What we have here are two posters advertising the January 14, 1967 “Human Be-In” at Golden Gate Park, which featured a principal Digger—poet/dancer/visionary Lenore Kandel—on the stage. Following the posters is a write-up for the event by journalist/novelist/poet Chester Anderson, who was new to town and new to the Diggers. I’m not sure if this document was ever published, and it’s not a “Diggers” document per se, but it’s an evocative piece of writing about the day, and representative of how the Diggers were thinking about the free, public events they were bringing into reality.

Click on the images below to see them at full size…

Description from YouTbe of clip: “An instrumental piece used for a tv-programme on the evening of the first moonlanding July 20, 1969. uninterrupted.”

This clip was apparently made by a fan in an attempt to simulate what s/he’d seen. The footage here is from a 1972 landing, the audio is from a bootleg recording of the TV broadcast.

David Gilmour tells The Guardian:

“We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

“The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead — it’s a nice, atmospheric, spacey 12-bar blues.”

More from David Gilmour at The Guardian, here.

More coverage at the New York Times

write with the tv on
building the houses
finance the education
save the nation
fraud the credit
use my number
file a claim
get a new card
find a new password
keep it a secret
forget about it
fall in the house of still
the tall frame no blame
listening to a voice within
the secret number
the subway train
the snow is god
and the snow is falling

JULY 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Moon Day.
*Binding of the Wreaths.

ALSO ON JULY 20 IN HISTORY…
1925 — Psychiatrist, revolutionist Frantz Fanon born, Port-de-France, Martinique.
1929 — Moorish Orthodox leader Noble Drew Ali dies, Chicago, Illinois.
1932 — Korean neo-Dadaist video artist Nam June Paik born, Seoul, Korea.
1939 — Prominent Spanish anarchist Francisco Ascaso Abadia dies, Ataranzas.
1969 — American Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon.
1975 — Viking I, first spacecraft from Earth, lands on Mars.
2004— Jewish anarcho-pacifist Toma Sik dies on Hungarian commune.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

JULY 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Dunmore Piory, England. Flitch Day. Beginning in 15th century, the monks offered a flitch of bacon as prize for any married couple who could prove to a jury of bachelors and maidens that they had lived together in harmony and fidelity for the past year. Very few took home the bacon.
*Ancient Egypt: New Year. Season of the Nile’s rising, season of inundation.
*Nicaragua: Revolution Day.
*Festival of Sirius.

ALSO ON JULY 19 IN HISTORY…
1500 — Hailstorm brings down ceilings of the Papal Palace, Rome.
1692 — Five women hanged as witches in Salem, Massachusetts.
1898 — New Left Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse born, Berlin, Germany.
1927 — Senegalese Sufi poet, mystic Amadou Bamba dies, Touba, Senegal.
1979 — Sandinista rebels overthrow Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

July 18-- Hunter S. Thompson
American gonzo journalist, druggie, counter-culture hero.
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JULY 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*U.S.: Railroad Day. The grand trunk line completed, 1853.

ALSO ON JULY 18 IN HISTORY…
1610 — Master painter of street life, Caravaggio, dies, Port Ercole, Tuscany, Italy.
1870 — Infallibility declared for Catholic popes speaking ex cathedra.
1922 — Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn born, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1937 — Iconoclastic bullshitter-slaying essayist Hunter S. Thompson born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1969 — Ted Kennedy offers Mary Jo Kopechne a lift home, Chappaquiddick, MA.
1998 — African-American activist historian John Henrik Clarke dies, New York City.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Above: a still from Ice (courtesy: Kramer Ink)

We don’t often run straight press releases here on the Arthur blog, but we’re gonna make an exception here. From our friends at New York City’s great Anthology Film Archives:

RETROSPECTIVE: THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER
July 17-23

* First NYC retro in a decade devoted to committed radical American filmmaker
* Prime mover behind Newsreel movement

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT of 1975’s MILESTONES will be shown!
The circulation of a new print of Robert Kramer’s 1975 film MILESTONES provides the perfect impetus for the first NYC retrospective in almost a decade devoted to one of the greatest and most committed of all radical American filmmakers. Among the prime movers behind the Newsreel movement, an underground media collective which produced some sixty documentaries and short films about radical political subjects and the anti-war movement, Kramer’s own early films are remarkable reports on revolutionary struggles in Latin America and Vietnam. Increasingly turning his attention to the state of the radical movement in the United States, he developed a highly distinctive approach, an intermixing of fiction and non-fiction filmmaking, which he would continue to pursue following his departure for Europe in the early 1980s. Based in Paris for the rest of his life (he would pass away in 1999), he nevertheless maintained a dialogue with the U.S., most memorably in his epic masterpiece, ROUTE ONE/USA.

Along with the new print of MILESTONES, this series will include all of his early American films, as well as ROUTE ONE/USA.

Special thanks to Adam Sekuler (Northwest Film Forum), Keja Kramer, Audrey Hilaire (Capricci Films), Kitty Cleary (MoMA), Richard Copans & Gaya Jiji (Les Films d’Ici), Marie-Pierre Lessard (Cinémathèque Québécoise), and Haden Guest & David Pendleton (Harvard Film Archive).

