12.14.2010

ant farm: sex, drugs, rock & roll, cars, dolphins, and architecture

Ben Holmes in a parachute
Freeport Beach, Texas
1969

WOW
!!!!
I can't really say more than these photos express.
True artist Super Freaks!
LOVE THEM!!!!

"Dream Cloud"
during "AstroDaze"
Freeport Beach, Texas
1969

"Poole House Remodel"
San Francisco
1974

"House of the Century"
Mojo Lake, Angleton, Texas
1973

"Spare Tire Inflatable"
Freestone, California
1970

"Clean Air Pod"
(Performance at lower Sproul Plaza, U.C. Berkeley)
1970

"50' x 50' Pillow"
Point Reyes, California
1970
"50' x 50' Pillow"
(For Whole Earth Catalog Sipplement)
Saline Valley, California
1969

"50' x 50' Pillow"
Freestone, California
1970

Ant Farm
L to R
Doug Michels. Chip Lord and Curtis Scheier
at Ant Farm Studio
Pier 40
San Francisco
1973

Participants in "Time Slice"
Freeport Beach, Texas
1969

"Space Cowboy Meets Plastic Businessman"
Alley Theater
Houston
1969

"Space Cowboy Meets Plastic Businessman"
Alley Theater
Houston
1969

Ant Farm
L to R
Curtis Schreier, Chip Lord, Doug Michels with
"Kohoutek: Doll House of the Future"
1973

"20:20 Living Room of the Future"
(by Curtis Schreier)
1973

"House of the Century"
(detail)
(preliminary drawing by Doug Michels)
1971

Kohoutek Poster
1974

"House of the Century"
Mojo Lake, Angleton, Texas
1973


"House of the Century"
(Playboy Magazine Shoot)
Mojo Lake, Angleton, Texas
1973

"DOLON EMB 2"
(detail)
(by Curtis Schreier)
1975

"Amarillo Art Center Poster"
(detail)
(by Doug Michels)
1974/1981

"Cadillac Ranch"
Site-specific installation
Amarillo, Texas
1974

L to R
Hudson Marquez, Doug Micheals, Chip Lord
During construction of "Cadillac Ranch"
1974

"Cadillac Ranch"
Site-specific installation
Amarillo, Texas
1974

"Media Matadors"
(a.k.a. "Artist Dummies")
on "Phantom Dream Car" 
during playing of National Anthem at
"Media Burn"
Cow Palace, san Francisco
July 4, 1975

"Easy Money for Main Street"
(detail)
(by Doug Michels)
1974

"Media Burn"
Cow Palace, san Francisco
July 4, 1975

"Media Burn"
Cow Palace, san Francisco
July 4, 1975

Poster
Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco
"Who Killed Kennedy?"
1975

"Media Matadors"
(a.k.a. "Artist Dummies")
and "Artist-President"
during playing of National Anthem at
"Media Burn"
Cow Palace, san Francisco
July 4, 1975

"Artist-President"
(center)
With Secret Service Agents
"Media Burn"
Cow Palace, san Francisco
July 4, 1975

"The Dolphin Embassy Viewed from Directly Astern"
1977"

Doug Michels explaining
"The Dolphin Embassy"
to a dolphin in a tank
Surfers Paradise, Australia
1977

"House of the Century"
Mojo Lake, Angleton, Texas
1973

"House of the Century"
Mojo Lake, Angleton, Texas
1973

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Amazing....

4 comments:

  1. i dig doug michels sofa and girlfriend- they are real.
    reminds me of malewichs livingroom- walls and piano and floors all covered with fat old rugs.
    the square painting sit on the grimy wall-tapestries like nervous space invaders..
    what they were in fact.

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  2. thanks for this,
    had not thought of them in awhile,
    and now,
    I will

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  3. Nice i will just had say perfect if i will had seen the hueco Tank's house park road for sell closed from el-paso...pictured..

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  4. Doug Michels died during a get away with Curtis' money

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