OK, now that all the cyber chatter has died down a bit, I thought that I’d come out from my hole and explain what happened, and why there isn’t going to be a winter Shadow Art Fair this year. First, though, before I do that, I just want to say, for the record, that our […]
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WARNING… Krampus to attack Ypsi on Dec. 11…
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Pop Culture, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Austria, Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Black Peter, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Concentrate Media, Corner brewery, dance party, dark assistant, December 11, Detroit Urban Craft Fair, DIYpsi, Doug Skinner, Elbowdeep, fear of public speaking, Fortean, Germany, glam, Klaubaur, Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus, Krampus Ball, lederhosen, Michigan Design Militia, monsters, parades, Pelznickel, Perchten, pre-Christian Alpine tradition, pre-Christian Alpine traditions, punishment booth, religion of consumption, Santa Claus, sci fi, Shadow Brew, spanking, St. Nicholas, the over-commercialization of Christmas, The Savoy, Ziggy Stardust 32 Comments
Ziggy Stardust
Last night, as I couldn’t sleep, I stayed up late and watched a bunch of Ziggy Startdust-era Bowie stuff. Here are three of my better finds. Enjoy. Oh, and here’s a piece of bonus footage, taken of a young Bowie in 1964, talking about his newly formed organization, The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Observations Also tagged Aladdin Sane, Buck Henry, Cracked Actor, David Bowie, David Jones, Davie Jones, Five Years, Mick Ronson, rebellion of the longhairs, Romper Room, Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Longhaired Men, spiders, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Ziggy Stardust 5 Comments