#merrypranksters

[mysticmakes]

It's "Bicycle Day"

(To save you googling - it's 80 years since LSD was invented and the chap who first discovered it had an "interesting" trip home on his bicycle.)

Anyway there's a whole bunch of Grateful Dead/Merry Prankster related stuff in my Etsy store at www.mysticmakes.co.uk

#bicycleday #merrypranksters #gratefuldead #deadheads #sunshinedaydream #tiedye #nevertrustaprankster #nothinglasts #further

[ginzyblog]

Ken Kesey—Merry Pranksters’ day-glo painted “Further” cross-country bus Neal Cassady’d driven S.F. to Manhattan, L.S.D. cool-aid pitcher in icebox for local hitchhikers and Police, here stopped for gas lunch upstate on trip to Timothy Leary’s Millbrook n.y. psychedelic research commune just before election time, “A Vote For Barry Is A Vote for Fun” logo painted large across bustop side, Goldwater the libertarian Republican would-be Presidential candidate Hawk during Vietnam War, summer 1964. (photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy National Gallery of Art / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #kenkesey #merrypranksters #lsd #beatgeneration #allenginsberg #timothyleary #nealcassady (at Poughkeepsie, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJTem_vy3o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[orjustthinkit]

Owsley at an Acid Test

[snowlessknitter]

Well, I’m about to start on my next ebook read, and for the first time in over a year, it’s a nonfiction book! This is the 1968 classic “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe, one of the first of many well-acclaimed books by the journalist Tom Wolfe, who died in 2018. Although he is best known for writing “The Right Stuff” (an account of the early days of the American space program) and his novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (which also served as commentary on life and society in 1980s New York City), both of which were adapted into successful movies, this book was one of his first hits. This book follows the adventures of writer and counterculture figure Ken Kesey and a group of people he hung with called the “Merry Pranksters”. It is the highlight of a handful of works and essay collections written by Wolfe during this era of American history. Wolfe was a pioneer of a literary and journalistic movement called “New Journalism” that also included the likes of Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and Hunter S. Thompson, among many others. Although the New Journalism movement itself waned in popularity by the 1980s, Wolfe remains an iconic figure of the movement, and of modern nonfiction writing in general. The 1960s was an interesting period of American history to begin with, and I can’t wait to learn more about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. #nonfiction #nonfictionnovember #counterculture #tomwolfe #kenkesey #merrypranksters #furthur #newjournalism https://www.instagram.com/p/B5RiDRPJKwC/?igshid=6aqt27wplx64

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

On my dotcom right now a cool grouping of Jerry Garcia printed matter including a book of collected Rolling Stone interviews signed by members of the grateful dead/prankster family and some of the original zones in which the articles appeared. All in a good cloth covered box. From the LSD Library of Julio Mario Santo Domingo and my latest catalogue accessible through my profile link. #jerrygarcia #mountaingirl #janwenner #rollingstone #juliomariosantodomingo #lsdlibrary #lsd #captaintrips #gratefuldead #merrypranksters #haveyputakentyeacidtest? #acidtests #thewarlocks #owsley #orangesunshine #onthebus #charlesreich https://www.instagram.com/p/BsT3erUl3Jn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lzz6f13csrvj

[adineroillustration]

“Teenage Lobotomy” TW: Mental illness When I was a freshman in high school I felt like I lived a double life, breezing through assignments to stay up watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, making comics, and listening to a lot of @pinkfloyd. I was really into 60s/70s counterculture and psychedelia and it was then that I read #oneflewoverthecuckoosnest and it had a super profound impact on me. Pre-diagnosis but definitely angst and severely depressed and with a familial history of mental illness and a childhood spent with my only surviving grandmother bound to a nursing home (read: psych ward) with paranoia-schizophrenia, I recognized (albeit in a rebellious adolescent way) the systemic failings of the American mental health system and neurotypical hegemony, like seeing my own reflection for the first time. Being on-brand even then, 15-year-old me wrote a literary analysis comparing #kenkesey ‘s classic to Floyd’s “Time, highlighting in particular the rabbit metaphor for madness. With the debut of @ratchednetflix , my impending move to Oregon, and recent reading about Kesey and the #merrypranksters , this has all been on my mind. That and my want for a break with nostalgic thinking and a romantic view of the past, which is in its way, it’s own entrapment; it’s own rabbit warren. In a way you might just say that try as I might to escape, I’m “home, home again.” ⛏ 🧠 ⛏ 🧠 ⛏ 🧠 ⛏ 🧠 ⛏ 🧠 ⛏ #embroidery #patch #handmade #handlettering #stitchfix #handembroidery #icepicklobotomy #ratchednetflix #likeaholeinthehead #nostalgia #counterculture #sexdrugsandcocoapuffs #notquiteright #thelunaticisonthegrass #totalrecall #ableism #bpd #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #hindsightis2020 #illustration #adineroillustration #thoughtidsomethingmoretosay https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlzarQgroW/?igshid=1gj7oc8envrcx

[lumonicsgallery]

