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Balloon Route
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By Michael Parker, designed with Rebecca Lofchie
California, self-published, Summer, 2010
Pages: 80
Dimensions: 8" X 10"
Cover: Paper
Binding: staplebound
Process: offset newsprint
Color: black
Edition size: 2000
ISBN: none
Taking its name from the, now defunct trolley line, that took Los Angelenos around their city in the early 20th century, 'Balloon Route' offers textual and visual accounts of utopia, a word which literally means no place. We travel from the three living Shakers to record commentary tracks onto existing documentaries; and then to Indias Auroville, an experiment in human creativity and spirituality; from a fictional account of a communal home in Berlin to the open-source Yoists of Boston; from Tamil coconut farms to capitalist grandparents in Mumbai; from a dance contest in a community center in a slum, to the Flat World headquarters; from Watsu therapy to Sauna culture; from the womb to the egg; from literal myths to fabricated stories of genius; from suburban Los Angeles to Los Angeles. This is a collection of temporal places that accidentally or intentionally experiment with the complex contradictions of idealism in this futuristic anti-utopian utopian moment.
Pages: 80
Dimensions: 8" X 10"
Cover: Paper
Binding: staplebound
Process: offset newsprint
Color: black
Edition size: 2000
ISBN: none
Taking its name from the, now defunct trolley line, that took Los Angelenos around their city in the early 20th century, 'Balloon Route' offers textual and visual accounts of utopia, a word which literally means no place. We travel from the three living Shakers to record commentary tracks onto existing documentaries; and then to Indias Auroville, an experiment in human creativity and spirituality; from a fictional account of a communal home in Berlin to the open-source Yoists of Boston; from Tamil coconut farms to capitalist grandparents in Mumbai; from a dance contest in a community center in a slum, to the Flat World headquarters; from Watsu therapy to Sauna culture; from the womb to the egg; from literal myths to fabricated stories of genius; from suburban Los Angeles to Los Angeles. This is a collection of temporal places that accidentally or intentionally experiment with the complex contradictions of idealism in this futuristic anti-utopian utopian moment.
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