#Aquarian Exposition

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Posters (pictures that I've just found in an old Flickr account of mine created on the late 2000s).

[vintagevamp876]

🌼🌼AN AQUARIAN EXPOSITION 🌼🌼

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TODAY IN HISTORY: August 15, 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted more than 460,000 attendees. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the silent and baby boomer generations. It was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s.

[sydneyporada]

IMAGE 1: "everything I know about love" book cover. This book cover design utilizes typography as well as drawing to communicate the book's context. The choice to scribble out certain words as a design choice reveals the author's personality that will be continued in the book, as she emphasizes that makes mistakes and often loses train of thought.

IMAGE 2: An aquarian exposition in White Lake, N.Y.--3 days of peace & music promotional poster. This poster contains text and image to communicate and promote a music festival. A silhouette of a bird sitting on the neck of a guitar is showcased, symbolizing an idea of music, as the poster serves as a concert promotion. Any text that conveys important information uses a sans serif font, allowing viewers to easily understand the when, where, and who involved with the event.

IMAGE 3: "The Sound of Music" musical program. This program includes original imagery of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music to help audience members make the connection between the show they are about to see and its original format. A sans serif font is used in other aspects for a clean look, allowing readers to obtain information such as show dates and times.

IMAGE 4: Last Exit Books and Coffeehouse. This wall design serves as a logo/sign for a coffee shop in Kent, Ohio. A man with glasses, holding a cup, is shown to symbolize the main message or vibe of the store, which is books and coffee. The decision to keep every aspect of the design detailed in black keeps the image clean and sophisticated.

IMAGE 5: Store signage in Key West, Florida. Signage is an example of graphic design as it translates locations to viewers. Each store is designed in a unique way, according to its brand identity. The organization of these signs is helpful as colors are spread out in a visual appealing way.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: T-SHIRT.

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Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music.

Newspaper clipping August 10, 1969. Check out the additional activities - art show! crafts bazaar! work shops! food! “...cokes and hot dogs and dozens of curious food and fruit combinations to experiment with.” I bet. Hundreds of acres to roam on!

[equatorjournal]

Woodstock, Visitors., 1969. Unknown. "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" https://www.instagram.com/p/CAa8uxVA9Em/?igshid=1u5azix4u5i77

[yourreddancer]

Fees paid to each performing act at Woodstock, a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Woodstock.  Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. ~ wikipedia.com#1 is Jimi Hendrix  $18,000

[laetro]

David Edward Byrd: Inspiring “Wowie-Zowie” for Over 50 Years

With a career that spans over half a decade during the art, music and technological revolution, David Edward Byrd has developed iconic posters and illustrations associated with the best of the rock and theatre era.

David has been creating posters since his days at The Fillmore East in NYC where he created the famed 1968 Jimi Hendrix poster now in the collection of MOMA, NYC. As well, he created the poster for The Rolling Stones 1969 Tour, TOMMY by The Who, The Grateful Dead, & the legendary 1969 Woodstock Poster. He quickly moved on to Broadway, where he created images for Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hot L Baltimore, The Magic Show, & Little Shop of Horrors amongst many others. He was Sr. Illustrator at Warner Bros. Consumer Products for 12 years where he worked on everything from Bugs Bunny to Harry Potter. He has had Retrospective Shows in Los Angeles, New York & Seattle. He now lives in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles with his husband of 39 years, Jolino Beserra, a renowned Mosaic Artist.

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Q. Any reason why you chose to illustrate for 60s rock bands in particular?

David Edward Byrd: I was the poster artist for the Fillmore East in NYC from its opening on 8 March 1968 to 27 June 1971 when it closed for good. At this same time, I was also creating posters for the Broadway Theatre (“Follies”, “Godspell”, etc.). As Rock Posters have a much higher profile than Theatre Cards, I chose that area to illustrate. Also, Theatre is about THIS play right NOW, while 60s Rock is about 60s Rock in general.

Q. What kind of changes do you see when you compare the posters that were created in the 60s to the ones that are created today?

