Head 2009
The 1960s were on some levels a fascinating decade. People opened
themselves up spiritually, culturally, and politically; yet it was also
a frustrating time in that people were blind to the profound
difficulties inherent to radical change. However, psychedelic drugs
proved to be a transformative force by leaving their imprints on
people's consciousness. Bob
Rafelson's film, Head, is an artifact of the psychedelic 60s.
The Wikipedia has a brief entry on the film you can read by clicking here.
The root image for Head 2009, the animation running above, is a
photograph of the back of Anne Cox's lovely head. I believe Anne Cox and I
share the common bond of being influenced by the 1960s without actually
being products of the decade. We are approximately the same age (I base
my approximation on the biographical details from our MySpace and
Facebook pages), old enough to have been teenagers during the 60s, but
too young to have been fully stamped by the general aesthetic or lack
thereof that defined the period.
© 2009 Peter
Schmideg