Tag Archives: Jerry Garcia

chips on both shoulders

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dave

Is the definition of a well-balanced person, one who has a hip on both shoulders? Responsibilities seem to indicate so; interpersonal duties regarding human relations and perhaps a few pebbles on the other shoulder concerning more spiritual and cosmic issues, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Caroline Glick, Cleve Baxter, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dr. Jean Houston, Jerry Garcia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Masters | Leave a comment

cut off your tree to spite your earth

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

Cut off your tree. We are often told in the Palestinian rhetoric how the olive tree is the food of spirituality connected to the soil, all in a distinct and sanctified relation to the above. Allah’s benign and not so … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged B'Tselem, Benny Katzover, CAMERA, David Grisman, David Ha'ivri, Ernst Kirchner, George Grosz, James Baldwin, Jerry Garcia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Olive Trees Settler violence Israel, Orange Blossom Special, Otto Mueller, Shomron Settlers Council, Vassar Clements, Yisrael Medad | Leave a comment

peggy the pistol and varia

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: i’ve never heard of this thing’s existence before. anybody out there have it? what’s it sound like????? what’s it look like???? —————– Babbs says (TC vol. 1) this was not an acid test but a studio recording … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Frank Frey, Herb Caen, Ihor Slabicky, Jerry Garcia, Ken Babbs, Ken Kesey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Grateful Dead Ken Kesey | Leave a comment

alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized | Tagged Carl Jung, ernst haeckel, ernst haekl, fred herzog photography, Gustav Landauer, harry joy photography, Helen Levitt, Jerry Garcia, Leni Riefenstahl, leo durocher, Luchino Visconti, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Robert Hunter, Susan Sontag, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

pushead

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): PUSHEAD! the name alone is enough to elicit moans of pleasure from ethe darkest souls of metalheads everywhere. pushead is in a class by himself. pushead knows no competition. pushead is god. who is pushead? … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, brian schroeder, Jerry Garcia, metalhead art genre, MRR Thrasher, prong cover, pushead, pushead illustrations mettalica, raymond pettibon, zorlac skateboards | Leave a comment

owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bruce Eisner, Charles Reich, Eisner, Erich Fromm, J.W. Waterhouse, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jeffrey Mishlove, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, R.D. Laing, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walt Disney, Watteau | Leave a comment

praises of folly: flights of reason

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dave

Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Frank Zappa, Hieronymous Bosch, Irving Penn, James Blunt, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Mark Levinson, Michael Carlson, Michel Foucault, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Vassar Clements | Leave a comment

unreason: the sound of one hand clapping

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

The denunciation of reason has always been the reaction of choice since the sunset of the Middle Ages as a general form of criticism; a manner of dealing with its ambiguity, menace and mockery. Unlike madness which could be rationalized … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Artie Kornfeld, Bill Pester, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, J.D. Salinger, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Michael Lang, Michel Foucault, Neil Armstrong, Owsley Bear Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

PARADISE LOST

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Dave

On looking back on 2009, one of the most telling signposts was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The film ”Taking Woodstock” appeared to be filled with inaccuracies, stereotypes and false archetypes which folded back onto each … Continue reading →