Stills from Down by the Riverside by Jud Yalkut, 1966

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Yayoi Kusama's Mirrored Infinity Room/Box

"One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle."
-Yayoi Kusama

Abritaine (1972) by John McCracken

Large Dose of Joshua Light Show

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A Few Paintings by Issac Abrams

THIS MAN--man--has got some paintings in the Summer of Love exhibit (organized by Tate London) which is up at the Whitney RIGHT NOW thru September 16th. I HIGHLY--highly--recommend a visitation.

The Dark Side of the Summer of Love

This article in the Playboy July 2007 issue actually delivers what is promised by the title. And the cover illustration is by the incredible Yuko Shimzu (who I studied illustration under at SVA for a year). Click on the pages to be directed to readable scans.












I dug up the flyer, mentioned in the article, that was distributed on Haight. It expresses the same dreary realities created by the mass countercultural migration to the Haight-Ashbury in the latter 60's... in beautiful and hopeless hippie colloquy: