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28/05/2008: "ANTI-VIETNAM WAR POSTERS ..............LA's Sunset Blvd. 1969"

We'd just visited the office of Skin Diver and had lunch with editors and their friends. It was not as fruitful a meeting as it sounds. The 35mm transparencies I left for publication were used under another person's name, never returned to me or paid for either!

At the restaurant we paid for our own meals then left a tip, a great pile of notes on the table from a dozen people in the group. I was second last to leave and turned around just in time to see the last person pocketing the pile of notes and giving me a big grin.

Further up Sunset Boulevard was one of the first poster shops I'd seen. Speakers played Hendrix music onto the street.

I filmed a poster "F-ck Censorship" and included it in my documentary Aquarius.

Footnote: In 1973 The New Zealand film censorship board removed the scene (plus others of naked hippies in Hawaii) and gave the movie publicity value on the front page of the leading newspaper.