The legendary photographer Guy Webster

One of the early innovators of rock-and-roll photography, renowned photographer Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, films and politics in a stellar 40-year career. While shooting album covers and billboards for groups that included The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and Chicago, he also photographed such film legends as Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin and Natalie Wood.

about Guy Webster

+ interview from pipeline-operaglass.moonfruit.com

+ SweetThingBlog from daughter Jessie Webster

The photographs from the 1967 SMiLE booklet were by Guy Webster. Jessie Webster is now also involved with the release of The SMiLE Sessions 2011. Design, artwork, photo..? It's top secret!

MADNESS AND GENIUS ARE CLOSE RELATIONS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS

It's often said that there is a fine line between lunacy and brilliance, but mental illness can actually be an artist's inspiration.

May 31, 2010 David Porter
http://personalitymooddisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/madness-and-genius-are-close-relations-in-the-creative-arts

WHEN DAPPY GROWS A BEARD, IT'LL MEAN N-DUBZ ARE GETTING SERIOUS

The Killers got facial hair to connote lofty ambition, while Chris Martin grew something as amorphous on his chin as Coldplay's music. So who's next to ditch the razor?

Saturday 13 February 2010 Will Hodgkinson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/13/bands-with-beards-guardian

THE INTERNET IS THE BEACH BOYS IN 1963

Quote:

No one would have guessed in 1963 that the Beach Boys would be the single biggest influence on indie rock in 2009.

Amanda Marcotte - August 12, 2009
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/12/the_internet_is_the_beach_boys_in_1963/

SURFRIDER TO HOST INTERNATIONAL SURFING FESTIVAL

SANTA CRUZ - The Santa Cruz Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is hosting three days of festivities intended to protect and honor the sea.

The events in the International Surfing Day Extravaganza run the weekend of June 20.

06/14/2009
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12585854

CREATIVE MINDS: THE LINKS BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND CREATIVITY

All too often, creativity goes hand in hand with mental illness.
Now we're starting to understand why. Roger Dobson reports

At first glance, Einstein, Salvador Dali, Tony Hancock, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson would seem to have little in common.
Their areas of physics, modern art, comedy, and rock music, are light years apart.

2009 may TheIndependenthttp://mixmysalad.blogspot.com/2009/05/creative-minds-links-between-mental.html

+ http://beachboysnews.blogspot.com/2009/05/perfect-prescription.html

THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION

A musician explores the role music has played in treating his mental illness

I was about 14 when I first went crazy. Sitting in the bedroom of my parents' G.I. Bill house, a bolt of noxious energy exploded around me and the air turned grainy, like reality was suddenly an ugly, 16-mm film.

2009 apr 29 Ian Grey
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-perfect-prescription/Content?oid=1566498

The Beat Generation Multi Media Pages

Beat Generation Quotes:

"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"— Jack Kerouac

"Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."— Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac

http://www.kerouacalley.com/main.html

+ http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/category/the-beats/jack-kerouac/

LA IN TWO DAYS

With the recession in full force, travel is a luxury fewer and fewer of us can consider.

This past holiday season I opted to stay home in Los Angeles, which has an average of 263 sunshine days a year.

(2009 Feb 8 / Molly Newborn)

http://theseniortimes.com/article/2009/02/la-in-two-days.html

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