Images from various events such as: Let Them Eat Cake, Formal Sewer Tour, Suicide Club on the Bay Bridge , Baaaa Nothing Day, 29 mile Psychotic Road Rally, and more.
29 mile Psychotic Road Rally
Baaaa Nothing Day photo Jillian Northrup
Suicide Club Bay Bridge Climb – photo by Steve White
BM 91 Ethyl Ketone (Carrie Galbraith) Photo by Peter Field
Cacophony on the desert 1997 – by Rusty Blazenhoff Stuart Mangrum, Paul Addis, secret, Scott Beale
Chicken John Rinaldi, Chris Campbell Kal Spellitech at the 1st Meat Parade, Berkeley CA, October 1996
Dave Warren, Suicide Club Co-Founder, 1st igniter of Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert & all around inspirational prankster.
Dean Gustafsen the (only) drummer at the last Burning Man at Baker Beach June 1990 & the (only) drummer at the Cacophony Zone Trip #4 (1st BM on the Black Rock Desert Sept. 1990)
Doggie Diner with (from left to right) Scott Beale, Philo Northrup, John Law, Harrod Blank and Rev. Chuck Linville
Annual Golden Gate Bridge Dinner circa 1988 – group shot
Melmoth and Wakefield (Law & Evans)
Law of Arabia – photo by Kevin Evans
Let Them Eat Cake group shot after delivering a silver tray with crumbs only on it to the Mayors Office. The Cake was served earlier to homeless folks after Food Not Bombs served the main courses of dinner. – photo by Greenly
Toast and Jillian on the Sewer Tour
Oakland Formal Dress Sewer Tour late 1990’s Photo by Jillian Northrup
Suicide Club on the Bay Bridge 1980 – picture by Steve White
Harrod Blank – art car artist, and celebrated photographer and documentarian of the Art Car Movement shared many of his photos for the book. Here are a few selections from the NYC Santa trip, bridge climbing, art cars, and the elsewhere.
5:04PM with Crash Dummies Cacophony Society – photo by Harrod Blank
5:04PM with J.D. Boggman at Burning Man 95 on hood –
photo by Harrod Blank
Art Car Festival – (Reno lodge) Cacophony Van – Photo by Harrod Blank
Revered Chuck Linville with Lady of Eternal Combustion
– Photo by Harrod Blank
Santas in NYC 1998 – Santa Chad Mulligan – photo Harrod Blank
Santas in NYC – Santa Ron English – photo Harrod Blank
Santas in NYC -Santa Peeing in Manhattan – photo Harrod Blank
Santas in NYC – Michael Moore with Santas in NYC – photo Harrod Blank
Santas NYC – Santa Squid, Scott Beale on bus – photo Harrod Blank
Manhattan Bridge – Looking North/NE toward the Chinatown & The Bowery – photo by Harrod Blank
Manhattan Bridge – Inside the Tower – photo by Harrod Blank
Exploring the unknown and experiencing the new is a core concept of Cacophony Society. One event that pushed peoples senses was by the removal of a sense – vision.
John Solomon, owner of Café Venezia on University Ave. in Berkeley conceived of and ran the annual “How-Berkeley-Can-You-Be-Parade” 1996. He personally invited Cacophony to “do anything you want” in a phone call to Sebastian Melmoth before the first parade.
Melmoth & J.D. Boggman put out a call for “meat providers” such as Carrie White from the movie “Carrie” Leatherface of Texas Chainsaw fame and Kal Spellitech from the Industrial Art Ensemble SEEMEN. These and throngs of other meat crazed Cacophonists created the first Meat Parade featuring P.E.T.A. (People Eatin’ Them Animals) and their mandatory Berkeley counter protestors The Veget-Aryans” Cremating entrails on BBQ grills, tossing generic brand cigarettes to the hordes of families and old hippies lining the streets and chainsawing pigs heads for two more years, P.E.T.A. hung up the cleavers in 1998 and the event morphed into early Zombie attacks and other meat related parade floats over the years.
Meat Parade – Vanessa Kuemmerle (LL Fauntleroy)
Meat Parade – Veget Aryans
Meat Parade – John Law (Sebastian Melmoth)
Meat Parade – Elizabeth, Vanessa & William
Meat Parade Tracey
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