The other day during a much needed lunch break a few colleagues and I got into a conversation about social drug use. What else would a group of new Ph.D. students be talking about in the dark corridors of the academy! I think I started us on our downward spiral as I was complaining that [...]
Tagged drugsIn the late 1960s, Texas poster art, long an important mainstay of the state’s printmaking tradition, entered a fertile and innovative period in Austin. Drawing inspiration from the counter culture and psychedelic music movements, a new generation of Texas graphic arts designers created one-of-a-kind posters. Today their works are considered [...]
Tagged Poster Art, Texas@ Sophie’s
Tagged Iconography, TransgressionBAGnewsNotes is simply one of the most interesting communities in the online progressive landscape. Michael Shaw, a clinical psychologist by trade, not only provides daily, intelligent deconstructions of US political visual culture but has also built a dynamic community where citizens, activists, academics, political analysts and photographers all interact in creating compelling multivocal critiques of [...]
Tagged Photography, Visual AnalysisI’m no longer able to hide out, holed up at my postmodern pastoral enclave. But I nearly pulled the last plug, teetering on the ledge of digital suicide. Physically and intellectually isolated, my family keeps me sane. When they aren’t driving me crazy that is.
Shifting between manic bouts of depression and elation, familiar stability and [...]
Have you noticed toady’s Google search image paying homage to the techno-counter-cultural icon Nikola Tesla? Today is his birthday (thanks canuck for the reminder). Timothy Ely’s inspired work above beautifully narrates Tesla’s haunting legend and continued mystique electrically interwoven into techno lore. Airtight Games homage to Tesla (and insertion of his character into the gameplay’s [...]
Robert emailed me his latest submission to share with us which I’ve posted below, along with a note that he’s graciously mailed me a copy of his most recent publication, Travels Inside the Archive.
Today is St. John’s Eve in Denmark. So a timely and always much appreciated submission (cosmic connection) it is.
I wish I could [...]
Aaron at Emvergeoning retells a obscure piece of Punk Rock history and South Texas lore through what he describes as, “collaborative web-based detective work.”
See, San Antonio’s Outrage! or, The Great Rock’N’Roll Poster Swindle.