In 1994 his manager, Irwin Chusid, compiled a selection of Esquivel's RCA recordings that Bar None Records released as " Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, " and it sparked a revival.Released on the band's self-operated label Space Age Bachelor Pad Records in December 1994, the album sold decently, though failed to match the success of " Ferociously Stoned ".""'Rapid City Muscle Car " "'is the second studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin'Daddies, released in 1994 on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.
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It took off along with the space race and produced buildings that tried very hard to bring the Jetsons to life, like Lautner’s 1960 Chemosphere, a saucer-shaped house that looks as if it is preparing to hover out over the Hollywood Hills. The look, sometimes called Googie, after Lautner’s design for the Googie’s coffee shop in Los Angeles, predated the Sputnik launching and had influences back to Wayne McAllister’s curvaceous hotels and drive-ins, to Frank Lloyd Wright and even to Futurism in the 1920s. Professor Hickey describes the look as “somewhere between Hindu temples and launching pads.” Especially in California and elsewhere in the West, the work of architects like John Lautner transformed the look of cities and highways with upswept winglike roofs, domes, satellite shapes and starbursts that became the dominant visual language of motels, diners and gasoline stations. Many cultural critics say probably the biggest impact can be seen in architecture. Robert Rauschenberg was probably the most famous artist to use space imagery front and center, incorporating pictures of astronauts and space capsules into his works in the ’60s.Īt Bell Laboratories, which was intimately tied up with NASA in its earliest years, Billy Klüver, an engineer, organized groundbreaking collaborations with artists, including Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, to inject space-age technology into artworks, a program whose legacy is still felt today. Hickey, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said in a recent interview.
“I remember thinking at the time that, all of a sudden, we were looking at art in clean rooms like those where the astronauts suit up,” Mr.