About the only 70's thing I've kept
  with me from the 70's (besides
music good &
  bad) is an odd affinity for blacklights and
  blacklight paint...  



         
Kitsch Korner


Here's the corner of my bedroom, an homage to a far-out bedroom at my best friend's house in the '70's. These posters, while very cheesy,  remind me of that room (which belonged to my friend's older sister). That room fascinated me: after painting the walls black, her artist boyfriend then used blacklight paint to create larger-than-life murals of hobbit-like creatures hiking on steep mountain trails with far-out foliage, exploding galaxies, deep-space dragons with infinite tails, etc., etc., until the entire room was awash in hideous color! Then they installed several large blacklights... Well, at age 13, I figured there was no higher transcendental experience possible beyond sitting in that room, in the dark, blacklights aglow, with Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller) on the stereo.

   My 30" fluorescent-tube blacklight straddles the
   corner at 45 degrees, mounted between the 3-D
   solar system mobile and the two posters. (It shines
   into the corner, hidden from view as its backside is
   covered with black felt.)

At about waist-level is a working fountain replete with miniature waterfall, greenery, little Japanese fisherman and little wooden bridge. 


        black light links 

     How does a black light work?

     Michael Millevolte's Kinetic Black Light Sculpture Gallery

     The Backroom Warehouse

     Uses for Blacklights

     Clear Neon

 



 

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