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veggie: strong Swallowing Impulse
Pursuing health in the promised land. Our unprecedented passion and intensity with which we appear to be pursuing the holy grail of perfect health has a long tradition… Sylvester Graham’s dietary reform views, imbued as they were with ideas of … Continue reading
will the original paint job please own up
by Art Chantry: this is john lennon’s infamous psychedelic Bentley. supposedly, the Rolls Royce corporation attempted to buy it back and re-paint it. actually, i’ve never seen this version of that famous car before. i’ve seen at least 5 different … Continue reading
ono no no songs
Mourning has broken. Feed the hungry ghosts. The appetite is whetted but never sated. Feed the little beast. Appease. Or it will eat you whole and spit you out. Add this to the idea of The Lost Object. the inability … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Allen Klein Beatles Manager, Bill Wyman, David Frost, David Steen photography, Derek Taylor Apple Records, John Lennon, John Lennon Steel and Glass, nancy shevell, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney interview David Frost, Ringo Starr, Sigmund Freud, Yoko Ono
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see how they run
by Art Chantry: a rare publicity still from the ill-fated and aborted, but legendary cinema classic “Godzilla vs. The Beatles.” sadly, only a few pull-frames like this still remain to give us some idea of what may have been truly … Continue reading
the look of culture falling apart
by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono
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plastic pre-Ono Spaniard
by Art Chantry: if we know the name ‘robert freeman’ it’s because of his photos he took of the beatles from the years 1963-66, when he was essentially their house photographer. his images of the early “fab four” are the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, John Lennon, John Lennon Spaniard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Freeman design, Robert Freeman photography, Robert Freeman photography Beatles, spike milligan, spike milligan puckoon, The Beatles 1963-1966
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into a dharma sun
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) A Happy 90th Birthday remembrance to the Beat Generation icon and one of the great post-war American writers. The impact that Kerouac—and the Beats—had on both American literature and pop … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poetry, Bob Dylan, fred w. mcdarrah, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac 90th birthday, jesse marinoff reyes, John Lennon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marc yankus, mitchell hooks, patti smith, paul buckley, Paul Simon, Tom Waits
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tin roofs
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In 1955, Tennessee Williams’s now-immortal play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cover design is by the incomparable Alvin Lustig—New Directions’s house designer/art … Continue reading
church supper
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On July 6th, 1957, two teenagers—John Lennon and Paul McCartney—are introduced to one another at a fête at the St. Peter’s Church Hall in Woolton, England, where Lennon’s band … Continue reading
don’t look back
walk away and don’t look back. Posted without comment.