Wikipedia - "The American Breed was an American rock band that was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969."
Wikpedia, last.fm, YouTube
The American Breed
Wikipedia - "The American Breed was an American rock band that was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969."
Wikpedia, last.fm, YouTube
Art of the Mimeo Revolution
"I just finished reading Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics to Comix 1963-1990, which was released in connection with an exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin a year ago."
Mimeo Mimeo, Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963 - 1990, Little Magazine Collection
DOLK Goes BIG in Brooklyn
"In New York for his show with M-City at the Brooklynite Gallery, DOLK has been hitting Brooklyn hard."
Wooster Collective, Brooklynite Gallery
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
"Jajouka is an ancient village perched above a long valley in the blue Djebala foothills of the Rif Mountains in northern Morocco. The village is home to the Master Musicians of Jajouka as well as the sanctuary of Saint Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, who came from the East around 800 AD to spread Islam to North Morocco."
The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Wikipedia, W - 1, My Space, YouTube, (1), (2), Master Musicians of Joujouka Live in Porto part 1, Porto part 2, Rolling Stones - 'In Morocco" BBC Documentary 1989 Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5.
Benjamin Péret
Wikipedia - "Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist."
Wikipedia, Green Integer, enotes, Benjamin Péret: songs of the eternal rebels
Ken Kesey
Wikipedia - "Kenneth Elton 'Ken' Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, W - Merry_Pranksters, Psychedelic 60s: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, YouTube
Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
Wikipedia - "Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."
Wikipedia, Eugène Delacroix,
Thomas Struth
Sommerstrasse, Düsseldorf, 1980
Wikipedia - "Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work covers detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. Along with Andreas Gursky, he is one of Germany's most noted modern-day photographers."
Wikipedia, artnet, Marian Goodman
“Get out of there!,” the definitive montage
"So I was dangling this dork from Pajiba upside-down trying to dislodge his lunch money when out popped this video. It’s a montage of 'Get out of there!' scenes from movies."
Filmdrunk
Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR
Lucien Dulfan, City Street, 1980s
"Under the paradoxical title Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR, the Chambers Gallery next to Smithfields Market is showing paintings and prints by a group of artists hailing from the Odessa School, the Ukrainian Underground and Russia."
A World to Win, FAD, Guardian
Darren Almond
"Darren Almond’s diverse work, incorporating film, installation, sculpture and photography, deals with evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory."
White Cube, artnet
It's a Beautiful Day
Wikipedia - "It's a Beautiful Day was a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme. LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin."
Wikipedia, It's a Beautiful Day, YouTube - It's a Beautiful Day, (1), Soapstone Mountain, Bombay Calling
Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
Anthony Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20
"Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, reintroduces American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick through May 30, 2010."
The Frick Collection
Made in Abearica
"Yesterday I rendezvoused with a brother in arms at the cigar store and was handed a manila envelope enclosing a dossier pivotal to the success of the Mimeo Revolution. The scans above do not do justice to the breadth and depth of this project. It is a multi-media affair with a CD, a website, text and artwork."
Mimeo Mimeo, Abearica
Senses of Cinema
Sherman Ong, 2005
Wikipedia - "Senses of Cinema is prominent quarterly online film journal founded in 1999. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Senses of Cinema publishes work by film critics from all over the world, including critical essays, career overviews of the works of key directors, and coverage of many international festivals."
Wikipedia, Senses of Cinema, Senses of Cinema - Great Directors, Senses of Cinema - online journal
Clock DVA
Wikipedia - "Clock DVA is an Industrial music, Post-Punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adi Newton and Steven 'Judd' Turner."
Wikipedia, My Space, last.fm, YouTube - The Hacker, Sound Mirror, Fractalize, '4 Hours' (7" 1981), NYC OVERLOAD
Peasant
Peasant Wedding, Pieter the Elder Bruegel
Wikipedia - "A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district (when the Roman Empire became Christian, these outlying districts were the last to Christianise, and this gave rise to 'pagan' as a religious term)."
