From left to right: Christine Vachon, Ben Foster, Dane DeHaan, Daniel Radcliffe, John Krokidis, Ira Sachs. (Photo courtesy of the author)While Allen Ginsberg might have “seen the greatest minds of [his]generation destroyed by madness,” the Lower East Side’s Metrograph theater hosted some of the greatest minds of ours on Sunday, October 7th, to celebrate the seventieth anniversary public reading of Ginsberg’s Howl in San Francisco’s Six Gallery, an event that announced the birth of t...| The Gay & Lesbian Review
In this experimental event, the most familiar tool of communication – the telephone network – served as an analogy for the museum…. It was an event that provided a preview of the ever-widening world of cyberspace. – ICC Concept Book, NTT Publishing, 1997 How local is local? From March 15th to 29th, 1991, … Continue reading "The Museum Inside The Telephone Network, 1991" The post The Museum Inside The Telephone Network, 1991 appeared first on Flashbak.| Flashbak
. Beat & Prankster fans rejoice! A new firsthand memoir has just been released of life with one of the Mount Rushmores of both the Beat Generation & the Merry Pranksters. That doesn’t happen very often, and there aren’t many options left. Anne Murphy (who later reverted back to her birth name Anne Marie Maxwell) […] The post Anne Murphy’s “Tripping With A Viper” about Neal Cassady appeared first on Brianland.| Brianland
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article by a philosophy professor, Karen Simecek, who said that conceiving of our lives as narratives is a bad idea. She thinks it’s a bad idea because some narratives are negative or have a negative effect, presumably on the narrator. She didn’t mention the brain in her […] The post Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
Frank O’Hara’s gravestone, Green River Cemetery, in Springs, New York Alfred Leslie – The Telephone Call – (1971-2), oil on canvas, 96 x 120 ins. courtesy the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri It’s the anniversary of the death today of the great American “New York School” poet, Frank O’Hara photo: Harry Redl, […]| The Allen Ginsberg Project
A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man Here’s what I riffed to social media after I got home from the advance screening on December 18th . . . Caught the sold-out “A Complete Unknown” IMAX screening in Toronto last night — and boy was it GREAT to see it on a […] The post A Complete Unknown movie review appeared first on Brianland.| Brianland
Embrace what you Fear: Being with Blake My Introduction to Blake My mother gave me Blake. In a church bazaar she found Songs of Innocence, a lovely 1927 edition faithful to the original. I spent long hours deciphering the calligraphy and contemplating the illustrations entwined with the text. I was fascinated by the possibility that […]| thehumandivinedotorg
Philip Pullman reflects on how Blake’s poetry has influenced and intoxicated him for more than 50 years Introduction: Unlocking the doors of perception Sometimes we find a poet, or a painter,…| thehumandivinedotorg
This video was taken by the filmmaker Robert Frank on the streets of the East Village in 1959. In the video, we see Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucian Carr, Carr's three children and Carr's wife Francesca. Carr's sons are Simon, Caleb and Ethan.| The Last Bohemians
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]| Brianland
