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...