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Tag Archives: Frank Zappa
hindsight is anything: expect the unexpected
There are some movements that are strange, unpredictable, and even when they surge into social dominance, not easy to explain; events outside the conventional thinking that hunts causes, reduces chance to a minimum, and loves plotting the tides that sweep … Continue reading
warhol un-original
by Art Chantry: one of my ‘holy grails’. i know i’ll never even get to touch one of these things. but, i’d sure give a lot to get this old showcard poster. i collect old showcards. (most of the newbies … Continue reading
richard burton : cities of the saints
Breaking Victorian taboos, one expedition at a time… …In a later book, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, Richard Burton described a village with 20 per cent more males than females and noted jovially” Is it not a waste … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Bercovici, Arthur Symons, Belinda Marden Pratt, Brigham Young, Brigham Young and Richard Burton, Captain Richard Burton, Edward Rice, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa Were Only in it for the Money, George Carlin, George Carlin Mormon, Isabel Arundell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mormon polygamy, orson pratt, Richard Burton the Arabian Nights, Richard Burton The City of the Saints, Richard Francis Burton, Rupert Everett, Rupert Everett Captain Sir Richard Burton, Tim Jeal author, Walter Phelps Dodge
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a graphic frank
by Art Chantry: i’m all excited about this thing. it’s a gig poster by frank zappa from back in the early early daze. seems ol’ frank also dabbled in graphics, as well. he was pretty darn cool, too. it;’s such … Continue reading
what the meek shall inherit….
To be determined at a later date. Yelp has gone public, and good for them that they have made so much money on the offering. However, this company won’t even be around in ten years. The tech highway is littered … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Christopher Hitchens, Frank Zappa, google offer to buy Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, mahatma gandhi, Rick Griffin, Robert Heilbroner, Yelp public offering
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freak out
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) zappa took his entire advertising budget for ‘freak out” and dumped it into buying adverts in marvel comics. frank always knew who his real market was. Zappa with Jack Kirby.
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Tagged art chantry, Frank Zappa, jack kirby, marvel comics
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2.5cc… 5cc… going going…gone
And old interview dug up on Godley and Creme. The issues they raised thirty-plus years ago are more relevant than ever. They may not be “right” but their views represented here are honest to themselves. It does reflect on the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged a.j. heschel, emmanuel levinas, eric stewart 10cc, Frank Zappa, Franz Marc, graham gouldman, Guy Debord, jonathan king, kevin godley, lol creme, Martin Buber, paul cook, Peter Cook, Wassily Kandinsky, will grohman
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uffizi: arcadia cash n’ carry
Zoffany, in the 1760′s was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to created a canvas that would immortalize the Uffizi, Florence’s major museum, and in particular the Renaissance treasures of the Medici collection. The visit to the Uffizi was a major goal … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Frank Zappa, Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Laura Mulvey, Michael Cooper, Robert Fraser, sir peter blake, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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