Links to sites of General Usefulness
which are not Venice
Venice Memorabilia
Banned Books
Read-In
Venice Books
Paintings that could
be yours
Boardwalk Miscellaneous
Venice Quiz
Alky Bob
Questions
Boardwalk Excerpts
from Call Someplace
Paradise
Aaron Waugh Draft-
Beach Vending
Coins of Venice
Future of Venice?

On the Boardwalk
in 1909, you could have your picture taken against a background like this.

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CONNECTIONS
to other Venice sites
ART
Time
lapse sunset/moonrise Venice video
John Kilduff's Let's
Paint TV #3 at Venice Beach and another
one
Christopher Georgesco's Venice
studio 1975
Ferus
Gallery - the legacy lives on
William
Attaway's Studio
Francisco
Letelier
Former Venice artist Raphael
Sloane
Martha
"Art Girl" Wilson - original
oil and acrylic paintings
A piece by Skizz Cyzyk on the ultimate
Venice film, Forbidden
Zone. Another
from the composer Danny Elfman, and yet another.
Photos
by David Scott, who wrote the song "Moon over Venice"
Short
films about issues, like the lottery, by Aaron Waugh
Short
films by performance artist Tony Vera
This page from the good people at Dumb
Angel Magazine has such a great collection of photos and old postcards
Venice
Vandal's Photos photos by Eric Ahlberg: The Art Walk; boardwalk
murals and grafitti; eroding poetry. Paintings of boardwalk people, by
Bill Tompkins
Venice
Arts Council - webmaster Eric Ahlberg says, "I try to link
to everything that speaks to Venice's life and legacy as a beacon of counter-culture."
Venice
Art Collective
Rich
Mann's Gallery - photographer who's been around forever
Great contemporary
photo blog - enjoy many pictures here
3D
Venice -a brilliant creation from Sal Chavez, almost virtual reality!
Choose an avatar to represent you, and walk around Venice.
Bob
Farrington - Venice paintings from the days of Beat
A
People Palette - Diana Hobstetter's portraits
of Venice folk; one of the coolest artist sites Ive ever seen.
Go down this page a little to Wylder
Flett's great photo "The
Last Days of the Pavilion." And his paintings are gorgeous.
Very recent gallery of canal
and bridge photos
Fred Burkhart's portrait
of a beach person and other
photos from the Venice of the late Sixties
Single
Wing Turquoise Bird - madly creative visionaries, in the 60's
and early 70's they did light shows for everyone who was anyone
Venice
* photos of opulent canal district homes, including one that I painted
a picture of, from a different angle
* Venice Boulevard and Muscle Beach
This
appeals to my sense of the perverse. But I think you should buy my stuff
instead.
The artwork of Mike
Colt was seen on the boardwalk in the 1990s
Helen K. Garber's L. A. Noir series
includes Venice by night
Angel
at Venice Beach - great photo by Samuel Orutsa, of one of the
many bizarre exhibitionists who have frequented the oceanfront scene over
the years
FUN
Venice
Beachcam
Venice
Beach Directory - lots of interesting stuff
HAPPENINGS
Gerry
Fialka and Suzy Williams events
The
I-Wish Project, born in Venice
Festival
of the Chariots - this is a gorgeous event,
fondly remembered by the webslave as her introduction to Venice.
Carnevale
annual festival
The Other
Venice Film Festival
HISTORY
Shanna Baldwin-Moore's great
photo album of people and art from the Beat days
Venice
California History Site .......by
Jeffrey Stanton
Stanton says, "I read the Santa Monica Evening Outlook newspaper
straight through from 1887 to 1990; the Venice Vanguard from 1911
to 1940; and the Los Angeles Times from 1891 to 1912.... I also
own a large photo reference library which gives me some assurance that
what I wrote about really did exist."
* illustrated history articles
* Venice history time line
* historic maps
* lots of other great stuff
Ocean
Park - A very promising site-in-progress about the community that
Venice used to be part of
Another
Jeffrey Stanton site
* street performers
* amazing Venice facts
* many photos, special section on the canal district
* several visual artists
* history
Free
Venice
* Venice peace marches
* murals
* list of historic buildings
* poets
* and much more
Betsy
Sells Venice
* Venice history
* many great old postcards
* dozens of great Venice murals
* archives of Venice Vanguard newlsetter
* art and architecture photos
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Press
HUMANS
Suzanne,
of Leonard Cohen song fame, and a legend in her own right
Tamara
Henry and her cat at Venice Beach
Boardwalk performer
Ann Randolph raises consciousness about homelessness
John Cline's 18-minute video of Bob
Schmidt, "Alky Bob"
John Shannon Latex
Configuration Specialist, makes balloon animals (well, what were
you thinking?)
Love
in Venice - a memorable 1982 article by
Paul Ciotti, about a guy who just doesn't get it
Infiltration journalist Harmon Leon
becomes a Venice Beach Guardian
Angel
What longtime Venice resident Paul
Krassner is up to these days.
Pieman
Aron Kay activist formerly of Venice
Joe
Funk - wonderful article by Keith Kirts about a master printer
and sculptor
Blue
House - Sixties memoirs from Roger Goodman
Darren
Rieck, Venice model a person you could find only in Venice, who
created a character and then lived it
Fire Eater Tony Vera is also a
videographer. This goes to his films on YouTube.
ISSUES
Spirit
of Venice very active in homelessness issues
The trailer for Venice Lobotomy,
a documentary by Erin Grayson about Lincoln
Place
Venice
United Methodist Church - a very cool place
Imagine you're on the boardwalk as the
mischievous satirists from Ooze magazine heckle
Jingles
Yahoo!
Group Venice CA - intense discussion
Grass
Roots Venice Neighborhood Council
LITERATURE
Hunga
Dunga a True Novel by Phil Polizatto partly takes place in
Venice and all of it is wonderful.
Outlaw
Poets - Be one, and recapture the Beat
spirit
The complete story of Beyond Baroque,
both magazine and foundation, from the prime mover George
Drury Smith
Beyond
Baroque Foundation - poetry and so much more
Chapter
3 of The Lover of Slum by Fred Burkhart
MUSIC
Harmonious Mayhem music of the Drum
Circle
Suzy
Williams and her Solid Senders
Renaissance Man Tupper
Saussy used to live in Venice
Rocknrobert.com
has some great stories from a longtime Venice musician
The blog of guitarist Vinnie
Caggiano offers many Venice anecdotes
Skooshny
Robert
Heinze - Venice music from the wayback machine
Freshly
Baked - Jam band whose website features a comprehensive family
tree of every permutation of the group ever. It's a thing of beauty.
The
Red Elvises - Quintessential Venice Beach rock'n'roll, from Siberian
transplants
Venice
Beach Drum Circle - such an exceedingly cool site!
Lovely Venice page from a
Jim Morrison tribute site
Zendik
- I remember Wulf Zendik and family members playing music on the boardwalk.
Though we've never met, these are some of my favorite people. It makes
me happy just to know they exist.
Harry
Perry - perhaps the most recognizable boardwalk musician
Venice
Beach - from Medicine Bow Gallery, the finest in drum circle and
other beachfront experience
Venice
Paper .......Local
news and commentary
Free
Venice Beachhead ......In its 36th
year!
KCRW
radio show by Anthea Raymond
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