I read the news today, oh boy.
A different time, the same place.
* November 15, 1969, Anti-Vietnam War Protest on the National Mall, Washington, DC, photos by Rockne Krebs.

Wishing happy glasses were real and everyone had them.

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* Lynda Benglis and Rockne Krebs, 1971

* Rocky’s happy glasses, Rockne Krebs, 1970 (drawing text)
Notes
60° flint prisms need to be oriented this way for best viewing.
Rocky’s happy glasses

View of a brass hose nozzle as seen through my happy glasses

Glasses made of two small prisms (prisms small enough that the wearer has easy option whether to look through or over them) that would break down reflected & direct light into spectral lines.
R.K., 1970

* Washington Evening Star & Daily News, October 25, 1972, Art for McGovern 1972. “The man [Rockne Krebs] who turned laser beams into an artistic accomplishment will have a grim exhibit in the Art for McGovern. He plans to have it flash once every second for as many seconds as there have been lives lost in the Vietnam war…he will have to keep the beam flashing all night…”

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