Website review: Aspen: The multimedia magazine in a...
bloodyapril discovered this in Multimedia
•5 reviews since Jan 14, 2003
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•ubu.com/aspen/
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bloodyapril discovered 60 months ago- From the page: "This is a web version of Aspen, a multimedia magazine of the arts originally published from 1965 to 1971. Each issue of Aspen was delivered to subscribers in a box, which contained a variety of media: printed matter in different formats, phonograph recordings, and even a reel of Super-8 film."
- Moody834 rated 9 months ago
- "This is a web version of Aspen, a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards -- one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. It's all here." This is one of the most brilliant multimedia productions you're ever going to run across. Peruse the works on offer here: spoken word, music, film, ... art, man. What's here is not just historically interesting from a cultural point of view; what's here is timeless and culture breaking. The contents of Aspen Magazine are iconoclastic and revelatory, inebriated and un-sane, beautiful and moving, and it amazes me still that it ever got published as it did (however irregularly it did). Does some of it feel dated, now? I guess so. Then again, everything feels dated within an average work week of it being posted online, and the material at the Aspen site is over thirty-five years old. Some of it is older than I am. And yet, I would be remiss if I failed to note that a lot of it is just as potent, just as relevant, just as insightful or groundbreaking now as it was then. Some things haven't changed so much in all that time gone by, and some things are now coming around again... so maybe this should come back around as well. We are fortunate beyond what is immediately graspable, that some folks have seen to it that we are able to access the pieces of spoken word, music, etc., that went into those boxes. Thanks to bloodyapril for giving the site its first thumbs up four years and two months ago.
- b-bear rated 11 months ago
- A lovely online reproduction of Aspen, the multimedia box of essays, music and video from the 60s and 70s that played such an important part in American avant-pop postmodernism.
- justmoon rated 47 months ago
- Generally I'm not into arts. But this is a magazine I can relate to. Please just take an unbiased look at this one, gentleman.
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