Tales of San Francisco Cacophony Society

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April 24, 2013 600 × 404 Santasm (SantaCon, Santarchy, Kringle Klot, etc., ad nauseum)

Santas in NYC 1998 – Santa Chad Mulligan – photo Harrod Blank

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The history of the most influential underground cabal you’ve never heard of

Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, at its zenith, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of what was once called the underground.
The Cacophony Society’s epic exploits radically changed the way people live and play in the world.
The group inspired Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Burning Man and helped start pop culture trends including flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming.
A large-format, full-color, hardbound homage to this protean group, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is packed with original art, never before published photographs, original documents and incredulous news accounts.
“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

Categories of Tales

  • Buy! Buy! Buy! (1)
  • Cacophony Events (29)
  • Games (1)
  • Literary (4)
  • Media (23)
  • Pranks (13)
  • Reviews (6)
  • Suicide Club (1)
  • Uncategorized (2)
  • Urban Exploration (3)
  • Video (34)

Blogroll

  • ®™ark
  • *Tales of SF Cacophony Tumblr
  • Abrupt
  • Adbusters
  • Art Cars
  • Art of Bleeding
  • Billboard Liberation Front
  • Burning Man
  • C J Galbraith
  • Cacophony Society
  • Christian Ristow
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Culture Jammers' Encyclopedia
  • Dagger, Guerilla Theater
  • Dark Passage
  • Defenestation
  • Dr. Hal
  • Freeway Blooger
  • Guerrilla Girls
  • Improv Everywhere
  • Infiltration
  • Into the Zone Movie
  • Jason Hadley
  • Joey Skaggs
  • John W Law
  • Kal Spellitch
  • Kevin Evans
  • Laughing Squid
  • Mikl Em
  • Nonsense NYC
  • Pedro Carvajal
  • Principia Discordia
  • Public Intelligence
  • RE/Search PUblications
  • Reverend Billy
  • Ron English
  • San Francisco Suicide Club
  • Santaarchy
  • SantaCon
  • Sebastian Hyde
  • Survival Research Laboratories
  • The Art of the Prank
  • The Bindlestiff Family Circus
  • The Bubble Project
  • The First Church of the Last Laugh
  • The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!
  • The Yes Men
  • Urbanize
  • Weird TV
  • Winston Smith
  • Wooster Collective
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