Entries from June 2008

June 19, 2008

An Education in Rock

Tucked away somewhere in my closet is a t-shirt designed with “The Clash” logo. But, I have to be honest that until doing research for our upcoming “rockumentary” film about The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, I knew nothing about the band. I suppose this proves that not only am I pathetically devoted to fashion trends, [...]

June 9, 2008

Rockumentary series

Don’t know if any of you got a chance to come to Pete Seeger: The Power of Song yesterday.  It was the first in our Rockumentary film series (to coincide with our Psychedelia rock posters exhibition), and it was incredible.  The whole documentary — and perhaps Seeger’s life in general — is built upon the [...]

June 4, 2008

It’s Psychedelic, Man

Don’t know if any of you got chance to read Christopher Blank’s hilarious article in last Friday’s Playbook…
He covers the Brooks’ latest exhibition Psychedelia: Rock ‘n’ Roll Posters, 1965 -1970.  The show is great — half of it is exhibited in black light, like this one here:

There are others featuring Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Jefferson [...]