East Bay Book Launch: Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society featuring John Law, Carrie Galbraith, & friends
WHEN: Thursday, June 6th, 7:30pm
WHERE: Pegasus Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Free to attend
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Edited by Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law
published by Last Gasp Books
Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society influenced a surprising and impressive range of subversive trends in pop culture over the past 20 years. Fight Club, Burning Man, flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming are among the wild and playful phenomena that grew out of the radical exploits of the Cacophony Society.
At its zenith, the group hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of the 1980s and ‘90s underground. More than a simple history of a revolutionary subculture, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society serves as a “How-To” manual for pranksters, artists, adventurers, and anyone interested in rampant creativity.
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is a large-format, full-color, hardbound homage to this protean group. It’s packed with full-color illustrations, previously unpublished photographs, original documents, incredulous news accounts, and personal essays from some of the shadowy members of this fun-loving, anti-authoritarian cabal. The book includes a foreword by author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke) and an afterword by Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere.
"From Fight Club to Burning Man, Flash Mobs to Santarchy cacophony influenced everything subversive, playful and anti-authoritarian in popular culture over the last 20 years – this is the great, untold story of the 1980s and '90s.Before the Internet vomited headlines by the millisecond and turned the minutia of a million boring Facebook lives into news, we were left the privilege of mystery.This was something The San Francisco Cacophony Society gave me in spades. Over the years, I would catch glimpses, collect pieces of a puzzle I was slowly assembling—a car crushed flat by an earthquake miraculously tooling down Golden Gate, toasters glued to buildings, news-clips of mock protests and costumed impostors, flyers for strange art spectacles. Now the puzzle is assembled in this gorgeous graphic collection, a book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy." —Margaret Cho--
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WHEN: Thursday, June 6th, 7:30pm
WHERE: Pegasus Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Free to attend
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Edited by Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law
published by Last Gasp Books
Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society influenced a surprising and impressive range of subversive trends in pop culture over the past 20 years. Fight Club, Burning Man, flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming are among the wild and playful phenomena that grew out of the radical exploits of the Cacophony Society.
At its zenith, the group hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of the 1980s and ‘90s underground. More than a simple history of a revolutionary subculture, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society serves as a “How-To” manual for pranksters, artists, adventurers, and anyone interested in rampant creativity.
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is a large-format, full-color, hardbound homage to this protean group. It’s packed with full-color illustrations, previously unpublished photographs, original documents, incredulous news accounts, and personal essays from some of the shadowy members of this fun-loving, anti-authoritarian cabal. The book includes a foreword by author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke) and an afterword by Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere.
"From Fight Club to Burning Man, Flash Mobs to Santarchy cacophony influenced everything subversive, playful and anti-authoritarian in popular culture over the last 20 years – this is the great, untold story of the 1980s and '90s.Before the Internet vomited headlines by the millisecond and turned the minutia of a million boring Facebook lives into news, we were left the privilege of mystery.This was something The San Francisco Cacophony Society gave me in spades. Over the years, I would catch glimpses, collect pieces of a puzzle I was slowly assembling—a car crushed flat by an earthquake miraculously tooling down Golden Gate, toasters glued to buildings, news-clips of mock protests and costumed impostors, flyers for strange art spectacles. Now the puzzle is assembled in this gorgeous graphic collection, a book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy." —Margaret Cho--
East Bay Book Launch: Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society featuring John Law, Carrie Galbraith, & friends
WHEN: Thursday, June 6th, 7:30pm
WHERE: Pegasus Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Free to attend
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Edited by Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law
published by Last Gasp Books
Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society influenced a surprising and impressive range of subversive trends in pop culture over the past 20 years. Fight Club, Burning Man, flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming are among the wild and playful phenomena that grew out of the radical exploits of the Cacophony Society.
At its zenith, the group hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of the 1980s and ‘90s underground. More than a simple history of a revolutionary subculture, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society serves as a “How-To” manual for pranksters, artists, adventurers, and anyone interested in rampant creativity.
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is a large-format, full-color, hardbound homage to this protean group. It’s packed with full-color illustrations, previously unpublished photographs, original documents, incredulous news accounts, and personal essays from some of the shadowy members of this fun-loving, anti-authoritarian cabal. The book includes a foreword by author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke) and an afterword by Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere.
"From Fight Club to Burning Man, Flash Mobs to Santarchy cacophony influenced everything subversive, playful and anti-authoritarian in popular culture over the last 20 years – this is the great, untold story of the 1980s and '90s.Before the Internet vomited headlines by the millisecond and turned the minutia of a million boring Facebook lives into news, we were left the privilege of mystery.This was something The San Francisco Cacophony Society gave me in spades. Over the years, I would catch glimpses, collect pieces of a puzzle I was slowly assembling—a car crushed flat by an earthquake miraculously tooling down Golden Gate, toasters glued to buildings, news-clips of mock protests and costumed impostors, flyers for strange art spectacles. Now the puzzle is assembled in this gorgeous graphic collection, a book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy." —Margaret Cho--
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WHEN: Thursday, June 6th, 7:30pm
WHERE: Pegasus Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Free to attend
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Edited by Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law
published by Last Gasp Books
Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society influenced a surprising and impressive range of subversive trends in pop culture over the past 20 years. Fight Club, Burning Man, flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming are among the wild and playful phenomena that grew out of the radical exploits of the Cacophony Society.
At its zenith, the group hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of the 1980s and ‘90s underground. More than a simple history of a revolutionary subculture, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society serves as a “How-To” manual for pranksters, artists, adventurers, and anyone interested in rampant creativity.
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is a large-format, full-color, hardbound homage to this protean group. It’s packed with full-color illustrations, previously unpublished photographs, original documents, incredulous news accounts, and personal essays from some of the shadowy members of this fun-loving, anti-authoritarian cabal. The book includes a foreword by author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke) and an afterword by Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere.
"From Fight Club to Burning Man, Flash Mobs to Santarchy cacophony influenced everything subversive, playful and anti-authoritarian in popular culture over the last 20 years – this is the great, untold story of the 1980s and '90s.Before the Internet vomited headlines by the millisecond and turned the minutia of a million boring Facebook lives into news, we were left the privilege of mystery.This was something The San Francisco Cacophony Society gave me in spades. Over the years, I would catch glimpses, collect pieces of a puzzle I was slowly assembling—a car crushed flat by an earthquake miraculously tooling down Golden Gate, toasters glued to buildings, news-clips of mock protests and costumed impostors, flyers for strange art spectacles. Now the puzzle is assembled in this gorgeous graphic collection, a book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy." —Margaret Cho--
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