Tag Archives: Owsley Stanley

copied out

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) ok, here’s that image by edmund sullivan that mouse spotted. this is the entire page i reproduce, rust stains and all. i don’t quite understand the whole “copyright crazy” era we’re in. when i started … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged bill graham, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, edmund sullivan, kenneth howard von dutch, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, rat fink, rob thomas, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, stanley miller, von dutch | Leave a comment

d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dave

“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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960′s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs | 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

flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

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 →