Thursday, October 27, 2016

Beatnik Halloween IV: HELLAWEED











The East Bay welcomes
the haunted holidays

Delirium anticipated





What is it?




Doctor Strange 





 Calling out around the world
Bringing on either Samhain
or samhainophobia





 If you lose your skin
you can always join
Los Muertos




Young cat on the 51A
had a tattoo behind his ear
like a psychedelic shadow





"It may come from the North,
it may come from the East,
 it may come from the West,
   it may come from the South,
and when  it does it's NEWS,
It's RAY Weapons with NEWS"





 New mural on Telegraph







Sixties theme park
shopping strip





 Asian hegemony
no signage in English



 Vampire pigeon english


Vampire Penquin
 Almost as lame as 
Vampire Weekend






When leaving a secure location
on telegraph Avenue,
check the sidewalk first







 Almost looks like a mail box




 I used to date a Beat chick
I'd show up on time and
she'd be wearing on her bathrobe
and some crazy socks




 The Creature






 Intrepid travelers



 It is,
it's a haunted mail box




 Those ridiculous hippies
disappeared without a trace
no lasting effect on society













 

 Patron of an organic kitchen
on Kitteridge




Going mobile




Parking for  
Motorcycle only






PUSSY RIOT
all propaganda 
no music,
I wish I was like you
easily misled








Expert on
foreign policy




 

What about her domestic policy?


 

Demented mail-box entity





 

Can't have enough
pumpkin shots




Sometimes I think
the police station
is watching me






Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Penetration Into the Temple





PENETRATION




 ...into the temple...



 ....of art...




... and commerce




 The Gospel of Judas
informs us that Jesus
told him of God's plan
for his Sacrifice
and the role that Judas
had to play in it



 I'll leave it to you
to unpack that
wisdom




 If you make the scene
The Flaneur recommends:




Sylvia Fein



The Berkeley Eye




 James Ensor
Moses in the bull rushes
Mythology
of the Old Testament



 A Bay Area woman artist
painted this scene of Moses
presented to the Egyptian queen



 Erastus Salisbury Field
envisions the parting
of the Red Sea



Marsden Hartley
Temple of the imagination





 Duchamp said
it's only art for a short
time then it's art history


 These two works by Pat O'Neal
are among the only three images
in this post that would then 
qualify as works of art





Looks inviting but
no rest for the wicked









Mark Rothko
Sit here in front
of a color portal
of fathomless depth




 Bruce Conner
some deal where people
lay on photo paper



 Gordon Onslow Ford
a kind and giving gentleman
I once had the fortune to visit with





Wolfgang Paalen
of the Surrealist Movement



 Joan Brown-Rat Dog
Mascot of Rat Bastard artists







 Feral zen
like me




 Jay deFeo
my heroine who said,
Nevermind the Expressionism
she was at heart a Symbolist



Rene Magritte 
Surrealist and subversive





 Franz Kline
my favorite Abstract-Expressionist,
 Although this one wouldn't be
the one I'd select from his catalogue raisonne,
a little too business




 The world as the body



 This looked almost-black on black
a Velvet Underground LP jacket





 Ray Johnson
original gangster
mail art icon





Reginald Marsh
"Barrel of Fun"
A coney island of the mind
 (phrase by Henry Miller not LF)





 Philip Guston
here he comes...



...and there he goes





Goya 
he always brings it




 James Ensor
Symbolist oceanic nocturne




 Do they know what this 
stairwell is like...

 

 ...to the well-medicated?
Being in a Stanley Kubrick film





The fantastic elevator
I'll ride it one day



 Some patriotic
African-Americana


 Bruce Conner

I spent some time with him as well,
The head librarian in North Beach
who took a film course with Bruce
described him as
"the Norman Bates of the
 San Francisco art scene"


 The fractured clock says 
it's time to move on


 Look for a blue-green exit sign
in the monochromatic stairwell




 UC is building this monstrosity
right next door






6 October 2016