Koyaanisqatsi. Every few months I have to get my Koyaanisqatsi fix. Whack in the DVD and let Glass's music and Reggio's visuals wash over me.
It's a double act for me: a beautiful piece of art and a trip down memory lane. Seeing people walking the streets in the late sixties through seventies. The clothes, the hair. Love the red-head. And the equipment of that bygone era - the guys fixing that large lineprinter. The keypunch operators on the IBM cardpunch machines (yeah, I did use those). And finally that most incredible piece of camera work from NASA as the guy follows that burning rocket engine after the self destruct. I think it was an Atlas test.
Interestingly, many folks seeing it for the first time these days don't see the point... no idea why... for me, it's brilliant!
It's a double act for me: a beautiful piece of art and a trip down memory lane. Seeing people walking the streets in the late sixties through seventies. The clothes, the hair. Love the red-head. And the equipment of that bygone era - the guys fixing that large lineprinter. The keypunch operators on the IBM cardpunch machines (yeah, I did use those). And finally that most incredible piece of camera work from NASA as the guy follows that burning rocket engine after the self destruct. I think it was an Atlas test.
Interestingly, many folks seeing it for the first time these days don't see the point... no idea why... for me, it's brilliant!
