OT Sunday- Where was I?
Oh yeah I was nattering on about art, street and otherwise, mostly alternative and counterculture. I checked my 'essays' and found I gave up the ghost sometime during the surreal election. So now I'm back to do the Sunday OT. I'm finding during this madness that I'm once again turning to art. Old and new.
Mainstream music seems to have bitten the dust and is just lame and corporate. Alt? I'm too old to know but it seems to me to be a bunch of whinny, twee wankers. Artificially intelligent? Nah it's freaking stupid inducing drivel. Sent from the clouds. Speaking of which WTF happened to Shepard Fairey? After his strong OBEY art he is now cranking out pictures of women for the fake pussy hat resistance. Hey us artist's need to make a living, right?
So this Sunday I'm re-posting one of my art and music OT's. Nest week I will catch up to where I was and post some brilliant modern? art street and protest. Dag that's a stretch as it so hard to sort out the 'resistance' from the absolute nonsense masquerading as resist. Here you go a real crowd pleaser from 2016, the year we all got screwed regardless of where you stand on the surreal landscape we are all dealing with.
Here you go....
I realise there is a surreal election going on. Now I love surrealism in the visual arts but this election is some damn scary, sicko, fun house of super realism were all looking at. Sometimes it's fun and helpful to look back not in anger through the lens of popular culture. The cultural art all of them are expressions of each era that are as diverse as the ones we see now.
Right now due to this circus we tend to see and comprehend the world through demographics. They throw them around like crazy to obscure the truth. Fact's with links please. Turns out Snopes? is on the take too, surprise surprise. These are not truths they are measurements of our misery that get coded, tabulated, sliced and diced and stuck on the net as the only real truth. The people in gray then regurgitate the twisted data as the scientific absolute truth. Turns out we all hate each other and want a strong leader to do nothing at all except the 'inevitable' truth. The one they all voted for to begin with forever.
So here is superficial kinda arty look back of outsider art? stuff from the 70's.
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
Hunter Thompson 1971 Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
Some art that really happened
Roy Lichtenstein 1970
So here's Barney Bubble a gem of an artist from the 70's
More Barney
Even more Barney
Hawkwind: Urban Guerilla single ad (1973).
Here's Nick Lowe's first band's album cover by Barney Bubbles
More...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/arts/design/07album.html
and even more Armed Forces
Tunes 70's style
Elvis
Sly
So chat and go at it people it is an open thing...
Comments
Thanks for the art!
I love art. Growing up in the art colony of Taos gave me an appreciation at a young age. I would hang in the galleries for something to do. Looking forward to more.
Have a lovely day!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
@Raggedy Ann Wow! What a cool way to
Wow! What a cool way to grow up.
It really was, OPOL.
I was fortunate in that regard. I'd spend hours in the galleries and museums. There was always something new to absorb. I buy art to this day.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Thanks for stopping by Raggety Ann
I too grew up in a family and local that promoted art and music. I went to art classes starting at an early age. The Pasadena Art Museum near us offered wonderful children's classes. It was a great museum. I won a Saturday scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute in downtown LA in high school. I spent a lot of time in galleries, arty coffee shops and museums as I lived in the Los Angeles area. Fun times indeed. Taos sounds even better as it is a place that's famous for art.
Welcome back.
Love the diversity of the different OT writers bring. Just promise me you won't post any pictures of people walking on a glass bridge over the 100 mile drop to hell. lol, makes me want to hang on.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I'll refrain from
posting pics of people going up or down terrifying, dizzying heights. I do like looking at them although I can barely go 3 rungs up a ladder to clean the gutters. Vicarious trills? Next week I'll get into art and music closer to this era as I have collected a large library of art most of it either political or of the people style. Graffiti,posters, album covers etc. from around the world.
Hey shaharazade.
Glad to see your post. Yeah, it's been crazy, eh?
Good to see you OPOL
Yes it's beyond crazy. Seriously if you read a book or saw a movie with this plot line it would be hard to suspend your disbelief. Well actually I can't at this point believe most of what they say is real or 'news'.
Lol. I went to wiki to read about 'suspension of disbelief' and the article had a disclaimer that said it needed an expert on thinking to fix it. I think that we need to stop turning our brains over to devices,(my hand brain as Shah calls his Android) apps, bots, pols, pundirts and the likes of google and the other purveyors of AI. Artificial Intelligence is an oxymoron if you think about this absurd concept. Especially as even getting the spill chicken to work is an exercise in frustration.
This song has been going through my head lately.
Hello, Shaz!
I have been looking at 60s poster art and Art Nouveau for decorating my bedroom. I don't want anything too neon-bright, but I love some of the old posters.
I will need to get prints, though, because the originals are mondo expensive.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Double post gremlin strikes again
I recommend Mucha
or any of original artist's from the Art Noveau period.
Mucha's colors are much more subtle in print form then on the net. All color on the net is way brighter and gaudier then in print. I bet you could find a Art Noveau poster print on pintrist that isn't too expensive. Here's a hippie era poster in the Noveau style by Victor Morosco. He's one of my favorite poster artists from the 60's. As he's still alive and kicking his work may be expensive because of copyrights. Art over 100 years old is usually up for grabs.
@shaharazade I love Mucha. I'll look
I love Mucha. I'll look into Victor Morosco--that's just the kind of 60s art poster I like.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I am also really fond of these album covers:
I like their music, too.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good morning Shaz & welcome back. A great way to
start the day. Thank you. Heres some accidental art from my travels -
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Waking up to the "lame and corporate" mainstream music
I watched Eurovision yesterday and some of it was pretty lame and corporate but the winner, Salvador Sobral of Portugal, was pretty good. Here's his encore after he won the award, singing with his sister, who wrote the song:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXodL-oQGws]
Beware the bullshit factories.
Welcome back to OT, Shaz...
love the art!
Green-room motto: suspension of disbelief; relax, take the energy from your hands and break through the 'forth wall,' make 'em laugh and make 'em cry.
Happy day to you and All.
The fourth wall
is my stock and trade smily7. As a lapsed artist married to a musician entertainer that green room advise is what it's about. Hard to do with politics when it gets to this level of just plain evil. One of my favorite books ever was The Tin Drum. I remember Oscar the dwarf saying (paraphrase)when the fascist's take over the artists have two choices get under the podium and hide or get on it and join the chorus. Me, I'm hiding. This might be a fbad choice. What's needed now is more artists and people of every stripe standing up vocally and not going along with their damn global evil.