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...DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s he designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; of lung cancer; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s, Stern designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...what each of us defines as “mistake.†So was ’68 the best or worst from our parent’s generation? Was it Austerlitz or Waterloo? Should we focus on the dream of better opportunities or the delirium courtesy of LSD? Regardless, it remains forever useful to remember how our parents remembered our grandparents. In the pages of History, as Borges himself says, memorable moments need no memorable quotations. But the struggle for memory inevitably adds them, as a good editor in search of elusive imperishability. Our times might have faster...
...Cambridge, England. In 1968, a year after the release of Pink Floyd's acclaimed debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Barrett--who named the group after blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council--left the band after a breakdown that was caused, in part, by heavy LSD use. An icon to musicians from David Bowie to Robyn Hitchcock, Barrett, who lived in obscurity at his mother's house in Cambridge from 1970 until his death, was saluted by his former bandmates in the songs Wish You Were Here and Shine On You Crazy Diamond...
...appeared on television. But that's when he began to disintegrate. On stage he was there physically but not musically. The rest of us were busy?and busy being in denial?so we didn't try to find out what the problem was: mental breakdown, overuse of LSD or finding himself in a commercial environment he never sought. To this day none of us knows. What we do know is that we lost a charismatic and inspiring leader...