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sub genius : trust your heroes?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the early 1980′s, the church of the sub-genius was just as “out there” and just as scary fucking dangerous as survival research laboratories. what SRL was doing to technology, the church of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AIGA, art chantry, church of the sub genius, david meyer, david meyer sub genius, dennis p. eichhorn, ed big daddy roth, iivan stang church of sub genius, ivan chermeyeff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michel cronan, ralph caplan, SRL, Steven Heller, survival research laboratories, the rocket magazine
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pinboys
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) who’s the hottest new diva on the scene? who swivels her hips and bats her lashes at the boyz? then coos into the mike and vamps the crowd into submission while her trusty combo … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, bumbershoot fair, chucky cheeze robot, clair colquitt, colquitt contraption, dale travous, howdy doody, larry reid, misty & the pinboys, performance art, radioactive sculpture, survival research laboratories
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shocked into violence
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) one of the great things about early punk was the experimentation. the punk explosion that happened nearly all over the world within a couple of months, yes, it was that fast) broke the pop … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, andrew horn, art chantry, commercial arts magazine, fingerprintz british punk, gillian anderson, gillian anderson x-files, klaus nomi, matt heckert, patrick coyne CA magazine, peter blecha, steve ahlbom, survival research laboratories, television music group, The Dead Kennedys, the nomi song, the nomi song andrew horn, The Ramones, tim girvin, tim girvin design
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undisputed genius
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) THE first time i encountered dale travous’s art (pronounced like ‘travis’), it was what he jokingly called “catabotics”. seems his father was a hobby taxidermist. when his efforts failed, he would mail them to dale, who … Continue reading
good vibrations: still cool after all these years
From the Bauhaus to your house… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the pantheon of graphic design professionals, there are very very few who have reached the levels occupied by Ivan Chermayeff. He’s considered one of the grand masters of 20th century … Continue reading
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Tagged 23 envelope, Bauhaus Art, bauhaus design, Chris Burden, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, genesis p. orridge, Ivan Chermayeff, Jamie Reid, phase 2, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, robert brownjohn, Robert Williams, survival research laboratories, tom geismar, von dutch, Walter Gropius
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billboard liberation
The billboard liberation movement. Taking back public space, one board at a time. … Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): There was an epidemic of altered billboards in the Seattle area back in the early 1980′s. It happened about the time our … Continue reading