#counterculture
it is genuinely funny when tumblr users suggest combining types of fashion that they think are totally disparate and it’s something goths have been doing for decades
This goes deeper than you’d think…a lot of the time when tumblr throws together an outfit out of like a Victorian blouse and a corset and strappy pants and boots. Or something. That’s just what goths might wear to the club, black really isn’t the only color on the goth palette…even that wizard outfit post with the robe and the thigh-high boots is something you could wear to a goth club without looking out of place
All those posts from a couple of years ago joking about “teehee goth cowboys uwu” like Fields of the Nephilim didn’t make that one of THE standard looks for masc goths since the mid 80s.
Pirates? We’ve done it. Combined with our ethnic dress? We’ve done it. Candy colors? Done it. Anything historical? Overdone at this point. 1920s? Also seen it. Hippie? Done. Rockabilly? Sick of it. Fantasy inspired? Extremely done. Futuristic? Extremely done too.
Circus? DOES THE 00s DARK CABARET AESTHETIC MEAN NOTHING TO YOU?
80s?THAT’S HOW IT STARTED.
I have seen every fashion described in this post at goth clubs over the decades. Yes, including the wizard robe thing and thigh-high boots, worn unironically.
I mean, “hippie” was largely “Old West” (Hollywood-style) combined with “ethnic” clothing primarily from Africa and South Asia. My father, a proto-hippie (grew up in Berkeley, but in the ‘50s, not the '60s) would frequently wear a Nigerian buba shirt with a cowboy hat, Levi’s and cowboy boots. Random combinations of fashion have been associated with counterculture movements for at least a century.
WE CAN’T PUT IT TOGETHER. IT IS TOGETHER.
Last semester a Lyman Briggs College class (LBC is a residential college here at MSU that bridges the humanities and the sciences with interdisciplinary teaching and research) used The Last Whole Earth Catalogas one of its texts.
Students used an online version of the catalog, but were also encouraged to visit Special Collections where we have a number of issues and editions of that venerable icon of the sixties. I still recall the hours and hours I pored over the first Last Whole Earth Catalog I purchased in 1971. I was in VISTA at the time (Volunteers in Service to America) ready to change the world for the better and finding the Catalog as a guide to do just that. I was pretty successful with a neighborhood garden (the organic part would have to wait) among other endeavors, but the backyard yurt was a total flop. Seeing students almost a half century later looking through the catalogs in the reading room was deeply satisfying, especially when one student said that holding and seeing the print copy was so much better than the digital copy. Yes!
After one of the LBC students was finished, I spent some time revisiting the Catalog and found this lovely inscription from Laurie to Debbie dated December 30, 1972. Wherever these fellow travelers are today I hope they are well and would take as much satisfaction as I do knowing their Catalog is still being used and teaching, maybe even inspiring another generation.
~Peter
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ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF CLANDESTINE PSYCHEDELIC & METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE (1998) by Uncle Fester
Published by Loompanics Unlimited
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What It’s Like
I know what it’s like…
To question my own existence,
To be crushed a million times over,
To hurt others with my selfish pride,
To be dead inside.
But now I also know what it’s like…
To be freed from a debt I can’t ever pay,
To be pursued at my absolute worst,
To be loved with a love I can’t ever earn,
To be forgiven when I should be destroyed.
Because I found out what it’s like…
To be healed because He was wounded,
To be set free because He was chained,
To be alive because He died,
To be hopeful because He is risen.
That’s why I know what it’s like…
To be whole though I’m lacking,
To be joyful though I’m suffering,
To be secure though I’ve been abandoned,
To be still though I’m being shaken.
And I pray that you,
Yes, you,
Will find out what it’s like, too.
#Jesus
#John 3:16
ok i truly do think that a reason i’m so strongly attached to cruella as a black woman is bc she heads a movement that’s all about giving people the punishment they deserve which is very much a goal that arises when it comes to dismantling white supremacy. i’m a huge megan (thee stallion) stan and was reading her essay ab misogynoir. one of her main points in it, as i explain above in a posted directed for another platform, is that causing trouble- upsetting people by holding them accountable through punishment and challenging their bigoted beliefs- is necessary for social justice and this is something cruella wholeheartedly believes. i also notice from megan’s instagram posts that she aligns w many anti-hero characters (she dressed as cruella for halloween, said specifically that she loves a lot of anti-heroes, etc) are wrongly vilified. i can’t speak for her but for me, i know i do this because as a black woman, i am perpetually vilified for speaking out against misogynoir and not being kind to those who display it. i’m told i’m evil for not REWARDING actual evil so i can empathize w those who are treated similarly (not coming from the same motivation unless they too are a black women ofc but).
