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A textual and visual approximation of real time events by underground agents of change... A space to review the odd, unusual, mystifying and the divine... Not your parent's garden variety event reviews....!

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3 Poetica

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stream of consciousness beholds time's poesis, wind and rain tricklings, a daze of sun and arctic vision of inspired tongues, the will o wisp so long unspoken when art can be named poetry chartered into cornered visions, the aesthetic of an ever fickle soliloquy...

a free space for poetic illumination. For submissions please contact contribute@undergrowth.org

Poetry

4 Stockbroker for the Evolution > by Arrow

So I'm an Art Dealer now...
I'm living in Manhattan selling 'original' prints of Alex Grey through a New York visionary art collector whose name is not Anna, but that's what I'll call her.

Anna wasn't in town when I arrived but she contacts me on my cell as soon as she gets back into the country. A few hours later we meet up in Central Park and spend the afternoon wandering the green heart of Manhattan beset on all sides by the towers of apartments and business.

#6 - Random Molecules | another world is happening | Freshly Sprouted | Journalism

5 Milky Chewy Bars> by SonicBoy and James Riches

Milky Chewy Bars
Words: SonicBoy
Title Painting: Dominic Allen
Illustrations: James Riches

Comics | #3 - Tales of the Simulacrum | Features | Freshly Sprouted | illustration

6 The Language of Terra Poetica

#2 - Terra Poetica | Features | Fiction | Freshly Sprouted

7 Soulclipse > by Graham St. John

Photo by deadreamer

Thursday, April 13, 2006

I recall reading on the refreshingly irreverent psyreviews.com about an
unconfirmed report that the former Portuguese colony of Goa was
considering renaming itself ‘Progressive’. It’s an intriguing quip,
reflecting current anxieties over the rampant marketing of
counter-cultural communitas and the formulaic standardisation of a
sound (distributed as ‘Goa Trance’) that now more accurately evokes a
Fruitopia commercial, than the new spiritual experiments around Anjuna
village way back in the day - such that the experience in Goa might now
effectively approximate a … well, Fruitopia commercial, or a kind of
‘freak Club Med’, as Erik Davis would have it.

Features | Freshly Sprouted | Journalism | Reviews

8 Cast All Your Votes For Dancing

photos by webgrrl
www.webgrrl.biz

9 Latest content on Adbusters website

Torture -

HOW NIKE CONQUERED SKATEBOARD CULTURE - The Big Bad Swoosh learns to shed its square corporate duds.

IS RIGHT WING AMERICA BECOMING FASCIST? - David Niewart sorts the reality from the whiney liberal invective.

A LIFE AND DEATH IN FEMINISM - Looking back at the populist activism of Betty Friedan.

WHY ARE STUDENTS LEAVING POLITICS OUT OF ECONOMICS? - Eight influential commentators chime in on the failures of institutional economics.

10 ACTiVIST DESIGN GALLERY

The ACTiVIST DESIGN GALLERY is a new section of Undergrowth.org devoted to the creativity in design used by political campaigns in the form of posters, stickers, stencils, advertisments and even billboards in the process of social change around us.

We believe these ephemeral pieces of pop art are actually important cultural artefacts which show the ongoing dialogues of the larger culture in transition that is the dynamic of activist culture.

It is the ephemeral skin of the shifting sands of the city.

The conversation of the street and the home and the hand to hand transmission of ideas...

To contribute your favourite activist design piece, contact: art@undergrowth.org

#6 - Random Molecules | activism | ACTiVIST Design Gallery | Features | Freshly Sprouted | indymedia

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undergrowth's blog 1 comix The pulsing power of the page brought to the screen! Sequential artforms from the Underground... Look kids of all ages - Comics! For submissions please contact contribute@undergrowth.org Illustration: Michael Fikaris Comics \| illustration 2 Reviews pic: Ben Mastwyk A textual and visual approximation of real time events by underground agents of change... A space to review the odd, unusual, mystifying and the divine... Not your parent's garden variety event reviews....! Reviews 3 Poetica stream of consciousness beholds time's poesis, wind and rain tricklings, a daze of sun and arctic vision of inspired tongues, the will o wisp so long unspoken when art can be named poetry chartered into cornered visions, the aesthetic of an ever fickle soliloquy... a free space for poetic illumination. For submissions please contact contribute@undergrowth.org Poetry 4 Stockbroker for the Evolution > by Arrow So I'm an Art Dealer now... I'm living in Manhattan selling 'original' prints of Alex Grey through a New York visionary art collector whose name is not Anna, but that's what I'll call her. Anna wasn't in town when I arrived but she contacts me on my cell as soon as she gets back into the country. A few hours later we meet up in Central Park and spend the afternoon wandering the green heart of Manhattan beset on all sides by the towers of apartments and business. #6 - Random Molecules \| another world is happening \| Freshly Sprouted \| Journalism 5 Milky Chewy Bars> by SonicBoy and James Riches Milky Chewy Bars Words: SonicBoy Title Painting: Dominic Allen Illustrations: James Riches Comics \| #3 - Tales of the Simulacrum \| Features \| Freshly Sprouted \| illustration 6 The Language of Terra Poetica #2 - Terra Poetica \| Features \| Fiction \| Freshly Sprouted 7 Soulclipse > by Graham St. John Photo by deadreamer Thursday, April 13, 2006 I recall reading on the refreshingly irreverent psyreviews.com about an unconfirmed report that the former Portuguese colony of Goa was considering renaming itself ‘Progressive’. It’s an intriguing quip, reflecting current anxieties over the rampant marketing of counter-cultural communitas and the formulaic standardisation of a sound (distributed as ‘Goa Trance’) that now more accurately evokes a Fruitopia commercial, than the new spiritual experiments around Anjuna village way back in the day - such that the experience in Goa might now effectively approximate a … well, Fruitopia commercial, or a kind of ‘freak Club Med’, as Erik Davis would have it. Features \| Freshly Sprouted \| Journalism \| Reviews 8 Cast All Your Votes For Dancing photos by webgrrl www.webgrrl.biz #6 - Random Molecules \| Features \| Freshly Sprouted \| photography \| Poetry \| tribalism 9 Latest content on Adbusters website Torture - HOW NIKE CONQUERED SKATEBOARD CULTURE - The Big Bad Swoosh learns to shed its square corporate duds. IS RIGHT WING AMERICA BECOMING FASCIST? - David Niewart sorts the reality from the whiney liberal invective. A LIFE AND DEATH IN FEMINISM - Looking back at the populist activism of Betty Friedan. WHY ARE STUDENTS LEAVING POLITICS OUT OF ECONOMICS? - Eight influential commentators chime in on the failures of institutional economics. 10 ACTiVIST DESIGN GALLERY The ACTiVIST DESIGN GALLERY is a new section of Undergrowth.org devoted to the creativity in design used by political campaigns in the form of posters, stickers, stencils, advertisments and even billboards in the process of social change around us. We believe these ephemeral pieces of pop art are actually important cultural artefacts which show the ongoing dialogues of the larger culture in transition that is the dynamic of activist culture. It is the ephemeral skin of the shifting sands of the city. The conversation of the street and the home and the hand to hand transmission of ideas... To contribute your favourite activist design piece, contact: art@undergrowth.org #6 - Random Molecules \| activism \| ACTiVIST Design Gallery \| Features \| Freshly Sprouted \| indymedia 1 2 3 next page last page

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