FarOutCompany

(faroutcompany.com)

81 points | by bookofjoe 6 hours ago

6 comments

  • barcoder 4 hours ago
    Inspiring videos that are still relevant today. It's beautiful to see people coming together and living in a way that makes them feel joy and be comfortable in relatively simple ways. Wealth seems to bring with it seclusion. Private roads and estates, big empty houses. In contrast the counter culture examples show people living in sprawling communities helping one another.
    • demaga 2 hours ago
      Serious question: why don't these communities 'succeed' then. Meaning, why don't they keep existing for decades, and why don't more people get interested in this way of living?
      • kmoser 50 minutes ago
        The lure of modern society is difficult to resist: most kids would rather live in the suburbs, play video games, and scroll social media than be sequestered on a remote farm with sparse accommodations.

        A close approximation may be the Amish or Mennonites. It's a difficult life, and not prone to explosive growth.

      • luqtas 1 hour ago
        do you mean like half of the worldwide population [0]? or anything on top of that like remote villages anywhere in the world that aren't liberal like hippies but are very much tied to pastoral ways of living? heck if back in 1600 we didn't killed dozens of millions of people maybe this type of communities would be much more widespread

        [0] https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-p...

        • tptacek 2 minutes ago
          I don't think "pastoral ways of living" are a genuinely held cultural preference for a lot of that population. I'd hazard a guess that quite a few of them want electricity, reliable clean water from a tap, and paved roads.
      • SoftTalker 1 hour ago
        Someone has to actually produce what they need.
      • jrflowers 50 minutes ago
        Some of them do, like Black Bear Ranch. I’d wager that there are more that just don’t advertise.
  • beratbozkurt0 6 hours ago
    Seeing historical things and witnessing those moments (even in this day and age) is very enjoyable. Similarly, it's possible to access this information through official companies in Türkiye. https://filmmirasim.ktb.gov.tr/
  • jruohonen 6 hours ago
    "Far Out Company is dedicated to unearthing the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture."

    For once, we have a business idea with a mission!

  • SpecStudioHN 6 hours ago
    i wuz there.
    • orsorna 4 hours ago
      I was there.

      I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.

      • The_Blade 1 hour ago
        oh my [deity] i LOVE Can

        Holger Czukay is what happens when you combine Stockhausen and that amazing mustache. him Liebezeit Karoli and Schmidt were so far out there they drove not one but two singers crazy (take that, Roger Waters). there was a band Mooney Suzuki named after them although their chief achievement was that one of the members later joined The Strokes (Nikolai Fraiture)

        i just listened to some Steve Reich last week. since the Guards game was rain delayed alongside whatever the hell happened ith Fable i might have to interpolate a Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi / Future Days triple frontier with the WC on this fine Sunday

      • IBCNU 2 hours ago
        Please tell me more about that! CAN still changing lives.
  • jchip303 44 minutes ago
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