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breaking the rules: puffs of dissent
Although Edward Bernays ingeniously transformed a part of cigarette advertising into a feminist symbol with his “torches of freedom” campaign, cigarettes have always been a man’s prerogative, an inexpensive privilege to help the male define his identity. Where for women … Continue reading
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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still figgering it out
Getting beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Roller, Alton Kelley, bauhaus josef albers, edward muybridge, Gary Panter, george hunter, Jack Kerouac, Josef Albers, Ken Kesey, Peter Max, Psychedelic Art, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, s. clay wilson, spain rodriguez, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, victor moscoso, von dutch, watts acid test, wes wilson, zap comix
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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason
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
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praises of folly: flights of reason
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
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flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?
It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Andy Warhol, Bruce Eisner, Dennis Oppenheim, Don Mclean, George Bernard Shaw, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Neal Cassady, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Ram Dass, Rich Griffin, Steely Dan, Stewart Brand, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe
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unreason: the sound of one hand clapping
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
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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
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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex de Toqueville, Cougar Town, Elfriede Jelinek, Elmer Gantry, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Huck Finn, Hungary, Hungary Politics, Jobbik, Jobbik Party, Ken Kesey, Krisztina Morvai, Michael Haneke, Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin, Sinclair Lewis, tabatha Southey
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Grateful For An Art Thats Not Dead
Stanley ”Mouse Miller” is one of a select few surviving , legendary graphic artists of the West Coast Hippie era. With the recent death of friend and associate Alton Kelley the genre is fading and Kelley’s passing may define the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alton Kelley, Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, LSD Art, Mark Jenkins, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller
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