I think this means the Sixties are finally over. This is how he illustrated the Apollo 11 moon mission.
The guy had a definite style. I had Peter Max folders and notebooks back when I was going to school.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
My mom exposed me to Peter Max and The Yellow Submarine at a very young age.
I just received a call from my dad last night that she may be entering the final stages of a long battle with Alzheimers.
The space-time continuum can suck it.
You’ve heard of Red Mars? (Also Blue & Green Mars..*.) Well here’s trippy pyschedelic Pink Moon!
Love that artwork, & saddened to hear the artist has passed.
Sadly, the 1960’s were over before Iwas bon and I’m feeling old. Sigh.
.* See : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
Tangentially, thinking of a recent thread those novels would make an excellent new SF series or movie set if they could posibly be done at all.
I met Peter Max about five years at an exhibition/sale of his works in Austin. By this time his “art” was totally derivative and probably made by his associates.
Also, by “met” that’s being generous. He was in a chair doing a great Mitch McConnell impression. I think he blinked once.
Born 1961, I was too young to appreciate the marvellous music my older siblings were playing. Nor did I appreciate the few instances of pop art I was exposed to.
But I remember Apollo. A book from Christmas Eve 1966 had a detailed illustrated rendition of the stages of the journey. This is when I became a lifelong nerd.
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The sixties art and music is something I appreciated after I got older.
The sixties TV comedies have not aged as well. Genie the genie calling Larry Hagman “master”?
But the future Monthy Python actors appeared in black-and white comedy programs. They are now “lost media” because BBC decided not to save the tapes. A few fragments survive on low-quality private tapes.
I now realise PZ is old enough to just barely have appreciated some of the sixties music and counter-culture phenomena. I remember the Vietnam demonstrations.
Even Arthur C Clarke showed early symptoms of dementia just before he died.
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The space time continuum is indifferent to suffering.
But smart mortal primates can by incremental improved knowledge build things that currently are impossible.
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Basic research is opening promising new aporoaches to understanding and defeating Alzheimers as well as cancer, aka the emperor of maladies. Nixon thought he could make an Apollo project analogue by massive cancer research, but molecular biology was just not there yet.
And as animal genomes show how some organisms fight cancer and ageing I think the next decade will be extra interesting.
I remember them well.
I should. I was in quite of few of them over a period of 6 years.
I also remember the people I knew who were sent to Vietnam and killed there.
Raven @ 7
I am glad you did not suffer their fate. Some people of the era remembered what war is, and were not fooled by Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, they were too few.
Another thing (strictly, it was in 1972 rather than the sixties). Nixon bullied the Fed to keep interest rates down before the election. It worked like a charm. The economy was on cocaine for a brief period, and Nixon was re-elected. But it was not sustainable. The deficit from financing the Vietnam war caught up, and triggered a recession that ruined both the Ford and the Carter administrations.
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Today, a certain someone wants the Fed to lower the rates again. And he has two years in which to ruin the world economy by short-term cosmetic interventions.
@ 7 Raven, good for you. I’m glad you survived. Your effort to end an atrocity is appreciated.
It is obvious tRUMP has dumped us into a wasteful, futile, needless, disastrous VietIran war. Sadly, most are ignoring the fact that naziyahu led him by the nose into war.
Our organizations’ founder had the crap beat out of him by a bunch of punk rotc thugs for distributing info against the war and being a conscientious objector. I worked more quietly and on a person to person basis to try to derail the Vietnam war, while our dear friends were being shipped home in body bags.
Also, I lived through the 60’s fully conscious and aware most of the time. And, I remember it too vividly.
I was born in 1959, so I missed some of the 60’s. I had two cousins that served in Vietnam. One was an MP and came out pretty much unscathed. The other was traumatized, had constant nightmares, drank heavily, and died young. I remember in the late 60’s that if it was still going on when I was draft age, I would consider moving to Canada. I wanted nothing to do with that clusterfuck.
@ 2 StevoR
Oh snap! X-D
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/14/have-we-all-forgotten-tom-corbett-and-rocky-jones/#comment-2311998
I well remember the 60s. But for some reason, all the sex, love, and drugs escaped me—I must have been the only one.
I’m an old, retired advertising art director. My first job was in Chicago in 1969 at a small ad agency. Then, it seemed the only visuals allowed were Peter Max, or Peter Max derivative— Whether or not the advertising message or market had anything to do with Peter Max style art. So while I now appreciate his talent, innovation, and skill, Peter Max’s brightness in the 60s and 70s was dimmed for me.