Tag Archives: Jimi Hendrix

stone free…

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) AFTER the ms. love story, i’m sharing something a little tamer. this is a photograph, taken by the legendary karen moskowitz, of mr. james marshall hendrix’s gravestone. we were out in the neighborhood for some other … Continue reading

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getting smug over the “fallen dancer”

bad public art….. By Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Every city has it’s examples of really bad urban sculpture. these things are usually funded by self-righteous fine art mavens foisting their idea of “good taste and breeding” down the throats of … Continue reading

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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?

A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading

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before good fun became a commodity

before the big corporate money began pouring its cold soul into popular music culture…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Before there was Rolling Stone magazine, before we had ‘rock critics’, before we had ‘genres’ of rock music, there was only radio. They … Continue reading

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secrets of life and death

The art of Jaime Hernandez….. Art Chantry: I got a wonderful little (actually BIG) surprise in the mailbox today. it’s Todd Hignite’s tome (and i do mean ‘tome’) on the art of Jaime Hernandez (published by abrams, the art book … Continue reading

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THE ENIGMA OF THOSE RIGHT-LEFT REVERSALS

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? ”The reason for the paradox is that the left hand’s way of knowing things is different from the right hand’s way of knowing. The difference can be discerned in … Continue reading

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BAD MOON RISING: THE PEREGRINE PROPHECIES

”Shakespeare’s plays mirror the debate of his time between those who believed that the macrocosm of the stars influenced the microcosm of human life, and those who dismissed astrology as “excellent foppery.” The phrase comes from Edmund in King Lear, who … Continue reading

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