The Beat Generation

Judas says,

I took the poem LOGS by Charles Bukowski and animated the source. Then I add the track to bring a new style to poetry. Hopefully I can bring Bukowski to a new generation.

LOGS by Charles Bukowski [Vimeo]

“The Drome” by GR3D – GripReality, featuring Jack Kerouac spoken word and a three-eyed monster.

Jack Kerouac / The Beat Generation [Vimeo]

jaybol says,

I thought your thumbnail was David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.

And then he provided a link to the video that I’ve embedded above. (Thanks, jaybol!)

The actual line from Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is “I creep along the wall quiet as dust in my canvas shoes,” but Daniel J. Kramer doesn’t need to know that. Just look at that chief.

Chief’s first test [Vimeo]

Tuli Kupferberg, singer/songwriter of the famous protopunk band the Fugs takes you back to the bohemia of the 1950′s, Greenwich Village New York where the beat poetry scene flourished.

Intimate and anecdotal. ‘Nuff said.

Tuli Kupferberg Greenwich Village of My Dreams pt. 1 [Vimeo]