Orgy Orgnizer pin I found at the flea market years ago
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New portrait study in a long time! Sorry about the gap in updates here but the recent Spiel-fair and preparations for the upcoming ComicCon keep me busy.
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In between that I only managed to lean back in the evenings to begin with reading the Sandman and so it was no surprise that „Death“ has become my favorite character so far, the impressionstic approach here wants to portrait her „upbeat“-personality through the colorful tints.
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The Portrait is based on a reference but I can’t find the model at this point, will add the info later if I find it again. It differs except for the posture which inspired me to give this a go.
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So no real „Halloween“-Post from me just a nod in that direction, hope you have a nice time.
Cheers
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#halloween #portrait #portraitpainting #sandman #comicart #impressionismstudy #digitalpainting #Neilgaiman #Sandmancomic #Arsfantasio #fantasyart #counterculture #death #dccomics #vertigocomics (hier: † Dreams †)
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Henry Rollins/Black Flag (1982) photographed by Glen E. Friedman
Ian MacKaye/Minor Threat (1982) photographed by Glen E. Friedman
In this week’s episode, I talk about Underground Comix, an artistic movement spawned by the social upheaval of the 1950s and 1960s. Next week, I’ll talk about some of the artists in a little more details–in this video, I focus on history and context.
Research, useful sites, etc:
- READ: Two books I found really useful in researching for this piece were Rebel Visions:The Underground Comix Revolution by Patrick Rosenkranz andUnderground Classics: The Transformation of Comics Into Comix by Denis Kitchen and James Danky. Both include voices from members of the movement as well as great illustrations and scans.
- VISIT: If you happen to live near San Luis Obispo, CA; Columbia, MO; or Spokane, WA you’re in luck! Cal Poly holds the Moore Collection of Underground Comics, featuring hundreds of original comix, posters, adverts, and catalogs. The University of Missouri has Frank Stack’s papers, including letters between himself and other comix artists–as well as comix. Washington State University holds Lynn Hansen’s HUGE Underground comix collection, which also includes zines, mini comics, and micro comics.
- CHECK OUT:Comix Joint has a huge collection of notes about and reviews of underground comix (the top of the page is the navigation…search by title)
- PROSECUTE: Learn more about the obscenity cases I discuss (as well as newer ones), thanks to CBLDF (a program Denis Kitchen helped found)
- WATCH: Learn a little more about US counterculture in the 1960s in this great little It’s History video.
Janis Joplin photographed by Jim Marshall in her apartment on Lyon Street in San Francisco, 1968.
New Janis Joplin Biography Reveals The Hard Work Behind The Heart
In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys’ club.
“At that point in time there weren’t too many women taking center stage,” biographer Holly George-Warren says. “Janis created this incredible image that went along with her amazing vocal ability. … [She] was very, very different than most of the women that came before.”
On stage, Joplin oozed confidence, sexuality and exuberance. It all seemed so effortless, but George-Warren describes Joplin as a bookworm who worked hard to create her “blues feelin’ mama” musical persona.
“She was a real scholar of music. … She didn’t want people to know how hard she worked,” George-Warren says. “She wanted people to think she was just this vessel, or this megaphone, or something that was just up there on stage, and the music and emotions were just coming out of her.”
George-Warren says she decided to write about Joplin after listening to tapes from the Columbia Records vault of the singer’s recording session with producer Paul Rothchild for the album Pearl. (The album was released posthumously in 1971, following Joplin’s fatal overdose in 1970.)
“Rothchild [is] known for being this very authoritarian producer, but … Janis was just coming up with idea after idea,” George-Warren says. “She was basically co-producing this record with him. And that turned my head around. … I realized that that part of her story had not been told.”
George-Warren’s new biography isJanis.
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For my photography class I did series of self-portraits in which I attempted to portray culture and counterculture for the past 10 decades. This is the product of that idea…
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An injured orc finds more than she bargains for when she wanders out of the wilderness and into a remote commune.
Fairmeadow is a pilot chapter of an independent comic project I started during Covid quarantine, inspired by tabletop RPGs, the Pacific Northwest, and the communes & counterculture of the late 1960’s. While I develop the rest of the project, I hope you’ll enjoy this 20-page story as a one-off!
Updates weekly for the next 8 weeks.
(Content warning: facial injury, swearing, and mild violence.)
FAIRMEADOW IS HERE!
I will be updating new pages weekly, but you can grab the whole chapter right now on Gumroad.
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![Karin Sverenius Holm (1950-2017) — Untitled [oil on panel, 1971]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8281430389794850318caff127ad145a/7964a6bf8ca53ac2-0c/s1280x1920/79f507b1a3017a3dfc50854e969f29d51bcf2de6.jpg "Karin Sverenius Holm (1950-2017) — Untitled [oil on panel, 1971]")