To be screened:

IN THE COUNTRY
1966, 65 minutes, 16mm.
During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and his alienation from former political associates. In what is essentially a two-character psychological drama, Kramer first articulates a theme – the need to reconcile private life with public commitment – that is central to his work.
“The film is a reflection of the way people use words to hide, to use them as masks and anti-truth. The real influence behind the film is [Dreyer’s] GERTRUD. I love that movie so much.” –Robert Kramer
–Friday, July 17 at 6:45 and Thursday, July 23 at 6:30.

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
MILESTONES
1975, 195 minutes, 35mm. Co-directed by John Douglas.
A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 70s, MILESTONES cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of those survivors of the American left who faced both personal and historic transitions in the period following the Vietnam War. Shot in a documentary style, the film ends with an actual childbirth, which serves in part to symbolize the birth of new forms of cultural resistance and of renewed faith in the possibility of progressive action.
“MILESTONES is as carefully arranged as a piece of music. …[U]sing images, emotions and, most frequently, words as themes, it bursts with unexpected life.” –Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES
–Friday, July 17 at 8:30, Saturday, July 18 at 3:15, and Thursday, July 23 at 8:00.

ICE
1969, 135 minutes, 16mm.
This pioneering work is the first of Kramer’s films to blur the boundaries between fiction and documentary, an approach Kramer would pursue throughout his subsequent career. An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife and stages guerilla attacks against a fictional fascist regime in the U.S. Kramer intercuts rhetorical sequences that explain the group’s philosophy of radical action and serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre. Shot in the gray landscape of NYC in a gritty cinéma-vérité style, ICE is reminiscent of Godard’s ALPHAVILLE. Jonas Mekas wrote that ICE was “the most original and significant American narrative film of the late sixties.”
–Saturday, July 18 at 7:00 and Monday, July 20 at 8:45.

FALN
1965, 25 minutes, 16mm. Co-directed by Peter Gessner.
A straightforward account of the birth of the revolutionary organization FALN. It traces the history of social and political unrest in Venezuela, which was aggravated by the interventionist policies of the United States and led to a split in relations between peasants and the forces in power.
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THE PEOPLE’S WAR
1969, 40 minutes, 16mm.
Shot in North Vietnam in the summer of 1969 and narrated by the people themselves, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war. It focuses on the Vietnamese tactics of survival and resistance – their educational system, military training, industrial and cultural institutions, and forms of entertainment.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
–Saturday, July 18 at 9:30 and Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00.

SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL
1979, 85 minutes, 16mm.
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control of the Salazar government. Shot from April 1974 to November 1976, it relates the conflicts in Portugal to the liberation movements of the United States and South Africa in these revolutionary activities.
–Sunday, July 19 at 2:00 and Tuesday, July 21 at 8:30.

THE EDGE
1967, 102 minutes, 16mm.
A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned group of political allies to face the threat of government counterintelligence and the temptations of middle-age security, and to reexamine their commitment to radical action.
–Sunday, July 19 at 4:15 and Monday, July 20 at 6:30.

ROUTE ONE/USA
1989, 255 minutes, 35mm.
In the magisterial ROUTE ONE/USA, Kramer and his long-time friend and alter-ego Paul McIsaac travel along the East Coast of the U.S. Through this extraordinary piece, Kramer attempts a film portrait of “a people, but not the masses”, focusing on particular people in particular circumstances to get beyond generalizations about “the American public”.
“Route 1 is a highway that runs from Canada to Key West, Florida, along the east coast of the USA. In 1936, it was the most traveled roadway in the world. In 1988, it runs beside super highways and through suburbs, a thin stretch of asphalt cutting through all the old dreams of a nation. But as the Doctor and I went down that road for five months, I had the impression that we were not driving through the past at all, but through a much more honest and dynamic revelation of the present. We were in the shadows of highways and great glass downtown centers, we were far from the movie images, we seemed to be on the edge and slipping fast into obscurity, but we were really in the present, surrounded by big trouble and hard times.” –Robert Kramer
–Sunday, July 19 at 6:30 and Wednesday, July 22 at 7:00.

This sheet was probably distributed after February 6, 1967 along the Haight. It would seem to be a direct follow-up to earl;ier broadsides warning of a “festival of busts” that the cops were supposedly planning (see “Storm Warning”, “Second Notice”). Evidently some folks got busted anyway. Click on the image below to see this document at full size…

July 17-- Billie Holiday
“Lady Day.” Great American jazz singer, performer.

JULY 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Epping Forest, England: Fairlop Fair.
*Feast of the Clockless Nowever.

