Tag Archives: Harry Houdini

too many people

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Dave

Yet their brows touched heaven. Islam brought them to their feet in this first of the Arab awakenings. Islam created Arabism, and from the start, the power of one was the power of the other. The strength of islam is … Continue reading →

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crazy about harry

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: the most brilliant houdini poster ever made…

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Harry Houdini, Harry Houdini letterhead, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

suspicious models of vision: invisible and anonymous

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dave

Like H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man where a scientist discovers a means of making himself invisible, and in the process becomes an insane murderer. Invisibility. Anonymity. Walter Benjamin insisted on the fundamental invisibility of the crowd in Baudelaire’s poetry of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged blackberry london riots, Charles Baudelaire, claude rains, Gilles Deleuze, graham harwood, gyges, H.G. Wells, Harry Houdini, Jean Leon Gerome, london riots 2011, Michel Foucault, Plato Republic, the invisible man, Walter Benjamin, William Etty | Leave a comment

sherlock hovers: on the edge of the unknown

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) THIS is a 1922 photograph of sir arthur conan doyle with a ghost hovering over him. i wonder what conan doyle’s main literary creation – sherlock holmes – would have made of such an image? … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ada deane, annie mellon, art chantry, arthur conan doyle spiritualism, Arthur Rackham, edward wyllie, fox sisters bell witch, frederick hudson, Harry Houdini, kate the bell witch, louis daguerre, oliver wendall holmes, piltdown man hoax, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, society for psychical research, w.j. crawford, william crookes, william hope, william mumbler, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

alien seeding: explaining the singular life

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Art

Art Chantry on H.P. Lovecraft…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Wilum H. Pugmire, noted Lovecraft scholar and writer, sent me this photo a number of years ago. H. P. Lovecraft lived as a pauper from a Victorian era (though he lived … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged adam byrne, George Melies, h.p. lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Helena Blavatsky, matthew solomon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, wilum h. pugmire, wilum pugmire | Leave a comment

VANISHING POINTS: A DRIFTER’S ESCAPE

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Dave

In America you’ll get food to eat Won’t have to run through the jungle And scuff up your feet You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day It’s great to be an American…( Randy Newman, Sail Away) Dustin … Continue reading →

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, Dr. Cal Lightman, Dr. Paul Ekman, Dr. William Wynn Westcott, earl Woods, Edgar Cayce, Franz Kafka, Harry Houdini, Helena Blavatsky, James Gray, Jean Paul Sartre, Jeffrey jensen Arnett, John Daly, L. Ron Hubbard, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, R.D. Laing, Rasputin, Robin marantz Henig, Roland Barthes, Sigmund Freud, tabatha Southey, The Rubber Room documentary, Tiger Woods, Tim Roth | Leave a comment

BEHIND THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Dave

Mina Crandon, best known as “Margery”, was a Boston medium who found herself embroiled in one of the most bitter controversies in American psychic research in the 1920′s.Regardless though, she was perhaps the greatest rival of magician Harry Houdini as … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged David Jehar, Dr. Hereward Carrington, Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, Dr. William MacDougall, Harry Houdini, Hereward Carrington, Houdini, J.Malcolm Bird, Jim Collins Houdini Assistant, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, Margery the Medium, Mina Stinson Crandon, Palladino medium, Paranormal activity, Paranormal psychology, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, William Lindsay Gresham | 2 Comments

WHEN HARRY MET HUBCAP SALLY

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Dave

“Copengahen is the epitome of modern summitting; a long session, a huge cast earnestly discussing what there is no chance of agreeing, to reach compromises everyone will then ignore, promising to avoid doing what all decry and will continue to … Continue reading →