{"product_id":"tales-of-the-san-francisco-cacophony-society-9780867198775","title":"Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society","description":"A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales Of The San Francisco Cacophony Society tells the history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRising 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlash Mobs, Urban Exploration, and Culture Jamming are a few of the pop culture trends that Cacophony helped kick off. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Burning Man and Internet social networking powerhouse Laughing Squid were informed and inspired by Cacophony. The Burning Man Festival actually began as a Cacophony event as did the annual, and now world-wide SantaCon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCacophony events could range from something as simple as climbing the Golden Gate Bridge or having a discussion over drinks about a movie seen together, to something as elaborate as The Atomic Cafe -- an event involving a hundred bedraggled \"nuclear holocaust Survivors\" mounting elaborate costumed rituals throughout the bowels of a massive abandoned tooth paste factory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes.... Cacophony was that strange. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCacophony's heyday was concurrent with the rise of the internet. The story of this group is of historical significance for this reason. Information about upcoming pranks, street theater and other events hosted by Cacophony was spread by paper flyers posted on telephone poles and left in coffee shops, by the Societies mailer \"Rough Draft\" and by word of mouth. Then, with the genesis of personal computing and social networking, the jokers, artists and troublemakers of Cacophony were among some of the first non-geeks to explore the power of this new and world changing way of communicating. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurning Man, Urban Exploration, flash mobs and the like were avenues of creativity with their roots in Cacophony, that spread like wildfire through the mechanism of these new communication technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaw, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Law is an American artist, culture-jammer, and co-founder of the Cacophony Society and a member of the Suicide Club. He is also a co-founder of the Burning Man Festival (a.k.a. Zone Trip #4, a.k.a. Black Rock City) which evolved out of the spirit of the Cacophony Society when a precursor solstice party was banned from San Francisco's Baker Beach and merged with another Cacophony event on the Black Rock desert in Nevada.","brand":"Last Gasp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645453177106,"sku":"9780867198775","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88221e68-5670-492f-89ee-7281c126fe54.jpg?v=1733153377","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tales-of-the-san-francisco-cacophony-society-9780867198775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}