An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Life Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)
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Exposing PFAS “Forever Chemicals” – Global Contamination & One Lawyer’s Battle For Justice
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The Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats
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A Vessel for Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions with Roishetta Ozane
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Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering from the Trees
‘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!
surrealism Archive
Visual Poems, Silent Dances of the Maquette Theatre
Posted on May 22, 2017 | 1 CommentMatthew Anthony Stokes solo show Camouflage opened in Los Angeles, which illustrates his unique multi-disciplinary background in performance, corporeal dramaturgy, dance, sculpture, assemblage, film, photography, and poetry. Multiple videos from the experimental MAQUETTE Theatre, which he co-founded, create a visionary alternative universe replete with silent dances and visual poems that "unveil" ephemeral sculpture, including costumes, sets and masks.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.The Real Imagination of Artist Francis Bacon
Posted on October 25, 2016 | 2 CommentsThe Irish-British Francis Bacon was both reviled and revered throughout his life for his raw, grotesque and confronting figurative painting. This documentary explores the life of one of modern art’s most intriguing artists.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.Max Talley Story: A Secret Utopia Called Devorah
Posted on July 28, 2016 | 1 CommentMax Talley's surreal and disturbing story posits a lone traveler who stumbles into an eerie alternative universe, a quiet utopia, or a slow death trap. Read the entire story for free online at Chantwood Magazine.Dada as the Antidote to War and Capitalism
Posted on April 25, 2015 | 2 CommentsIn the sobering aftermath of World War I in Zurich, Dada preached a radical-yet-whimsical philosophy of creativity, a self-styled anti-art. Random and meaningless by definition, calculatedly irrational by design, for a short time the movement spread like revolt to the US and across Europe, voicing the bizarre protest of a brave new community of artists and writers.Pablo Picasso: Dangerous Art and Political Posturing in Paris
Posted on February 25, 2015 | 3 Comments"Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." One of the 20th century’s greatest painters was born in Málaga, Spain, but Jonathan Jones argues he came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imagination.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.J. G. Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition and the Modernist Motorcar Dystopia
Posted on December 27, 2013 | 2 Comments"The Atrocity Exhibition" is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual in how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. Watch the piece on Ballard and the Motorcar, that careens across the landscape of his controversial novel, "Crash."Francis Bacon About Town: Surrealist Painter, Worth Multi-Millions
Posted on December 2, 2013 | 3 CommentsFrancis Bacon, Irish born British painter, whose work recently auctioned for a record $142 million, in his own words in a 1985 documentary for British television, gambling, drinking, and talking about his influences.B. Traven’s “Macario” – Magical Realist Journey on Day of the Dead
Posted on September 7, 2013 | 4 CommentsThe Mexican film Macario (1960) weaves a tale of magical realism - with special appearances by God, the Devil and Death. It all begins on the Day of the Dead, when a campesino named Macario goes on a hunger strike. B. Traven, the mysterious German writer exiled in Mexico, wrote the story, inspired from indigenous folk tales.Foreshadows of Ghosts – The Landscapes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 1 CommentApichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai independent filmmaker, created an extraordinary experience, vision, dream, meditation with "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives."