An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
Posted on January 17, 2023 | 1 Comment -
Burning Cedar: Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways & Sovereign Wellness
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ZeroHouz: Ditching Fossil Fuels for a Zero Emissions Home
Posted on December 19, 2022 | 1 Comment -
Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
Posted on November 27, 2022 | No Comments
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Tales of the Fifth Dimension – The Fifth Fedora
Transformative tales that thrive in the world of Lost Souls, Fallen Angels, Shapeshifters, Extra-Planetary Dragons, and Lucky Charms. From an assortment of writers, now available from Borda Books and WilderUtopia Books is The Fifth Fedora: An Anthology of Weird Noir & Stranger Tales, curated by Jack Eidt and Silver Webb. BUY THE BOOK – CLICK HERE
‘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!
urban art Archive
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Poverty and Power, Scrawled on Walls
Posted on July 11, 2017 | 2 CommentsLiving and dying close to the edge in the 1980s Manhattan world of art and culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat moved from guerrilla street artist to producing innumerable works worth millions, until his drug-induced end in 1988. -
Art of Black Flag: Angst and Rebellion Symbolized
Posted on September 9, 2014 | 2 CommentsPunk Rock: the thrashing, slamming, moshing...and the art. First you smash all the institutions, but then find the institutions have enshrined you. Here is a history of Black Flag told through the mesmerizing and beyond-satirical art of Raymond Pettibon. -
Paul Gauguin: Nature and Primitivism as Mythical Notions
Posted on April 14, 2014 | 5 CommentsPaul Gauguin, the bourgeois-turned-bohemian artist who left France for Tahiti, reveals a darker, almost menacing mythological vision, in contrast to his exploitative picture-postcard fantasy-native Polynesian paintings for which he is known. The exhibition continues at MoMA in New York until June. -
Banksy: Satirical Outlaw, Graffiti Bomber, Mockumentarian
Posted on February 10, 2014 | 3 CommentsHiding in the back alleys and behind a hoodie, he stencils freehand Gorillas in Pink Masks. An international art sensation makes a film about making a film about a guy who wants to become an international art sensation. The pseudonymous street artist Banksy has turned his well-marketed cultural irreverence into a boom time in the discontent industry. -
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. -
26-Foot Marilyn of The Desert
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsOn the Plaza of American Life, where does 26-foot Marilyn stand? For now, she's straddling Palm Springs tourists. Is she this years' ceramic pink flamingo replacement, soon to be on everyone's front lawn? Let's hope so. America's new moral umbrella is Monroe's revenge. Oow, some do like it hot. -
Detroit Heidelberg Project – Renaissance Through Urban Art
Posted on September 23, 2010 | 10 CommentsAn urban conceptual art installation called The Heidelberg Project, named after its street location in the formerly central core of Detroit, Michigan, transforms a neighborhood first devastated by the 1967 riots, plagued by unemployment, poverty, financial redlining, racial segregation, then abandoned, burned, and largely demolished but for a few homes set among open grassy fields.