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KEN KESEY'S TIMEROOM
FEATURING: THE MERRY PRANKSTERS
In 1997 Ken came up with the wildest
idea for a party since the Acid Test.
The idea was to transform a room into a Time-Machine, transporting the
audience from reality to...anyplace else. The Merry Pranksters were
enlisted to help pull off this mind altering feat. The Timeroom itself
was filled with transparent films painted with Day-Glo space designs, with
psychedelic liquid lights projected onto them. Ken and the Pranksters
were in front sitting around their "Timetable." The Timetable was
equipped with headphones for each of the Time Navigators (The Merry
Pranksters) so that they could communicate in the moment and spread their
weirdness amongst each other, as well as broadcast it to the crowd.
Multi-media images were being shown of historic events in time, these images
were mixed in with the camera aimed at our Merry navigators. The
combined video images were then projected onto a large screen behind the
Timetable, bombarding the audience with chaotic colors and swirling images
both past and present . The result was fun-filled chaos, with plenty
of Prankster silliness. The video was also recorded as it was shown,
giving a chance for you to see the wildness of the Timeroom for yourself.
The Timeroom was a huge success, leaving the audience bewildered and enthralled,
but maybe in need of some aspirin by the end of the night.
Approximate running time 55 minutes.
$25.00
Item #V35
Spit in the Ocean #7: All About Kesey
Edited by Ed McClanahan, (Prankster and Writing classmate of Ken's)
Gus Sant (Introduction),
Contributions by many notable Friends and Pranksters.
From the Publisher
Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary
magazine called Spit in the Ocean. After the revolutionary novelist's death
in the fall of 2001, one of his closest friends, acclaimed writer Ed McClanahan,
decided to carry out Kesey's vision and put together a final issue of Spit
as a tribute to Kesey's genius and imperturbable spirit. Featuring contributions
from cultural luminaries-including Robert Stone, Paul Krassner, Wendell
Berry, Bill Walton, and Grateful Dead lyricists Robert Hunter and John
Perry Barlow-as well as "regular folk," and several pieces by Kesey himself,
Spit in the Ocean #7 is a loving and fitting homage to the gigantic and
unique spirit of the merriest of the Merry Pranksters.
From Publishers Weekly
Dedicated to the memory of the acclaimed author of One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, this last volume of a literary magazine begun by Ken Kesey
in 1973 "aspires to...constitute, in sum, an intimate, affectionate portrait
of its founder, one which both honors him and bids him a fond farewell."
In keeping with Kesey's original objective that every issue should have
a different theme and editor, this one focuses on the project's creator
and is edited by his friend of many years. Kesey's intellect, compassion
and creative spirit appear in this work through some of his own original
writings, as well as through the literature of numerous cultural figures
with whom he interacted and whom he influenced. Included are letters, previously
unpublished radio interviews, poems, essays, stories and anecdotes, all
of which resuscitate the eclectic writer and bring him "to the page alive
and hale and shooting from the lip as only he could." Illus.
Book
Description
Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary
magazine called Spit in the Ocean. After the revolutionary novelist's death
in the fall of 2001, one of his closest friends, acclaimed writer Ed McClanahan,
decided to carry out Kesey's vision and put together a final issue of Spit
as a tribute to Kesey's genius and imperturbable spirit. Featuring contributions
from cultural luminaries-including Robert Stone, Paul Krassner, Wendell
Berry, Bill Walton, and Grateful Dead lyricists Robert Hunter and John
Perry Barlow-as well as "regular folk," and several pieces by Kesey himself,
Spit in the Ocean #7 is a loving and fitting homage to the gigantic and
unique spirit of the merriest of the Merry Pranksters.
100 books will arrive in early November, I will send them out as soon
as they are signed by the Merry Pranksters (who will be busy preparing
some special weirdness for a tour with the Magic Bus "Further" to help
promote the book across the West (see below for a schedule.)
Item #SITO7
$15.00
Kesey's Jail Journal
by Ken Kesey
Description by Ed McClanahan:
Kesey's Jail Journal, for which I contributed an introduction, is a
sumptuously oversized hardback volume of commingled writings and artwork
that Kesey produced during his six-month sojourn in the San Mateo (CA)
county slam in the late 1960s. It's a stunner, friends; lots of vibrant,
full-color plates of cosmically illuminated, psychedelically-inspired manuscript,
each page (as I wrote in the introduction) "so crammed with words and colors
and faces and forms that it seem[s] ready to explode in your face like
a letter bomb,"; Kesey demonstrating a dozen times on every page that everything
he touched turned into art.
(putting the final touches on this book was his last work.)
Full Color hardback 144pp. Coffee table type book.
Preorder Now $35.00, Item #KKJJ
THE BUSSES ARE HERE!
NOW THEY ARE IN THE GRATEFUL DEAD
CATALOG!
And come with a "Further" destination
nameplate on front! (not pictured below)
NEW! Die-cast toy busses that really go. Each is uniquely
painted using the famous psychedelic Merry Prankster “dip” method.
They have “pull back friction action” (that means they race forward after
you pull them backward). Each is randomly chosen for you, but you
may ask for certain colors, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Guaranteed beautiful, if you don’t like the paint on your bus, just return
it for a different one or a refund! Each bus is $15.00, or two for
$25.00.
Item #Bus1
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