I recently saw the movie Barbarella, it was a weird experience, but I knew from the moment she takes her suit off, and the title letters jump out of it to cover her up, that it was going to have some very good moments… and some really bad.
This 1968 movie made a clear visual statement, not only were the clothes provocative, but in the overall: shapes, textures and colors exemplify perfectly the aesthetic revolution that toke place during the 60’s and 70’s.
I was talking to Hano the other day (who is a lightning designer by the way), and I used the word mathmos as an adjective during the conversation; immediately I realized he understood completely what I meant, and was truly surprised. He told me about mathmos being the main lava lamp manufacturer and it all made complete sense, because for those who haven’t seen the movie, the mathmos is a slimy evil substance beneath the city of Sogo (where the story takes place), which due to the psychedelic influence of the time was presented as a blue screen fixed with the movement of a lava lamp interior, quite cool actually.
So if the lava lamp is a visual icon of the 60’s & 70’s, and the major manufacturer of this groovy object is called mathmos after Barbarella, we can just imagine the revolution the movie must have been at the time.
Don’t be surprised to see more Barbarella posts, there’s a lot to say about this sparkler.
Hello,
Love, Barbarella, The mathmos is fasination aesethic item of the movie
Dan
Interesting issue, I didn’t thought reading this was going to be so interesting when I read the link!