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Tag Archives: Ken Kesey
flown this acid test
by Art Chantry: “can YOU pass the ACID TEST?” the guy smoking the joint is (original acid test MC) howard hessman. the people in the background (l t r) are: mayo thompson, sonya winterburn (peaking over kesey’s shoulder), fran liebowitz … Continue reading
peggy the pistol and varia
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
hangin’ with uncle john’s band
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the mid-1980’s. i was asked by a local ‘underground’ art gallery/institution called 9-1-1 gallery to do an exhibit of my poster work (this was in the early 1980’s, years before the world trade … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-1-1 gallery, art chantry, big brother and the holding company, Donovan, haight-ashbury, jacques moiteret, Jethro Tull, john moehring, Ken Kesey, merry pranksters, poster art, Quicksilver Messenger Service, ray collins, The Grateful Dead, the helix seattle, the sky river festival, The Wobblies, tom robbins, walt crowley
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genet: love comes in spurts
.Masks. Mirrors. Symbols. Rituals, dreams and trances… Jean Genet’s The Blacks is constructed of two simultaneous plays within the play, one performed on stage, the other out in the wings. When the lights come up, several couples are discovered turning … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, angela davis, Edmund White, hadrien laroche, Hannah Arendt, jane fonda, Jean Paul Sartre, jessica mitford, Ken Kesey, Leo Bersani, Leonor fini, martin kramer, Michael McClure, Michel Foucault, steven maynard, steven mayrand, tom hayden
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genet: delaying the punch-line
Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, black panther party, Bobby Seale, Edmund White, elbert howard, Georges Bataille, hadrien laroche, Henri Bernard-Levy, Huey Newton, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, joseph strick, Ken Kesey, Peter Falk, Slavoj Zizek, stan persky
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segregated bus
Convoke the Committee for Un-American Activities. Revoke the Civil Rights Act. Was Obama’s crime to be on a white’s only bus? Or, you would think he was reveling with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, ben bernanke treason, Ben Kingsley Fagin, gig veres, Gov. Rick Perry, greg lynn shark fountain, greg lynn toy story, hemphill brothers coach company nashville, Karl Rove, Ken Kesey, kinky friedman, merry pranksters, Neal Cassady, nelson george new york times, obama canadian bus, prevost bus, rupert cornwell, Stephen Harper, the help movie
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merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
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d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus
“Do your own thing.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” -The Diggers. Eventually, hippies were being attacked and vilified both in the media and physically by punks, skinheads and right-wing reactionaries and other youth sub-cultures. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Gibney, alison ellwood, charles a. laughlin II, david axelrod, harry gibson, hippie movement, hippie punching, Irving Penn, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, michael fallon, Neal Cassady, Owsley Stanley, red dog saloon, robert bootzin, susan madrak, the Diggers
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when and waiting:be there now
Psychedelic culture. approaching truthfulness is always a little more complex… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Most people assume that psychedelic culture began in San Francisco and spread outward. I’m not here to disprove that notion. since all documentation starts there in … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Beach Boys LSD-38, bob masse, boyd grafmyre, Jefferson Airplane, joffrey ballet, john moehring, Ken Kesey, maynard ferguson, merry pranksters, Owsley Bear Stanley, poster art, psychedelic posters, scott mcdougall, stanley owsley, The Grateful Dead, tom robbins, walt crowley
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televise it: we’re all actors in this
The Revolution will continue after this short commercial break from our sponsors… At one time it would have been hard to imagine that “authenticity” could be used to sell almost any product or service. The ingenuity of the American marketing … Continue reading
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Tagged angela davis, Bell Hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gil Scott-Heron, helen jackson lee, imani perry, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Ken Kesey, mark anthony neal, norman kelley, public enemy, Ronald Reagan, sharon patricia holland, Soren Kierkegaard, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler
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