Once Were Teenagers

Have you ever been curious of seeing how some legendary rock artists looked when they were teenagers? Well, begin to see the ones depicted below (and try to recognise them...), then give a look to the complete gallery.
(thanks Maurizio!)

(Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen...)

New Prints & Paintings from Naoto

Visionary artist Naoto Hattori has realized new prints and paintings. Click to see and in case even order something...

(below: Wood Nimph - 13 x 14 inches, edition of 50)

Seriously Funny Print Ads

When print ads are smart and funny....See the complete series here.

(click on images to see in larger format)

Boom: Collective Shamanism

The Boom Festival is a biennial alternative festival held in Portugal since 1997. The 2010 edition will be August 18/26. If you're searching for a cool place to go next summer, the Boom Festival is definitely the place to go...

(video via teleomorph)

Cottage in Negril

Cottage in Negril by Duane Stephenson (from August Town album)...A cool version of Tyrone Taylor's classic reggae tune...

The Psychedelic Art of Witkacy

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (a.k.a. Witkacy), born in Warsaw in 1885 e died - for an intentional drug OD - in 1939, was a Polish painter, illustrator, photographer, philosopher, musician and novelist. I met for the first time this interesting and unusual artist on the pages of the (now unfortunately deceased) Entheogen Review and recently he picked up my interest again repaging that same old issue of the magazine.
The article where Witkacy was mentioned, showed two paintings made under the effects of peyote and mescaline in 1929. The artist extensively experimented with various psychoactive substances - alcohol, cocaine, mescaline and peyote - and used them to get inspiration and access the visionary dimensions he then put on the canvas. Many consider him the first modern artist to work under the influence of classical psychedelics.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the above mentioned paintings on the Web; if interested, one can order the Entheogen Review back issue (Vol. XIII, nr. 1, Vernal Equinox 2004) on their site


You can find other Witkacy's paintings here and bio and exhaustive infos here

The Visionary Art of Andrew Brandou

Andrew Brandou, another interesting pop-surrealist artist who deserves attention. You can find a lot of his colourful paintings on his site, but unfortunately you can't save images there, just see them...