Bikers & Hippies...1960's grimy documentary about modern day outlaw

"As tough as they look, not one of these cat's can cut in modern day society...and they like it like that" So says the verging on the crazed voice over to the intro to this bizarre documentary about the menace that was BIKERS & HIPPIES!!


Bikers, Hippies from Django's Ghost on Vimeo.

VBS.TV

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/soft-focus-uk/billy-childishArt, Technology, Science, Music, Underground Film, Internet, Video, Environmentalism, Fringe Politics, Sex, Communication, Design, Ideas, Drugs, Animals, People, Interviews, Views, Arty Americans, German Inventors, Culture etc...It's all here at www.VBS.TV
Billy Childish interview link: 
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/soft-focus-uk/billy-childish

Danny Lyon, Photographer and Outlaw Biker

This is a must for anyone interested in counter culture/youth culture/drug culture/outlaws/hell's angels and everything in between.The '60's biker images are among the best I've ever seen, and his images of the destruction of Lower Manhattan are ghostly, bleak and beautiful.

Danny Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. At age twenty-one, he joined the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle club and traveled the American Midwest. From 1963 to 1967, he shared the bikers’ lifestyle and took photos along the way. In 1967, he completed his first book entitled, Bikeriders.

The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, Danny’s second book, was published in 1969 and originally sold for one dollar. It documents the large-scale demolition taking place throughout Lower Manhattan in 1967. Included are photographs of soon to be demolished streets and buildings, portraits of the neighborhood’s last remaining stragglers and pictures from within the demolition sites themselves.

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Drug Culture Book covers

Some choice examples of publishers cashing in on the social panic around the touchy subject of drugs and society...and I quote 'The last in a series of reports by the Rev. David Wilkerson on his efforts to use the techniques of a fundamentalist, charismatic religion to save teen-age dope addicts, radicals and campus revolutionaries from themselves'. Say no more.

Turn me on Man...

Purple Violet Squish...

 Happening at San Remo...

Blotter barn LSD blotter art gallery

Blotter barn LSD blotter art gallery....More amazing art to blow the mind with. This site is definitely worth a visit for anyone interested in the pop/drug culture of the past 30 years. This is a whole pop art sub culture in need of serious investigation. The designs work on many different levels from large reprints of the sheets of blotters, to the close ups of the LSD stain patterns and ink deficiencies, and reveal a side to drug culture art previously ignored. The site also works as a living document of the infamous blotter art collection of Mark McCloud. The collection, also known as the Institute of Illegal Images is the most comprehensive collection of printed or embossed LSD blotter paper in the world.
Follow the link to get experienced: http://blotterbarn.com/index.html

Orange sunshine acid blotter art...

Strange Acid Blotter Gallery..

I found this strange little site purely by accident. It is, as the title suggests a gallery of Acid Blotter designs from the 80's, 90's and present day. Where this stuff comes from God only knows. There's also some stuff about research chemicals masquerading as acid, psychoactive pioneers etc. As I said strange little site. Some really cool designs, I'm thinking maybe stamp collectors could get into this stuff, the designs not the acid. The amount of detail on those little 5mm squares is pretty impressive, considering they were probably printed on some ink jet printer at the back of some underground laboratory. As someone interested in both graphic design and pop/drug culture, I find this stuff fascinating. Time for that acid blotter coffee table book?
http://www.blotterart.net/gallery/LSDphotos/blotter

The Beyond Within...Documentary about the History of LSD.

A rational, non sensationalist and in depth look at the history of LSD. No matter your view on this unusual chemical, this objective documentary looks at all aspects of it's use since it's synthesis by Albert Hoffman in Switzerland during world war 2. The film takes us through it's use as a psychiatric tool both by the medical fraternity and the military, the experiment's carried out at Harvard by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, it's introduction to the public via Ken Kessey and The Merry Pranksters and it's effect on Western music, art and popular culture. This is the first of three parts, all available for free download from Google Video.

LSD tabs in blotter form.

"The Beyond Within". Part one of three.