The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world

Young men and women strike ritualistic poses on Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, the White Horse of Uffington and the Long Man of Wilmington: stark figures wearing strange, hieratic clothes in the elemental landscape. Taken in 1929, there is something disquieting about these black and white photographs. You feel as though you have intruded on the rites of a secret society that may or may not be benign, that indeed intends to be ambiguous and unsettling.
In one image, a young woman in long belted coat and cap is captured raising her arm by a standing stone. It’s an echo of the salute that would sweep Germany only a few years later, and it jars the viewer back into a time between the wars: a continent destroyed, and a desperate search for new solutions that often took curious forms.
Annebella Pollen’s The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift is a revelation. This scholarly book explores England’s most fascinating and forgotten youth movement. Through a detailed examination of the highways and byways of esoteric thought and alternative politics in the early 20th century, as well as plentiful photographs (many taken by a young Angus McBean, an active kinsman in the late 1920s), it reconstructs a radical moment lost to history, a future that never happened...

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Public Telephone Haight-Ashbury San Francisco (1967)

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Val Denham: Tranart

Val's new book went on sale today.
Published by Timeless Editions - 2015 - France
29 x 29 cm - 288 pages in colours - Hardcover with hot foil
Limited to 300 copies - the first 100 copies include an unumbered and illustrated card signed by the artist.
Richly illustrated (more than 250 illustrations and photos) and oversized monograph displaying the variety of Val Denham’s different styles, techniques and subjects from her early 70’s productions till now.
What we are presenting you here is not a reprint but an entirely new book of 80% unseen art and 20% indispensable highlights from the long sold out first Val Denham book ("Dysphoria") making it an essential purchase for new- and late-comers as well as those who already have the earlier book.
It also includes new texts - an appreciation by Graham “Ideal” Duff, an inside view by Gail Denham and a spectacular 7 pages introduction by none other than Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, plus some very amusing and enlightening texts by Val herself - and archives with poems and correspondance from Genesis P-Orridge and Jhonn Balance

I would love to write a bit about Val, but I just can't think of what to say apart from that I love the paintings. Since my accident a few years ago, I have great blocks of my memory wiped out and I’m sad to say that I can't exactly even remember where we fist met and under what circumstances. That's how out of touch I am.
When I first saw Val’s paintings I was transfixed by them, like nightmarish religious iconography, and she played an important part in the Mambas imagery. She has a classical super-real painting style with a twist and a wonderful technique. I was always so sad that her cover for my "Untitled" album got stolen from the record company offices. She herself has always been such a part of her Art , she’s a real Artist whose fabulous intriguing exotic character goes hand in hand with her paintings.
Marc Almond

It was the late Great and Beautiful Geff Rushton [Jhonn Balance] who first introduced me to the work of Val Denham, back in the 1980’s… the Paintings/Drawings/Covers all seemed so familiar to me, it was as if I had known them all my life… all my «weird nightmares and beautiful dreams» coming together… It was Dalí, It was Dix, It was Ernst, It was Chagall, it was Sex, it was Fear, it was Love, it was Hate and most importantly... It was so very Catholic. I was a Virgin Prune back then and now I realise that so was Val.
'A New Form of Beauty' is a title that comes to mind… but that was then and this is now… In the words of the Irish Poet WB Yeats 'He, too, has been changed in his turn, transformed utterly, a terrible beauty is born'. Val Denham, the best is yet to come…
Gavin Friday
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Tod den Hippies - Es lebe der Punk! (Death to the Hippies - Long Live Punk!)

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A 2015 German film directed by Oskar Roehler (who also directed a version of Houellebecq's Atomised), set in the early ‘80s West Berlin, with references to Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.and the punk scene of that era

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Public Enemy: Black Ops Comic

“From the beginning we (Public Enemy) have crossed over into other cultures. When we talk about diversity, and I’ve got to speak from this perspective; you can’t leave black people out of nothing because we are the fathers and mothers of all people. And if we lived in a culture or society where black people were not here there wouldn’t be any flavor in this country,” Bomb said.
“So I think it’s very important that it’s balanced and that’s the biggest issue that we are fighting for, balance. Everything imagery wise is being white, but then the universe doesn’t reflect the ideas of white supremacy. It’s a diverse universe. Wherever you go there are people of color so you’ve got to make it diverse, you’ve got to make it balanced and that’s the key to all of this.”
“It can only be a positive contribution to the growing awareness and enlightenment about diversity in the industry. The fans are demanding it and society projects it,” Rashid said.
“It also helps that there is an established core fan-base that comes with a title like this that has such legendary protagonists in the casts of characters. This can be a powerful vehicle for showing the importance of genuine and sincere translations of the “non-traditional formula” being used to generate cross-market appeal and positive audience response.”
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The Fall - Live @Powerstation Auckland New Zealand (17/10/15)

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I am Pablo Escobar's Son

Sebastian Marroquin is the son of one of the world's most notorious criminals, Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar. At the height of his powers Escobar was said to be the seventh richest man in the world. And he controlled up to 80% of the world's cocaine trade. His unbelievable wealth and power were only matched by his brutality - he was responsible for thousands of deaths and kidnappings during the '80s and early '90s - a period when his cartel terrorised Colombia. Sebastian told Outlook his memories of growing up in the palatial Escobar family compound, Hacienda Napoli
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