The GenX Joint
Bio
My name is Amy Fletcher. My writing focuses on movies, art, photography, pop culture, and tech. I am fascinated by the 1960s/70s and all things tech-futuristic.
Stories (6/0)
The Image of the Future
In 1961, Fred Polak (1907- 1985) published The Image of the Future. Born Frederik Lodewijk Polak in the Netherlands, Polak, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust by going into hiding during World War II. By the mid-twentieth century, he had become a prominent sociologist and one of the founders of modern futures studies.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in Futurism
The Promise of Sustainable Homes
A sustainable home reduces the human footprint on the environment and maximizes energy efficiency. Sustainable housing is a straightforward concept and increasingly appeals to many stakeholders as a smart response to the climate crisis. As housing prices continue to spiral upwards, sustainable home building will be vital to clean energy and energy accessibility.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in Earth
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Art Market
Blockchain and the Art Market Blockchain has great potential to increase transparency in the provenance and pricing of artwork. In 2014, the Fine Arts Expert Institute (Geneva) estimated that over fifty percent of the artworks it examined were either forged or misattributed.[1] Navigating the art market is difficult even for experts due to several factors: 1) the lack of transparency; 2) intricate and old-fashioned insider networks; 3) information asymmetries between buyers and sellers; 4) the speed and volatility of trading; 5) the desire among some major purchasers to hide art assets from taxation; and 6) the emotional and status factors that often distort prices and reputations within the art world.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in 01
A City of the Future in the Arizona Desert
Arcosanti is a self-described “urban laboratory” situated in the Arizona desert, approximately seventy miles from the sprawling suburbs of Scottsdale (a mega-suburb of Phoenix). In 1970, Paolo Soleri and a small band of volunteers broke ground on this architectural experiment in arcology (a Soleri neologism combining architecture and ecology). Soleri believed that arcologies would eventually displace the automobile, the suburbs, and the single-family home in favor of vertically designed, compact, three-dimensional city structures that addressed problems such as pollution, resource depletion, and food scarcity. In the Age of Aquarius, these utopian ideas attracted a steady migration of young people, hippies, and drop-outs who were willing to donate labor in exchange for getting in on the ground floor of the city of the future.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in Futurism
Oliver Stone's Fever Dream of the 1960s
The Doors, released in 1991, tells the story of the legendary American rock star Jim Morrison, who fronted The Doors from 1966 to 1971. The movie errs on the side of myth rather than reality, but since Jim Morrison was obsessed with his own mythology this somehow works. If you are looking for a sober account of the late 1960s, rock music, or The Doors in particular, you will not find it here. What you will find is a fantastic performance by Val Kilmer in the lead role and some over-the-top directing in the patented Oliver Stone style of the 1990s.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in Beat
Daddy's Girl
Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s Shadow first aired on the streaming channel Peacock on June 24, 2021. The three-part series attempts to explain how the favored child of media mogul Robert Maxwell fell so far from grace as to end up a vain middle-aged woman whose alleged function from the early 1990s was to procure under-aged girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein and his global cronies.
By The GenX Joint2 years ago in Criminal
