Week Five: Griffin

            One of the articles  I read this week was called “Rick Griffin: A Beautiful Pandemonium”  by Steve Barilotti discusses Griffin’s life and impact on the surfing culture through his art work.   After getting into a car accident, he became more focused on his artwork because he wasn’t aloud to surf anymore and wanted to gain control of his life again.  His Murphy comic strip debuted in 1961 in the Surfer magazine and became a sensation. It was his best known character and is a surfing icon.  In his other works he did posters for Jimmy Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison and was one of the first to do psychedelic posters.  Griffin managed to bridge through three powerful cultures (rock, art, and surfing ) effortlessly. I enjoyed reading this article because it showed how Griffin managed to get past all his struggles and take life for what it was. He took his so much to work in his favor and many respected him for that. Pezman stated that Griffin "was the cornerstone of a whole movement that was really a way of looking at life and what's worth doing in life".