Berkeley Meets Marbling

For me The Fab Book is where Berkeley, California and the 60s meets marbling like head on collision.  The Fab Book is a manuscript/book that now lays physically scattered in parts and made up of words that are "broken" and "perhaps they're better left unsung" as Jerry Garcia said.

I arrived at Haight Street, San Franisco on New Years Eve 1969 and left the Bay Area from Berkeley on News Years Eve 1979.

Multimedia Pain

Multimedia  
 

George and the Arizona Star

George (Girrl George) and the Arizona Star (Star Ling Yakobian) 1973 San Francisco

Super Joel Tornabene

 Super Joel, according to Helly Kagan's chart, was born Jan. 22, 1949 1:05 pm, Chicago.

Joey, as his sister Fran called him, was brilliant beyond what his stars and planets foresaw.

Yippie, political organizer,  a flawed but unique one-of-a-kind visionary.

Early 70s Graphics Book - Berkeley

The Fab Book - Berkeley Media - Super Joel Tornabene

When I read the next paragraph to Glenda she had to agree with me that it was the most boring shit that I had ever written.
"What the fuck Cove, it sounds like you're in fucking school."

The Fab Book is just that, a Book. A book albeit in various physical forms and states of media and entropy. Below is the first page. The latest digital image is a copy camera print of a photostat of a photostat of the original paste-up layout using dot screen, drawing and a reverse copy camera print of a typed text.  

The Fab Book: My Life as Media

Beginning, middle and end. That's what the movie people tell me. Though in terms of media me, the end is now and the middle was Berkeley 1973 and the beginning was Milford. Again I find myself walking backwards into the future or starting in the middle and going in all directions simultaneously.

Superjoel Tornabene scribbled a note from his jail cell.