Ken Kesey (Sept. 17, 1935 - Nov. 10, 2001) “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.” “People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.” “The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.” “They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.” “He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum” “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest #kenkesey #merrypranksters (at Lumonics School of Light Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFV4DhYl-mi/?igshid=ivo6tw7k3nl3

[415holyguyart]

Cleaning, Viewing... Shore Thing... Time travel back to June 2016, or forward... the choice is ours! . . . . . . . #shorelinedead #californiatrip #californialivemusic #gratefulbus #merrypranksters #haightashburylife #sfmusic #bayarealove #hug #deadandcompany #furthurbus (at Shoreline Amphitheatre At Mountain View) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-6YoBXBOYi/?igshid=nyv871zblk1a

[greatgoddessinthesky]

"The Intrepid Traveler and his band of #merrypranksters !!" 🤡👽 "My happiness did indeed arise from the same secret as the happiness in #dreams ." My go to's. Just lent #fearandloathing to one of my best homies/roommate. Now after 3 years, finally cracking open #electrickoolaidacidtest gifted to me by the most beautiful soul I've ever been blessed to have met. I know your spirit will be with me every turn of the page.. "I doubt if any of the pranksters truly understood Mountain Girl, except for #kenkesey ..It never occurred to anybody that a whole side of her was hidden. Except for Kesey. ..Namely, she was sometimes lonely as hell." ✨#tomwolfe #leagueofspiritualdiscovery #gonzo #huntersthompson #tooweirdtolivetooraretodie #whenthegoinggetsweirdtheweirdturnpro #weweresomewherearoundbarstowontheedgeofthedesertwhenthedrugsbegantotakehold

[ginzyblog]

Neal Cassady at the wheel of Ken Kesey-Merry Pranksters’ day-glo painted “Further” cross-country bus [he’d ]driven S.F. to Manhattan, L.S.D. cool-aid pitcher in icebox for local hitchhikers and police, here stopped for gas lunch upstate on trip to Timothy Leary’s Millbrook N.Y. Psychedelic research commune just before election time, “A Vote for Barry Is a Vote for Fun” logo painted large across bustop side, Goldwater the libertarian Republican would-be Presidential candidate Hawk during Vietnam War, summer 1964.  (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #nealcassady #kenkesey #merrypranksters #timothyleary #electrickoolaidacidtest #thomaswolfe (at Millbrook, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/COvxAhLBLwC/?igshid=32rvylcbrcsv

[potylo]

Nothing is everything! . . Check out my mockumentary series Quiet Desperation on Youtube! A series about struggling to be creative in this current climate. . . . . #QuietDesperstion #mockumentary #comedy #alternative #robpotylo #NothingIsEverything #VerminSupreme #LosAngeles #CreativeType #Artist #AndyKaufman #Art #Zen #yoga #guru #spiritual #Drifter #BillHicks #Boston #andywarhol @parisjackson #merrypranksters (at Los Angeles, California)

[ramblinrose710-blog]

Never posted a photo here of this canvas I painted, one of my favorites I've done 😁 & all my further/grateful dead cards & posters 💓 people often confuse the new & beautiful Further bus as the original & now decayed Furthur bus shown in this poster. You can't see in this photo but the bottom of the poster quotes a merry prankster motto, "Nothing Lasts" 🌈❤ #grateful#gratefuldead#deadandcompany#further#furthur#merrypranksters#stealyourface#marchingbears#gratefuldeadart (at OG Tie Dye Company)

[libertyskrollz-blog]

#libertyskrollz #psychedelicart #blotterartist #deadhead #psychonaut #rockposterart #hightimes #420lifestyle #trippyart #digitalart #digitalblotterart #gratefuldead #themerrypranksters #merrypranksters #furtherbus #gonefurther #stealyourface #stealyourpranks #stealyourjokes #stealyourlaughs #juxtaposition #photomanipulation #makeartnotwar @libertyskrollz.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkDVQ3DP3P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dd0gd8ur2l7v

[prettyhandsomestudio]

Ongoing project finslly complete. Illustration and book cover design #psychedelia #aldoushuxley #tomwolfe #electrickoolaidacidtest #thedoorsofperception #theperennialphilosophy #counterculture #furthur #merrypranksters #heavenandhell #illustrationart #graphicdesign #bookcoverdesign ##selfinitiated #surrealism #illustrationhowl #womenofillustration #picame #instaart #illustrateddoris https://www.instagram.com/p/BtypyTeDWtG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=regv43kevtth

[canvas44ki-blog]

. BAD QUENTIN - STRIPE BD LS SHIRT. . 日に日に、惹かれていく この感じはなんだろう…🤡💫 . 見れば見る程、 着こなしたくなる😁‼️💦 . サイケリック集団. ” Merry Pranksters” の一員が 着用していたシャツをモチーフ✨ . ”陽気なイタズラ者たち” という 意味も、男心をくすぐられます🤡 . #badquentin #merrypranksters #canvas09 #ishikawa #kanazawa #selectshop #spring #style #street #60s #70s #80s #90s (Canvas)

[psilocybinpixie]

acid rock 🎶💓 #thebeatles #merrypranksters #gratefuldead #augustusowsleystanleyiii #kenkesey #lsd