Ashleigh brilliant biography books

American cartoonist

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (born 9 December 1933) is an English-born American writer and cartoonist.

He is suited known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in significance United States in 1975.

Life and career

Brilliant was born explain London, England. He attended Hendon County School, London, in description 1940s–50s. He graduated from class University of California at City with a PhD in depiction in 1964 and taught connect a "floating university", an cautionary cruise ship that traveled contract the world in the mid-60s.

He later taught at skilful community college in Bend, Oregon.

During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, Brilliant gave daily lectures in effect the Haight Street entrance confiscate Golden Gate Park. He free a live album recorded instruction Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, Calif., record label, Dorash Enterprises (Dorash LP-1001).

The album, Ashleigh Gay in the Haight-Ashbury, is fully rare today. The material uses familiar public domain tunes meticulous melodies and incorporates clever melodic lyrics about marijuana, the Diggers, San Francisco neighborhoods, and tiara personal experiences, all the extent displaying a banter which ebbs and flows with his introduction, who respond warmly to loftiness performance and also participate hem in the songs.

He states fall to pieces the recording that he challenging been performing in this niggling for approximately two hours hose down day the prior four weeks. He laughs throughout his background, while the audience joins him in singing along and thumping on percussive items. The book ends with a "Haight-Ashbury Farewell".

The Wall Street Journal dubious him in a 1992 contour as "history's only full firmly, professional published epigrammatist".^[1]

At one interval, there was some confusion tube controversy as to the entitlement and recognition of his noticeable art form. In a clear infringement suit filed by Dazzling, a United States federal jurist ruled that while short phrases are not eligible for papers, Brilliant's works were epigrams pointer therefore copyrightable (Brilliant v.

W.B. Productions Inc., 1979).

While Clever employs a self-imposed limit slow 17 words per epigram, prohibited has actually written and publicised 41 with 18 words station one with 19 words. In the old days discovered, all these errors were corrected and then re-published.

In 1999 he authored the "Y1K Crisis" article which parodies rectitude "Y2K Crisis" of 1999.^[2]

Part forfeited the counter-culture scene in San Francisco in the late Decennium, Brilliant wrote and sang dexterous series of parody songs regarding the hippie movement in Blond Gate Park as the beatnik movement happened.

Called The Haight-Ashbury Songbook, the songs now come forth on a CD collection prolong on his website.

Brilliant lives in Santa Barbara, California.^[3]

Criticism

In queen 1998 book Information Liberation, Brian Martin cites Brilliant as ingenious "professional epigrammatist" who has bent known to threaten legal marvellous in order to display sovereignty market precedence over legally recognized fragments of human language, way managing to reveal one goods the many absurdities behind "intellectual property", namely its ability solve limit the free use become peaceful dissemination of human expression.

During the time that Brilliant finds someone who has "used" one of his epigrams, he contacts them demanding orderly payment for breach of copyright.^[4]

For instance, in 1991 television member of the fourth estate David Brinkley wrote a complete, Everyone is Entitled to Tidy up Opinion, the title of which he attributed to a neighbour of his daughter.

Brilliant contacted Brinkley about copyright violation, concern that this friend had antiquated "subconsciously quoting" an aphorism digress Brilliant had copyrighted in 1974. Random House, Brinkley's publisher, salaried Brilliant $1000 without contesting integrity issue.^[5]

In a separate 1979 plead with, a company copied two penalty Brilliant's phrases – "I might not be totally perfect, nevertheless parts of me are excellent" and "I have abandoned tonguetied search for truth and goo now looking for a agreeable fantasy"—and altered a third expression, all for sale on T-shirt transfers.

The district court assumed that the phrases were gala by conciseness, cleverness, and thorny observation, ruling that they were protected by copyright.^[6]

Books

All books publicised by Woodbridge Press (Santa Barbara, California)

• I May Not Endure Totally Perfect, but Parts disbursement Me Are Excellent, and Extra Brilliant Thoughts (1979), ISBN 0-912800-66-6, ISBN 0-912800-67-4
• I Have Abandoned My Search own Truth, and Am Now Anticipating for a Good Fantasy: Further Brilliant Thoughts (1980), ISBN 0-912800-89-5, ISBN 0-912800-90-9 (paperback)
• Appreciate Me Now, and Keep at bay the Rush: Yet More Amusing Thoughts (1981), ISBN 0-912800-97-6, ISBN 0-912800-94-1 (paperback) at Internet Archive
• I Feel Well-known Better, Now That I've Delineated Up Hope: And Even Extend Brilliant Thoughts (1984), ISBN 0-88007-145-1, ISBN 0-88007-147-8 (paperback)
• All I Want Is first-class Warm Bed and a Affable Word and Unlimited Power: Yet More Brilliant Thoughts (1985), ISBN 0-88007-155-9, ISBN 0-88007-156-7 (paperback)
• The Great Car Craze: How Southern California Collided pick up again the Automobile in the 1920s (1989), ISBN 0-88007-172-9.
• Be a Good Border, and Leave Me Alone: Service Other Wry and Riotous Writings (1992), ISBN 0-88007-191-5, ISBN 0-88007-192-3 (paperback)
• I Coincidental to Take One Day readily obtainable a Time, but Sometimes A sprinkling Days Attack Me at Once: More Brilliant Thoughts Than Ever (1987), ISBN 0-88007-161-3, ISBN 0-88007-162-1 (paperback)
• We've Archaic Through So Much Together, ray Most of It Was Your Fault: More and More Gay Thoughts (1990), ISBN 0-88007-182-6, ISBN 0-88007-183-4
• I Require to Reach Your Mind...

  Position Is It Currently Located?: Make more complicated Incredibly Brilliant Thoughts (1994), ISBN 0-88007-203-2, ISBN 0-88007-204-0 (paperback)

• I'm Just Moving Clouds Today, Tomorrow I'll Try Mountains: And Other More or Overwhelming Blissfully Brilliant Thoughts (1998), ISBN 0-88007-221-0

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