Category: Art
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Gasoline: Gregory Corso’s Box of Crazy Beat Toys, 1958
Gregory Corso’s Gasoline arrived from City Lights in 1958 with Ginsberg’s introduction and a surrealist wit that no other Beat poet ever quite matched.
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Desert Journal: ruth weiss and Forty Days of Voice
ruth weiss’s Desert Journal runs forty days through a shifting desert consciousness, the masterwork of the Beat scene’s overlooked jazz-poetry pioneer.
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For Love: Robert Creeley’s Decade of Difficult Poems
Robert Creeley’s For Love collected a decade of stripped-down lyrics and made Black Mountain poetics impossible for American verse to ignore any longer.
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: Jack Spicer’s Collected Poetry
My Vocabulary Did This to Me (2008) collects Jack Spicer, the San Francisco poet who denied authorship of his own work and is named by his dying words.
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The Opening of the Field: Robert Duncan’s Made Place
Robert Duncan’s The Opening of the Field (1960) opens in a meadow that is also a poem, and begins two sequences he would deliberately leave unfinished for life.
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Memoirs of a Beatnik: Diane di Prima’s Deliberate Provocation
Diane di Prima wrote Memoirs of a Beatnik as paid erotica to Olympia Press specifications, and said so herself. What she smuggled in is the real document.
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The Art of Satoshi Manor
I have to admit, there are many challenges so far to living here but one of the greatest joys has been the time and space to create art. Here are…
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Boring People Get Bored
My grandmother used to say “Boring people get bored” and I have to admit, I may have become a boring person because I am abored as fuck with tourism. At…
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Hungry Ghosts Seeking Connection in a disConnected World
I find myself quite alone in my house in Otaru – and in general in the town of Otaru, on the island of Hokkaido, and in Japan. It wouldn’t be…
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Hololulu – My Chat GPT Generated Startup – took fifth in a Startup Pitch Competition
I put this together in about an hour. I actually thought I might win the pitch competition, but not this time. I’m on the fence about whether to pursue it.…
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Notes from Nowhere – on Creatokia. The Art, the Story, and Audio Book
For the past six months, I’ve been working with my collaborators Carsten Lambrecht of Creatokia and Honolulu based digital artist Femmebot to bring my book Notes from Nowhere to life.…
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NFT-NYC 2023 – My Experience
These were the notes I presented inside the Vagobond Magazine discord. They aren’t complete by any means, I simply wanted to share what NFT-NYC has been like for those who…
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On Storytellers and Storytelling
This post is also a free NFT you can collect. Mint it at https://vagobond.cent.co I’ve been thinking a lot about how we tell stories. The ways we share our culture,…
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The Origin of the Izita Bears by CD Vagobond
Author’s Note: This is the origin story of the Izita Bear NFT collection. You can see the Izita’s here – you can even buy one (or more): https://opensea.io/collection/izit-a-bear The…
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Erro – Iceland’s Most Famous Pop Artist
On our last day in Iceland, we decided to spend more time exploring the streets and museums of Reykjavik. The museums were a little expensive and for the most part,…
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On Launching and Minting Out Izit-a-Bear – My 10k pfp Collection
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my time in the NFT space at this moment. This moment is a few hours before the reveal of my minted…
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Where My Vanagon Goes – A Hawaii NFT Collection with Utility, Style, and Beauty
I just realized I neglected to write about launching my NFT Collection “Where My Vanagon Goes“. It’s an homage to a couple of things I really love – VW Vans…
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NFT Travel Thursday – Austin Edition – 3/17/2022
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NFT Travel Thursday– 3/3/2022 – Vagobond Morning Briefing
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NFT Games Tuesday – 3/01/2022 -Vagobond NFT Morning Briefing
Subscribe:https://vagobond.substack.com Archives:https://www.vagobond.com Discord: https://discord.gg/2nBRJJvyeR @vagobond Got a scoop or want to join us? Reach out to me via DMs on Twitter or in the Vagobond Discord. If your email has…
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NFT Literature Monday – 2/28/2022 – Vagobond Morning Briefing
Subscribe:https://vagobond.substack.com Archives:https://www.vagobond.com Discord: https://discord.gg/2nBRJJvyeR @vagobond Got a scoop or want to join us? Reach out to me via DMs on Twitter or in the Vagobond Discord. If your email has…
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An Update on the Bald Jesus Drinking Club
As some of you know – I launched a generative pfp project back in early September, 2021. There are 777 pieces and the cost is .04 ETH. It is still…
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The Bald Jesus Drinking Club – Own a Slice of Paradise – More than an NFT
As many of you know – I created the Bald Jesus project on a bit of a whim. It’s been an amazing journey. The end game of all of it…
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The Bald Jesus NFT Project – An Update So Far – The First Three Months
Bald Jesus as born back in May when I suddenly saw NFTs taking off and realized that I could probably build an NFT, a community, and maybe a brand in…
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