Everybody was trying to have a business card that stood out from the usual 2″ x 3″ card–gold embossing, ultra thin translucent paper, eye catching fonts and then John came over and said, “here’s my business card” (it’s 8″ x 11″) (sorry for the bend marks-I don’t treat stuff that well)
So what to you think? Leave a comment and let me know!
Tags: john lennon
One of my fondest memories of being with John Lennon (Yoko, I hope you remember) was one day in 1969, when he was drawing what he envisioned a house should be. He said it should be made of mirrors so it reflects the sky, trees, grass, nature. He said it should be invisible so a plane could fly over and only see the ground, and here it is 41 years later. I always liked and remembered shall I say, that reflection. Yoko and he agreed that it should be round in shape, similar to an igloo. No corners just curves. A bit different than this but the same idea.
They said it couldn’t be done. When we first wrote about the almost invisible tree house to be built in Sweden by Tham & Videgard, 899 commenters thought it was computer-generated eye candy, impossible to build, and death for birds.
But the architects built it, one of six units in a “Treehotel,” which recently opened 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
And now I just found this…. (I don’t think John was contemplating this as well)
This one-way glass stall looks like a mirror to an outsider, but completely transparent to an insider, leading to a nerve-wracking bathroom experience.
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While in a discussion about John and the bed in-I found this on wikipedia…:
During the Vietnam War, in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace.
Montreal Bed-in
Their second Bed-In was planned to take place in New York, but John was not allowed into the country because of his 1968 cannabis conviction. Instead they held the event in the Bahamas at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, flying there on May 24, 1969, but after spending one night in the heat, they decided to move to Montreal. Setting the record straight: I couldn’t go with them to the Bahamas and sent a friend of mine from Miami to go with them. I thought all was going well until I contacted my friend who came back the next day from the Bahamas. He said that John and Yoko had set up a bed at the foot of the stairs in the room but didn’t like the looks they were getting from the staff at the hotel. Based on the weird vibe they felt..they left for Canada…
Had nothing to do with the heat..they had air conditioning..
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