Psychedelic Art of the 1960s - Rick Griffin - Concert Posters - Oracle Newspaper

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Puff of Kief Poster - Rick Griffin

At the height of the psychedelic dance concert scene in 1967 the artists who created the posters to advertise the shows for the venue owners did not own the rights to reprint and sell their own work. Artists were generally paid a flat fee for each poster they completed. In an attempt to earn extra income and have control over their art, several artists sought to produce posters they could reprint and sell. Berkeley Bonaparte provided an alternative venue to print and distribute their posters. By the end of 1967 Berkeley Bonaparte had a mailer catalog featuring posters created by the artists. Master psychedelic poster and comic book artist Rick Griffin produced this poster for Berkeley Bonaparte. Rick rendered an ornately detailed hookah with a long hose winding around it and smoke billowing out of the top. A marijuana plant is standing behind it. He then drew the funky lettering “A Puff of Kief in the morning makes a man as strong as a hundred camels in the courtyard” around the hookah. This colorful poster measuring 14 x 19 ½” has the credit “© 1967 Berkeley Bonaparte No. 12 P.O. Box 1250 Berkeley, Calif.” A “Puff of Kief” was first printed in black and white, and was reprinted in color the same year. Pictured here is the first color printing. It is signed in bold black marker by Rick Griffin. I will post a photo of the original below in my comments. Enjoy! 

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and then on FaceBorg... Some Guy Posted... 

Biff Rose Underground

Not cool
Julien
Julien Arsenault
These are private messages
TODAY AT 8:20 AM8:20 AM
JULIEN
not into the antisemitism, however playful you may think it is
Julien
but this kind of beatnik-style free form writing is interesting on Facebook
Julien
as survivors of that generation get tech saavy
Julien
Julien Arsenault
that, I support
Write to Julien Arsenault
BIFF : you say "not cool" ?...I say LYNDA COOLE and Lynda hears me clearly so....where where has your attempt to control the narrative gotten you?...now what was private is made public...there are no secrets.."what you hear whispered (in the dark )...shout from the rooftop".....that's from the Old Bible....n
Now you have forced yourself into a coroner... where there are whispers and cabals and your new name is Julien Arsenic and Old Lace....the gradations of revelation proceed from a Serpent on the Mount where the GREAT ONE says "Blessed are the peacemakers" but backstage tells His buddies "I come NOT to being peace but a sword........" The relation then is THE TIT as private enough...the aureole is I'm in with the In Crowd and the Nipple THAT'S where you get the juice...however you must NEVER say "The nipple is the most important or men would have TITS"....( you can write it down that's o.k. )
As for antisemitism....semitism...semitism....look up "semite"..look up semitic...Jews are one of the semitic tribes as are arabs and Ethiopians... when you say someine is antisemitic you are saying they are against the semitic peoples...you are implying that they are against the Jews the Arabs and the Athiopians..now you don't wanna do THAT do you" I mean you don't want ONE tribe to owne the language and dictate what YOU are to say and what yu are to THINK now DO you? The Jew who said ?Blessed are the Peacemakers"... was talking to ME as tho ME stood for Music and Electricity...and the BIFF ROSE of "then" is the Biff died and Biff rose again of NOW...that's as much a second coming as I can grasp not making public appearances but appearing in public thru these notes and as ignorance arises...ignoring the fact Jews and affiliates use antisemitism as on offence mechanism to drag people down to THEIR level Steven Spielberg and his FABLE,man are THE Prime example...denying the Holocaust as in denying that Holocaust the WORD to describe what happened back then..but calling it a SHOAH...an "annihilation without redemption".....
Why don't you see that man is playing God....judging ?..how does HE know there isn't redemption for those people who...I mean if any are to be redeemed ALL are to be redeemed......I deem it necessary to take the blame for SKG Dreamworks in he face of my NIGHTMARE PLAYS...SKG being Shpeelbird, Katsenbird and Geffen who asked me "How do you smoke pot?" ( Aug 1965 ) and I said "Suck,David....." and now must redeem David for sucking and me for making him Head of my Gaystoppo and reward him by making him re-Founder of a renewed Jewish holiday Succoth,,,
and I Commented:
I Question "COOL" - Is Coolness a Worthy Goal in Life? Was it COOL to Dance The Watusi with Lucy? Was It COOL to Riot on Sunset Strip? Was it COOL to Encircle the Pentagon and Chant OM in order to Cause the Building to Levitate and Self Destruct? This All Reminds me of the Tower of Power Question... What is Hip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zT-GzgPk3g&t=24s

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