Wasn't Born To Follow | Dennis Hopper

Don't Try to Be Original, Just Try to Be Good | Paul Rand

"So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time. "
— Paul Rand

I Heart Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser photographed by Sam Haskins

“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.”

-Milton Glaser

Blowin in The Mind | Dylan vs. Martin Sharp 1967

Mister Tambourine Man as envisioned by Australian psychadelic poster artist Martin Sharp.  This is one of the most collectible images of the era, with one in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The original image was used as the cover art for OZ magazine, no. 7.

"Martin Sharp has ensnared Sydney's essence: that comic-strip convict town forever caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Sharp's odyssey began in Sydney's eastern suburbs where, as an only child, he grew up "in a world of cartoons", obsessively painting, storytelling and cutting up his mother's magazines for collages... Today, the man still revered as one of the world's foremost pop artists lives as a virtual recluse in the shambling Sharp family mansion at Bellevue Hill."

- Excerpt from Time Out, "Martin Sharp : Sydney Artist"

UPTOWN | Richard Lindner 1968

Richard Lindner, Uptown, 1968

The artistic universe of Richard Lindner is unique: he is highly genuine, he is full of urban energy, and he is driven by weird eroticism...Richard Lindner started his career as an artist eventually at the age of 40 in New York. In this metropolitain jungle Lindner created his oevre: exciting and powerful images of robot like figures, amazones and heroines, harlequinades of self-styled heroes- his artistic panorama of the unruly 60s an 70s of the 20th century.

-Claus Clement, Richard Lindner - Paintings, Works on Paper, Graphic - Nuremberg 2001

Read a great article from Studio International 1968 here: Richard Lindner and the Human Being as a Toy

The Time Has Come | Chambers Brothers by Victor Moscoso, 1967

Poster Art by Victor Moscoso, Chambers Brothers, Matrix, San Francisco, 1967

We've Gone on Holiday By Mistake | Richard E. Grant 1987

Paul Mc Gann, Richard Griffiths and Richard E. Grant, Withnail and I, 1987

Blame It On My Youth | Chet Baker

Very Early In My Life It Was Too Late | Marguerite Duras

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.” - Marguerite Duras

"I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged."

— Marguerite Duras (The Lover)

I am Secretly an Important Man | Steven Jesse Bernstein

Steven Jesse Bernstein was born in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Seattle, Washington in 1974 where he adopted the moniker Jesse, and began performing and self-publishing chapbooks of his poetry (the first chapbook was Choking On Sixth, 1978). Bernstein would become something of an icon to many in Seattle’s underground music and poetry scene, with notable fans including Kurt Cobain and Oliver Stone.

He is most famous for his recordings with Sub Pop Records and close relationship with William S. Burroughs. Bernstein’s substance abuse issues and mental illness contributed to his provocative local celebrity, though they ultimately culminated in his suicide.



Bernstein’s mental illness was not as alarming as it might have been off the stage, as his drug-reinforced manic episodes were harnessed and channeled into engrossing, often perverse, entertainment. According to one Seattle newspaper, he opened for music acts such Nirvana, Soundgarden, U-Men and The Crows: “He read poems from a stage with a live rodent in his mouth, its tail twitching as baseline punctuation. He tried to cut his heart out in order to hold it in his hands and calm it down". 

LISTEN

Robert Crumb in the Woods | Animation by Joseph Pelling

Robert Crumb is in the Woods from Joseph Pelling

Everything in 3-D | A Short Film of Short Films

For Your Stereoscopic Enjoyment!



Left Eye: Blue

Right Eye: Red



Featuring short works by:

Matt Freund

Raul Fernandez

Morgan Locke

Danny Jelinek

Jason Whetzell



Hosted by:

Sophie Kipner



Created by:

Jason Whetzell

Danny Jelinek

Outside the Box | Digital Animation by Joseph Pelling

Animation by Joseph Pelling

Lost Footage of Ciao! Manhattan | 1967

Hit the Road Jack | Nicholson in Blue Blockers

Behold Jack Nicholson in true Blue Blocker glory!

Gena Rowlands is Mad Myrtle | Opening Night, 1977

Gena Rowlands plays a professional actress on the verge in Cassavetes' Opening Night, and spends half of the film going mad in these sunglasses.

Vintage Postcard Week: Nuts to You 1941

 

"Nuts to you" (but just in fun) / One nut to another one

Mailed on August 4, 1941 from Auburndale, Florida to Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

Tell everybody 'Hello' for me

Dear Mary Lois:

How is everyone? "Gals and Pals" I am having a good time and hope you are the same.  Your so called cousin is an awful pest.  If you knew him, I'm sure you would think so too.

Your Friend,

Betty

To: Miss Mary L. Webb

Mt. Vernon, Ohio

c/o George Webb

Vintage Postcard Week: Googly Eyes of Agadir

 

The city of Agadir is located in Morocco on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean.  In this sixties era postcard, a googly eyed tourista is featured in sunglasses, a super rare example of this kind of personified postcard. In 1977, pop composer Make Batt (creator of The Wombles) recorded "The Ride to Agadir" with the London Symphony Orchestra for his album "Schizophonia". Listen here:

Vintage Postcard Week: The Naughty Nederlands of 1900

Auf der Strasse zeigest du

Stets 'ne scheinheilige Miene,

Doch verstoheln schielest du

Nach jeder frechen Strassen-Triene

Loosely Translated: 

On the road you show
Always a sanctimonious air,
But secretly you stare
After every woman on the street

 
Mailed from Birdaard on July 9, [19?]03.

Vintage Postcard Week: Here's to Those Who Love Us, If We Only Cared

Here's to those who love us, If we only cared:

Here's to those we'd love, If we only dared.

Written on the front:  

Suppose the above makes a hit with you all right ha ha - GLF

Written on the back:  

Hello Kid: - Having a good time I suppose - Remember your weak spot - My uncle improving - am going to Sylvan Sunday - Goodbye - Have a good time - GLF

Mailed to Miss Lillian Hoffman of 1794 Carroll St, Merriam Park, St. Paul, Minnesota, pictured above in 1891.

Vintage Postcard Week: Why Worry? 1949

Why Worry?

There are only two things to worry about:

Either you are well or you are sick.

If you are well, there is nothing to worry about.

If you are sick there are two things to worry about:

Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well there is nothing to worry about.

If you die there are only two things to worry about:

Either you go to Heaven or to Hell.

If you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about.

But if you go to Hell you will be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends, you won't have time to worry.

Kahler Hotel 10-6-1949

Dear Harry,

We arrived here 1:30, they started examinations 2:30.  Will be here till [Wednesday] this next week.  This is sure [a] great place and very glad I came with Morris.  They are giving him the works.  Kindest regards to Heather and Ralph [?] and gang.

Friend, Morris

Mailed on October 7, 1949 8:30am from Rochester, Minnesota.

To:  Harry M. Wolfe
666 Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, Illinois 

The Kahler Hotel, Rochester in 1949

Chicago in 1949


Could this be Harry Wolfe?