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Pictures From Our February 8th Event In San Francisco

February 13, 2009 – 11:59 am

Our event was a huge success. We’ll be writing about this for weeks. It was a truly historic event.
Here is a little gallery of pictures we’ve put together so far.
Please keep sending us links to your photos and videos, and we’ll keep posting them here.
Thanks!

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CNET’s Daniel Terdiman Takes the First Peek at Tim’s Archives

February 6, 2009 – 8:01 pm

Timothy Leary’s archives: Bridge from ’60s to ’90s - By Daniel Terdiman for CNET.
There’s also a lovely photo gallery included in the piece.    (Thanks, Daniel!)
Here’s a little excerpt:

“Leary, as you probably know, was famous for his decades of experimental research into and promotion of the effects of hallucinogens, and over the years became as well [...]

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Interview with Lisa Ferguson - Millbrook Kid and Director of “Children of the Revolution”

February 6, 2009 – 12:22 am

Lisa Ferguson is the daughter of Maynard and Flo Ferguson. The couple and their four children, Corby (6 1/2 yrs), Lisa (5 yrs), Bentley (3 yrs), Wilder (2 yrs). They lived there at Millbrook, with Tim and his two kids (Jack and Susan), where they all lived together for about 3 years (although her family [...]

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The Annotated Bibliography of Dr. Timothy Leary - Available Online

February 3, 2009 – 3:20 pm

Tim’s Annotated Bibliography, by Michael Horowitz, Karen Walls and Billy Smith, is now available online.
We’re not sure who put it up there, but we’re glad it’s there, until we can scan a copy of our own from Tim’s archives. (Of course, our copy at the Internet Archive will be OCR’d and searchable…and in HTML, eventually [...]

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From the Video Collection: The Afternoon Show - Mind Mirror

February 2, 2009 – 11:34 am

Here’s Tim in the 1980s on a show called “The Afternoon Show,” hosted by Ann Fraser and Ross McGowan.
Tim says he was “turned on” to computers from his then 12 year-old stepson (Zach, from wife Barbara) and his then 13 year-old granddaughter, (Dieadre, from daughter Susan).
Three minutes into the video, Ross McGowan asks “How does [...]

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Interview with Leary.com’s Joey Cavella and Chris Graves - Part 2

January 28, 2009 – 9:43 am

Joey Cavella and Chris Graves explain how they set up the “Consciousnet” bulletin board for Tim in 1993, and then how Joi Ito (Tim’s Godson) ran into their house in 1994 and demonstrated Mosaic for them on the Internet.
Joey, Chris and Tim had all been working on a CD-Rom, but when they learned about [...]

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Interview with Leary.com’s Joey Cavella and Chris Graves - Part 1

January 26, 2009 – 12:01 am

Joey Cavella and Chris Graves were on the original Leary.com web development team.
Joey and Chris flew all the way from New York and LA to attend our November 15, 2008 Video Collection Launch Party at the Internet Archive.
The next morning, down at Fisherman’s Wharf, I asked them to tell us a little about what [...]

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Interview With Hassan I Sirius, Editor of “Leary On Drugs”

December 23, 2008 – 8:17 am

Just in time for the holidays!
A new collection of Leary’s drug writings, Leary On Drugs, has just been released from RE/Search Publications.
We managed to catch up with Hassan I Sirius, who edited the collection, to ask him a few questions about his use of Tim’s archives in compiling the book.
Note: Although the books have not [...]

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About the Futique Trust

December 4, 2008 – 8:27 am

The word “Futique” was coined by Timothy Leary when he began designing computer software in the 1980s.
“‘Futique’ is the opposite of ‘antique,’” he said.
And, let’s face it, everything about Timothy Leary was aimed at the future. Thus, he called his company Futique, Inc.
Futique was a consortium of artists, writers, programmers, designers, educators and, of course, [...]

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Welcome to the blog of the Futique Trust!

November 12, 2008 – 2:06 pm

Tim would have loved blogging…

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