Series V: Doug Michels papers contains material produced by or published on Ant Farm co-founder Doug Michels. This includes the script for Brainwave, a feature film based on the Dolphin Embassy concept, and material on Michels' Bluestar project, a space station occupied by humans and dolphins, as well as various documents relating to trips taken to Australia and Japan. This series also contains obituaries published in newspapers and magazines collected by Chip Lord following Michels' sudden, tragic death on June 12, 2003.
Box 04 Folder 11 pre-Ant Farm, 1965-70
Xeroxes; clippings; small photograph : 1 item
Box 04 Folder 12 "Various promotional material", ca. 1967-03
Xeroxes, includes reproductions of correspondence, magazine and newspaper articles, press releases, photographs, and sketches
Box 04 Folder 13 Brainwave, 1977
Brainwave, a film by Alexandra Morphett and Doug Michels, screenplay by Tony Morphett (Brainwave Productions Ltd., 1977)
Box 04 Folder 14 Bluestar, ca. 1986-95
Correspondence, includes letter addressed to Chip Lord; Xeroxes; clippings; slide : 1 item; The Futurist (January/February 1987) : 1 item; business cards : 2 items
Box 04 Folder 15 Miscellaneous, 1980s-00s
Xeroxes; clippings
Box 04 Folder 16 Obituaries, 2003
Clippings; postcard : 1 item; Peter Eichenlaub, "Doug Michels (1943-2003)," Texas Architect (September/October 2003): 20,58; Chip Lord, "Remembering Doug Michels," arcCA 03.3 (2003): 56; Michael Sorkin, "Of dolphins, comedy, and architecture: Remembering Doug Michels and Ant Farm," Architectural Record 9 (2003): 83-84
Oversize 01 Obituaries, 2003
Nina Rappaport, et al. "Tributes to Doug Michels," Constructs, Yale Architecture (Fall 2003): 27