Tag Archives: Jerry Rubin

Dear Mr. President….

It seemed like a slam dunk for Obama to get elected. At least a hold your nose and vote for the least stinky of two sets of soiled diapers. But the polls, surprisingly seem to indicate a toss-up with perhaps … Continue reading

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launching a thousand covers

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i think john alcorn is one of those guys who launched a thousand ships and everybody else took credit for what they took from him. from marshall mcluhan to the yippies? i’d say that’s a big … Continue reading

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not pie in the sky

It is essential to have voices like Aron Kay on the political spectrum. Agree or not with him, one is not left indifferent. Although sometimes labeled an eccentric activist, its a coherent belief, a throwback to the socialism of nineteenth … Continue reading

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aspen: thinking within a box

Aspen magazine. thinking outside the box.as without from within… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is ASPEN Magazine (issue #4, spring 1967) – the magazine IN A BOX!!!! this is the final issue (so far as i know.) each issue was … Continue reading

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frank: we’re only in it for the art

Frank Zappa. A game changer. And much of the aesthetic projection can be credited to Cal Schenkel… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) Where would we all be if there had never been a Frank Zappa? I  mean, the guy … Continue reading

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countdown: subterranean homesick text

going underground to a novel format: the magazine as paperback… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ): These two little paperback books are actually NOT paperback books at all! they look like paperbacks, are printed like paperbacks, published by paperback publishers and even … Continue reading

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when dicky was tricky: campaign swag and swagger

Back in the old days when elections were brass-knuckled affairs. Art looks back on the advertising ”swag” of the 1968 presidential election and Richard Nixon. Art Chantry:Back in 1968, during the election fiasco that produced the presidency of Richard Nixon, … Continue reading

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CELEBRITY & THE LOUD HAILERS: The Biggest Roar in the Jungle

What have you got in your pocket, or in your purse? It is an apparently trivial, mundane object called cellphone – banal, except a growing body of scholarly literature and market research is interested in it- mobile search; mobile advertising; billions are … Continue reading

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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE

First of all, should we begin  by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading

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A RICH MAN’S JOKES ARE ALWAYS FUNNY

It is about  creating moments of recognition. Almost a delicious and delightful sense of reverse-traumatism. Anti-traumatism. Flying so far gone, its actually earth bound illusion. Barbara Kruger as a detonator of some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience; … Continue reading

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