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this picture is one i took when i arranged a first time meeting for tim
Leary and David Carradine at my studio in L.A. For a few years i kept a
place to paint when i would travel to L.A. My studio was in David
Carradines glass house in Laurel Canyon. The photo date is probably early
80s.During drinks after dinner, David was discussing his then new plans to
re due Kung Fu. his famous strength without violence television series with
a plot line that was configured to be a translation of eastern spiritual
ideas to the west.. Many people dont realize that the Kung Fu tv series
with which they grew up on their very own t.v.s was a well thought out
plan by David to get these important ideas out in the world to match the
drug awareness conciousness change that swept the world during the 60s. He
, like the rest of our group were frantically trying in our own way to
positively direct the tremendous social change which ensued with the
emergence of the drug culture. David Carradine and I have been friends
since 1954
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This is a picture of the late beloved San Francico Chronicle art critic
and author Tom Albright.
Toms career is a San Francico legend in itself. His defining book, Art in
the San Francisco Bay area was lovingly finished and published posthumously
by his friends and fellow San Franciscans from the great Beat past, San
Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennesy and his wife. The photo and copyright are by
Roberto Ayala. I hope this is a small tribute at least to a great San
Franciscan and a
dear friend, Michael Bowen 1998"
photo property of the I.Paoli beat library, Florence Italy
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this foto by {copyright roberto ayala} taken in the 70s? of
kaufman walking on grant ave is a perfect addition to the Satty is dead
piece. as it illustrates the story exactly. by the way the collage is
called "the magician" that is on the bottom of the story and is mine. it
happens to be one of the 20 or so i did in that mode and which literally
inspired Satty to the point that i sat down with him for a few days and
showed him some of the tricks i.e. steel engravings make the best
recopiers. what glues etc. this stuff will probably appear in my book, but
he, not me, became , what i consider a great collageist. the fact that he
used some of these works as posters during the rock and roll period was a
matter of opportunity and money which i know he felt degraded about
initially. But , in the end, if there ever is such a thing with art, it all
turned out the way it turned out. who knows if the effete literati would
have ever supported him as a purist.???
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Roberto is my revolutionary/photographer friend. He is a just now being
discovered as the important beat photographer he is. Several books have
just come out in europe with his work, he was recently in the "somar " re
beat show with me and others in the City. The inherent danger of his
international revolutionary activitie made it necessary that he suppress
his work for 30 years. Fortunantly he did publish under another name. the
most used, "Angel de la Valle" appeared, an mong other places, in now
beat classic books such as Weed, Another great name of his was "charlie
running dog" we were just together this year in the southwest. we reviewed
over 10,000 of his fotos. it was 105 at 7. a.m. almost every day.
copyright maitreya bowen
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