I found this interesting reading wiki: On April 17, 2018 My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James announced the release of his third solo album Uniform Distortion, which he stated was inspired by The Whole Earth Catalog.
It was an attempt to do what is now a small part of the internet before the digital revolution made it possible.
The ones that I saw had a weird little continuing fictional story in the sidebar about some hippie couple traveling around in their VW van - that was the best part.
SurfDead -- I still have that edition and a few others, plus "Whole Earth Epilogue". They made a separate book out of the "marginal" tale of the travelling Hippy Couple, which I have somewhere.
Pretty Kool stuff in there, I definitely wound up reading or acquiring many of the books they advertised.
id encourage anyone with whole issues of this in good shape to look into scanning them, putting it into readable .pdf format and uploading it to archive.org
this catalog is a moderately important part of the history of a subculture that is oftentimes forgotten, marginalized or intentionally obscured from within.
Old-timer here. I have The Last, but probably have at least a couple more. I had them from the beginning, but have no idea what I still have; they're in a difficult place to get to. `
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On April 17, 2018 My Morning
I found this interesting reading wiki: On April 17, 2018 My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James announced the release of his third solo album Uniform Distortion, which he stated was inspired by The Whole Earth Catalog.
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I still have the Last Whole
I still have the Last Whole Earth Catalog. I didn't know others existed.
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It was an attempt to do what
It was an attempt to do what is now a small part of the internet before the digital revolution made it possible.
The ones that I saw had a weird little continuing fictional story in the sidebar about some hippie couple traveling around in their VW van - that was the best part.
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>>It was an attempt to do
>>It was an attempt to do what is now a small part of the internet before the digital revolution made it possible.
That's my take as well.
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First time I heard about it I
First time I heard about it I thought catalog?? Like Fingerhut & Sears? A few years later I got a copy and realized how far off I was.
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SurfDead -- I still have that
SurfDead -- I still have that edition and a few others, plus "Whole Earth Epilogue". They made a separate book out of the "marginal" tale of the travelling Hippy Couple, which I have somewhere.
Pretty Kool stuff in there, I definitely wound up reading or acquiring many of the books they advertised.
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id encourage anyone with
id encourage anyone with whole issues of this in good shape to look into scanning them, putting it into readable .pdf format and uploading it to archive.org
this catalog is a moderately important part of the history of a subculture that is oftentimes forgotten, marginalized or intentionally obscured from within.
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Daylight --
Daylight --
I haven't looked into it, but are you saying that there aren't accessible hi-res scans of all the old Whole Earth books ?
Stewart Brand & Crew being who they are/were I would have thought they had made an effort to archive everything.
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https://monoskop.org/images/0
https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Brand_Stewart_Whole_Earth_Catalog_Fall_...
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Let me see if I can find my
Let me see if I can find my copy of The Last Whole Earth Catalog. It's somewhere.
I checked it out from the school library ,73/4ish. Guess I stole it.
I know I have it somewhere
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Old-timer here. I have The
Old-timer here. I have The Last, but probably have at least a couple more. I had them from the beginning, but have no idea what I still have; they're in a difficult place to get to. `