Whole Earth Catalog, 1971 production in Saline Valley, CA

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  • Опубликовано: 8 янв 2025

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  • @KevinKelly
    @KevinKelly  11 лет назад +43

    This is about 20 minutes of super 8 film that Stewart Brand shot in the winter of 1971. It documents the production of the January 1971 "Difficult But Possible Supplement" to The Whole Earth Catalog. Supplements were 60-page long magazine-like periodicals that appeared seasonally between the many-year cycle of the book-like Catalogs.
    This films shows (briefly near the end) the simple tools used to make the catalogs: paper, wax, an IBM Selectric typewriter, and a Polaroid reproduction camera.
    There were 6 staff from Whole Earth, and 2 from Ant Farm, an art collective. Ant Farm built the structures. The camp was centered around a beautiful wild hot spring. 70 miles to the nearest phone. They erected a dome in the desert and then battled the winds while trying to erect an inflatable structure. It was Burning Man 40 years ago.
    The wind came up and blew away the production inflatable (bounding across the desert), and they had to move production of the Catalog into the Airstream that Stewart and his wife Lois lived in. Ant Farm lived in their little dome (seen trucking from one site to another).
    I asked Stewart why they went to the desert to produce a magazine?
    "Why did we do it? My excuse was to prove that production could be anywhere---an early Maker impulse I suppose. The real reason was the pure joy of doing something difficult but possible in the desert. The whole story of the making of the Supplement was printed in the Supplement."

    • @suhailski
      @suhailski 11 лет назад

      Nice little self reference at the end there. It made me wonder what would happen if 3d printers could print itself.

    • @liahmataja1608
      @liahmataja1608 11 лет назад

      langsung tak paham lah

    • @brandst
      @brandst 11 лет назад

      One correction. In those days we did a new Whole Earth Catalog edition twice a year. The Supplements came out every two months. That insane schedule did not last long.

    • @joynul82
      @joynul82 11 лет назад +1

      Ftiend I am from Bangladesh

    • @benopulickalvarghese5346
      @benopulickalvarghese5346 11 лет назад

      Nice

  • @brandst
    @brandst 11 лет назад +1

    rolling out the inflatable (I’m in some shots); the inflatable inflating; the Airstream trailer I lived in in those days with my then-wife Lois; snow on the mountains (it was January); inside the inflatable setting up production furniture and gear; building a geodesic darkroom for photo work; beginning production, page layout, typesetting, etc; wind shaking everything; Barbara DeZonia’s side boob; pulling the loose canopy out of wind trouble; [contintued]

  • @brandst
    @brandst 11 лет назад +1

    my truck anchoring one corner of the inflatable; production resumes in the Airstream; cavorting on top of the transparent inflatable; making photo halftones in the darkroom; visit from a small plane; then back to Menlo Park home base, where an airplane was being built; many dark frames. Cast: Hal Hershey, Barbara and Bud DeZonia, Fred Richardson, Stewart and Lois Brand; from Ant Farm: Andy Shapiro, Joe Hall, Curtis Schreier.

  • @ConanXin
    @ConanXin 2 года назад

    《全球概览》,1971年在加州盐谷(Saline Valley)生产
    这是斯图尔特·布兰德在1971年冬天拍摄的大约20分钟的短片。它记录了1971年1月《全球概览》的 "困难但可能的补编 "的制作过程。增刊是长达60页的杂志式期刊,在书本式目录的多年周期之间季节性地出现。
    这部影片展示了制作目录的简单工具:纸、蜡、一台IBM Selectric打字机和一台宝丽来复印机。
    有6名来自Whole Earth的工作人员和2名来自Ant Farm,一个艺术团体。Ant Farm建造了这些建筑。营地围绕着一个美丽的野生温泉。离最近的电话有70英里。他们在沙漠中竖起了一个穹顶,然后与风搏斗,试图建立一个充气结构。那是40年前的火人节。
    风来了,吹走了充气工具,他们不得不把目录的生产转移到斯图尔特和他的妻子露易丝住的Airstream。Ant Farm住在他们的小穹顶里(看到卡车从一个地点运到另一个地点)。
    我问斯图尔特,他们为什么要到沙漠里去制作杂志?
    "我们为什么要这样做? 我的借口是为了证明生产可以在任何地方进行--我想这是早期Maker的冲动。 真正的原因是在沙漠中做一些困难但可行的事情的纯粹快乐。制作副刊的整个故事都刊登在副刊上。"
    -- KK

  • @InSurrealtime
    @InSurrealtime 9 лет назад

    The two tubs shown are still there. The first is the Sunrise Pool at the lower spring, and the second (right next to the inflatable) is the Barnacle at the upper spring. I'll be in both this Fall. Ahhhh.

  • @davejavu9550
    @davejavu9550 8 лет назад

    Thanks Kevin- an enjoyable viewing.
    I believe that the Difficult But Possible Supplements were published in 1969.

    • @davejavu9550
      @davejavu9550 8 лет назад

      ...and of course thanks to Stewart for shooting the footage :)

  • @erinmcguirl10
    @erinmcguirl10 4 года назад

    This is a great video, thanks for sharing it.
    I'm wondering to what extent the Whole Earth community visiting the Saline Valley was aware of the Timbisha Shoshone community that had once lived throughout what we know as Death Valley National Monument? Timbisha homes near the Saline Valley, where you were camping, were destroyed by the National Parks Association in 1957, and this Native American group only regained rights to their ancestral homeland in 2000.
    Considering the Whole Earth Catalog community's and Stewart Brand's own interests in Native Americans and their culture, it seems like an interesting part of this Difficult But Possible Supplement would be how you engaged with the Timbisha's exile from their homeland, at the time you were able to occupy it.

  • @brandst
    @brandst 11 лет назад

    Sequence of events: random shot of Seal Rocks, San Francisco; a "New Game” I may have designed involving blindfolds; the hot springs in Saline Valley, 70 miles from the nearest telephone; burying the generator that would power the blowers for the inflatable production office and its equipment; grinding in the augurs that would hold the inflatable down; smoothing a pad for the inflatable; cooking lunch by the hot spring; Ant Farm’s geodesic dome engulfing a truck for moving to a different site;

  • @henriettapc
    @henriettapc 10 лет назад

    Does this video show the main hot spring or was there more development elsewhere? Pretty amazing how it has changed!