Mayday – always a big day on the Allen Ginsberg Project
For an extended look at Allen – the May Day King – see here
“And I am the King of May, which is the power of sexual youth,/and I am the King of May, which is industry in eloquence and action in amour,/and I am the King of May, which is long hair of Adam and the Beard of my own body/and I am the King of May which is Kral Majales in the Czechoslovakian tongue..”… Read More
[May Day – street poster design by Eric Drooker] May Day. May Day Greetings from The Allen Ginsberg Project! With Allen this day (today) is always a special day. Remembering his pivotal (all-too-brief) tenure (in Prague, in 1965, the “Prague Spring“) as “King of May” (Kral Majales) – and also his old IWW, “Wobbly”, roots – “America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies/ America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I’m not sorry” – we always take great pleasure in spotlighting this (from Cosmopolitan Greetings – a … Read More
We’ve been quietly holding our breath for a few years now on this one, so you can imagine our relief when we got the news that the film finally got the solid backing from Werk Works. Variety give a nice breakdown of who’s what and what’s who. Filming is set for March 16-April 2. The animation work by Eric Drooker can continue full speed ahead now.… Read More