An Array of Utopian Flowers
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LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
Posted on April 2, 2021 | 1 Comment - Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment - Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment - Foray into Fungi: The Art of Farming
Posted on March 18, 2021 | 1 Comment - Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
experimental film Archive
Prefabricated Surrealism in ‘Dreams That Money Can Buy’
Posted on December 5, 2016 | 1 CommentWatch 'Dreams That Money Can Buy', a Surrealist Film by Dada filmmaker Hans Richter, painter and photographer Man Ray, conceptualist Marcel Duchamp, sculptor Alexander Calder, and painter-sculptor-filmmaker Fernand Léger.Art of Collective Madness in Salvador Dalí’s ‘Impressions’
Posted on September 27, 2016 | 3 CommentsSalvador Dalí and filmmaker José Montes-Baquer, in honor of underappreciated Surrealist Poet Raymond Roussel, shot a fake documentary of an non-expedition to Mongolia in search of gigantic mythic hallucinogenic mushrooms.Improvised Beat Generation Dreams of John Cassavetes
Posted on August 17, 2016 | 2 CommentsCassavetes' Shadows "improvises" Beat Generation Manhattan, where two brothers and a sister, black but inexplicably played by two white actors, careening off track to scaled-back sketches of Charles Mingus' saxophone jazz yearnings. Black and white neon signs blink and the old Times Square looms like the otherworld, naturalistic cordial racism separating the chosen from the downtrodden, both dreaming of making it, of creating something.Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Emotions Broke Noisy Ground
Posted on March 7, 2015 | 2 CommentsThe first band ever to be called "industrial," Throbbing Gristle's confrontational live performances and use of disturbing imagery, mixed with pre-recorded tape samples and special effects, created a distorted sound performance, quite ground-breaking in its time. Spinoff bands Psychic TV and Chris and Cosey continued to shock and beautify into the 1980s.Lucifer Rising: God of Light and Color in Experimental Film
Posted on October 13, 2014 | 2 CommentsLucifer Rising is Kenneth Anger's portrait of the love generation, the dawning of a new age and morality. Inspired by the ancient solar religions and conceived with occultist Aleister Crowley's vision of the Age of Aquarius.Lady Lazarus: The Hurt Imagination of Sylvia Plath
Posted on April 25, 2013 | 3 CommentsRobert Pinsky on Sylvia Plath: "Thrashing, hyperactive, perpetually accelerated, the poems of Sylvia Plath catch the feeling of a profligate, hurt imagination, throwing off images and phrases with the energy of a runaway horse or a machine with its throttle stuck wide open."
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