169. *Preview* The Future's Not What It Used To Be: Googie, Space Colonies, & The End of Criticism Pt. 1

This is a preview. For full episode and more subscribe here 3 hr 7 m dive into one of the 20th centuries most radical, transformative yet commercial art movements: Coffee Shop Modernism. Maligned by critics, yet beloved by the public - what did the architects of 'Googie' understand that we do not? Also the art of NASA space colonies (current MoMa exhibit), Bob's Big Boy, Monsanto/MIT/and Disney's House of The Future (1957), Armet and Davis, Swedenborgian New Church, the Theme Building at LAX + Philip Taylor Kramer's Unsolved Mystery, Richard Hamilton: Collage and Technology, Cars, The History of McDonalds, Art, Architecture, and the environmental crisis of the 60's / 70's, The intersection of technology, family, freedom, and America, the history and funding of high-brow art and architecture: who was paying these people?, Panns Fried Chicken, Walter Gropius, "Those were the days of struggling for something exciting and neon was rather new. We had neon everywhere,"...everyone has already achieved their 15 minutes of fame, the zeitgeist of places, R. Buckminster Fuller, how criticism got cucked, and more. Video documentary and part two (McDonalds History) coming this month. Music by Barrett / Alex T., ending song by Mickey Newbury...skip introduction: start at 18 m