{"id":627,"date":"2006-12-14T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2006-12-14T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T00:34:00","slug":"im-a-mocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"I’m a mocker!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Does everyone else find 50’s-60’s mod style intriguing? Please tell me I’m not alone on this.<\/p>\n

Maybe I spent too much time watching The Prisoner<\/span> as a kid, or maybe it was Julie Newmar in Catwoman garb giving me a few ideas about just what it was the grown-ups were all so interested in, but the aesthetic lodged itself in my pre-pubescent mind as being odd and foreign but irrepressibly fascinating.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in the yet-to-be-digitized index card system in my head, filed under “fantasy worlds” in a bright yellow folder between “Arabian Nights” and “Norman Rockwell’s America”, one can find this weird realm where there is a dearth of lines and an abundance of uniform shapes. People wore triangles. The cartoons <\/a>became freaky art pieces. Airline aisles became runways<\/a>. The whole world was built with construction paper and green-handled safety scissors.<\/p>\n

And from whence came this land of over-exaggerated poses? My guess is the film quality. Early color film always looks like someone got a little crazy with the saturation and brightness bars in Photoshop and left them set to “blandify”. What to do when lost in a world of washed-outedness? Make big bright blocks of color and put them on the women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does everyone else find 50’s-60’s mod style intriguing? Please tell me I’m not alone on this. Maybe I spent too much time watching The Prisoner as a kid, or maybe it was Julie Newmar in Catwoman garb giving me a few ideas about just what it was the grown-ups were all so interested in, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}