#counterculture art

[sandboxworld]

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Biography by Dan Nadel

The first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel. It’s somewhat surprising that Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life is the first full-length biography of the artist, given the significant…

[negativegrl]

the book that inspired the band - a pulp novel on sexual deviants in the early 1960s

[jareckiworld]

B. Moyer — "Dream of Me" (blacklight poster, 1968)

[tyger-land]

ᴇᴅɪᴇ sᴇᴅɢᴡɪᴄᴋ, ᴀɴᴅʏ ᴡᴀʀʜᴏʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄʜᴜᴄᴋ ᴡᴇɪɴ NYC, 1965, by Burt Glinn.

[undergroundrockpress]

One of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s : Rick Griffin by Elaine Mayes (San Francisco, 1968).

[soggy-fishsticks]

I FINALLY FINISHED THIS!!!!!!!! I might tweak some of the wording, but this is for my school project explaining what goth is ☺️🫶

[mourntomidnight]

Tbh I think the fast fashion conversation should involve poor ppl but not in any way in the form of shaming but more like: “you are being taken advantage of by large corporations that have women and children enslaved to make crappy clothes in excessive amounts that have literal lead that will damage ur body in serious ways that ur pressured to buy via influencers that form a parasocial relationship with you and don’t care about you to overconsume them in large amounts that won’t last and have to be thrown away at some point and all that ends up fucking the environment. Plus, the cycle of consumerism is damaging to ur finances to keep u in poverty and mental health of always wanting more but never satisfied.”

I am saying right now you don’t need to throw out fast fashion items you currently own, if they fall apart, they can be repurposed. I am also saying I’ve been guilty of shopping fast fashion but am also making a commitment to eliminate fast fashion purchases and mindset in my life. The root cause of these fast fashion corpos to keep doing what they do is purely based on you buying from them and you, the consumer in this capitalist world, have the power to change that. Obviously there’s little you can do to avoid big oil or buying things made with prison labor without serious direct action but the fashion industry is one that is by design meant to be maintained by mindless consumerism and overconsumption.

If you are poor, please do whatever within ur means to avoid fast fashion, whether it’s buying from thrift stores other than goodwill and just buying less clothes and focusing on more important things in ur life. A better tomorrow is still possible if you allow it.

[disease]

INDUSTRIALNATION #18 [‘90s/00s]

[tankgirlfan23]

NEW TANK GIRL ART BY HEWLETT

[calendulacraft]

~ zine culture and handmade art are more important than ever ~

The possibilities of using Artificial Intelligence in the arts has been a hot topic as of late. And of course it must be! The advent of AI generated images is really changing the art scene. The threat of being replaced by AI in many professions entices jitters for us all.

As an artist myself I am not immune to feeling uneasy on the outset of this new era. And I wonder …

• Could the advent of AI generated images create a renewed passion for hand drawn and handmade art? •

As a blogger I publish most of my work digitally. Even so I still desire to continue to create physical art as a means of sharing my writing alongside my articles here and social media. Many times I have created a story or post that felt so inspired it went onto to make up part of a physical zine.

• So... What exactly is a Zine? •

"Zines are handmade, self published booklets and — unlike magazines and books — can be made by anyone with a message, a bit of artistic vision, and access to a printer. Zines also have the benefit of being as short or as long as the creator wishes and can cover any subject matter and be of any style, much unlike traditional publishing."

•• if your are curious to learn more about zines or read those that I have made you can find my collection of zines on Etsy ••

[designfiend]

INTERNATIONAL TIMES NEWSPAPER

International Times Newspaper was produced by an underground counterculture press starting in the late 60s through the 1993

[sugareimon]

Hot take!

Light being a symbol for ✨GOOD✨ and Dark being a symbol for 💥e v i l💥 is lame, actually.

I say this as a white Kingdom Hearts fan and fantasy lover in general; light and dark ≠ morality. Day and night ≠ morality. White and black ≠ morality.

(My reasoning is beneath the cut.)

Anyway, in rebellion I’ve decided to list what I actually associate to white and black on the level of just vibes.

The color white (🤍) feels like beautiful lies; psychological horror, deception, daytime, cold, bright, immortality, “unnatural” goodness, innocence, artificiality, etc.

The color black (🖤) feels like organic truths; cosmic horror, honesty, nighttime, warm, dark, mortality, “natural” goodness, awareness, ancientness, etc.

White is snow; beautiful and delicate but unloving, cold like bleached bone. You enjoy it as a child, but when you grow, you realize that frost can kill. To chase the color white is to chase an impossible ideal, to try to catch a shimmering promise…. but promises aren’t always kept.

Black is soil; rich and full of life but overlooked, warm like the kiss of sleep. It’s decay and death and rot, but it’s also life and birth and love. It is everything, it is always, it is inescapable. To make peace with the color black is to find true happiness. It’s to make peace with the cosmos.

How to apply to a character design? Me, I use darkness for inescapable and lightness for unobtainable.

So, if a character is fighting to escape something and they’re failing, that’s a good darkness thing. If a character is fighting to achieve something and they’re failing, that’s a good time for lightness. For example; my beloved boy Margo here (excuse the sketch);

He had dark skintone, dark hair, and dark eyes, because his main conflict is about the inescapable. A keen eye will notice that his clothes are light and he has a streak of light hair— the villain which he serves is obsessed with the unobtainable, so he’s really “light”.

Morality is a human construct that we invented, while light and darkness have existed since the beginning of existence itself. White and black are just colors, not good and evil.

To equate these things in your art is to attribute morality to amoral colors, which is dangerous in a world full of fear. Even if you don’t do it on purpose, you might open yourself up you criticism for those who see colorist interpretations of your work.

Light wouldn’t be beautiful without shadow. Life has no meaning without death. We need balance to find true peace— like yin & yang, a very ancient concept (that I’m not qualified to properly explain).

To try and cut away everything you don’t like is to fight a losing battle. Nature was here before us and will exist after we’re gone. You’ll be unhappy if you chase satisfaction through perfection, because perfection is a beautiful lie.

(If you want to learn more, this is part of the Woven Dream— my personal worldbuilding project! I’ll make a blog for it soon!)

I put a lot of effort into articulating this concept— and I think it’s really cool— so I’ll summon my most yappable moots from their respective habitats! It’s a discussion I want to have & want to share; @abiamantha @avestars @imfckngfantastic @metalfortunecookie1216 @vamppuppyboy @lucst-r @wolfthedrolf @kitkatk1ra @angry-oil-slick11 @jiabae

[jareckiworld]

Isaac Abrams — Seed Dream [oil on canvas, 1969]

[tyger-land]

ᴍᴏᴇʙɪᴜs Cover artwork for a 1975 French double LP of 𝗝𝗶𝗺𝗶 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘅' first two albums, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love.

[undergroundrockpress]

1969 - Photos by Nacio Jan Brown (that's him in the first photo).

[streetartguy]