Talk:Michael Bowen (artist)

unititled
I would like to know how this article is not balanced or presented neutrally MB writer (talk) 10:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, to begin with, there is the inappropriate use of sources, original research, unencyclopedic style, etc. I suggest a complete rewrite using only the most reliable secondary sources.  Viriditas (talk) 11:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I have started to work on this and will continue to edit as I have time. --Sfmammamia (talk) 04:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Moved from User talk:Viriditas

Your criticism of the writer of the Michael Bowen piece strikes me as anal retentive, nit-picking and precious. Everything in this article about Bowen is well known and has been for decades. Those who knew the man and his art and life know it is all true, yet you pick away and criticise because it doesn't meet your self-elected expert standards. What do you do for a living, count ants? This site seems to be stuffed with Americans with far too high an opinion of themselves and their worth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.162.118 (talk) 14:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll take another look at the article. Viriditas (talk) 00:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Could I add a correction to the Flower power section? I didn't want to be so rude as edit someone else's words. Thing is Michael didn't intend the flowers to be distributed to the demonstartors, they were intended to be air dropped over the Pentagon, but the authorities got wind of it and answered the ad for a the pilot who then didn't turn up. So Michael drove the flowers from the airfield to the Pentagon and they were distributed. There was a lot of pananoia on behalf ot the CIA and other freaks about the demonstration, flowers from the air was clearly thought far too dangerous to permit. How do I know this? Michael [Bowen] told me these exact facts. I have the emails still. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.1.3 (talk) 22:57, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Further to the above, I found this below which concurs with my account from http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/samples/pentagon.html 'What happened next was not something anyone had expected--in fact, it might never have happened had it not been for the FBI, which attempted to disrupt the antiwar gathering upon learning of a plot to sky-bomb the Pentagon with ten thousand flowers. Peggy Hitchcock (the sister of William Mellon Hitchcock, owner of the Millbrook estate) gave Michael Bowen and friends money to purchase two hundred pounds of daisies for the occasion, but the plan never got off the ground because of a dirty trick by the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover's men answered an ad for a pilot in the East Village Other but never showed up at the airport. Bowen was stuck with more flowers than he knew what to do with, so he turned around and drove back to the demonstration. Distributed among the crowd, the flowers were subsequently photographed by the world press protruding from the muzzles of rifles held by the soldiers guarding the Pentagon. It was one of the spectacular images of the 1960s: the troops with their bayonets sprouting daisies, frozen in a tense face-off with the antiwar activists.'

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Michael Bowen (artist). Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080515220748/http://www.halfmoonbaymemories.com/category/michael-bowen/ to http://www.halfmoonbaymemories.com/category/michael-bowen/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 17:44, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Michael Bowen (artist). Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080905152233/http://www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm to http://www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 07:24, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Michael Bowen (artist). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090108092301/http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/beatpics/bp000074.html to http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/beatpics/bp000074.html
 * Replaced archive link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rE2q7hRrLK4J:www.nuevoanden.com/rag/newmedia.html+artist+underground+press+organize+%22michael+bowen%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 with https://web.archive.org/web/20110511180519/http://www.nuevoanden.com/rag/newmedia.html on http://www.nuevoanden.com/rag/newmedia.html
 * Replaced archive link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lnyOOZlLgXgJ:www.hippy.com/article-303.html+wikipedia+artist+%22michael+bowen%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&lr=lang_en with https://web.archive.org/web/20090725092712/http://www.hippy.com/article-303.html on http://www.hippy.com/article-303.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 22:48, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Michael Bowen (artist). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20060421102203/http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/cultureandhistory/031221be-in.html to http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/cultureandhistory/031221be-in.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 01:39, 1 December 2017 (UTC)