David: The rock poster artist EMEK is a great example of the younger generation’s expertise in the art form (see “Coachella”). Whereas, David Singer is an example of the “Old Garde” moving on to create new imagery (see “Moon Alice”). I still create more East Coast imagery, I think . . .

Q. One of your Hendrix posters is ranked among Billboard’s Top 10 Rock Posters of all time. What was your thought process/ inspiration while you created the poster?

David: Before coming to Manhattan in 1967 I had worked as a freelance Architectural Draughtsman, so I was familiar with the tools of that trade, and thus I decided to apply this craft to the 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience poster. I created Jimi’s & his band-mates hair using a hexagonal grid with small circles on the grid representing cosmogenic pixels that one might perceive after ingesting certain popular chemicals of the time (see “Acid”). Each small circle was drafted with a drop-bow compass on the center point of the hexagonal grid.

A laborious process, but worth the time . . .

Q. The poster you created for the Woodstock Festival was rejected because it was too risque in 1969. Do you think it would have received a different response if it was designed today?

David: Absolutely — an entire sexual revolution has occurred over the last 50+ years. Ironically, the nude female in the center of the poster was copied from the 1847 painting “La Source” by Jean Dominique Ingres, which seemed a perfect symbol for a poster representing “An Aquarian Exposition” (the “Water Bearer”). But the Wallkill City Council thought otherwise (exposed breasts & pudenda a no-no). I had a similar experience with the NY Times treatment of my “Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera” full-page ad in the Sunday Times, which featured a nude Tommy rising into Pinball Heaven — the Times editor chose to paint a crude Black Marker Jockstrap over his very modest genitalia, alas.

Q. What would you describe interacting with so many rock artists like? Any favorites whose company you enjoyed?

David: Manhattan & San Francisco are light-years apart both culturally & artistically. The West Coast artists created Psychedelia and Neo-Nouveau and are due to the many encomiums they have received for this. David Singer and I were friends and we traded posters. David created the most Fillmore West posters (60 total) of any artist on the planet. For me, his posters are the Apex of the West Coast work. Victor Moscoso influenced my design sense with his vibrant close-value posters (see “Sopwith Camel”) and continues to do so today.

Q. Can you describe your experience at Warner Bros. How were those 12 years different from working elsewhere?

In 1991, I took the position of Senior Illustrator at Warner Bros. Creative Services, which I held till 2002 • Besides creating illustrations, backgrounds and style guides for all the Looney Tunes & Hannah-Barbera characters, I got to create commemorative plates for The Franklin Mint, souvenir posters for the Batman series of films, style guides for feature films such as Space Jam, The Wizard of Oz, and television shows such as Friends, The Cartoon Network and Scooby-Doo • My department was responsible for the Bugs Bunny Postage Stamp, the first cartoon character on a U.S. Postage Stamp • I created special signed pieces for The WB Studio Stores Galleries based on The Masterpiece Series style guide art that I painted in 1999 • I also did a great deal of work on the style guides for two of the Harry Potter films: Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban.

One rarely sees the Graphic Collections of major museums on display, so being part of a museum collection as a poster artist does not put one on the creative map, so to speak. But it is a nice thing to tell one’s sweetheart.

Q. Your work is displayed in 23 museums at the moment, including the Louvre in Paris. Do you find it a rare accomplishment considering you are an illustrator and not a painter?

As I have often said if I had remained a painter I probably would not be in any Museum at all. But this is not for me to know. One rarely sees the Graphic Collections of major museums on display, so being part of a museum collection as a poster artist does not put one on the creative map, so to speak. But it is a nice thing to tell one’s sweetheart . . .

Q. From Fillmore East to Broadway to Warner Bros, how has your style evolved over the years?

My art-chops improved immensely in the last 20 years. I hope it is somewhat evident. My work was hit-or-miss in the beginning but things have gotten better of late.

