Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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Unicorn costumes, sole fish, and lions: how surrealists dinner partied in 1941. "The party is surrealism but them frogs is real.“
After a recent Skype in the classroom session with TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie about the power of social entrepreneurship and philanthropy, a new conversation emerged.. The class decided to examine the worldviews of the central characters they’d been studying and identify what each protagonist was (or wasn’t thinking) about his/her social responsibility.
San Francisco’s Beat Museum Welcomes You
“Everything happened here,” says founder, Jerry Cimino, dramatically. “We call this intersection, Broadway and Columbus, the center of the universe.”
Through the museum’s quirky collection of more than 1,000 photos, rare books, paintings, records, posters and artifacts, visitors learn about the cold war context of the Beat Generation’s emergence, the importance of jazz to their writing, their rejection of the status quo and their influence on the counterculture of the 1960s. There are also biographical displays on each of the major figures, including Kerouac, Cassady (the charismatic ex-con who was at the center of the movement), the poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelist William S. Burroughs. Artifacts include a plaid jacket worn by Kerouac and the referee shirt that Cassady wore later in his quirky career, when he drove the novelist and counterculture figure Ken Kesey’s bus, Furthur.
Thanks, BJ
Spotted last night in Los Angeles: hacked road sign eloquently promotes the virtues of great literature.
It has been said that parents do not surround their kids with books like they used to. Instead, they just buy them a computer and a Xbox and call it a day. That if you physically put endless tomes of literature in front of a curious mind, usually they’ll find their way to reading them.
Might be.
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
-Thomas Edison
“We’re lost, but we’re making good time.” - Yogi Berra
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