Wikipedia, The Lifestyle of Medieval Peasants, W - Peasants' Revolt, Medieval Peasant, The Medieval Technology Pages - Peasant Houses
The Hobbit
Wikipedia - "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in a time 'Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men', The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug."
Wikipedia
Poets House
"Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Our poetry resources and literary events document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, and stimulate public dialogue on issues of poetry in culture."
Poets House, Wikipedia
Bob Dylan Musical Roots and Influences Pages
"He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist. And when he describes his young life, he declares himself dumbfounded at the spectacle. 'With my thumb out, my eyes asleep, my hat turned up an' my head turned on,' says Bob Dylan, 'I'm driftin' and learnin' new lessons.'"
Roots of Bob Dylan, 2000
Dee Dee Sharp
Wikipedia - "Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Mashed Potato Time, Slow Twist, Gravy( For My Mashed Potatoes)
Textile workers strike (1934)
St. Louis unemployed protest, 1934
Wikipedia - "The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days. The strike's ultimate failure and the trade union's defeat left the Southeastern United States an unorganized and anti-union region for the next 50 years."
Wikipedia
Rough Trade Records
Wikipedia - "Rough Trade Records is an independent record label, based in London, United Kingdom. It was started in 1978 by Geoff Travis."
Wikipedia, Google: "Do It Yourself - The Story Of Rough Trade"
The Paris Review
"'Dear reader,' William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, 'The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book.'"
The Paris Review, (1), Wikipedia
Pierre Bismuth
Wikipedia - "Pierre Bismuth (b. 1963 in Paris) is a contemporary artist. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines, to even the color of the walls."
Wikipedia, Pierre Bismuth
Caterpillar
"Edited by Clayton Eshleman, Caterpillar would make many a top ten list of greatest post-WWII little magazines. Mags like Yugen, Floating Bear or J are quick hits. A cigarette break. Caterpillar is like smoking a churchill maduro."
Mimeo Mimeo
Brian Eno on media and his music
"Interview with Brian Eno on media and his music. Edited by Denise Gallant for Video West, San Francisco KQED show, 1980s. Interview by Video West. Video Synthesis effects by the Synopsis Video Synthesizer."
YouTube - Interview/Lecture. The Thing Is... An Interview, (2), (3). Imaginary Landscapes, (2), (3), (4). Constellations (77 Million Paintings), (2). Later, 2001. Music For Airports Interview. Voices. Banned Anti-War Demo in London.
Fresh Stuff from Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada in Monterrey, Mexico
"The work above by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was done as part of the project Seres Queridos."
Wooster Collective
Lucinda Williams
Wikipedia - "Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public."
Wikipedia, Lucinda Williams, last.fm, YouTube - Passionate Kisses, Drunken Angel, Right In Time, Still I Long For Your Kiss, I Just Wanted To See You So Bad, Sweet Side, World Without Tears, Crescent City, Lake Charles, C'mon, Pineola, Overtime, Ventura, Blue, Big Red Sun Blues, Bus To Baton Rouge
Romantic poetry
The Funeral of Shelley , Louis Edouard Fournier (1889)
Wikipedia - "Romanticism largely began as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual ‘movement’. Indeed, the term 'Romanticism' did not arise until the Victorian period."
Wikipedia
John Lee Hooker
Wikipedia - "John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free."
Wikipedia, John Lee Hooker, YouTube - Boom boom, Beat Room - 1964, Hobo Blues, Tupelo, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, Rock Me Baby, I'm in the Mood, Two Songs
Czesław Słania
Wikipedia - "Czesław Słania (22 October 1921 - 17 March 2005)[1] was an accomplished postage stamp and banknote engraver. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Słania was the most prolific of all stamp engravers, with over 1000 stamps to his credit."
Wikipedia, Collecting the Works of Czeslaw Slania, Czeslaw Slania
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