Q. Can you name some of your favourite posters which you have worked on?

“FOLLIES” 1971

“HENDRIX EXPERIENCE” FE 1968

“BOWIE” Carnegie HALL 1972

“QUEEN” 1st Tour 1974

“PRINCE” DNA 2013

“TOM PETTY” 1980

“NY DECO EXPO” 1974

LED ZEPPELIN FE 1969

Q. What is your process like when coming up with an illustration or a poster?

1.) Collect Reference & inspiration in Folder. 2.) Create rough pencils for scanning. 3.) Collect possible Fonts. 4.) Build rough designs on Mac 5.) Choose 1 main color and build up from that 6.) Proof printing

Q. What software do you use to create your illustrations?

ADOBE SUITE (PhShop; Illustrator; InDesign) + Typestyler

Q. Lastly, what do you always aim to achieve through your illustrations?

Eye-Fun • Immediacy • Gotcha • Who-Is-This-Guy? • Wowie-Zowie

[angel060563]

Happy 52th anniversary, Woodstock #peace #freedom #rocknroll The Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents An Aquarian Exposition - 3 Days of Peace & Music, or Woodstock for short, was an open-air music festival. It is considered the climax and at the same time the end point of the hippie movement in the USA, which has arrived in the mainstream. The festival was scheduled to take place from August 15 to 17, 1969, but did not end until the morning of August 18. Pasture fields of a dairy farmer in White Lake near the small town of Bethel in the US state of New York, about 70 kilometers southwest of the eponymous and originally planned event location in Woodstock, served as the venue. In front of an estimated 400,000 visitors, 32 bands and solo artists from the music genres folk, rock, psychedelic rock, blues and country performed, including stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who. The expected audience numbers were more than doubled. Countless potential spectators also got stuck in traffic jams around the festival site. During the event, conditions were sometimes catastrophic due to bad weather and organizational grievances. Despite these adverse circumstances, Woodstock has become known for its peaceful mood. Numerous musicians, staff and visitors spent the festival days under the influence of drugs such as LSD, mescaline, hashish and marijuana. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnHTVaqhtF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thegroovyarchives]

Playlist: It’s a week before the famed Aquarian Exposition, my friends and I have plans to road trip up to New York to attend The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival tomorrow and we need a playlist to get by on....

1. Going Up The Country - Canned Heat 2. Topanga Canyon - The Unusual We 3. Jane - Spanky & Our Gang 4. Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops 5. I Can't Let It Happen To You - The Walker Brothers 6. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles Hope you enjoy !!

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Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15, 16, 17

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Ben Solo, freshly returned from the front lines of Vietnam, finds himself inexplicably in the company of someone the complete opposite of himself. Rey, a young hippie from California, is wild, playful and free-spirited. When she invites him to accompany her to a music festival in Bethel, he could never anticipate what he would find there. But can three days really change everything?

Words: 8566, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M

Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron, Kaydel Ko Connix, Rey (Star Wars)

Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo, Rey & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey & Ben Solo

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by RamboBrite

Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15, 16, 17

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Ben Solo, freshly returned from the front lines of Vietnam, finds himself inexplicably in the company of someone the complete opposite of himself. Rey, a young hippie from California, is wild, playful and free-spirited. When she invites him to accompany her to a music festival in Bethel, he could never anticipate what he would find there. But can three days really change everything?

Words: 8566, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M

Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron, Kaydel Ko Connix, Rey (Star Wars)

Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo, Rey & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey & Ben Solo

Additional Tags: woodstock au, Woodstock, Drug Use, Recreational Drugs, there were a lot of drugs kids, Strangers to Lovers, rey goes full el kabong, always go full el kabong, some period typical racism, but not from rey or ben, hippie!rey, soldier!Ben, virgin ben, Loss of Virginity, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, sixties au, Vietnam War, some ptsd, Smut, smut with plot, Mud, there was so much mud, Marijuana, acid trip, maybe a bad trip, War flashbacks, survivor's guilt, Woodstock is a healing experience, Ben is the senators son, falling in love through the healing power of music, ben really hates mud, Marriage of Convenience, infidelity maybe but not really, rey is in a fake marriage, rey is getting divorced, background Finn/Rose, Ben is a mess, ben had a real bad time in vietnam, Tags May Change

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70 FROM '70—PART 2

70 FROM ’70—PART 2

20  VAROUS—Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack & More

It is sprawling, patchy, frustrating, and incomplete yet the soundtrack to the film of the event of the decade (the 60s, that is) is essential. Held in August 1969 on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm just outside of the small town of Woodstock, the actual name of the three day festival was ‘An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music’.…

[moodboardmix]

Celebrating Woodstock 50Th Birthday!

Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles southwest of Woodstock.

Henry Diltz, Jefferson Airplane, Woodstock 1969,

Henry Diltz, Grace Slick and Friend, Woodstock, NY 1969,

Henry Diltz, Woodstock, Bethel, NY 1969,

Henry Diltz, John Sebastian, The Lovin' Spoonful, Woodstock, Bethel, NY, 

1969,

Unknown, Janis Joplin Singing at Woodstock, 1969

[rocklandhistoryblog]

This Week In Rockland:

“PLEASE TURN BACK” - Festival Backers Ask

Excerpt from the Journal News, Week of August 11-18, 1969

Photo: AP

'Please Turn Back' Festival Backers Ask

Like legions of vagabond soldiers, more than 200,000 young followers of pop music have descended on White Lake, NY in rag tag fashion for a three-day rock festival, partially paralyzing the town and jamming area roads.

With increasing numbers of cars being abandoned on the highways leading to this Catskill Mountains resort area, the festival producers Saturday called on "all vehicles heading for the festival to turn back home."

"Everything is quite out of hand," said a state trooper who described the area as "supersaturated." He said troopers at some posts had to be relieved by helicopter because traffic made the roads impassable.

Despite the road jams, intermittent thunderstorms and a shortage of food, most of the young people remained peaceful, taking the inconveniences in good humor and helping each other out.

The town has a population of 3,000 and is 100 miles northwest of New York City. Normally it is a summer haven for the middle-aged and middle class.

What brought everybody here is something the producers call the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, an Aquarian Exposition. It is set up on a 600-acre farm with the stage at the foot of an alfalfa field that forms a natural amphitheater.

By early Friday afternoon the crowds had pushed the ticket situation out of control. "Anybody can get in," said one observer, "tickets don't matter."

State police said 50 to 60 persons had been arrested on charges of possessing such drugs as LSD, barbiturates and amphetamines but there were no serious incidents or violence as of early Saturday.

Elsewhere around the state, troopers reported another 100 youths arrested on drug charges as they made stepped up spot checks of cars headed for the festival. One car had a half-filled suitcase of marijuana and peyote, police said.

At the festival itself there were no reported arrests for marijuana. "As far as I know the narcotics guys are not arresting anybody for grass," said one state police sergeant. "If we did, there isn't enough space in Sullivan or the next three counties to put them in."

Both police and young people at the festival appeared determined to try and avoid a major confrontation.

"There hasn't been anyone yelling pig at the cops and when they ask directions, they are polite and none of them has really given us any trouble yet," a state police lieutenant said.

Helping to keep their cool were 100 members of the “Hog Farm” commune of Taos, N.M., and special security guards wearing orange shirts with ''peace" emblazoned on their front.

The music that brought everyone here had become almost unimportant. The opening concert Friday night was of folk orientation. Richie Havens opened the bill, but few people seemed to notice which performer was on stage.

Saturday’s acts set to run from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. included the Who, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. For Sunday the billing included The Band, Jimi Hendrix and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Performers were being ferried to the site by helicopter from hotels in nearby Liberty. Most of the fans, however, had no shelter. A carnival-like atmosphere prevailed as they prepared to sleep in the open fields.

There were some tents set up but most of the youths simply unrolled a bedroll and turned in.

Those who could afford the $25 nightly rate at nearby hotels and motels were not much better off because of the difficulty of travel.

Facilities were meager. Portable toilets had been set up and six wells dug to provide running water, but there was no shelter available at the site.

There were long lines at the mobile food centers even though many of the young people had packed in their own food. One commune was passing out a free gruel made of peanuts, oatmeal, raisins and sunflower seeds.

There seemed little likelihood that the massive jam would break until the festival ended.

Word spread quickly when the producers asked early Saturday for cars to turn around and go home.

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Did you attend Woodstock? Did you plan to go and get turned away? Please share your memories in the comments.