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are you breathing, are you lucky enough

to be breathing

-Hettie Jones

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“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”

— Hettie Jones

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Lou Reed and a ceramic dog

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Janis Joplin, Woodstock, NY 1969

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Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan in Andy’s studio, New York, 1965

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Murray Riss, Brooklyn, NY, 1966.        

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The Beach Boys wreaking havoc in Paris, December 1964.

@New York Times 

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The Beats and the Squares. 1958.

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A Funky, Nighttime Love Story…

   Shake Him Till He Rattles, Malcolm Braly, 1964

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“to those who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism to those who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incarnations which in the yellow morning sun were stanzas of gibberish”

— Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

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Celebrating the week’s end with Shirley Clarke (looking through a camera and seated on the couch) at Andy Warhol’s Factory on Aug 31, 1965. Andy is to the right of his cow print. Edie Sedgwick & John Ashbery were also at the party. 📷: Fred McDarrah

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“I’ve been having some very mad thoughts since I saw you … visions that tell me there is no such thing as “life’s bitter mystery,” (Wolfe and others), but—never more clearly could I see that it is a beautiful mystery. And it is a mystery, you know. None of us understand really what we’re doing, whether it’s intentional or not, or whether we consider it this or that—it’s something else we’re doing, all the time, and very beautiful.”

Jack Kerouac in a letter to Allen Gingsberg, 18 Sept.‘48.

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reality sandwiches