Presentation House Gallery’s new exhibit, “We Are Continually Exposed to the Flashbulb of Death”: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996), runs through April 5.
Neal at the Wheel
Merry Pranksters’ audio recording of Neal Cassady driving Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus Further down the New Jersey Turnpike into New York City on June 25, 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LoJv25eIrc.
Beats Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke in situ
Two lions of the Beat Generation filmed by Francois Bernadi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbY6KXPg6wY.
Ken Kesey talks about Neal Cassady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3DHa3QfCU.
Lettre de Neal Cassady à Jack Kerouac March 7, 1947 (Extrait de “Un truc très beau qui contient tout Lettres 1944-1950” aux éditions Finitude): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhcgumU4hE.
Neal Cassady as Dean Moriarty
Jack Kerouac’s iconic character from On the Road: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/meet-neal-cassady-as-dean-moriarty/?no-ist.
Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXitvt24Q6w.
The Source
Excerpt from 1999 Beat Generation documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JqjCB_7_I.
William S. Burroughs’ Revolutionary Weapon
How to produce and escalate riots with instructions from William S. Burroughs as Beat Poetry Cut Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6dnMFOk2U.
Jack Kerouac reads from On The Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MjPtem6ZbE&index=8&list=PL79D93FE3647B565F.
Raw street footage 1959
Silent 16mm film of Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Lucien Carr and his wife Francesca and their three sons, Simon, Caleb and Ethan, and Mary Frank and her children Pablo and Andrea. Shot in the East Village neighborhood of New York in the summer of 1959 at the Harmony Bar & Restaurant at East 9th Street and 3rd Avenue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwYsYNh3ao.
Neal Cassady and La Honda
A discussion about the Merry Pranksters’ 1964 trip across the U.S. on the bus Further at a 1973 Kerouac symposium held at Salem State College, Massachusetts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfXujlUWLiE.
Ken Kesey and Mountain Girl report to Bay Area police station
“You only come to this movie once and if you don’t get something rewarding out of every minute you’re sitting there then you’re blowing your ticket.”
— Ken Kesey reporting to a police station in 1965 with his attorney Brian Rohan and Mountain Girl after arrest. KRON San Francisco TV news clip: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/209399.
