Just few minutes ago I got the sad news that the great and beloved Albert Hofmann died yesterday at 102. Our planet is less rich now and we'll miss him very much...
I'll post a special tribute about the good doctor in the next days...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Porno for pets
Who doesn't like a little pussy?
(I'm going to visit some friends for few days...See you next Sunday, with new and - I hope - exciting things...Don't be late...)
(I'm going to visit some friends for few days...See you next Sunday, with new and - I hope - exciting things...Don't be late...)
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
New Jobs
Finding a job isn't so easy lately and some people try to find new ways to make a living, sometimes also putting aside their own dignity....
Monday, 28 April 2008
Don't Take Drugs (on dates)
Comedian Dan Clark explains why it might not be a smart choice to get high on a date...
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Kurt Wenner's 3-D art
Kurt Wenner is an astounding artist/architect well known for his extraordinary skill in 3-D street painting and chalk murals inspired by anamorphism, a technique used in frescoed ceilings to create the illusion of height.
If you wish to know more about him go here
Saturday, 26 April 2008
For Temples & Mosques attendees...
Afraid that someone will take away your slippers while you're piously praying inside your preferred Muslim mosque or Hindu temple?
Well, someone got a smart idea...
Joe Coleman's exhibition in New York
Joe Coleman is on the list of my preferred visionary artists, altough in the 'subgroup' of the dark ones. His style, which in some way remembers the great Robert Crumb, is astounding and seeing one of his paintings in details is a mind-moving experience indeed.
Simultaneously a miniaturist and a maximalist, Mr. Coleman wears jeweler’s magnifying lenses and uses single-hair brushes to cover every micron of his surfaces, including the frames, with minute pictorial detail and tiny text. He paints “one square inch at a time,” he said, never sketching or plotting out the completed work in advance.
“The composition reveals itself to me,” he explained in an interview.
Simultaneously a miniaturist and a maximalist, Mr. Coleman wears jeweler’s magnifying lenses and uses single-hair brushes to cover every micron of his surfaces, including the frames, with minute pictorial detail and tiny text. He paints “one square inch at a time,” he said, never sketching or plotting out the completed work in advance.
“The composition reveals itself to me,” he explained in an interview.
In 2007 Joe was one of the protagonists of the Mind States conference in Costa Rica, together with Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Jonathan Ott, Erik Davis and other well known members of the entheogen network.
The Dickinson Gallery in New York will host a Coleman's exhibition opening next week, May 2, which features also works by the 15th century Northern Primitives, artists whose work directly inspires Coleman.
The Love Guru spreads Anger
Michael John Myers is the Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and movie producer well known for the Austin Powers series, a sucessful parody of James Bond and the English 'mod' fashion style of the early 60s (more recently Myers has been signed up to play the main role in the upcoming biopic of The Who drummer Keith Moon..)
Myers is also known for his controversial Guru Pitka, a stereotype of the typical Hindu spiritual teacher as seen by the Westerners. The trailer of the upcoming The Love Guru movie has already raised a lot of resentment within the Hindu community around the world and many (Hindu and not Hindu) spiritual leaders state that it denigrates the Hindu traditions insulting gurus, yogis and the whole Hindu spirituality. Personally I haven't seen the trailer yet, just the Guru Pitka's site, colorful and funny. If you want to know more about this hilarious wannabe guru click here
(When - and if - I'll see The Love Guru movie, I'll probably give my opinion in this blog...Anyway, I think that when you have 'strong' spiritual beliefs a funny (and peraphs 'silly') movie can't affect them and hurt too much. Furthermore self-irony is the best medicine for being too serious and against integralism of all kinds...
Friday, 25 April 2008
The Who collection
If you liked The Who back in those days and went out of mind for rock anthems like My Generation or Magic Bus, you'll find a lot of posters, photos and other memorabilia here (also some posters of other bands and rock festivals...)
(thanks Maurizio for this link)
Janis, Tina, David & Grace
Rare photos of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner singing together and David Crosby with Grace Slick. If you like to see a series of similar photos visit this page of Psychedelic Lion, a very nice blog full of music, photos and album covers from the psychedelic sixties...
Modern hobos
Hobos are a particular kind of vagabonds usually associated with the American 'Great Depression' of the '30s. In those times a growing number of people, having lost their job, wandered in search of work hopping on freight trains and living near lonely railroad tracks in pieced-together camps ('jungles'). At the end of the '50s, Jack Kerouac described these bums in On the Road and other books and the post-Vietnam era produced its own surge of wandering travellers as veterans, young dropouts and drug culture casualties sought freedom along the American rails. Today the mantle has been passed (however reluctantly) to squatters and punks who started arriving on the scene in the early '90s.
These photos of modern hobos are at the same time dramatic, romantic, moving...Seeing them one wonders what will happen to these 'rebels without a cause' when they'll be older and ever more damaged by this extreme form of street life....
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
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