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"Our Time Base is Real" in TULANE DRAMA REVIEW T33 (New Orleans: Fall 1966) - Film and Theatre issue.
Ed. Richard Schechner. 8vo. Wrps., 248pp. Illustrated throughout. Contains a 20pp. contribution from the media art collective USCO consisting of full or double-page text-based collages ('poem sculptures'). One of them, "We Are All One", probably by Steve Durkee (Stewart Brand's former roommate and mentor), features the group's spiritual guru, Meher Baba (it was also the title of one of their multimedia performances). Another incorporates an image of Stewart Brand's badge, "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?".
A self-described fringe member of USCO, Brand originally conceived the phrase in March 1966 during an acid trip high up on the roof of his house in North Beach overlooking the San Francisco skyline. Shortly afterwards he had badges made up with the slogan and started selling them at UC Berkeley, part of his wider campaign for public access to images taken during the NASA space missions. Two years later Brand chose one of the earliest colour images of Earth as the cover for the Whole Earth Catalog's first edition, and every subsequent edition used a photograph of the Earth taken from space as its cover image, a reminder of its symbolic power and his original acid-inspired vision.
Also: Susan Sontag ("Film and Theatre", 14pp.); Stan Vanderbeek (" 'Culture: Intercom' and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto", 11pp.); Michael Kirby ("The Uses of Film in the New Theatre", 13pp., incl. Peter Moore's photos of the ONCE Group); Ingmar Bergman; Antonin Artaud; interviews with Vilgot Sjöman, Peter Weiss, Roger Blin, Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson, Barbet Schroeder, Roger Planchon, Vito Pandolfi, and Pavel Hobl; lengthy correspondence with Lee Strasberg; more.
Wrappers lightly soiled; tail of spine lightly bumped, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy.
