannot conversations cull united nations? If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients Columbia! I cried myself to sleep last night And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window I was hypnotized, I was asked To improvise On the attitude, the regret Of a thousand centuries of death Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer I am riding all alone I am writing all alone Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition I am riding all alone I am running all alone And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines We were asked at the attitudes They reminded us of death Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart? Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart? And I cried myself to sleep last night For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart? Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart?

crystal palace dinosaurs

i think the presentation is like. vaguely melodramatic at points in a way that doesnt follow thru but theyre good information wise and yay robert moses hateclub. walty hate club

brief buildings shitpost, minoru yamasaki, this guy, is interesting, and he has done a few buildings that im personally familiar with and also some others that things have happened to. i dont have any specific articles or books to rec rn but theres a lot ov material out there on the net about him. this will just be pics ov some recognizable architecture hes done.

a few that u may have seen around seattle

some more that i like but have not seen

pruitt igoe, the housing development in my pinned video was also designed by this guy. theres a lot to get into here

and who could forget, these two big boys

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Science_Center

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Building_(Seattle)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_National_Life_Building

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGregor_Memorial_Conference_Center

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)

pledge ov allegiance is a worlds fair promotional scheme

only pic ov it ive seen with the century 21 logo on it. mark ov death/impending transformation into a cannery operation in alaska

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!

love the warped audio

*me looking at like any point in history post industrial rev* yeah thats a prettty good fucked up scifi utopia

this in particular makes me lose it in wow the amount ov things that have not changed and second time as farce ways :|

It was not only ironic that a counter-exposition would take place in a former exposition pavilion, and in a more centrally located site, but this fact simultaneously demonstrated the entrenched, yet contested, power of the exposition medium in the interwar years. Protests had now become possible, but their alleged subversiveness was limited, as it came largely from working within the representational system – capitalizing on the medium itself by adopting identical visual strategies rather than rejecting it altogether.

“Fair Farm Implements, II”

Photography

July 2020

Cheryl Fair