Outsider Art
Cecil Jensen’s ELMO
I'm about thirty pages into this book, and can't recommend it highly enough. Pure hilarious surrealism.
Read a long article about the strip here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 11, 2019 -
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Category: Comics, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1940s
Marion Stokes and Her 70,000 VHS Tapes
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 28, 2019 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Technology, Television, Outsider Art, Twentieth Century
Prince Leonard Casley, RIP
Full article here.
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 14, 2019 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Curmudgeons and Contrarianism, Government, Unauthorized Dwellings, Outsider Art, Performance Art, Foreign Customs, Obituaries, 1970s
Jade Stone & Luv
The sole album from male-female duo Jade Stone & Luv is a lost gem from the heart of the psychedelic 1970s. Composed and self-produced in Nashville, “Mosaics; Pieces Of Stone” went unnoticed by the music industry upon release. Fortunately for us, it didn’t disappear forever, but simply went into retreat, biding its time. While almost unknown outside specialist circles, “Mosaics” has been an underground cult favorite for many years. The combination of top-level songwriting, skillful guitar/keyboard arrangements and soaring vocals is just too impressive to ignore. And beyond these obvious qualities, the album has something subtle and unique, a magnetic power that keeps drawing the listener back. One of Jade Stone & Luv’s earliest advocates was the legendary New York City musicologist Paul Major. Here’s a typical Major impression of the music on “Mosaics”:”Groovy love vibes thru a prism of jade statues in swinging singles apartment complex action… Cadillac with fuzzy dice, feather boa, lotsa cigarette burns, stale perfumed ashen air. This album in the 8-track player at 5 AM with someone you don’t even know passed out in the backseat, as you head to the diner to meet up with an early-bird Lava Lite salesman who deals pills on the side. Bubbly champagne molecules become the plastic vinyl booths in dim-lit dive bars; it’s crackerbox post-war suburban low-rent psychedelic…”
Source of quote.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 09, 2019 -
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Category: Music, Outsider Art, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Stanisław Szukalski
Stanisław Szukalski was a painter and sculptor who also developed the pseudoscientific historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from a post-deluge Easter Island and that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of the Yeti. He illustrated this theory in his works.
Article source.
Artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 13, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, War, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Europe, Twentieth Century
Bathtubs Over Broadway
A new documentary about "industrial musicals" is just hitting selected theaters.The film's homepage.
The book that served as the source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 27, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Theater and Stage, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
The Palace of Depression
Article here.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 02, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Outsider Art, 1930s
George Barris’s Bob Hope Golf Cart
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 23, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Motor Vehicles, Sports, Golf, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Head
Tiny Town, PA
Homepage here.
News article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 24, 2016 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hobbies and DIY, Outsider Art, 1930s
Bob “Bazooka” Burns
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 28, 2016 -
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Category: Inventions, Outsider Art, 1940s, Comedians
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