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Helco at Burning Man 1996 on Weird TV

The 1996 theme at Burning Man was Helco – with the elaborate staged event organized by Kal Spellitch and many many helpers. This Weird TV segment gives a inside lok at the art and mayhem of that year ....

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Tom Kennedy Art Car Evangelist

Tom Kennedy  evangelized art cars all over the US  (building more the 40 of them), and was fundamental to the creation of the Orange show in Houston, Texas. The Orange show is now the largest art car...

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Bacardi Rip Off of Cacophony Salmon Upstream at Marathon

As covered in Boing Boing, who covered the tale of the Bacardi comercial that stole its concept from the Cacophony event of the Salmon Running upstream of the runners at the San Francisco Bay to...

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The Guardian says “…takes readers to the brink””

As seen in the San Francisco Bay Guardian  ‘Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society’ takes readers to the brink”…

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Boing Boing says: “It’s a wonderful book”

“It’s a wonderful book, and one or more Happy Mutants will likely be in attendance. Read the write up  …

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Daniel Terdiman of CNET says “illustrates the way much of digital-era culture...

Daniel Terdiman at CNET wrote : “The new book “Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society” illustrates the way much of digital-era culture jamming emerged from a few 1980s- and ’90s-era...

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KQED says “Not only a history text, but a menu of possible activities to...

Great review in the KQED Literary sections! Read the full review at KQED  Take away quotes: ” The group’s events took on surrealistic subversion as a rallying ethos. In this light the book becomes not...

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Book Reviewed in the LA Beat

The Los Angeles Beat writes about the book with the endorsement: “filled with stories of the collective’s various antics and chock full of color pictures, fanzines, and even police reports. Learn the...

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Supercut by Olivier Bonin

A video supercut of Cacophony events has been made by French documentarianOlivier Bonin. This trailer uses footage from Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale, Weird TV’s Chuck Cirino , Church of...

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Billboard Liberation Front at Steven Wolf Fine Art

http://www.stevenwolffinearts.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=152 This show is not a retrospective, rather a small selection by Steven of two memorable BLF “Improvements” with beautiful photos...

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Radio Interview on KBOO 11am August 29th

John Law and Carrie Galbraith will be the guests on a special hour-long episode of KBOO Radio’s Between the Covers tomorrow morning (Thursday August 29th) from 11am to noonto regale listeners with...

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Otherzine: “Cacophonies Now!”: Interview with Carrie Galbraith and John Law

Read it now…. Listen now: This interview took place in Oakland, CA, November 20, 2017 with John Law, Carrie Galbraith, David Cox, and Molly Hankwitz at John Law’s studio in downtown Oakland, CA....

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SIGNMAN: John Law @ ProArts Oakland June 7 – August 24 2019

Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS, Oakland, California  June 7 – August 24 2019 Thursday & Friday, Noon – 6:00 p.m. or by appointment OPENING RECEPTION: June 7 2019 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PDF version...

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