ALSO ON JULY 17 IN HISTORY…
1794 — Biggest rebel victory in Whiskey Rebellion.
1887 — Dorothea Dix, reformer, suffragette, dies, Trenton, New Jersey.
1959 — Jazz singer Billie Holiday dies, New York City.
1967 — John Coltrane, jazz great, dies, New York City.
1975 — U.S. and U.S.S.R. couple in space orbit (Apollo/Soyuz).
2007 —Channel Tunnel Rail Link officially completed between England & France.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Kenneth ANGER screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on sunday***

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printing new beautiful posters! If you are interested contact me on www.aliapenner.com

This double-sided document was probably printed and distributed in early February, 1967. Click on the images below to see this document at full size. Sorry for the crap quality of these scans—we’re working on getting better ones.

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=238634

Sunday, July 19

Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia, S.F.
(415) 824-3890
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4128

7pm

$7

MCMAF & Arthur Magazine co-present

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda + Paradise Now

Take an alchemical journey with Ira Cohen’s The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, a mythosphere filtered through Mylar and worthy of Kenneth Anger’s most lysergic moments, with ritual music provided by ex-Velvet Undergrounder Angus MacLise. Also on the program is Marty Topp’s Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika. “Life, revolution and theater are three words for the same thing: an unconditional NO to the present society” - Julian Beck, Living Theatre co-founder

Layered Orders: Crowley’s Thoth Deck and the Tarot
(a personal narrative by Jesse Bransford)

Date: Friday, July 17th
Time: 7:30pm
UPDATE: Please note, that due to popular demand, a second time slot for this event has been added. Jesse will be giving this talk at 7:30pm and again at 9:00pm on Friday, July 17th. Seating is first come, first served.
Admission: Free

A deck given to his brother by his mother in 1986 sat in Jesse Bransford’s childhood bedroom from the early 90’s until recently, delivering itself into Bransford’s possession at an opportune moment…

The Tarot in general and Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot in particular represent a miasmic confluence of image and thought into a single structure that is both liberating and overwhelming in its scope. In creating the deck, Crowley (in collaboration with painter Lady Frieda Harris) sought to integrate the mythological structures of the major mystical systems of both Western and Eastern occult traditions and to bring them into line with contemporary scientific thinking. The symbolism of the cards blends Kabbalah, Alchemy, Astrology, Egyptian mythology, quantum physics and even the I-Ching in ways that are at the same time clear and utterly confounding.

In an image-soaked personal narration Bransford, whose research-based artwork has delved into many of the territories Crowley sought to unify, will discuss some of the basic concepts of Tarot symbolism, returning to Crowley’s deck as among the most total example of the cards’ syncretism and as the most controversial.

Jesse Bransford is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. He received a B.A. from the New School for Social Research, a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, both in 1996, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2000. He is currently a Master Teacher with the post of Undergraduate Director at New York University where he has been teaching since 2001, as well as a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.  His work is represented by Feature Inc. in New York, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Köln, and Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Images of his work, a complete bio and related articles can be seen at www.sevenseven.com, a website he has continuously maintained since 1997.

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Directions:  ***PLEASE USE NEW ENTRANCE (see below)***

Observatory is located at 543 Union Street at Nevins.

Please enter Observatory via doorway on 543 Union St.

R or M train to Union Street in Brooklyn: Walk two long blocks on Union (towards the Gowanus Canal) to Nevins Street. 543 Union Street is the large red brick building on right.

F or G train to Carroll Street: Walk one block to Union. Turn right, walk two long blocks on Union towards the Gowanus Canal, cross the bridge. 543 Union Street is the large red brick building on the left.

For more information, see observatoryroom.org

Via Phantasmaphile.

JULY 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*U.S.: Atomic Bomb Day.
*Festival of Convivial Tools.

ALSO ON JULY 16 IN HISTORY…
1862 — Racial justice advocate Ida B. Wells born, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
1850 — Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller dies, shipwrecked, Fire Island, New York.
1918 — Russian Czar Nicholas and family executed by Bolsheviks

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Most of the documents that we are presenting here are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “ComCo.” Anderson and Hayward were both Diggers, and ComCo was pledged to publish anything that the Diggers gave them to print. Diggers documents were almost never signed by individual Diggers. Sometimes they are the product of a single individual; sometimes they are a collaboration; sometimes they are summaries of discussions between one of more Diggers.

This sheet was distributed on February 5, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides. It is a direct follow-up to “Storm Warning”, issued on February 3, 1967. Click on the image below to see this document at full-size…

July 15– WALTER BENJAMIN
Visionary German cultural critic and philosopher. Victim of fascism. Destroyer of art’s aura. [Hashish visioneer.]

JULY 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Swaziland: Reed Dance Day
* Paris, France: Night Watch. Torchlight processions, bands in the street.
* England: St. Swithin’s Day: If it rains, it’ll rain for 40 days.
* Japan: Black Ship Festival commemorates Commodore Perry’s arrival in 1853.

ALSO ON JULY 15 IN HISTORY…
1381 — Peasants’ Revolt instigator John Ball dies, St. Albans, England.
1796 — Thomas Bulfinch, mythology man, born, Newton, Massachusetts.
1892 — Radical cultural theorist Walter Benjamin born, Berlin, Germany.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective