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 The Richmond Review, Feature article,The birth of the beatnik
that a beatnik was someone who "doesn't like work, any man who doesn't like work is a vagrant, and a vagrant goes to jail around here".
People who saw him at social gatherings were spellbound by his party-trick of falling flat on his face, like a felled tree, in the middle of a sentence.
Another rentable beatnik was Ted Joans, "an ebullient Negro bard and painter who came to New York from Indiana".
http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/features/campbe01.html

  
 Beatnik
Those of you who are nostalgic for the Beatnik days of the ‘60s look out for this section: skinny jeans blended with ‘60s inspired stripes and accessories.
You need skinny jeans, the beatnik look – anything with stripes is in...
Consider the span of time between the 1960-1970 beatnik era of Vietnam War protests up to the anti-Iraq-war Washington March of September 24, 2005, and we get...
http://www.wikiverse.org/beatnik

  
 Net4TV Voice: Tora Tech: Intro to Beatnik 2/2
Beatnik is really quite an amazing advancement, and is the most convincing form of web-based, interactive MIDI that I’ve encountered.
This is especially true when an instrument’s character is based on a sustained note.
The Beatnik sample set installed on your Plus can be used for this purpose, and in fact some of these sounds were included exactly for that reason.
http://www.net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=191

  
 Beatsville Pad - a cultural history of the Beatnik presented by Outré Gallery Press
Here you will find sample pages from the book, links, a continuing archive of stuff that didn't make it into the book and last not but least items for sale including the book itself, original artwork and limited edition merchandise.
Maynard G. Krebs and Sheldon Epps, A Bucket of Blood and The Rebel Set, Like Crazy, Man and My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, The Cool Scene and Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales.
Like crazy, man! Visit the way-out world of the beatnik, circa 1959.
http://www.beatsvillepad.com

  
 BBC - Cult - I Love Beatnik
In 1960 Adam Faith starred in the cult film "Beat Girl", the story of a teenager who falls in with a beatnik crowd.
Beatnik (n.): A member of the Beat generation who is a nonconformist in dress and behaviour.
The Beatnik message was 'Be Cool, man!' The look was flat shoes for women, sandals for men and beret's became the must have fashion item for everyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1960/fashion2.shtml

  
 Beat generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sanders, Ed Tales of Beatnik Glory (second edition, 1990) ISBN: 0-80651-172-9
A number of the beats were enthralled with Cassady — Ginsberg had an affair with him; and Kerouac's road trips with him in the late 40s became a focus of his second novel, On the Road.
woe in fact unto those who those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik

  
 The Beatnik Blues Cafe - genuine beat
Please don't ask what the beat generation is all about because the beauty of it is
Beatniks are enlightened but misunderstood people; free thought is some times seen as ignorance and their starving artist lifestyle is seen as vagrancy.
Well my friend, a beatnik is one who doesn't let society slow him down.
http://www.handicraftgifts.com/amul/genuine

  
 Beatnik Turtle: Home
In addition to donating the use of song "Get Out!" for "Kicked Out," Beatnik Turtle is also a proud sponsor of the Chicago chapter of P.A.L.S. (Parents Against Lazy Slackers) as well as S.A. (Slackers Anonymous).
CHICAGO, IL - Beatnik Turtle has written and recorded original music for a new sketch comedy show entitled Sci-Fry.
Beatnik Turtle is writing and recording music for the sketch comedy show "Sci-Fry" - a dark comic roast of the fantasy and science fiction genres
http://www.beatnikturtle.com

  
 Beatnik Cherokee
Next time you are hanging out in Tahlequah, practicing your bongo-playing and like sipping espresso at the Iguana Café, man, you can groove on some Beatnik Cherokee and mystify the squares.
They heard he never shaves and only works one day of the year.
Intersperse that freely into your conversation and that will get the ball rolling.
http://www.ahalenia.com/id/beatnik.html

  
 Midheaven Mailorder Browse by Artist: BEATNIK TERMITES
Limited edition pressing of 1,400 (which clearly will not be enough).
The BEATNIK TERMITES take on the Pleasant Dreams album by punk rock's three-chord masters THE RAMONES.
Of all the various Ramones covers albums, Marky Ramone said this was his favorite.
http://www.midheaven.com/artists/beatnik.termites.html

  
 Beatnik atmosphere fills Dharma Books
At least, it was named after famed beatnik Jack Kerouac’s book “The Dharma Bums,” and has a good collection of Beat Generation literature.
Dharma Books is more of a beatnik place.
Owners Cheron Taylor and Tony Hall are book lovers whose hobby led to this business.
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/07/16/75785.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=Business&sp3=Business&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=business&jsmultitag=news.rgj.com/news/business

  
 Miss Beat of 1959
  Miss Beatnik is now a psychoanalyst, mother of three, and a grandmother.
July 1959 issue of PLAYBOY featured "Yvette Vickers" as "BEAT PLAYMATE" of July, with photo spread and accompanying "bio" describing her as a 'movie hopeful' and 'bohemain'.
This issue also featured "The Coffee Houses of America", a story on Greenwich and Hollywood scenes and most notably reprinted poems by
http://www.beatmuseum.org/ephemera/miss-b.html

  
 Beatnik Plug-In Users Guide v1.1
Be aware that if you choose to have the Plug-In be hidden, the user will have no way to stop, start or mute the music.
Beatnik, on the other hand, sounds exactly the same on each platform we support (Windows 95 and NT, Macintosh PowerPC) so the musician has the assurance his music will sound 'right' every time.
Beatnik is based on the underlying Headspaceª audio engine which has been used in over fifty different products in the last three years.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/blistering/beatnik/plugin.html

  
 Something Decent Free Downloads!
This utility will allow you to convert TrueType fonts into all-smoothed versions, as well as to revert a font back to default smoothing behavior.
It's original author lost interest a long time ago and I made changes to it since that time.
This is particularly handy for BeatNik skin designers!
http://www.somedec.com/downloads

  
 boynton: beatnik
But confess that the glossary for squares might be useful.)
Don't I have the mental picture to prove I have witnessed that scene with you and Mr X (last seen heading back to a sub-continent to compose more beatnik sitar odes)?
(I may aspire to be as cool as the seated beatnik woman.
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/004969.html

  
 NET NOTES
Mark Wherry investigates Beatnik, a powerful way of adding interactive music content to your web site.
For those worried about the security of their work, RMF files are automatically locked with 40-bit encryption, to protect copyright details and any custom instruments that you may create yourself.
As with most technology, the usual cliché about the possibilities being limited only by your imagination is true for Beatnik.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Aug01/articles/netnotes0801.asp

  
 Rich Music Format (RMF): Beatnik
Robertson says he sees himself as representative of someone with creative mindset who wants to do this stuff but doesn’t want to depend on a programmer to make it work
Beatnik offers 128 standard MIDI instruments with more than 250 additional special instruments like octopus piano, jungle bass, percussion and sound effects, musical cues and what it calls "Groovoids."
Let’s go back and talk a little more about Beatnik, because I thinking you’re going to be hearing a lot more about it in this next year too.
http://www.lightlink.com/tcraig/sound/websound/tsld026.htm

  
 The Maynard G. Krebs Page
(When Bob Denver asked Shulman why Maynard wasn't in either of the books, Shulman would only reply "Because I wanted to sell a few copies!") But it was Denver himself who fleshed the character out, mainly because the writers had no idea what beatniks were really like.
Maynard G. Krebs, Dobie Gillis' best friend, was the first beatnik on national TV and remains the most famous beatnik in history.
Denver didn't do any research on real beatniks to develop the character.
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/lawrence/153/krebs.html

  
 Guardian Unlimited Sport Breaking news Don Whillans: the vertical beatnik
But others, Brown and Whillans included, would find a less conventional path.
They were vertical beatniks, choosing a life that they perceived as more free than the alternative their schoolmates in Manchester had followed.
Anarchic, unhindered by rules and regulations, this loose assemblage of working-class men slept in road-menders' huts and hitched or begged lifts around the country.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,10488,1431667,00.html

  
 Flashnik Tutorial
Don't think of your piece as a demonstration of the technology, but as a work with it's own reason to exist.
This is the first of several articles to be written for this forum and will deal with the first method.
Thanks to Beatnik's Music-Object, much of the coding work is done for us and we just have to make the connections.
http://www.bongdern.com/Flashnik

  
 beatnik.el
Why would you want to say %s?" (save-excursion (forward-word -1) (beatnik-next-word))))) (defun beatnik->23 () "Garners \"Beatnik applause\" for the programmer.
However, the score is high enough that the Beatnik ;; Interpreter will not mock you, unless it's had a really bad day.
Low scoring words such as "I" or "of" ;; are probably not good words to program with immediately after ;; stealing all of the interpreter's cigarettes and stomping on its ;; beret.
http://zaaf.nl/emacs/beatnik.html

  
 Streamingmedia.com: Beatnik Files For Initial Public Offering
Beatnik (http://www.beatnik.com) announced today that it has filed for its IPO (proposed Nasdaq symbol, BTNK).
Beatnik (formerly Headspace) was founded in 1996 by musician Thomas Dolby, who made his mark on the musical world with the 80s hit, “She Blinded Me With Science".
Beatnik is a music system that allows web developers to add interactive music to their web sites.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=5135

  
 Feature Story
This makes Robertson happy: Nonprogramming musician that he is, these Beatnik libraries make it possible for him to sonify his sites himself.
Visit these developer resources, or get inspiration from these hot Beatnik sites.
We thought that if there was really such a need for a technology to do this stuff, we should go ahead and create it and license it out - and then return to making music with it later."
http://wp.netscape.com/computing/webbuilding/studio/feature19990309-1.html

  
 Beatnik Interactive Audio/MIDI
The only downside to Beatnik is that it is subject to the quirks inherent to advanced plug-ins.
First, the Beatnik plug-in only works with the newer browsers, 3.0 +, because Beatnik relies on Javascript.
Beatnik can also play other traditional audio-file formats, including.wav,.aiff, MIDI and MOD.
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~HH09/beatnik.html

  
 beatnik - Articles about beatnik
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http://www.wordiq.com/article/beatnik.html

  
 William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Beat Writers, Poets, Beatniks
With such means at his disposal, the poet can enter on a career as a prophet and revolutionary, a cultist or a populist by turns.
Soon, a stereotype merged in the media showing beatniks to be spaced-out, always dressed in black and pounding on bongo drums muttering gibberish as poetry); nevertheless the media had no idea of what the Beat Generation would have to offer American society and politics in the late 1950's.
Later in the 1950's, the term "beatnik" was referred, often despairingly, to the people who held the ideas and attitudes of the Beat writers.
http://www.bluesforpeace.com/beat-generation.htm

  
 angrycoffee.com - beatnik tutorials an intro to beatnik
These include the "groovoids," pre-recorded pieces in every genre created by Beatnik and available for your use as a developer.
This allows you to build an environment in which the user can create their own audio experience.
Beatnik is an attractive method for posting audio online for those musicians with the chutzpa to roll up their sleeves and do a little Web work, as well as for aspiring code miners with a knack for looping beats and samples.
http://www.angrycoffee.com/tutorials/beatnik/b1

  
 The Beatnik Player
The GrooveTub is a virtual music-production environment that generates different rhythmic grooves in response to mouse movements and QWERTY keystrokes.
Beatnik Demo Page.html is a good place to start, as it has some explanations right on the page.
You'll get a taste of what Beatnik can do by visiting sites that put the technology to good use.
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_beatnik_player/index.html

  
 Beatnik™ font family : MyFonts
Beatnik™ is a Galapagos font family with 2 styles priced from $39.00.
You don't have to be a member of the Beat Generation to appreciate Beatnik - a typeface inspired by the writings of Jack Kerouac.
Beatnik is as versatile as it is expressive, serviceable in both text and display settings.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/galapagos/beatnik?refby=bloch

  
 Beat Writers, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Beat Poets, Beatniks
Beat Writers, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Beat Poets, Beatniks
The discovery of the word 'beat' was essential to the formation of a sense of self definition among the earliest writers making up the cluster that would later call itself members of a 'Beat Generation'.
Holmes felt the label was appropriate and had "the subversive attraction of an image that just might contain a concept, with the added mystery of being hard to define...
http://www.bluesforpeace.com/beat.htm

  
 Songs in the Key of Beatnik
For example, the Beatnik Editor created the WebTV GM bank, which can contain 128 instruments plus percussion in only 350 KB.
I am continually amazed by how well this technology works; in a low-bandwidth world, it's an absolute lifesaver.
After adjusting mix levels in both the MIDI and instrument definitions, I experimented with various chorus and reverb settings.
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_songs_key_beatnik

  
 Net4TV Voice: TORA TECH: Intro to Beatnik:Part I
There is a great wealth of information published on this subject, so much in fact that it could seem overwhelming.
Plus users can still make great use of Beatnik, however, because there are all kinds of great things waiting to be programmed.
Basically, the implications of browser-based MIDI have been taken to a whole new level.
http://www.net4tv.com/voice/story.cfm?StoryID=153

  
 Headspace Releases Beatnik Player 2.0 - The Sonic Spot
"This new stuff he's doing with his Beatnik technology is amazing.
Thomas and his company are really blazing a trail for music in the twenty-first century."
Visitors to MTV Online and BowieNet will therefore be able to enjoy fast-loading musical Web pages which let them directly interact with their favorite music, re-mix tracks in real time and create their own customized soundtracks.
http://www.sonicspot.com/news/99032901.html

  
 3DsoundSurge Press Release: Beatnik and Mixman Technologies Announce Merger
Beatnik and Mixman share a vision that the promise of the Web will be realized when high-quality, interactive music and sound are part of the everyday Web surfer's experience.
Beatnik and Mixman technologies increase the stickiness of a site, which is extremely significant, as twenty minutes spent on a Web page equals about two and a half hours, or eight times the value of the minute, of passive television viewing,'' said Michael Moon, analyst at Gistics Research.
Together, Beatnik and Mixman will possess one of the most expansive music and sound libraries available on the Web, including both Top 40 artists and professional music catalogs.
http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/press/pr448.html

  
 Beatnik Turtle: Terms
This Agreement shall be held under the laws of Illiniois, without regard to their conflict of law provisions or the fact that they don't wear pants.
Each section and clause shall be separate and if any section or clause is found to be void by a court of law, all the other sections shall rise up against that judge and beat some judicial sense into his/her allegedly impartial ass.
As you read the count of 10, you shall awake and do all that Beatnik Turtle instructs you to do.
http://www.beatnikturtle.com/index.php?id=terms

  
 Thesaurus.com/beatnik
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
beatnik, crazy, different, dissident, eccentric, far out, flaky, heretical, heterodox, irregular, kinky, nonconformist, schismatic, sectarian, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted, way out, weird
beatnik, Bohemian, demonstrator, different breed, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, dropout, eccentric, flower child, heretic, hippie, iconoclast, individualist, liberal, malcontent, maverick, misbeliever, nature boy, night person, oddball, offbeat, original, protester, radical, rebel, schismatic, sectary, separatist, street person, swinger, weirdo, yippie
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=beatnik

  
 Journal of Beatnik (493)
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
you train them to do things for you..
http://use.perl.org/~Beatnik/journal/18856

  
 angrycoffee.com - beatnik tutorials home
We suggest installing the Beatnik Player, not only because we think Beatnik is great, but also because if you don't you won't be able to enjoy the nifty examples included in each tutorial.
First off, we should say that Angry Coffee is proud to be a Beatnik Advanced Leader.
You may even find yourself returning to the Beatnik tutorials more than once, and we hope you enjoy them and all of Angry Coffee's other audio tutorials.
http://www.angrycoffee.com/tutorials/beatnik/index.html

  
 Merge Records - Beatnik Filmstars
Beatnik Filmstars are already known for cramming an overload of pop hooks into their many releases, but Boss Disque ups the ante.
By widening their stylistic range, the Beatniks reinvent themselves once again.
They are masters of the home-recording technique, pushing each element to its limit (e.g., serious amounts of multi-tracking; abusing recording levels for intended effect) while not forgetting the essence of the song underneath.
http://www.mergerecords.com/band.php?band_id=18&

  
 Wired News: 'Beatnik' Tweaks David Bowie
Robertson, a musician famous for his 1980s hit "She Blinded Me with Science" and who used to play keyboards for Bowie, started Headspace in 1996.
The stunt is good PR for Beatnik technology, which makes digital audio more interactive by sending sound descriptions instead of the sounds themselves to be played.
"Beatnik is about making new kinds of content that belong ineffably on the [World Wide Web] rather than anywhere else."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,18917,00.html

  
 [Customize.org] App. Skins > Beatnik
Beatnik is a free form skinnable application that is able to show the time in either 12 or 24 hour time as well as “internet time”.
Customize was brought to you in 0.103 seconds @ 00:19:37 EDT.
http://www.customize.org/list/beatnik

  
 CD Baby: BEATNIK TURTLE: The Cheapass Album
This full-length, 11-song album which features cover art by renowned illustrator and comic book writer/artist, Phil Foglio, is perfect as a soundtrack to your "Games Nights" or just rockin' out in your car.
The Cheapass Album is Beatnik Turtle's third and most cheapass album ever!
Although based on games, the songs all stand on their own; each a fun, upbeat track that could easily have found their way on any other Beatnik Turtle album.
http://www.cdbaby.com/beatnikturtle3

  
 Beatnik Paradiso
like the one that had disappeared in Beatnik Paradiso.
In Beatnik Paradiso, the streets are paved with ideas.
All of these places became the beach in Beatnik Paradiso...
http://entrenet.com/dgrose

  
 QuentinDodd.com -- Beatnik Rutabags from Beyond the Stars
One of them took a step toward him, holding out a large mug and a plate with a muffin on it.
QuentinDodd.com -- Beatnik Rutabags from Beyond the Stars
http://www.quentindodd.com/br_sample.html

  
 How Do I Get to Beatville? : an off-beatnik musical
Popov, a Russian immigrant woman whose aspirations have gone awry when she is faced with losing her café and has also been receiving threatening letters.
Things get worse until a wandering minstrel beatnik from Louisiana J.P. Troubadour shows up, falls in love with Natasha, and even breaks through to Mrs.
To top it all off, her daughter Natasha has just dropped out of college to become a full-fledged beatnik!
http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/beatville

  
 Wireless Review: Thomas Dolby Robertson: Beatnik - Cutting Edge
In 1982, Thomas Dolby Robertson climbed the pop charts with his album The Golden Age of Wireless, scoring a major hit with his new wave classic "She Blinded Me With Science." Two decades later, he's spearheading a different kind of wireless renaissance as the founder of San Mateo, Calif.-based music content firm Beatnik.
I was only interested in one area: creating new types of experiences."
Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GTV/is_3_19/ai_84237143

  
 BEATNIK DESIGN
All other content is © 2003 by BEATNIK DESIGN.
This merger expands the services both companies can offer.
Inergi is a complete design service offering exhibit, web, graphic, industrial and product design.
http://www.beatnikdesign.com

  
 beatnik programming language - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word beatnik programming language:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "beatnik programming language" is defined.
http://www.onelook.com/?w=beatnik+programming+language

  
 Symbian: Community news 2001: Beatnik's rich audio technology available to enhance sound for Symbian OS phones
Incorporated in 1996, Beatnik was founded by musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson.
Nokia expects half of their third generation (3G) mobile phones to be based upon the Symbian OS by 2004 according to Jorma Ollila, Chief Executive of Nokia.
"Beatnik is one of the many companies we are working with to continuously shape the Mobile Information Society."
http://www.symbian.com/news/cn/2001/pr011120b.html

  
 Encyclopedia of Afrofuturism
This is a good time to pitch such a thing to agents and pub houses because they are in the middle of a publishing frenzy over ideas and artifacts of the "beatnik era".
I know bell hooks has already done enough research in this area to be a good candidate, and Paul it seems you have interest in this area as well.
I've seen isolated essays on LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka] and Ted Joans, etc...but nothing really comprehesive, particularly not from the Ann Charters cabal of Beat historians.
http://www.afrofuturism.com/text/archive/encyc.html

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