The Beat Generation

Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder recently posted about a newly discovered cache of Timothy Leary-related videos up on Archive.org.

I like seeing technology (Twitter, in this example) implemented with the goal of disseminating actual, useful information rather than pure garbage, which is most of what people seem to use it for.

Lisa Rein twittered about Archive.org’s new Timothy Leary video archive. It currently has over 80 videos.

The above screenshot is from a documentary called Growing Up In America: Breathing Together, Revolution of the Electric Family, from 1986, which has interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, Deborah Johnson, John Sinclair, and Timothy Leary.

Timothy Leary videos at Archive.org [Boing Boing]

Adie Russell is back again with her take on Allen Ginsberg’s poem America. The audio from this one dates back all the way to 1959.

Adie Russell, a thirty-something artist living in Brooklyn, NY, has put together this sweet little lipsync performance that is set to audio from Jack Kerouac’s appearance on the Steve Allen Plymouth Show in 1959.