Doin' the Space Girl Dance
While you await my return from Down Under, please to enjoy this video of Raquel Welch dancing sexifully in scanty space lingerie.
UPDATE: thanks to the astute bOINGbOING readers who pointed out that the bizarre sculptures featured in the video were part of the Ruta de la Amistad public sculpture project at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, and that this clip came from Raquel's eponymous 1970 television special.
[Link: Raquel Welch: Space-Girl Dance][via: the NTF'ers]
Comments
Oh my God.
Posted by: Max "Bunny" Sparber | January 17, 2008 10:09 AM
WOW. There really needs to be more space girl dancing on the web.
Posted by: bonnie | January 17, 2008 2:18 PM
Mr. Bali Hai, one of my favorite early interviewees, remember how I went on an on about being inspired by your bloggers' roundtable podcast?
I'd like to thank you again for sparking that idea, because now my all-girl sketch troupe are doing comedy podcasts in diners now, and we're getting a ton of positive response about it.
P.S. Max Sparber?!?!? Ukelele King? Hi, it's Lula Carson from the long-lost FT!!
Posted by: Elizabeth McQuern | January 17, 2008 2:58 PM
Bonnie, ever thought of giving up the ILM gig and becoming a space dancer?.
Liz, long time, no hearsee. Yes, I remember. The Cartoonist keeps asking me when his royalty checks are going to start rolling in from your podcasts.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 17, 2008 3:48 PM
the big yellow peace of are was designed by a mexican artist , and is curently in Denver Colorado in the USA
Posted by: Demetrius | January 17, 2008 4:59 PM
correction.. not sure who the mexican artist is.. but the big yellow one if that is the same piece was design by Herbert Bayer.. http://www.denverdesign.com/about/
Posted by: dixon | January 17, 2008 5:47 PM
It looks to me like it was shot in Mexico City, maybe down by UNAM, which was built on top of the old lava fields.
Posted by: acoe | January 17, 2008 6:40 PM
It's been identified as the Ruta de la Amistad public sculpture project at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 17, 2008 7:02 PM
Locations found over Google Maps. Not all sculptures, but here there are a bunch:
http://www.tagzania.com/user/tagzania/ruta-amistad
If you can find more inspecting the surroundings, add them with a tag ruta-amistad
Posted by: Luistxo | January 18, 2008 3:22 AM
thank you for finding + posting this spectacular video of my idol mr.bali hai! i do a couple raquel welch yoga tapes from 1989. she's the coolest + now even cooler!
Posted by: mod*mom | January 18, 2008 1:23 PM
used to date a girl with a body like raquel welch when i was in college. best plo chops i EVER had.
Posted by: luckyguy | January 18, 2008 1:54 PM